Born just to live to die...
Think about it...an estimate of about 4.4 babies are born every second around the world...and then what? From the moment an infant is conceived, it starts to develop and in that very process starts to deteriorate even.
Oxy-moron - to grow in deterioration. Ha.
Mind boggling...nevertheless its true isn't it? All living organisms are the same. Live to die. Cells die, they don't regenerate...they just multiply.
Anyway...I've been thinking about my own life and my own body. I was 13 (boy...that was 16yrs ago!), and I was just learning how to play basketball. Back then I was just a scrawny and short kid who lacked the fundamentals and the experience in the game (I'm still scrawny and short, just aint a kid no longer..ha!).
I remembered as I grew to like the game, I would play for hours non-stop with my mates. We would even play for whole days during school vacation. Of course in time, I improved. My mates improved.
Well, I peaked when I was 24, which was 5 years back. It wasn't even when I was in the UK when I was 23. I sucked in a competition in UK then. Ha.
Now, at 29...I'm going downhill man. My legs don't move as quick as I want them to no more. Now my body takes a week to recover after just 3hrs of sports. Lack of match practice and exercise you might say? Maybe...but wait a minute...read on...
You see...it used to be that my mind would command my legs to jump, and I would jump (hey, I know I could reach that height ok, I did many times before...no sweat!) but no...now I'm just pathetic.
I used to just be able to think a steal, and I stole the ball (minimum 2-3 steals per game and a guaranteed ONE steal per game). To those who don't play basketball, trust me, it ain't easy to steal a ball from your opponent...not when they are bigger sized than you.
I use to think a sprint, and I was the first up the court. Now...ha...it's all just plain thinking...wahaha! I can't do those no more. Maybe on occassions...when it was just pure mind over body, when I pushed myself to hussle and I managed. Other than that, it's dream on for me...
I peaked just to go downhill. Ha.
In parallel...as infants, our bodies peak when we reach adulthood...and we go downhill right from there, entering into another phase as senior citizens...
...then we DIE. Ha.
Body...mind...LIFE.
Go figure it out...and let me know if you do.
Self
I've updated...not sure even if anybody reads anymore due to months of inactivity...
There are three views of every individual—the view that God has of us, the opinions that others hold concerning us, and the perception we have of ourselves. Each of these is quite important.
The divine vantage point is the assessment that is accurate in every detail. The Bible tells us that the Lord does not observe people merely outwardly, as humans tend to do; rather, “Jehovah looks on the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7). The Lord “knows the hearts of the children of men” (1 Kings 8:39). Similarly, Christ once affirmed that He Himself “knew what was in man” (John 2:25). If some of the world’s “beautiful people” were turned inside out, and revealed as God sees them, how grotesque they might appear.
Second, there are the sentiments that our peers entertain regarding us. Such assessments are only relatively accurate. Folks may hold an opinion of us that is greatly exaggerated. Those who are in the public eye are rather idealized at times. On the other hand, some, who are sterling in character, sometimes are maligned unjustly. Jesus certainly did not deserve the hateful reproaches that were heaped upon Him. And Paul, the apostle of Christ, suffered a good deal of unmerited character assassination.
Finally, there is that appraisal one makes of himself. Honesty demands that we concede that self-perception may be grossly inflated. That is why we are cautioned not to think more highly of ourselves than we ought (Romans 12:3). We must attempt not to be “high-minded” or “wise in [our] own conceits” (Romans 11:20; 12:16). If we really knew the impressions that others have of us, we might see ourselves in a totally different light, and thus alter our conduct.
My own perception has led me to realize that I have low self-esteem, still.
Met up with a couple of my friends last night for dinner. These are wonderful people who had kept silent on their plans way back in December 2004, and sprang a lovely surprise on me while I was in the States. They only gave me the heads-up just 3 - 4 days prior to their arrival in Pittsburgh. Their surprise visit was very heart-warming. I thank God for them. To me, one’s a gentle giant and the other is purely gentle.
The couple is a husband and wife team, and have just recently returned from Cambodia after having spent 15 months there. The length of stay wasn’t what they had committed themselves to, but circumstances determined otherwise. Yet their hearts still remained tender, and their minds attuned both towards God and in obeying His calling in their lives. Now they are back in their own country, in the process of moving back into their cosy love nest, and meeting and catching up with friends whom they consider dear to them. Bittersweet.
I’m glad to see them again. I’ll remember their kind gesture toward me as friends from afar and from home.
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If we obey what God says according to our sincere belief, God will break us from those traditional beliefs that misrepresent Him. There are many such beliefs which must be removed-for example, that God removes a child because his mother loves him too much. That is the devil’s lie and a travesty on the true nature of God! If the devil can hinder us from taking the supreme climb and getting rid of our wrong traditional beliefs about God, he will do so. But if we will stay true to God, God will take us through an ordeal that will serve to bring us into a better knowledge of Himself.
The great lesson to be learned from Abraham’s faith in God is that he was prepared to do anything for God. He was there to obey God, no matter what contrary belief of his might be violated by his obedience. Abraham was not devoted to his own convictions or else he would have slain Isaac and said that the voice of the angel was actually the voice of the devil. That is the attitude of a fanatic.
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Chil-ren's perspective of the Bible
Laugh Along!
Imagine yourself to be the nun (or the "Head" of the nun...MWAHAHAHA!) that is sitting at her desk grading these papers all the while trying to keep a straight face and maintain her composure!
The following statements were written by chil-ren from a Catholic Elementary School for a test where they were asked questions about the Old and New Testaments. The statements have not been retouched or corrected.
Icorrect spellng has been deliberatly lfet in.
1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF.
2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.
3. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH UNSYMPATHETIC GENITALS. (???)
4. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE DELILAH.
5. SAMSON SLAYED THE PHILISTINES WITH THE AXE OF THE APOSTLES.
6. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD WHICH IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS.
7, THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. (*ROFL)
8. THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE. (Men, "listen" to you wives)
9. THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY. (the first loophole in the 10 commandments)
10. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA. THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THE BATTLE OF GERITOL. (I would have died too if I had to walk that far on foot...)
11. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM. (MWAHAHAHAHA!)
12. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES. (MWAHAHAHAHA X2!)
13. SOLOMON, ONE OF DAVIDS SONS, HAD 300 WIVES AND 700 PORCUPINES. (MWAHAHAHAHA x3!!)
14. WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA.
15. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED THEY FOUND JESUS IN THE MANAGER. (some sort of a wise guy??)
16. JESUS WAS BORN BECAUSE MARY HAD AN IMMACULATE CONTRAPTION.
17. ST. JOHN THE BLACKSMITH DUMPED WATER ON HIS HEAD.
18. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE.
19. IT WAS A MIRICLE WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND MANAGED TO GET THE TOMBSTONE OFF THE ENTRANCE.
20. THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE LORD WERE CALLED THE 12 DECIBELS.
21. ONE OF THE OPPOSSUMS WAS ST. MATTHEW WHO WAS ALSO A TAXIMAN. (BWAHAHAHAHA!)
22. ST. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY WHICH IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MARRAIGE.
23. CHRISTIANS HAVE ONLY ONE SPOUSE. THIS IS CALLED MONOTONY.
And then there was Orchard Road...
Wisma Atria and Forum Galleria...two different places on the same side of the street, but at different ends of Orchard Road. Somebody please help me out here? Tell me the similarities please...
Supposed to meet my ex-manager at Wisma, and I ended up at Forum. In my mind I kept thinking that Forum was Wisma, and somehow, Wisma was Forum too...where was the link?!
I parked the vehicle, entered the mall and walked around for a bit, waiting for time to pass till my ex-manager arrives. Then the time came to search for the foodcourt and all I found was a care center. Something aint right. Sent a text message to confirm meeting place and it suddenly dawned on me that I was in the wrong place at the right time...DoH!!
Funny right? "Just For Laughs" ...
