11/23/2010

Sometimes, I am too engrossed with reading between the lines that I forget to read the lines themselves... I cherish the minutiae but miss the obvious. :)

I said this in facebook when I was thinking about (the discuss about Strengths of fellow small group attendees) how I was able to draw attention to some very intricate details about what people said and did in my GBC growth group and how that showed evidence for their strengths. I was able to remember things which even they had forgotten as something which they had said. But then I also remember as having been accused of missing some obvious cues. So I thought it was ironical that I read between the lines but missed the obvious.

11/25/2010

I am grateful for 1) My family back home 2) Church friends in Houston 3) Job that I like and my great work colleagues 4) Motorcycle that makes me happy, takes me places 5) Books 6) Movies 7) Houston restaurants! I am grateful to God for giving me all the above, most importantly - a cherished relationship with Him. Thank you also God for the family (my bud Adam's) in Houston I am to spend this Thanks Giving with. :D

This in my note on Thanks Giving! I am so so happy for all that God has done for me in the past year! Thanks Thee with a FULL heart!!!

11/27/2010

There is pleasure in craziness there is pleasure in comfort the motorcycle gives pleasure of one kind and the car another. I thank God who has blessed me to enjoy both. :)

I wrote this just after I came home from getting my car, in fact my first car. For the longest time, I was stubborn that motorcycles were the most pleasurable means of travel. I thought driving cars wouldn't be as much fun. Yes, they aren't but the pleasure a car offers is different. And I am loving it. I thank God for my car!!! :)

11/27/2010

Sometimes I am tumbling all over, tangled in the web of my own thoughts...

I said this when I was thinking about how in the GBC growth group, when I am talking about something, I begin to chase rabbit hole in my mind and soon I kind of lose track of what I was reallying going to say and sometimes stop in the middle of a thought, least I should continue on my rabbit-hole-chasing. I realize that I got tangled in the web of my own thoughts... and am paralyzed.

11/11/10 7:33 PM

When man fails to acknowledge the irrevocableness of the Fall, he'll resorts to giving his zealous allegiance to ideologies that promises to usher in an Utopian world devoid of pain or suffering. Such an Elitist mistakenly thinks that if Uncle Sam is strong enough all problems from poverty to racism can be fixed and then that we'll move into a state of pre-Fall Utopia.

Much of Liberalism as seen in among the urban educated elite is a religion that they owe their allegiance to. Liberalism is their greater than life ideal that will move human kind towards a blemishless Utopia. The real problem with liberalism is that it has borrowed the ideas of virtue and goodness from Christianity but it relegated the Fall and consequently the need for Redemption. As long as liberalism discounts the Fall, it shall not understand human nature and it solutions will be partial. As long as liberalism discounts man's need for God to be redeemed, it will resort to elevate the State to the position of God. Their hope is not a world where human nature is fully redeemed by God, but rather a world that is technologically and socially re-engineered to be a painless, hate-less,  suffering-less Utopia.

11/14/10 8:15 PM

"The essence of life is to know what 'season of life' we are in right now and life it to the Fullest as per God's enabling freedom, whilst being open to move to the next 'season of life' when the timing it right. :D'

I was thinking about some of the good times back in college and wondered if I could ever recreate them. I realized that I couldn’t. That was just a season that was to be enjoyed and I enjoyed it. The season I am living in now is something that needs to be enjoyed in itself knowing well that some day later on I’ll look back and wonder if I could recreate the freedom of this stage of life. God has blessed me with so much in this life. So I need to live my life to the Fullest enjoyment and productivity through the freedom that God gives me. Christ is the Truth who frees me to live life to the fullest. God enables me to be free to enjoy life because He has secured my future. I need to be grateful to Him. Live the current ‘season of life’ to the Fullest and be open to allow God to move me to the next. God will bless me in that as well.