The Boy And His Father

One day the boy was following his father and his grandfather to the mountains. As they reached the top of the mountain, the father left a bag of food and clothing for the grandfather and left him there.

As the father was walking down the mountain with his son, the son asked his father why he left grandpa there in the mountain. His father said that grandpa was old and so he will live on whatever was given him as they could not take of him another more.

So the son in his curiosity asked, "Daddy." The father said, "Yes." "When you are old like grandpa, I should also pack a bag filled with food and clothing and leave you in this same mountain." The father on hearing was dumbfounded.

He turned and walked up the mountain again, realizing his actions were witnessed by his son and now turned against him. A chord stroke in his mind. The son reunited with his grandpa and they lived happily ever after.

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The Ant Student and Her Teacher

There is another interesting story about the ant student and her teacher. One day the ant student comes back, feeling very sad and downcast. Her mother asked about what happened, and whether if something occurred in school which caused her sadness.

The ant daughter replied that her teacher did not like her. Mother Ant asked for the reason that this is so. Ant daughter said the teacher did not like her and her work as her writing was too small. Mother Ant suddenly became very angry and at the same time curious.

She checked the written work that her daughter did and she found it written in excellent size. She decided to accompany her daughter to school the next day. When they arrived in the class, they waited for the teacher.

The next moment, a hugh shadow covered over them like an umbrella. Mother Ant turned to see who was coming, she saw Teacher Elephant standing at the door. At that moment, she understood why the teacher said her daughter's written work was not big enough.

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* 365夜夜好故事. 可爱宝贝卷

The Man and The Bamboo Pole

This story was taken from a kids chinese book* which I borrowed from the library. I find it very interesting and has a moral lesson for present people like you and me, whether adults or kids. The story is about a chinese man during the old days of China.

He was carrying a bamboo pole with the intention of selling it in the city. The bamboo pole was a long one and it is a material which is very useful for household purpose. While he was carrying it upright, the man met with a dilemma at the city entrance.

The bamboo pole could not go through the entrance as it was taller than the height of the city entrance. He was stuck. After a little while, an old man noticed his situation and recommended to him to cut the pole into half. Taking his suggestion, he cut the pole into half and thanked the old man as both of man entered the city happily.

Once he entered the city, he tried to fix the pole back and realized he made a big mistake in cutting the bamboo pole. With the shorter poles, he was not able to sell them and in the end he walked out of the city, realizing that he should have held the bamboo pole horizontally when entering the city.

From this lesson, the man eventually went back to the forest and cut more bamboo poles, placed them on a wooden cart and had no problem selling them in the city.

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* 365夜夜好故事. 可爱宝贝卷

Cliff or Corner?

Make a guess if the picture below is a cliff or a corner/side of a rock.

Drop a comment ok (not sure if you need to login with your gmail account).

I will drop an answer in the comment at the end of tomorrow :)

Take Care Of Your Eyes

Our eyes. So small. Not bigger than many parts of the body. But without them, you can be sure your hands may have to take over as eyes and feel your way through life. Our eyes indeed are the gateway to seeing the wonders of life. Images are being captured every second, assisted by the brain, to come out with a sight that makes sense to the person.

On occasions we can take our eyes for granted and over stressed them and lose our vision. Of course through surgery, some have restored their vision to perfection, but once again, the lack of discipline will surely cause the eyes to strain again. So how many surgeries can the eyes take?

With ever increasing exposure to computers and television and lesser outdoor activities, our eyes can so easily become strained and weakened in the process. So it is important to take eye breaks almost about every 45 minutes or every hour. of course not break from one screen to another screen, but to the world of nature and greenery.

You can also read more about other tips on the Internet. Here is a link to 30 ways to care for your eyes.

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Do The Simple Things First

Too much time was taken to complete the difficult question that there was not enough time for the other questions which she later realized she could get all of them correct. She was too engrossed with trying to solve that difficult question and problem so much that in the end, she failed the paper.

She could have skipped the bottleneck question and completed the simple ones first. In this way, she could score 90 marks out of 100 and learning the knowledge through skipping or attempting that 10 marks question. And maybe who knows, as she attempts those simple ones, the simple ones may provides clues to help her solve the difficult problem.

So which one will you do first?

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Happy Easter Sunday!

Blessed Easter Sunday! Other than Easter eggs and other fun activities, it is back to the basics to commemorating the risen Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ. May this hymn ring true in every heart.

He Lives

I serve a risen Saviour,
He's in the world today;
I know that He is living,
Whatever men may say;
I see His hand of mercy,
I hear His voice of cheer,
And just the time I need Him
He's always near.

# Chorus:
He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today!
He walks with me and He talks with me
Along life's narrow way.
He lives, He live, salvation to impart!
You ask me how I know He lives:
He lives within my heart.

In all the world around me
I see His loving care,
And tho my heart grows weary
I never will despair;
I know that He is leading
Thro' all the stormy blast,
The day of His appearing
Will come at last.

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Rejoice, rejoice, O Christian,
Lift up your voice and sing
Eternal hallelujahs
To Jesus Christ the King!
The hope of all who seek Him,
The help of all who find,
None other is so loving,
So good and kind.

Hymn is taken from http://www.breadsite.org/lyrics/180.htm
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Aim, Shoot, Bullseye

How to set a goal or target and stay on target? The illustration is used to help us to determine what it takes to set goals or targets and how to stay on target. Have you ever played the game of darts? Darts throwing is a very simple game, basically throwing darts at a board with scores based on your accuracy.

Before playing darts, you need to have the darts and of course, the dartboard. With the darts and no board, the game is not complete. In fact, it goes nowhere and it may be also dangerous. Imagine you or things in your house or garden have become the board for the darts. So it is important to have in place a target or goal as you pursue any activity in life.

After setting up the board (on the wall), you ask yourself what is your goal. Is it going to be 10, 50, 90 or 100 score? So what does it take to hit 90 or 100? In throwing the darts, the following are needed:

1. Focus and Aim
With darts ready to fly, your eyes must stay fixed on the target ahead. If your eyes are distracted by the surrounding attractions and people cheering with playful activities, the dart is obvious to go side tracked. In such situation, if I were you, I would stay away from such a person as far as possible. Who knows where the dart is going to land. Keep your eyes fixed on the target. Remove distractions if possible. Remove clutter. If these are inevitable in many cases, stay focused.

2. One Task At A Time
Much is said about multi-tasking but to really achieve excellence and focus, we can only and should only throw one dart at a time. There after, prepare for the next. Focus on one task at a time. In fact, doing many darts at the board, one of the darts may hit bullseye but there is left to chance. In life, there are not many chance for you to try.

3. Effort, Energy and Speed
Keeping focus and having the dart ready to fly without the right effort and needed speed, will also not get the dart to hit the target on the dartboard. You may either fall short die to lack of effort and too slow speed, or overshot or too high due to too much energy or too fast in speed. So having good goals, and focus must be coupled with needed effort, push, motivation and discipline to achieve those goals set. If it is also taking too long to achieve these goals, then what is holding you up or slowing you down?

Keep practicing, practicing and practicing. You will surely hit the bullseye. Many participate, few get the prize. Many aspire, few attain.

Persevere!

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I Hate Everything

I came across this book at the library titled "I Hate Everything
" by Matthew DiBenedetti. It was on display and also for borrowing. The words of the book caught my attention and I borrowed it.

It was a colorful book on the cover page and it looked like it was for kids as it was filled with pictures of rainbow, pink unicorn, cute penguins, smily kittens, bright blue sky, cotton-like clouds and smiley sun. Was this a children's book or what?

To my amazement and horror, it was a whole book filled with I hate this and I hate that. This book is hatefully awesome. Every page. Man, this is tastefully hating. Also you will find the illustrations are quite simple. The entire book is written in black, illustrated in black with full scape lines in a white background.

You can literally imagine what each day he is doing, whether in school, at home or during his free time, consumed in writing hateful statements and compiling them into this book. It has almost everything, from personal habits to school and social settings. Everything. Amazing. It is now published.

Conclusion.

You can write anything and publish anything as long as it is worth publishable. Just for your information. The book is categorized under 'Humor'.

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From Blog To Print

I was fascinated by the ad to put your blog to print. It is an amazing idea to compile all the blogs you have written about in one's blog and put them all together into paper form and bind them up into a book. This creates perspective and motivation for the blogger to put in some effort and quality to the blog.

It is a great gift idea to give to friends and family, to allow others to know you more and also in the end encourage others to blog and put their life and work into writing. Does this speak of journaling? It somehow does.

We cannot have everybody to hear us all the time but we can certainly put our thoughts into words so that everybody can read and hear our stories in their right times and moments. Your blog to printed books will turn out to be a source of inspiration and encouragement.

So start blogging. Start blogging a good blog. Learn to blog a good blog. Explore the resources available in the internet to learn what it takes to blog and enjoy the benefits of it.

:)

How Successful People Think

I recently came across a book from the library and had it borrowed. I was just reading it for pleasure. The title is "How Successful People Think" by John C. Maxwell. The content is excellent as it has a flow of eleven ways we do thinking.

I particularly liked the section on focused thinking. He gave very helpful short and sharp tips on how you can stay focused in systematic steps. Here are the step headers to get you enthused in either buying the book or borrowing it from the public library.

1. Remove distractions
2. Make time for focused thinking
3. Keep items of focus before you
4. Set goals
5. Question your progress

I would urge you to read more details on each of these steps in the book as it simply speaks of me in many aspects which I lack. Example step 3, very often when the items of focus is out of sight, it eventually is out of mind. And setting goals is one big weakness for me.

Another section I will simply put the header here to remind myself too. The question is good for thought and action. What are you giving up to go up?

Four 'I Can't's
1. I Can't Know Everyone
2. I Can't Do Everything
3. I Can't Go Everywhere
4. I Can't Be Well-Rounded

Cultivate this habit of reading for personal development.

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After Reading, Practise

Reading helps to increase knowledge in many things. Reading grants us exposure to the lives of others who experience certains things in life which we ourselves may not have the opportunity to go through. It allows us to appreciate others and be considerate with certain groups of people.

But there is a danger. Read them much without practice is like storing your storeroom with so much that it becomes a problem when you open it the next time. Everything tumbles out. Therefore, it would be better to apply what you read or practise it if it is possible.

Of course, learning or reading from the bad examples or mistakes of others being written down, it would be wise not to go through that same path, else what was read did not actually go through and reach the heart of the person.

So be sure to discern what you read and also what you intend to apply or practise. If in doubt, it is good to get the advice of parents or teachers or elders.

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Seeing In The Light

While walking past the kitchen table in the morning, I saw the crumbs on the table. I asked myself why didn't I see those crumbs earlier? Hmmm. We had our breakfast and enjoyed our breakfast. Yum yum. But we did not realize we did leave some crumbs behind and did not clear up until now.

Why didn't we see those crumbs earlier? So sometimes we can be so caught in conversation and enjoyment, we forget the surrounding, the people. We lose consciousness or we may be tired. Or we may also be so darkened that we could not see the nitty gritty stuffs we left behind for others to clear.

Or may be we are in the light (kitchen morning light) that we could not see the crumbs. Then in the dawn of the sunlight shining through the kitchen window, the light seem to cast a shadow over the smallest of crumbs on the kitchen table.

Light up our minds and walk in the light. here are two verses taken from the Bible, 1 John 1:5,7 - This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

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Winter Singapore

Walking the kids to school, we observed the trees that stood along the path leading to the school entrance. It was like they were welcoming us and at the same time saying to come again tomorrow. We noticed the leaves of the trees were almost gone and dry leaves were scattered everywhere.

And so we thought that winter may be coming to Singapore. Wouldn't it be great to have winter in Singapore? Snow, sled and snowman. Snowball, snow fight and snow automobile. But we might just feel the winter winds instead of enjoying the snow of winter.

Nonetheless, winter winds. It will also be cool too. Many seize the opportunity to get their dusty old kites out from their storerooms and zoom to the open fields to launch out their 'rockets' to the sky. What a sight!

Nowadays, we can also see remote control kites with beautifully adorned LED lights played for both day and night. What an innovation! So back to winter in Singapore. So we do have winter Singapore (less all the winter clothings) where many can make time for Winter Sports with kites, walks in the gardens and parks and enjoy the breeze of cooling winter winds.

So Singapore all year round is not only the season for work and work and work or shopping and shopping and shopping or eating and eating and eating or studying and studying and studying. We get to enjoy some seasons of autumn where the leaves fall, winter where the winds come, spring where the trees bloom and summer where the sun shines.

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Fixing A Puzzle

You can be easily overwhelmed when faced with a problem that is as immense as a big wreckage caused by a tsunami or earthquake. Your mind can suddenly get knocked out as blank as a white piece of paper. How do you solve this big problem?

How about fixing a puzzle? How does one fix up a jigsaw puzzle, say a one thousand pieces puzzle? What are the steps you will follow to complete this kind of jigsaw puzzle? Which step will come first? What phrase would come to your mind to solve this puzzle?

First things first.
1) Locate the pieces which make out the outline of the puzzle.
2) One piece at a time, link them up so that can form the outline of the puzzle.
3) If piece cannot match, try another piece.
4) Piece by piece, complete the outline.

Area by area.
1) Once the outline is completed, locate area pieces and put them together.
2) Like items for example pieces which form the tree are placed together.
3) One piece at a time, link them up so that can form that area of the puzzle.
4) Piece by piece, complete these areas.

Piece them all together.
1) Arrange the areas which are completed within the outline of the puzzle.
2) With those loose pieces, link up all the areas with the outline.
3) Piece by piece, complete the puzzle.
4) Send the completed puzzle for framing.

It is finished!

So what is the key word or key phrase as you read the above steps?

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The Turtle and The Rabbit

You have heard of the story of the tortoise and the hare. Here is the other made up story of the turtle and the rabbit.

As they have heard the victorious stories of the tortoise's win over the hare, rabbit goes to race the turtle, knowing that the turtle is much faster than the tortoise and the hare is much faster than the rabbit in terms of speed.

Rabbit desires to win back what was lost. On the day of the race, in the presence of many witnesses, the race began with the flag off. Turtle moved briskly while rabbit hopped frantically. It was a close race as turtle took the lead.

After a long distance with both competitors they began to feel the exhaustion creeping into their tired bodies. Soon rabbit stopped to catch his breath and turtle turned and also stopped to catch his breath as well. Then rabbit moved towards turtle.

Turtle spoke pantingly as rabbit halted to listen what he has to say. ...


At the finishing line, the crowd roared and cheered in enthusiasm as both racing animals moved in step. Both crossed the finishing line and smiled at each other while their fans celebrated their victorious race.

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Reminding Remembrance

The people had the blood on the door post of their household and stayed within shall be saved. They set up the twelve stones and piled up. It became an item of remembrance of the crossing. They lifted up the pole with the bronze snake, reminding the people of they that looked at the bronze snake shall receive the healing of God.

The scent. It reminded her of the perfume she once bought and enjoyed putting it on when she was a young woman. It just filled the whole place and gave everyone the nosey attention she needed.

The rainbow. It gave a cosmic remembrance to God that there will not be another day where He shall send a flood over the whole earth. It hovered over the sky to all people too that God's love embraces us like that rainbow.

The coffee. It's dark color spoke of the darkness of man. So dark, so black, so evil, so disgusting. It reminded the need of mankind, the need for salvation.

What items help you to remember things, events and stories?

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Breaking The Jar

The boy was playing in the kitchen and was seated at the kitchen table. He was caught up in his imagination that he was actually holding on his toy airplane and swaying here and there. He was thinking that he was actually piloting the jet plane.

Oblivious of his surroundings, he flew from one side to the other. You could see his body movement swaying along the path of the flight. Suddenly in an instance sway his elbow knocked against something on the kitchen table and he heard a crackling sound of the floor.

When he saw the broken jar on the floor and the crackling sound startled him, the boy cried. In a second, mother came in swiftly to check out what has happened and hope that her son has not injured himself. On seeing the mother, the boy in his crying posture was anticipating to see the frantic face of his mother turning as black as soot. Deep in his heart he remembered mother saying that it was a gift from a friend.

Mother quickly squatted down and asked if her boy was injured or not. The boy sadly nodded his head. The mother's face also changed from being frantic to delight as she examined the wreck of the jar. She found the bunch of keys which she was hunting high and low and could not recall where she actually hid it.

In breaking the jar, mother found the keys.
In brokenness did mother and child found life.

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The Bell

The school bell rang and the students stopped their recess activities and gathered at the assembly hall or proceeded back to their respective classes or laboratories. Now there is also the music accompaniment before the school bell rings to alert all the students that recess time is over.

One day is coming when the worldwide bell will ring and we shall all gather. What then is the music accompaniment? Earthquakes, tsunamis, storms and volcanic eruptions? Natural calamities and wars between nations and ethic groups?

All these certainly will bring about stress to the mind and emotions and heighten concern and worry about the present and future, for family and friends. Being mentally and emotionally (maybe not financially) ready for these activities is good for the body and soul.

It is like in darkness of storms or plagues of darkness in the room or across the sky, fear and worry creep in. But it is also the same place and same sky where you shall see the light piercing through as the storm and darkness dissolve and get consumed by the light.

Listen to the Bell and we shall see the Rainbow of our lives.

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Your Calcium Intake

You want to know the level of calcium needed for your body during the span of life you have. Check out this website www.AskDrSears.com and find out more how the body absorbs calcium and under what conditions that it is more effective and what conditions it is detrimental.

As we age, this knowledge is even more important and it is better to act now that later. When we are older, the body system may take longer to take in the nutrients needed for the body system. So do not assume we are still young as it is so important to care for our bodies which take us to longer years in life.


Other than calcium intake, of course you and I need to be careful with the food we consume and watch our diet. Work life also needs to be more balance, taking time out for exercise and destressing moments. Life really is not about just work and work and work or money and money and money.

So besides calcium intake, plan out life goals, family time, exercise, holiday breaks and of course an evening at the movies may be. With these in stock, life will be more meaningful and less demoralizing amidst sure-come stressful moments and exhausting times.

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Does Not Matter Anymore

Looking at the extend of the debris across the expanse of the home he once lived and grown up in, all these does not matter anymore as compared to the loss of those he once loved. Why was he angry and even annoyed over the issue which compared to this is nothing at all now. The loss, the lostness and lifelessness seem to take over now than ever before.

It does not matter anymore. Really. It does not matter anymore now.

Life moves on. It just moves on, with or without me.

The thing that matters now is those alive and they need me more than ever before. We need to stick together and stay together till the end, through thick and thin.

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In Touch With The Dead

The weekend was exhausting for the living as many visited the graves of their loved ones. It was memorial day or memorial week where many droves of people paid their respect to the tombs of relatives and friends. The cemetery was flooded with the living.

They brought with them items for burning to the dead with hope they will be found useful in the underworld. Those with families brought along the next generation so that they experience first hand the process of life and death. One day's exposure will last a lifetime's experience.

The cemetery was filled with incense burning everywhere as well as many left behind items. After the memorial week is over, the cleaners being paid a certain sum will come to clean up the tombs. Out of the cemetery, the whole body and attire were smelled with incense.

At the Christian cemetery, the atmosphere was one of serenity, quietness, peace and gentleness. No incense but the smell of grassland space where it will one day be filled with the saints.

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Saying and Doing

There are many people who likes to say say say
There are also those who likes to do do do
There are some people who likes to say and do
There are also those who likes to do and say

So which are you?

So which is better?

To say and say and say but did not do
To do and do and do but did not say
To say and do and say and do
To do and say and do and say


But for those who do say and did not do,
it is not too late to do to correct it to...
To say and say and say but did later.


James 1:22, 25
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.....not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.

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What Are Your Personality Types?

Do you want or desire to know more about yourself? Discovering yourself more would give yourself the one benefit to face life more energetically and not be too stressed or drained by stress or disappointments or disturbances.

There are several instruments where you can find out more about your personality types such as Myers Briggs Type Indicator or DISC test or the Four Temperaments.

Through these tests, you can discover more you  never knew about yourself and more of others you thought you knew.

Try them and get to network better with others.

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How Did We Have So Much?

While doing housekeeping of our home, we discover that we had many things which we had collected over a long period of time. Unknowingly, we were collecting more and more things each day of our lives. We had collected so much that it now became a big problem.

It is like eating your favorite dish day in and day out that one day you realize you have grown so fat that you could not even see your limbs. It is like day in and day out working and working that you realize you did not know what happen to the world around you and also why there were so many things in the house and you did not know it.

It seems that we were like robots, living day by day, not being present anywhere. There were lack of control over buying this and that without thinking. There were lots of accumulating without filtering whether it was a want or it was a need. There were lots of input with no output; lots of knowledge without practice; lots of knowing the benefits of a healthy lifestyle without actually experiencing it personally through discipline and practical application. How can we get out of this mess, this big big mess?

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The answer?
The solution?



Simplify.



But how to clear this big mess now?

Being committed to simplify, decide then what you need and those you do not need. Then keep those you need and discard or give away those you do not need to those who need them or sell those stuffs to gain back some cash as savings or charity.

Going forward, think before you purchase anything. Ask this question - "Is it a need or a want?"

Post Reminder Cards everyway -

Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.

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Living In The Desert

How is life in the desert like? It is certainly not like life having dessert. But you can end up enjoying so much blessings like milk and honey which are as good as dessert. The impression of desert life is dry, waterless, lifeless and totally empty. Yet in such estate, is God there?

In reading the account of the famous stories of children in the Bible, we came across the life story of the abandonment of Hagar and Ishmael in the desert. Being asked to leave the comfort lifestyle in the household of Abraham, Hagar and the boy ran out of water in the desert. She left the boy alone and walked away, unable to bear the sight of her boy dying of thirst.

But God heard the boy's crying as recorded in the Bible in Genesis 21. God spoke with Hagar. God comforted Hagar. God encouraged Hagar. God provided for Hagar and the boy. God opened the eyes of Hagar to see the well of water.

So did they leave the desert after that incident? No they didn't. They lived in the desert. The account records that God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and learned to shoot with a bow.

Are you experiencing a desert these days? God is in the desert. Experience Him and  learn of Him and He will give you rest.

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Living With The Good And Not-So-Good

A thought dawned on me today on living with the good and the not-so-good. Day in and day out, you and I are filled with these two aspects of life. The good and the not-so-good. You can see yourself in it as well. In fact we have lived with them so comfortably that they have somehow become part and parcel of our being and doing.

What are the good and the not-so-good? The good may be some aspects of your strength, your skills, your talents, your good looks, your wisdom, your gifts, your patience and your possession, your speed and so on and so forth. How about the not-so-good? This one may be just the opposite of the good.

Acceptance. How to live with the good and the not-so-good? For those who have learned to live with these, they have in some sense learned to accept them and use the good for good and the not-so-good while bear with the not-so-good and build them up if that is possible.

When you see the people we do not like, in your sense, you may categorise them as not-so-good (though who are you to categorise them in such a way, but we are not so perfect either - we are not-so-good actually). But somehow we respond to them different from those we consider the good. We treat them harshly. We classify them harshly as well.

What do you think? Can we do such a thing as this? I remember a story in the Bible. This story is the story of Noah and the flood. A lot of questions can fill our minds on why God sent the flood and destroyed the world. Was God fair in wiping out the world with the flood? Why only the eight was chosen and the animals?

I could paint a picture in my mind of a child drawing a first piece and then spotted a mistake and then tore the entire piece away and starting afresh. Imagine the master artist. He will do that. But the next question arose. God knew that there were still some not-so-good qualities in those eight who survived the flood.

How did God live with the good and the not-so-good? This is something for you and me to search and grapple with. In fact you and me are already grappling with each day and each moment. We lived with answers and questions our whole life - answers that aren't perfect answers, and questions without an applaudible answer.

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Doing And Or Being

Doing. Doing. Doing. The work just keeps piling up that we do not even have time for life. We are human beings you know. We just do not do things. We are beings.

I have heard that the more we do, the more we become. So what is the link between doing and being? The more we do, the more we be. Like the song by the Beatles, "It's been a hard day's night. And I've been working like a dog."

Yes soon we'll become a dog. Or we watch too much television, soon we become the television. We watch each other eventually. Or we play too much computer games, so much that the games take control of us. Every moment we are thinking about the game.

Also like between a couple meeting each other day in and day out. Day in and day out, they are thinking of each other and in their minds, the image of each other consumes them and fill their hearts and minds and dreams. Soon you can see they almost look alike.


The other thought also is whether it is true or not:

Without doing, there can be no being.
To find being, it involves you doing.
Too much of doing, you may lose being.
Too much of being, you may lose doing.

I am confused myself. Nevertheless, we need to build on doing certain things like reading a book together, walking the park together or dining together. These all need each one of us to be being there. In so doing, there is being. Life brings about purpose and meaning.

Yes I desire to grow in the knowledge of God's word, like Ezra in the Bible*. So there is a need to devote time to study and observance of God's law and to teaching. This involves intensiveness and discipline doing and dedication.

No other way.

* Ezra Chapter 7, verse 10
For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the LORD, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel.

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Let Go And Or Let's Go

We need to let go and let us go. We can so baggaged down by too many things and we are unable to move. Those too many things are mostly our pleasures and addictions which have a grip on our lives.

So when it is time to go, we tend to be hesitant; indecisive and take up time, especially everyone else's time as well. When one becomes unable to make up the mind, the rest are forced to wait until their patience are up to the limit.

So before those situations come, take time to let go. Think of the things that bottleneck, barge and block up the system. There maybe many things already blocking the way of escape, the escape to freedom and greater experiences in life.

Remember the story of the monkey who grapped hold of the goodies in the bottle but was not willing to let go and so was caught by the hunters. So isn't it time to take time to let go and let's go.

* let go of the Beyblade and let's go

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Celebrate Today

Celebrate - to observe, commemorate, make known publicly, praise widely or present to widespread audience

We take many things for granted each day, even for myself. The air we breathe, the shelter we have, the food we consume, the education we had, the health we possess, the water we drink, the family members we associate with or the friends or colleagues we work with. Even if you are careful with things, somehow we may lax or lack the discipline in certain aspects.

How can we celebrate today? It could just be getting a rose for yourself or for someone special or just a stranger along the streets. It could also just be donating your blood to the Blood bank during the Blood Donation Drive. If blood you cannot, you can also give of your money. If money you lack, you certainly can give of your time. Just like a baby who needs the presence of parents for growth, your presence and our presence in someone else's lives would make a difference.

Start with one. Share the spark. Pass the flame. Fan the flame.

It can even be as simple as teaching someone a word or skill or even sharing a word or blog like this with someone.


Bible verse found in Hebrews 3:13
But encourage one another daily,
as long as it is called Today,
so that none of you may be
hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

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