Thursday, October 23, 2008

A good name is more than a label...

"Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,
and he is not the best Christian
nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps.

He is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.

Forget mistakes;
organise victories out of mistakes."
~F W Robertson~

Take my life and let it be consecrated Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee.

Here am I, all of me.
Take my life, it's all for thee.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Are you willing to give Jesus your remote control?

If you were a wise man, one with insight, foresight,
blessed with the temerity to make decisions that others wouldn’t,

...would you be willing to relinquish all trust in your own wisdom,
and let someone else take over?

If you were a rich man, with all the resources that the depth of your pockets can muster,

...would you stop thinking in terms of economy,
and place all control you had in the hands of another?

If you were a mere mortal man, blessed with nothing more than common sense, a heart of love, hands that serve,

...would you do the uncommon,
love the unlovable, serve your enemies?

I find that for myself...
frequently, the first thing that happens is that an excuse reaches the tip of my lips.
Sometimes, it comes out...
In my better moments, it doesn’t.

“I’m not...wise enough, ....or rich enough, ...or possess enough information to make a decision.”

But actually...the honest, hard-to-face truth is...
Who we are, is who we are through and through...
The answers to the BIG questions are the same ones that you give to the small decisions

When someone asks you for a favour? What is your response?
When a guy pushes his way past you brusquely, identify your emotions?
When people around you are noisy & distracting, what runs through your mind?

What if you were asked to switch the channel?
Or turn down the volume?

(Cuz the King of Kings & Lord of Lords, Jesus himself wanted to meet with you!)

Are you willing to give Jesus your remote control?

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

If only i was a shooting star...

En el caos, en tormenta sé que sigues
siendo Dios. Cuando siento que soy débil me
das la gracia para seguir.
Al oír tu dulce voz, cantaré esta
canción.

No hay nadie como tú, sólo Cristo.

One day as he was walking by the sea, he saw a small boy who, with the help of a shell, was emptying water from the ocean into a hole he had dug in the sand.

"What are you doing, son?" asked Augustine. He was impressed by the naive answer, "I'm going to empty all the sea into this hole."

Augustine smiled. An inner voice, however, was saying to him, "You are trying to do the same thing by thinking you can understand the depths of God with your limited mind."


Augustine



I don't understand Lord, i really don't...
But still...
i'll obey
cuz it's You.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

haha!

Caught 'Robots' earlier on the tv, originally thought that it could have been better, but then, when i began to see the clever puns, the really smart way of how they did their jokes, i could tell that it was not going to be an animation-driven kinda movie, but a storyline-driven one! =) Not bad!

Later on, the animation made sense too! Now i know why the Robots were not all sharp and fabulous looking at the start! =) They had to be that way, so that the show was good and 'realistic' to the setting!

Will not say too much about it except that it was good holiday fun! =) This is one of the last jokes...about how they made up a new dance...

Jazz plus Funk
Junk...

HAHAHAH! =D I like it cuz it is simple humour, yet also deeper! =)
Like...how can 2 great dance styles (Jazz & Funk), create something like Junk? hahah!
It either redefines what "Junk" is, or is a parody of what we do frequently...
which is...we do not recognise greatness initially, calling it junk!

So much of the time, we forget how much depth we each possess! Like how even in the simple creation of a sentence, there can be plenty of hidden meanings & innuendo. I love the symbolism of the Chinese language, where every brushstroke and combination has a specific meaning, which when put together, literally "paints" a picture of the word! Wow!

We are all component parts...some parts that we understand, some that we don't. Don't call what you have Junk...you just may not understand it yet. It could be a fusion of Jazz & Funk!

God makes no mistakes! =)

Intelligence plus character -
That is the goal of true education
~Dr Martin Luther King, Jr~