Thinking Aloud

April 8, 2007

A good weekend

Filed under: Musings about life, Entertainment - uliang @ 9:08 pm

The end of the Holy week was a rather relaxing one. I enjoyed it. Good Friday service in the morning. God gave Pastor Shih Ming exactly the words I needed to hear (not what I wanted to hear…). Headed down to Sim Lim to get and brand new graphics card and a new game. Spent the rest of the day enjoying the fruits of my hard earned money.

Saturday spent cleaning up the house and doing another round of consultation with my student. Wanted to go swimming but the weather was not obliging. Slept early.

Come Sunday. Easter worship service, then home cooked lunch, a swim and then dinner. And I finally cleaned my room. Aaah, nicely relaxed and recharged.

Was thinking how much God has blessed me. It seems almost criminal to say that my life is pretty much relaxed. Amongst my peers, (don’t mean to boast) I think I have the least stress free mind. But is it an Asian thing to define one’s sense of importance by being busy? I have the nagging suspicion that this is so, and if it is then I guess I’m the least Asian amongst my peers.

March 11, 2007

Awkwardness…

Filed under: Daily thoughts, Musings about life, Christianity, Gospel - uliang @ 6:17 pm

Over the years, I’ve come to realize that I am not the type of person who likes to get into debates.

Wait…let me take back these words. I do. I debate with my mother, father. I tease and argue with my sister. I’ve had deep discussions with John (Tey), Raj, Lydia, Faith and others etc…(I hardly talk with my brother, which is quite a shame). Heck, I’ve even debated my EXCO chairman, Paul who is a practising lawyer now.  (Pretty brave of me yah..lolz).

But one thing I don’t debate is religion. I have had several talks with Pacey (for instance) on Christianity. But I just left it at that. I think I’ve never really shared the gospel on a one-to-one basis before in my entire life. I think the reason is simply that it makes me uncomfortable.

I think a lot of people would come to my side and cast an understanding nod.

But, though I would appreciate the empathy, I cannot agree with the reasoning behind it.

Simply put, faith comes from the hearing of the word. I can’t find it in the Bible that true faith grows on a person, or is gradually realized from being moved by good deeds (although this would help out alot.) I disagree with St. Francis of Assisi. The Gospel must nessecarily  be preached with words.   

Look at the evidence: Great revivals trace back to great preaching by great preachers. John Sung, Wesley, Spurgeon, Moody and the like. The Apostles preached, Paul certaily did and Jesus himself took every opportunity to preach (and discuss) the good news. Mother Teresa may have inspired many-only to more good works and not to belief in Christ per se.

Words are risky indeed. They reveal us as bigots, sometimes rightly so. It is a flawed tool, but a redeemed one. Simply put, it takes a lot of guts to say to a friend or stranger, " Repent of your sins and believe in Christ that you may be saved." And saved from what? Injustice, alienation and oppression? There is a part here that is being missed out and sadly underemphasized: Saved from future-but certain-judgement.

Sometimes the gospel is preached hurtfully, sometimes with arrogance, sometimes intolerantly and most often that not, demeaningly. But because the message is so precious and so urgeant, words are by far the fastest and most efficient way of getting the message across. I’ve heard it countless times, " Show don’t tell!" The truth of the matter is " Show AND TELL!"  

I guess it is time for me to make a choice and commitment. To share the gospel with at least ( I know modest lar, but must start small first right) one person by the end of this year.  

February 1, 2007

Movies that inspire me

Filed under: Daily thoughts, Musings about life, Entertainment - uliang @ 9:02 am

When I was young, my family would head down to my grandmother’s place every weekend. Besides meeting up with my cousins, I would also help myself to the extensive video collection that my aunt had. Compared to now, I realized that they don’t make movies like they used to.

(Lame nostalgic post…or not)

The don’t make action films like Commando (Arnold Swarzenegger….yes he was an action hero before being governor.)  

They don’t make James Bond like Octopussy or  A View to a Kill and the like. (Casino Royale is excellent cinema, but I don’t see 9 year olds identifying with Daniel Craig’s cool poker performance.)

They don’t make sci-fi like Empire Strikes Back. ("Luke…I am your father" must be the most recognizable film scene in movie history, not to mentioned the most parodied :P

It’s different nowadays. Somehow, cinema takes itself too seriously nowadays. Serious cinema is now about making a social statement, a political statement, a religous statement. They may be many contemporary movies like Citizen Kane, but they are hard to identify with. They are many political thrillers, suspense and movies criticizing the Bush government, but no real satire like Dr Strangeglove:  How I stop worrying and learnt to love the Bomb.

I guess its true as they say, the fall of the Wall changed everything.  

October 30, 2006

Yesterday,…

Filed under: Daily thoughts, Musings about life, Politics - uliang @ 8:36 pm

Yesterday, love was just an easy game to play….

Lolz. You know something, I seemed like yesterday that during an UMNO General assembly Dr. Mahathir (then the PM) announced that we wanted to step down. We all know what happen-lah, everybody rushed to him. He was crying, they were crying, Rafidah Aziz was pleading with him. They held an emergency meeting. Headlines.

Well…the headlines are still there.

But now Dr. Mahathir is the snake,( aka Badawi’s," …with more venom…" ), the forgetful, (aka Information Minister Dtk. Zainuddin Maidin, " ..epitome of Melayu mudah lupa (Malay’s forget easily)."
and generally a pain in the ass. I wonder whether the same people who rushed up to the stage to stop a crying Mahathir 3 years ago from stepping down would do the same if they knew what he was doing (saying) today.

Politics, the great Malaysian sandiwara (soap opera) is so interesting. It’s an insight into human nature. The great irony, contradictions and hidden motivations. Maybe Dr. M is criticizing the government because he is looking for forgiveness? Working hard for the ‘good of the country’ to ease is scarred conscience?

Maybe Badawi’s will is sapped, his couraged muted by the departure of his dearly beloved. Maybe he sees all that is evil in Malaysian politics and commerce and chooses to believe that things will work out fine? Or perhaps he doesn’t even believe his eyes.

Whatever the motivation, whatever the agenda. One thing is for certain, I learn two things from this: When you are rich and powerful you have many friends. Once that is gone, so are your friends. And if you start shouting, your ‘friends’ suddenly become enemies.

Another is simple: Choose your advisors carefully. Surround yourself with yes-men, and your ‘yes-men’ will rule for you.  

October 13, 2006

I have a right to justice

Filed under: Daily thoughts, Musings about life, Meditations, Da vinci code - uliang @ 6:06 pm

I realized that my posts of late are concered primarily with happenings back home in Malaysia and rather mundane aspects of my life.

With respect to the latter, apologies. I just can’t think of anything better to post.

But for the former, I make no apologies. These are the examples of things that get me very worked up. The imposition of authority through brute force- " There is no need to debate, just accept it!"

But then, enough said about the Malaysian political culture. I guess I should post something about my spiritual life (or lack thereof). emoticon

Transition from VCF to a local church was relatively smooth. Right now I’m with a PCM group and serving in both Faith Acts and the choir. I guess (if there are any VCFers who still read this blog) that involvement in a local church is kinda the anchor. To transition smoothly out from VCF and still continue to grow, we do need to invovle ourselves in something more than Sunday worship services.

Quiet time has been rather off an on. Still adapting to the rigor of waking up early before rushing to school to do work. But, I’ve made my commitment once more go over the Bible, cover to cover again. With the help from biblegateway.com ’s reading plan. I should finish it in exactly one year.

All this said, does this make me ok?

I don’t think so. I’m not ok. I realize it everyday. Something is missing. Maybe a taste of heaven, or a dissatisfaction with what the world offers. Maybe it’s that bout of loneliness all we single people struggle with. Or out struggle with sin. Nah, I’m not ok. I’m just on a journey just like everybody else.  

 

October 4, 2006

Straight and true

Filed under: Daily thoughts, Musings about life, Mathematics - uliang @ 10:02 pm

The cardinal truth of life:

In mathematics, the most straightforward solution is usually the correct one…yet, the most straightforward questions are deceptively easy.

In life, the truth is obvious…it just that we have a hard time swallowing it.

I think Grissom of CSI fame quoted something to that effect.  

July 30, 2006

Stung by the bees

Filed under: Musings about life, News, Politics - uliang @ 9:42 pm

We all heard of the story of Tun Dr. Mahathir getting sprayed by mace. Latest I read, the police had remanded somebody to assist in investigations.

There is a quagmire out there. A political culture that does not breed heroics. No true statesmanship, only silence.

People are being ruled by rhetoric, and mob mentality. Perhaps, instead of stifling honest debate, I would love to see some true statesmanship, one where you confront the problem head on, with tact and cunning.

In politics, words are your greatest weapon and your greatest threat.

 

July 3, 2006

Stung by Cupid

Filed under: Musings about life, Christianity, love - uliang @ 10:27 pm

I just made an interesting observation:

Guys and girls experience romantic love differently. Duuuhhh….

But let’s put it this way, secular society priviledges the male point of view in these matters. After perusing Men’s Health and corrobarated by my occasional perusals through women’s magazines (no, I’m not a closet pervert! emoticon) it’s really about how to get the girl. It’s all about getting what you want.

But since I’m also acquianted with the Christian p.o.v. in these matters, I am beginning to think that it is the women’s point of view that is priveldged when Christian boys and girls start to hush and blush emoticon

After all, we (including me) talk about waiting, finding the right one, being patient… Get the drift.

Tough leh, sometimes I really find it a miracle that people even get attached. Simple things like this also cannot see from the same point of view.

Thinking about it, it seems easier to find that girl you like and marry her in those golden old days. Nowadays, damn  extremely complicated (whether you’re a Christian or not.) Must be like this first, must like that first, must have this feeling, must have money, must have style, must wait…emoticon

Haih…   

June 29, 2006

Not I, but You

Filed under: Musings about life, Christianity, Christ - uliang @ 7:37 am

He who died on the tree has comforts me,

He who rules above has not forgotten me,

He who counsels me in quiet moments refreshens me.

He who walked on the dusty road guides me,

He who walkes the Milky Way charts a path for me,

He leads me to quiet pastures shows the way.  

He who breathes life in all man, gives me my daily bread,

He who ate and drank with all man shares with me his table,

He who is the breath of life is my daily portion.

He is, he was and will always be.

Not I, but You Lord.  

June 6, 2006

Peanuts

Filed under: Musings about life, Job - uliang @ 9:04 pm

Someone once remarked that: "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys."

Sigh.

I’m sighing a lot nowadays.  Not that my job is incredibly stressful or particularly unpleasant. No, my supervisor is nice and so far none of the people I have surveyed have ever given me a harsh reply. All interviews were cordial.

It’s just that, compared to what other companies are paying their surveyors, I’m being paid peanuts. I just don’t know what to think. Okay, I guess I shouldn’t worry too much about the money. I know I have more than enough to use until August, and that’s when my stipend starts.  

June 1, 2006

Stepping big

Filed under: Daily thoughts, Musings about life, Job - uliang @ 8:09 pm

Today was interesting to say the least. Visited some placed which I would otherwise have no chance of stepping into.

Quite happy with the way my job is turning out. (That’s rather quick assessment for somebody who has only done it for two days)…

…but the downsides are usually failed appointments and lousy scheduling.

Well, better start learning from mistakes.  

 

 

May 2, 2006

The beginning of another chapter

Filed under: Daily thoughts, Musings about life - uliang @ 2:30 pm

Pardon the cliche post title…

But you can already guess what I’m going to write about.

Recieved an SMS from Siaw May. Today’s the day she finishes her housemanship. Tomorrow’s the day I am done with undergraduate life.

It’s been 4 years. Unfortunately, my education has just begun…

Wonder what awaits me next :)

April 23, 2006

It only takes one SMS…

Filed under: Musings about life - uliang @ 10:49 pm

Recieved some sad news today. One of my choir members passed away.

April 18, 2006

Speechless…

Filed under: Musings about life, Christianity, Mathematics, Meditations - uliang @ 8:49 pm

Since I’m speechless, I only want to share these few verses.

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
12That my soul may sing praise to You and not be silent
O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

For His anger is but for a moment,
His favor is for a lifetime;
Weeping may last for the night,
But a shout of joy comes in the morning.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

If you happen to know more verses in the same vein, leave a message on the tagboard.

April 14, 2006

Ultimate Irony

Filed under: Daily thoughts, Musings about life, Job - uliang @ 10:56 pm

As I was looking at JobsDB.com I realized something.

Most companies that advertise there are looking for Singaporean/PR.

But I can’t become a PR unless I secure a job first!!

Isn’t this ironic…

Suddenly this feels like chicken and egg situation.

April 11, 2006

That few seconds…

Filed under: Musings about life, Christianity, Mathematics - uliang @ 11:36 pm

At this moment in time, I just look back and whisper, ” Time really flies.”

But then again, isn’t it true that yesterday seemed like a dream from a century ago?

It was just last semester that I first stepped into the world of ‘real’ (being relative) mathematics, but now that dream is going to be cut out from me?

It is really in moments like this that my capacity to trust Him is tested to the limit.

April 6, 2006

I remember

Filed under: Musings about life, birthday - uliang @ 11:17 pm

I remember wetting the matress.

I remember the time when I would cup my hands together to say Muslim grace before eating tea in my Tabika (kindy)

I remember lining up in pairs for ‘perhimpunan’ (morning assembly) and holding hands with a girl for the first time, to the chorus of much teasing walking back to class.

I remember buying food from the ‘makcik’ in the canteen for the first time. I nervously handed over 50 cents for a curry puff.

I remember the bunch of us boys talking about sex in standard six. We were 12 at that time and girls started to look appealing.

I remember I was an introvert in secondary school. Strange, cos I was quite a naughty kid.

I remember staring at her as she walked out from the school compound from the third floor library. I wrote her a letter and sneaked it in her desk, she never replied. I was an idiot.

I remember waiting for number 59 minibus or 121 Tong Fong. 60 cents to Sri Petaling. Sometimes, waiting for either was too long. I would take another bus to Salak South and walk 2 km back home.

I remember buying the super soft and smooth tau fu fa at the busstop.

I remember stepping into a CF for the first time in MBS and guess what I saw from the classroom: A couple of thugs beating up a prefect.

I remember waiting for my mother to pick me up after school and wonder who were those strange people sleeping by the roadside. I realized later they were drug addicts.

I remember Suresh. He was my best friend. We would watch movies together and study Bible Knowledge under Miss Moey. Form 4 and 5 were the best years of my life (so far).

I remember going for my first CF camp organized by SU. It was in Cameron Highlands, and I will always remember the time God touched me in such a special, personal and powerful manner. I think that was the one experience that changed my life.

I remember all those CF activities. The sharing, the nonsense, the mamak, and the never ending fun we had doing everything else but sharing the gospel. We got excited when girls from CBN would join us. We we’re shallow.

I remember learning what ‘obscure’ really meant-covering up for a friend who played truant. This was the unspoken code of ethics.

I remember hating prefects. I have something against authority figures.

I remember obtaining my STPM results, my sadness at seeing Maths Lanjutan: C. I swear it was the most disappointing moment of my life.

I remember the mission trip to Taman Chempaka Baptist Church in Ipoh. The accident and the big cock up by the ambulance crew transporting my brother and Yee Bing back to KL. I panicked but forgot to pray. God saved anyway.

I remember sitting in the train staring out into the morning that was rising over Singapore. My father was with me. I couldn’t decide what to feel.

I remember Prologue and dancing for the first time.

I remember my first hallplay, standing out in front of a crowd of about 700 ppl, saying the words,” Welcome ladies and gentlemen…”

I remember hanging out in John Tey’s room, drinking chicken soup he cooked. This was someone I looked up too.

I remember confessing my feelings to a girl for the first time.

I remember the confusion of second year and the drastic drop of my CAP score. I swear that was the worst time of my life.

I remember learning speaking to Dr. Tan for a honours project and suggesting a report on Lie algebras. I was hooked, and God-willing, I have found my niche.

I remember the new year. I remember from 1982 -2006, 24 years of my life. All the events, all those and more unsaid, that have made me what I am today.

6th April 2006.

April 2, 2006

Verily, verily…

Filed under: Musings about life, Christianity, Meditations - uliang @ 12:30 pm

This prayer helps us to put ourselves at God’s disposal. St Ignatius describes this ‘Preparatory prayer’ as asking for the grace that all my intentions, actions and operations may be directed purely to the praise and service of the Divine Majesty. (The Spiritual Exercises, no. 46) You might try these words:

Lord, I so wish to prepare well for this time.
I so want to make all of me ready and attentive and available to you.
Please help me to clarify and purify my intentions.
I have so many contradictory desires.
I get preoccupied with things that don’t really matter or last.
I know that if I give you my heart
whatever I do will follow my new heart.

In all that I am today, all that I try to do,
all my encounters, reflections - even the frustrations and failings
and especially in this time of prayer,
in all of this may I place my life in your hands.
Lord, I am yours. Make of me what you will. Amen.

Taken from Sacred Space.

Trust in the LORD and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

4 Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

5 Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him and he will do this:

6 He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.

7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.

March 31, 2006

The Lord is my SHEPHERD

Filed under: Musings about life, Christianity - uliang @ 9:26 pm

The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,

Just wanna share how encouraged I am with the God has been providing for me. How everything just falls nicely into place. How I see His guiding hand amidst the turmoil of graduation and change.

This verse is just so ALIVE…

I just found a place to stay when I move out of hall. I couldn’t have asked for more…

February 14, 2006

The streams

Filed under: Musings about life - uliang @ 9:00 pm

Day passes by like a placid stream.

The word turns on like it always has. Strange lights in the night, but that’s the only strangeness in the air.

Round and round the hands of the clock turns, not a end in sight, and the mellow bell chimes on….

…like it always has.

January 14, 2006

Complementary Conversants?

Filed under: Musings about life - uliang @ 7:54 pm

The Dilbert Blog: Men Versus Women

Go to the link. How true is this?

January 9, 2006

A little more to the left

Filed under: Musings about life - uliang @ 3:36 pm

I was never good at parrallel parking, I’ll admit that.

I’m not hopeless at it, just not too good. The car will always stick out a little into the road. And that’s when, as the title puts it, ” A little more to the left.”

Hmm….

Maturity. I guess maturity, apart from the major overhauls, also comes from those, ” A little more to the left” kind of changes.

As I continue to grow in Christ, may He show me the places where overhauls are needed. May He also give me the grace to make those little left’s so that I may be truly mature.

January 5, 2006

A long journey…

Filed under: Musings about life - uliang @ 6:16 pm

The weather is acting up. Was swimming just now when it started rain.

Ok, not a problem, after all there was no thunder or lightning.

By the time I got back and had dinner, it was 600, and boy was the sun shining.

Isn’t life like that?

January 1, 2006

The New year and thoughts…

Filed under: Musings about life - uliang @ 9:14 am

If you are M’sian, you might be able to identify the following joke:

2005 was indeed a strange year with the Army getting into the business of religious conversions; the National Airline in artworks; with the Art gallery not knowing if its treasures are missing; the PM apologising to China for atrocities against his own citizen and we still have one day to go.

I got it from Screenshots…
a forwarded SMS circulating in Malaysia. On the last day of the week, of the year 2005.

For humour, perhaps to lighten up and not take ourselves too seriously.

A great way to start the new year is perhaps to remind myself that as an adult, there is world out there with responsibilities, not only to my family (i.e. brothers and sisters and parents) but to my country as well.

It may not be the perfect place to live, but its still home. I may not always agree that same leaders are worthy of respect, but people still elected them nonetheless.

Malaysia may not be as cool, snazzy, efficient and comfortable a place to live in compared to Singapore, but as they say in malay, it’s tanah
tumpahnya darahku
.

I met my Saviour and Lord as a Malaysian, and my role models were mostly Malaysian. I may not return to stay in KL, but it doesn’t matter, we still have world class highways. :P

Though the future is uncertain, and with my training as a maths graduate, job opportunities will be tough to come by in M’sia, but once I’ve dispensed with my obligations to my host country, I believe the Lord will lead me back home to M’sia.

p/s Isn’t it ironic that we can only pen this sort sentimental stuff when we’re overseas.

December 23, 2005

Not in the mood…

Filed under: Musings about life, Christianity - uliang @ 3:17 pm

After the news I heard from my brother and email from home, I am in no mood to celebrate Christmas. Certainly not the goodwill, nor the ‘time with friends and family’ or time of good cheer.

It is not.

Suddenly what has been spoken of in Anntic, that Daniel prayed, ” Lord have mercy.” comes so unsettlingly relevant now.

If needn’t be this way.

That’s all I can pray and hope, “Father, have mercy!”

December 14, 2005

Redemption

Filed under: Musings about life - uliang @ 12:16 am

Stanley Tookie Williams was executed by lethal injection today. Honestly, I didn’t come across this interesting piece of news until Monday. It seemed interesting reading about the 11th hour pleas to save his life.

By why save a convicted murderer’s life?

STW had been writing children’s books behind bars, doing his level best to promote an anti-gang message. I do not doubt his good works have saved maybe more than one life. At least with the amount of people going for him ( I mean the ordinary people, not the high hitters), he must have touched more than one life.

Of course nobody is asking for his pardon, but a commuting of his sentence to a lighter one (namely life sentence with option of parole). Indeed, this concept is not strange; prisoners are given lighter sentences for good behaviour.

Indeed, the arm of the state is harsh. Justice may be married to mercy, but the need for justice, I humbly submit is always greater than the need for mercy.

CNN.com news coverage here.

November 30, 2005

Kings, we play kings…

Filed under: Musings about life - uliang @ 11:38 pm

Tidied up my room a little today. Room mate left back home. Hall is almost empty.

I feel empty too.

I feel really, really empty.

I hate it when I feel this way.

Sometimes I wish I knew, or had more insight to human behaviour. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so sensitive, sometimes I wish I had a more consistent mood.

Sometimes I wish I wasn’t me…

November 26, 2005

My dear son…

Filed under: Musings about life - uliang @ 10:10 pm
Socrates once said: “If you marry a good woman, you become a happy man. If you marry a bad woman, you become a philosopher.”

Oh my…

November 19, 2005

My struggle, my pain…

Filed under: Musings about life, Christianity - uliang @ 10:13 pm

Ok, here’s the lowdown.

I believe the life is a struggle. We don’t need to seek for it. It just comes. Suffering, pain and struggles respect no particular practitioner of religions. Whether Muslim, Hindu or Christian, everyone struggles.

The question is to what degree and the attitudes one puts to it.

This is a poetic age. We are poets and philosophers. Some trivialize struggle, others revel in it, defining their own humanity through struggle. I guess never has one truth come across ever so clearly, and ever one generation has realized this truth:

An utopia is no utopia at all. The absense of suffering is not equal to joy

This is the reason why there are no happy endings. Why there is no closure in all serious literature we read today. Utopia has been used too often to justify grossly manipulative doctrines of superiority that we have become too cynical. Technology has decentralized meaning; from the global, we look at the local.

It is interesting. When we criticize Maslow, we become Maslowian at heart, even unconsciously. We become that which we criticize. Athiests that deride Christians come closer to Christ; conversely, Christians who critize non-believers often are the furthest from God…

As Shrek so satirically put it: ” Maybe he’s compensating for something eh.”

So where do we go from here? We have tasted the waters of the desert oasis and found it bitter. We wanted the ocean, but it overwhelmed us. We wanted the stars, but it fell on us. Finally we have the Matrix, Star Wars and Harry Potter to tell us what is good and evil. We’ve decided we need a good ending after all, but only at the movies.

We have restless hearts indeed. It not a matter of which hole in our heart that needs to be filled by God. That kind of language misses the point; we are restless wanderers, the Illiad never ends…

Space, and nothing thereof

Filed under: Musings about life - uliang @ 9:58 pm

I’ll talk about space.

It is certainly interesting finding out what people write about online. Only a few moments ago I stumbled upon a blog right here. This guy read Fukuyama (I did also, but that was a long time ago), and has an interesting post which I’ll just highlight here.

But Christians, they don’t have humanity in them. Real Christians don’t have humanity. They’re not supposed to be of this world. Humanity is a humanistic concept, a concept that was developed during the Rennaissance which focuses on the individual, personal experience as more immanent, and thus, more important than God. To be human, is to have drama and conflict, to have wants and difficulties in that want, to be foiled and to be driven into the dirt.

True Christians have no drama, they have no difficulty.

It’s only part of what he wrote, the link’s here for the full post.

This guy is on to something. But maybe I’ve lost my humanity as a Christian- if humanity is defined by struggle.

Hmm….

There’s no space to pen my thoughts fully here. I’ll do it in the next post.

Get free blog up and running in minutes with Blogsome
Theme designed by Alex King