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To Share or Not to Share?

August 11th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

Today I shared one of the most personal things in my life with practically strangers at a new church fellowship. For most of my life I have kept these things in my heart. Sometimes it felt like a lock or a heavy load weighing on my heart and squishing all the air out of me. I struggled for so long and pondered during sleepless nights on how I can rid myself of what’s been kept away for ages. Natural timing is my excuse but it was probably more out of lack of thinking and the desperate need to release the recent added pressure. I probably should have also stopped before details came out but… it felt so liberating to let it out without thinking of the consequences. Sometimes that’s all one needs, someone to listen without judging. It’s not often we can find such good friend but then there is always God.

Reminder: No one needs to feel these burdens. God doesn’t Judge. Dump everything onto Him. God is always there listening. Talk to Him and He will always listen.

Love and Damage

August 9th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

Deeply caring and loving someone can blow everything out of proportion. It creates unnecessarily enormous emotions which can result in serious damages to both parties. Step back, take a deep breath, and clear your mind. It was never so bad after all. What matters most is you both love each other very much.

What doors have God opened for me today?

August 1st, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

Reminder to ask myself daily: What doors have God opened for me today? There is always a brighter path, planned by God, awaiting for me to discover. See those paths and walk those paths.

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
~Alexander Grapham Bell

To Believe, Just Believe

July 26th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

Tonight my elder brother shared a story with me. On his 25th birthday he celebrate with over 30 to 40 friends. They all took turns to wish and cheer him with drinks an so he drank and got drunk . After he arrived home, alone in his apartment, depression and loneliness took over him. Everything spiral downwards. He was emotional and physically miserable. He hated this feeling and thought to himself, “Why did I drink? I don’t like alcohol. What was all the drinking for? Not for myself… but for the enjoyment of others.”

He swore not to drink alcohol again and he would only do things that made himself happy. By this time it was 5am, to brush off these feelings he decide to go for a morning drive. As he drove, he noticed the sign in front of the church had changed. With the sunrise peeking from behind, the sign read, “To Believe, Just Believe”. At that moment epiphany hit him. “To be Happy, Just be Happy”, “To Love, Just Love” This can be applied to life in many ways, it was all that simple.

I am very touched knowing that God had answered my prayers. He was watching over and taking care of him. After all these years of being alone he has turn out to be a very good, strong, and kind man. I am not as strong as him and have many doubts if I will ever be, but I will not give up. I will always strive to better myself daily. Yet my brothers says,

 “To Believe, Just Believe. If you truly understand something you will not need to try, you will know how to apply it without difficulty in all things. It’s as simple as that.”

~ 哥哥

I guess I don’t get it yet… I guess I will know when I don’t have to try… So simple yet so deep…

Why Complicate Life?

July 25th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

As simple as I’d like to be in this complicated life.

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