Monday, July 31, 2006

Learn to laugh at yourself, because the winner is the one who smiles even in captivity.

If you have something no one can ever take away, you win anyhow. You win even if you're last in the race. You win even when you're bounded hand-to-feet. You win even when you've lost all reason to continue smiling, but you choose to. The victory is to those who choose to be happy against all odds. The battle is swift to those who choose to believe that life may not always be fair to them, but they will make it fair for themselves. And even if it doesn't work out, so be it, they will smile because they have tried. You don't have to be content with the way things are, just the way you have chosen to deal with things. Choose happiness. If you choose it, you can choose to change the world for at least one person- yourself. It's not about circumstances, for we all face different circumstances. The difference is not what we face, but how we choose to face it. Choose a smiling face.

For the joy of the Lord is your strength.

debbie at 11:17 AM

Thursday, July 27, 2006

There is only the present
And endless possibilities
There are only open doors
And new roads
There is only the walk ahead
And the future is gleaming
Bright like the sun
Glittering on the ocean
There is only the beautiful
And the promising
There is only the good
And the truth
There are only chances in front
There is only advancement and growth
There is only glory at the end of the road
If you live in a world where anything
Anything, is possible
Then it is possible
There is only the good at the end of the road
It is possible
All your strive will only bring you closer
Every fall only makes you fly higher
Every tear only makes you richer
It is possible
There is only what you have now in your hands
And with that there is only moving ahead
There is only moving ahead
As long as the end isn't in sight
Anything is possible
There is only moving ahead now
When you hit rock bottom
The only way you can go is up
When things cannot worsen further
Then they can only get better

debbie at 1:22 AM

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

I don't have to explain my life, my opinions or my decisions to anyone unless you're worth me explaining to. The misconception people have- that what they say about you matters to you? Thrash that, please. It doesn't matter what you think about me unless I know you care. I won't please you, and if you're offended, take a number because I don't live for your opinions.

debbie at 10:49 AM

Sunday, July 23, 2006

2 Corinthians 4:16-18:

16Therefore we do not lose heart.
Though outwardly we are wasting away,
yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us
an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

DO NOT

DO NOT

DO NOT LOSE HEART

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debbie at 10:01 AM

Saturday, July 22, 2006

I just want to close my eyes
And let the emotions wash over
Until there's nothing left inside
There's no hatred, no anger
Just an emptiness
And then let your peace fill me
Until the aggression has spilt away
Let your love fill the hollow spaces
Let the night give me closure
For the shelter the day never brought
Let the stars give the comfort
The music drown the frustrations
Give me peace
Until there's nothing left
Just a tired softness
An acceptance
Let the tide wash away
Wash the me I fight
Wash her away
Wash pain
Wash past
Pass all

Until I don't remember
In sleep let me not get lost in dreams
Let me die away
Not even tirelessly awake
In places that don't exist
Scenarios my mind create
I just want to never relive
The exhaustion of life
Even in dreams
That's not what I want
Let me rest with
Not a thought
Not an emotion
I don't want to struggle
Let me die
Let me die
And when I slip away
Then it'd only be you
It'd only be you
Living inside

debbie at 12:39 PM

Friday, July 21, 2006

Why do we, knowing what's right, find it so hard to make that decision?
Why do we, knowing the consequences, find it so easy to go ahead with failure?
Why do we place our trust in people who time and again prove us wrong?
Why do we hang onto memories when time pushes us forward?
Why do we each create our own world to live in when the one outside exists?

HOPE? FAITH?

We cling onto things no longer worth our time and energy because we're willing to believe that they're better then they really are.

Who are we deluding? Ourselves?

When you put your Hope and Faith into things which do not last, neither will your Hope and Faith last very long.

What isn't eternal? It's eternally useless.

In a world that's constantly changing, placing your Faith and Hope into this life and its things are like putting them into a fragile crystal ball.

This life and the things in it are dust. Ashes. What lasts?

What lasts forever so that your Hope will never shatter?


If you are easily hurt, why not put your trust in somewhere worth placing?

Somewhere you know for certain for an eternity will never let you down or fail you. Somewhere it will bear fruits you can actually taste, and not hope and wish for something that always lingers far beyond your reach.

What's the risk of believing when you've believed in things worth far less?

Haven't you realised that for far too long we have been believing in things that aren't worth our time?

What harm is it then, to just risk a little 'sanity' of this world and believe in a God?

Jeremiah 29:11
"I will bless you with a future filled with hope--a future of success, not of suffering."

Why believe? Why NOT?

debbie at 11:18 AM

Monday, July 10, 2006

How do I know that there is a God?

The very world you live in is evidence that there is a God.

Look at nature.
What causes high tide and low tide?
Why are there two tides each day?
Who created the planets and the stars?
Who created them in sync with the earth, such that the very moon we glance at night will also give a gravitational pull on our waters creating tide?
Who thought that we'd need the lulling waves to sail across?
Who thought we'd need the waning light of the moon at night, and the glare of the sun?
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light?
Who feeds the trees and flowers?
Who imagined the cycle of respiration and photosynthesis?
Who thought that the sun would give life to the plants, and the plants would give life to animals?
Who made the cycle that gives rain from the sky?
Who made the sky blue?
Who created and chose colors and painted the rainbow?
Who placed love and its desire in our hearts?
Who moulded our fingers into shape, our faces, our personalities?
Who keeps watch over this world while we sleep at night?
Who will know where we go after we die?
Who will know what we do when we're alive?
Who remembers all that has happened?
Who knows our true purpose?

These are questions children ask! These are questions we are distracted from asking as we grow up, questions we reduce to childish. These are questions we block with the quest for status, power, money and superficial love. But these are essential questions, questions that question YOUR existence.

Why am I here? Who put me here?

Everytime you feel defeated look around you.

Outside the window trees and flowers grow with no worry for tomorrow. They live one day and wilter tomorrow. But who feeds them and watches over them? Who knows their beauty? And who will plan the new plants that creep up in the twilight?

Creation is far too amazing to be an accident. If it were an accident, there'd be 12 earths. It should have been so simple throughout the millions of years to have another accident. But if its just an incident that has happened only once, why this once? Why?

Religion exists because we can't find the answer to the simplest and most urgent question of humanity- What is our purpose?

Surely we are placed on this earth not by chance, surely we are not just numbers, surely we, being so different right down to our fingerprints and DNA, have a reason why we are put on this Earth.

Which man can know?

Only the creator will know the purpose of creation. Only one book has the story of humanity from creation to salvation written without any scientific contradiction right up to this point, and yes, it is the twenty-first century. The theory of the big bang coincides nicely with what you read in Genesis.

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.


http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/bigbang.htm:

About 15 billion years ago a tremendous explosion started the expansion of the universe. This explosion is known as the Big Bang. At the point of this event all of the matter and energy of space was contained at one point. What exisisted prior to this event is completely unknown and is a matter of pure speculation. This occurance was not a conventional explosion but rather an event filling all of space with all of the particles of the embryonic universe rushing away from each other. The Big Bang actually consisted of an explosion of space within itself unlike an explosion of a bomb were fragments are thrown outward. The galaxies were not all clumped together, but rather the Big Bang lay the foundations for the universe.

Creation is not an accident.
You're not an accident.

God is not a speculation.

debbie at 2:09 AM

Monday, July 03, 2006

Because you only live once... RISK IT ALL.

debbie at 9:59 AM

Sunday, July 02, 2006

It amazes me that all my life I grew up in a christian background and never really knew what they were all talking about.

In my school, we learnt hymns like "jesus loves the little children", "this is the day the lord has made", "joy is a flag flown high from the bottom of my heart... where the king is the residence there".

There's a painting in my canteen of the miracle that Jesus did where he multiplied 5 loaves and 2 fishes for a multitude of hundreds or thousands.

Since primary school to secondary school, I attended chapel once every week in school and fell asleep in almost every chapel. The sermon was dry and boring, almost always by some wizened pastor with a white collar that maybe choked his sense of humour too.

So anyway its quite disturbing that when God is real to me, it amazes me that all my life I grew up with his word, his teachings all around and never felt that he is actually real.

In secondary school, despite all my nice christian upbringing, I simply decided that God didn't exist. How could he, if I lived in such a christian environment and still felt my life was so empty, and still felt so helpless? All those nice bible verses just didn't make any sense to me.

God can be distant when it's always a religion. Chapel, hymns, sermons- how can it mean anything if its just a kind of formality? If its a relationship, everything begins to take on a different meaning. When there's no intimacy in a relationship, the only other thing left is formality, empty actions and words, worship compelled by responsibility and not passion.

The way people get introduced to God can change their whole perspective of him. It's so important, especially when their salvation is at stake.

So I don't get why so many people do it the wrong way. Don't tell them that they'd go to hell, don't push your beliefs down their throat, don't act as though you're holier-than-thou, don't bring your friends to your own church just to flaunt your wonderful christian circle of friends and status ("oh, i'm so-and-so here, with so much responsibility, i have no time to be with you, just uh, hang around.") Seriously, who needs that? Or, even worse, approach strangers and scare them with your seriously fanatically-sounding preaching- all of which I have experienced.

Why not genuine, sincere love, which gives and asks for nothing in return?

debbie at 10:47 AM