Wednesday, October 26, 2005
How does one deal with infatuation in a Godly manner?
I think it's all about the heart issue. I don't think my heart's in the right place and thus the struggle.
Do you ever get those pangs of loneliness?
I think it's only God calling out to us that we're not close enough to Him. Cause we're never alone, thus loneliness is only a state of mind.
Lead by servanthood.
Serve with humility.
I was at work and I was bored so I made up a Haiku:
I'm fat, but that means
There is more of me to love
So call me chubby.
Feel the emotion, the passion...and the boredom.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
When all the things around me have fallen to the ground
I'm always thankful for the love in You I've found.
You are my all in all.
Nothing can ever take Your place.
Monday, October 24, 2005
Today was one of those days when the only thing I wanted to do was...nothing. I came home from work, and I just sat. Vegetated. Watched paint dry. Observed fungi growth. Twas' fulfilling in the sense that I had nothing to fill my mind with, yet unfulfilling cause I felt like a fat man with a cheetohs stuck between his crack but his arms are too short to reach the cheetohs. I digress.
I was also daydreaming at work today. Well...sporatically throughout the day. I kept wishing it was the summer so I could play softball. I was picturing the crazy sickening plays I would make at 3rd. Dive, cartwheel and backflip to the ball and then gun the runner out at first with my left hand while eating a taco with my right. Or I'd imagine playing right-field, but I'd do a somersault off a light pole and catch the ball...then proceed to gun the runner at home from the homerun fence with my left hand while I sauteed a steak with my right.
Then there was the fair maiden.
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[Isaiah 30: 17-26]
A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill." Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, "Away with you!" He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows. The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel. In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill. The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted. See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire. His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; he places in the jaws of the peoples
a bit that leads them astray. And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people go up with flutes to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel. The LORD will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
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I had a huge commentary for the passage. But then I forgot it.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
I got tagged by Mr. W. Gonsalves! Wow, what an honour. *sniff sniff* Sure beats winning the Noble prize!
Rules of the game:
Post 5 Weird and Random facts about yourself, then at the end list the names of people who are next in line to do this.
1. As a kid I'd get really red and light-headed when I'm around pretty girls. Now my hands just get really sweaty...so I try to hide them in my pockets, hoping the fabric of the material will absorb the excessive bodily fluids.
2. I have a high school crush on someone that attends a certain university in a certain province. I wanna get to know her better but then my hands would be too sweaty, and all the sweat will gather to my pant pockets and she'll think I peed my pants.
3. I wanna propose to my wife via Alphagetti/Alphabits or a fortune cookie [the fortune will read: "I have a proposal, listen if you will...marry me now and I'll pay for your bill (and I'll do your dishes for one week too, see stores for detail, purchase not necessary)."]
4. Of all the pick-up lines I have...only one is an original
5. I am flat-footed in only one foot. That's my excuse for being a poor runner.
"You are my world, You are my God...and I lay down my life for You. You are the one I love...and no one can ever take Your place." [Hillsongs]
Monday, October 03, 2005
Litany of the Lord's Prayer
I cannot say..."Our"
if my religion has no room for other people and their needs.
I cannot say..."Father"
if I do not demonstrate this relationship in my daily life.
I cannot say..."Who art in Heaven"
if all my interests and pursuits are earthly things.
I cannot say..."Hallowed be Thy Name"
if I who am called by His name, am not holy.
I cannot say..."Thy Kingdom come"
if I am unwilling to give up my sovereignty and accept the reign of God.
I cannot say..."On earth as it is in Heaven"
unless I am truly ready to give myself to His service here and now.
I cannot say..."Give us this day our daily bread"
without expending honest effort for it or by ignoring the needs of my sisters and brothers.
I cannot say..."Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors"
if I continue to harbor a grudge against anyone.
I cannot say..."Lead us not into temptation"
if I deliberately choose to remain in a situation where I am likely to be tempted.
I cannot say..."Deliver us from Evil"
if I am not prepared to fight in the spiritual realm with the weapon of prayer.
I cannot say..."Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory"
if I do not give disciplined obedience,
if I fear what neighbors and friends may say or do,
if I seek my own glory first.
I cannot say..."Amen"
unless I can honestly say also, "Cost what it may, this is my prayer."
