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IS GOD REAL? ~ PART IIIIf apes were our ancestors, why are our cousins still living in the trees today?? IS GOD REAL? ~ PART IIHow does one know that God's not real? Must we see him to believe he’s real or must he perform a miracle on us to make us believe? Why scientists or doctors or even ourselves have no answer to some mysteries? Do we actually believe that things just coincidently happen by themselves OUT of nothing at all?? The Buddhists believe in Cause & Effect, as the Christians believe in Sow & Reap, what do the rest believe? Luck perhaps? If you are lucky, you may strike a fortune. If unlucky, your lover may leave you??
If you read a book & started to believe what the writer says, he has become your God. So you have become his worshipper, even when you have never met him or even experienced what he has gone through, but you believe in him. Just because he sounds SANE enough. Your choice, as long as it doesn't bring any harm to yourself or anyone else.
I chose God as the little voice in my head or an imaginary friend! I thank him for the power he shows me to forgive, the power to see & admit my own faults, the power to love again, the power to be a mother, the power to embrace the truth of human evolution, the power to know that I am not alone in this world, the power to know that death isn’t scary at all. Do I actually believe I possess the inner superpower to overcome all these by myself? I don’t. It’s the love I (thought I) have found in him which strengthens my faith that I survive today. It’s always nice to have someone to look up for & I always find him whenever no one else is available in time of need. Believing in him doesn't necessarily make me a dull Christian but at least improving me to be a better person, I hope.
"It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man", says Psalm 118:8. IS GOD REAL? ~ PART I : how wud u ans to those who call us pathetic to believe that God exists? : you dun hv to ans them....they are sinners. they are satans...trying to devour us. read proverbs. i won't want to waste my time with these sinners. keep away from sinners , as the proverbs say.: mmmmmmmmm.........................: i've noticed from yr blog that u hv been influenced in one way or another by these "sinners": im not influenced by anyone, i hv my own belief: some of yr articles seems to be out of the the context of christianity: im not a rigid christian: there is no such thing as a rigid christian. either u r one or u r not: then im not fit to be one since no one can be perfect anyway: it's sad that many profess that they are christians, but do not follow the way of truth of the Lord. only God is perfect. i dun claim to be perfect too, as i can never be. but at least i'm walking in the light of our Lord. and along the way, i know i tend to make mistakes, genuine mistakes. and at least i hv the courage to confess my wrongs and sins to God and ask for forgiveness. humans need to learn from mistakes. this is what God designed us to be or else if everything is perfect for us, we then become proud and forget God, and think that we are smart and clever! actually all of us are stupid and dumb! only God is great. if not, we won't exist! neither does this world. we are going back into history. when God destroyed all living things (except Noah and his family and all the paired animals) because of the arrogance and stupidity of humans but unfortunately, Noah also sinned! till God came to us as Jesus to save us and to shoulder our stupid sins. but till this day, humans still are arrogant and stupid. we are killing and eliminating ourselves slowly by destroying (in the name of advancement) all what God has created. but this is a very subjective matter: we cannot follow every word in the bible, esp'ly in today's world, evolution has taken its place, Christianity is meant to be kind jz like any other religions. Have u seem evil in Christians & kindness in non-Christians instead? How can we call these non-Christians evil? It's all individual development to become what we are today. what we saw, heard & learnt from young. It's common sense. Religions taught us to be kind, so we believe we have to be kind. But it's human to err. Tat's how we learn from mistakes. Bible is a good guidance but we cannot follow every word it says. : i didn't call them "evils" ......i dun hv the right to judge them...only God will judge. i think u misunderstood me. i am not the extremist type. we apply the principle of God's word in today's society: We don't stone our daughters to death anymore if she has premarital sex. Daughters don't sleep with their fathers to have descendants anymore. Today, Christian men don't circumcise themselves like their Muslim counterparts as in the bible anymore. We use our common sense by applying some of God's teachings in today's life but not all: u r right......those were the circumstances then. i won't go further with u in this subject as it takes a long long long time to explainWHY GO TO CHURCH?A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.(or Saturday) "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this. They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!" When you are DOWN to nothing..... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical and our spiritual nourishment! WHAT A LIE IS....Telling lies is a fault for a boy,
an art for a lover,
an accomplishment for a bachelor,
and a matter of survival for a married man.
What? What is it for a pastor????
I would call it food for a malnourished soul. LISTENWhen you lean against someone next time, listen hard to their heartbeats.........
SWEET-TALKA man's sweet-talking is another man's threat,but it's alluring to most women! GUILTY?Only those who plead guilty sub-consciously are conscience-stricken by what others have to say..... SPEAK NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL & SEE NO EVILI never knew lying to someone
who likes to lie about him/herself
can be so easy & kind,
now I know..... EVIL LOVER
TAKE A SECOND LOOKThe world population stands at 6.6 billion. Planet earth has a total land area of 9.4 million sq km. Basically, chances of 2 persons being in the same space at the same time are very slim. While some people call it fate, others call it a coincidence. But life often springs surprises. The next time we meet a stranger, do give him or her a second look. We never know what that person might be. And we never know what inconceivable story that person might bring. MY FAVORITE VERSES FROM JANE AUSTENI've discovered Jane Austen's books during school days when our English teacher "had" made us summarised every book we read twice a month or was it once a week??
 Last night I came across her Sense and Sensibility DVD with the verse, "When I see more of the world, the more I am convinced that I would never see a man whom I can really love." AM I CONVINCED OR HAVEN'T I??!!Sense and Sensibility
He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.
"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."
" . . . and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions."
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
"His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle." Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
" . . . I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE."
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
" . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?" "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment."
Mansfield Park
"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."
"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."
"Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."
"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere . . . "
The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.
Emma
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
" It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble."
"Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
Northanger Abbey
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Persuasion
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them. SOFT WHISPER“Being silent seems like doing nothing, but it is precisely in silence that we confront our true selves. The sorrows of our lives often overwhelm us to such a degree that we will do everything not to face them. Radio, television, newspapers, books, films, but also hard work and a busy social life all can be ways to run away from ourselves and turn life into a long entertainment.”
-Henri J.M. Nouwen, Can You Drink the Cup? (Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 1996), p. 94 Kierkegaard said that if he were a doctor and were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, he would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed, it would not be heard or heeded, for there is too much noise and busyness in our world.” -Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans, Pascal’s Pensees Edited, Outlines & Explained (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993), p. 35 Sometimes in order to be heard,
we need to be silent..... WHETHER YOU WERE A REASON, A SEASON OR A LIFETIME...People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When we know which one it is, we will know what to do for that person.
When someone is in our lives for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need we have expressed.
They have come to assist us through a difficulty, to provide us with guidance and support, to aid us physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason we need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on our part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force us to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer we sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into our lives for a SEASON, because our turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring us an experience of peace or make us laugh. They may teach us something we have never done. They usually give us an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach us lifetime lessons, things we must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Our job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what we have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of our lives. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life,
whether you were a reason,
a season or a lifetime. FINGERS CROSSEDAzrul April 14 6:53 AM i thinkthe reverse is just as valid!No woman is ever faithful to one man!So the saying goes!Inthis age of IT it seems faithfulness is a dormant word and will soonbe extinct!Do you remember the word gay?It used to mean beautiful in the good old days but today it is homosexuality!What a change with this period of time!Today there is bisexuality& metro sexuals!I really dontknow what tomorrow holds!Just keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best to come,but be prepared for the worst!
How true! Azrul, I’m keeping my fingers crossed with you. It makes me cry to hear either party from a couple seeks comfort elsewhere other than making peace at home. A KNOCK ON SOLITARY DOORjerrypoh April 12 9:07 AM as the saying goes *No man is an island*which aptly explains everything!Another saying goes like this*We come to this world alone,we go alone,but inthis journey of life here is meant to share*Its definitely good to be quite independent,but on occasion its also quite good to look a wee bit dependent!
genesispassion April 10 7:11 PM am \glad ,u make yr own happiness then to depend on others....
Wearing a monk’s robe does not make one a solitary soul,
unless he completely shuts himself off from the sight & scent
& seek to unfold the mystery of every woman.
UNTOTALLY INDEPENDENT
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