Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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josh out
@ |5:40 PM|
Friday, May 02, 2008
“Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness.” I think the brown spots on the edges of the petals where the rose is beginning to wilt are what makes it special. :) starrhi_night
Imperfection, i would like to learn and accept that. Imperfection can be beautiful too.
Think our world has caused us to strive for perfection, results, excellence so much that we forget that we are imperfect people with imperfect lives.
We have lost that ability to see things as they are.
We mutate, genetically change, cross bred, flowers, fruits, pour fertilizers, pesticides, clone them to produce "perfect" things.
I'm not that perfect and i want to love people in their imperfect selves and not adopt the same mentality of the society in that people must be perfect, must meet certain requirements.
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josh out
@ |5:51 PM|
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
I don't know why.
Maybe i do, trying not feel it i guess.
Tinges of guilt, regrets and loads of loss...
It's sinking in
Yet a ray of the future, of new exciting prospects, of a whole new world
Feels like I'm leaving home to work or study overseas
Just that i wouldn't be coming back
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josh out
@ |2:15 PM|
Thursday, April 10, 2008
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josh out
@ |3:05 PM|
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
The world will be a better place
Decisions, relationships and creepy people
Struggles, ambiguity
We wouldn't know everything, just have to accept it
Our being comes before our doing
Our unique destiny has involvement of others too
Our achievements are not our own, its a WE
Our achievements will not always be seen
Our destiny is not forced by God we have a choice
Lots of things to unlearn
It’s all part of a great adventure
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josh out
@ |12:13 PM|
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
All carefully deliberate yet so natural like the beating of our hearts
Each carrying the life, the hearbeat, the presence of a living holy God
An act of the will
Then we cease to strive
Then we become God's will, God's miracle
The natural in the supernatural
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josh out
@ |5:04 PM|
Harold Kushner
Hmm how true.....
How hard to apply...
We all want to know the ending
No wonder we don't know anything except the Author
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josh out
@ |5:02 PM|
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josh out
@ |4:52 PM|
He keeps in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast!
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josh out
@ |4:45 PM|
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Guess its the sudden overflow of encouragement and affirmation that I've been hearing these last few weeks.
Ahah thanxs to a wonderful someone :)
No prizes for correct guesses.
Anyway ahha Don't tease me, I'm just applying what is part of the stress management that i do with Sal and Alan, to be thankful and grateful everyday!
It takes alot to believe in how special I'm, the words of Violet from The Incredibles always strike my mind:"If everyone is special and unique then how can anyone be special?"
More and more God tells me to let go, not to worry about my glory, about being so unique, so special, so great, etc
But that it's really only about Him, His glory and He shares with me to participate in His work and glory.
That if i let go of worrying about who gets the glory, I'll be alot happier and free to become that special person God has called me to be.
A weird paradox, that by letting go of being special, and will know that I'm all along as the bible says, the apple of His eye.
That i don't have to strive for attention, to get it. The more i push for it the further it runs.
Haha it's tough being the foolish ones that God uses to confound the wise.
But it's great living for a greater purpose than mine, to know that there's something bigger than me, and there's something eternally good and perfect!
Together with Corrinne May's song, 5 loaves and 2 fishes, take my inhibitions, my fears, and use it all, whatever i have it can be something great in your Hands!
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josh out
@ |8:24 PM|
Yup what to do huh?
Juggle Ball
Prick Ballons
Blow Bubbles
Do cartwheels
Simple pleasures of life
We will end poverty and stop HIV/AIDS within our generation when guided by African principles such as UBUNTU that underscore our interconnectedness. With greater compassion for others, we would no longer accept hunger and disease as facts of life.
josh out
@ |5:40 PM|
“Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness.” I think the brown spots on the edges of the petals where the rose is beginning to wilt are what makes it special. :) starrhi_nightImperfection, i would like to learn and accept that. Imperfection can be beautiful too.
Think our world has caused us to strive for perfection, results, excellence so much that we forget that we are imperfect people with imperfect lives.
We have lost that ability to see things as they are.
We mutate, genetically change, cross bred, flowers, fruits, pour fertilizers, pesticides, clone them to produce "perfect" things.
I'm not that perfect and i want to love people in their imperfect selves and not adopt the same mentality of the society in that people must be perfect, must meet certain requirements.
josh out
@ |5:51 PM|
I feel sad.
I don't know why.
Maybe i do, trying not feel it i guess.
Tinges of guilt, regrets and loads of loss...
It's sinking in
Yet a ray of the future, of new exciting prospects, of a whole new world
Feels like I'm leaving home to work or study overseas
Just that i wouldn't be coming back
josh out
@ |2:15 PM|
Being in charge and organizing Head Over Heels Couples Run 2008 was fun! :)
josh out
@ |3:05 PM|
Just find something silly, something beautiful, and something lame to laugh about everyday la
The world will be a better place
Decisions, relationships and creepy people
Struggles, ambiguity
We wouldn't know everything, just have to accept it
Our being comes before our doing
Our unique destiny has involvement of others too
Our achievements are not our own, its a WE
Our achievements will not always be seen
Our destiny is not forced by God we have a choice
Lots of things to unlearn
It’s all part of a great adventure
josh out
@ |12:13 PM|
Every move needs to be deliberate, every breath, every speech, every act, every thought
All carefully deliberate yet so natural like the beating of our hearts
Each carrying the life, the hearbeat, the presence of a living holy God
An act of the will
Then we cease to strive
Then we become God's will, God's miracle
The natural in the supernatural
josh out
@ |5:04 PM|
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
Harold Kushner
Hmm how true.....
How hard to apply...
We all want to know the ending
No wonder we don't know anything except the Author
josh out
@ |5:02 PM|
The pearly ache in our hearts, is a cry for a home we have never seen yet know, that is not in this time or place.
josh out
@ |4:52 PM|
It's all in the mind!
He keeps in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast!
josh out
@ |4:45 PM|
More and more I'm being strengthened to believe in myself.
Guess its the sudden overflow of encouragement and affirmation that I've been hearing these last few weeks.
Ahah thanxs to a wonderful someone :)
No prizes for correct guesses.
Anyway ahha Don't tease me, I'm just applying what is part of the stress management that i do with Sal and Alan, to be thankful and grateful everyday!
It takes alot to believe in how special I'm, the words of Violet from The Incredibles always strike my mind:"If everyone is special and unique then how can anyone be special?"
More and more God tells me to let go, not to worry about my glory, about being so unique, so special, so great, etc
But that it's really only about Him, His glory and He shares with me to participate in His work and glory.
That if i let go of worrying about who gets the glory, I'll be alot happier and free to become that special person God has called me to be.
A weird paradox, that by letting go of being special, and will know that I'm all along as the bible says, the apple of His eye.
That i don't have to strive for attention, to get it. The more i push for it the further it runs.
Haha it's tough being the foolish ones that God uses to confound the wise.
But it's great living for a greater purpose than mine, to know that there's something bigger than me, and there's something eternally good and perfect!
Together with Corrinne May's song, 5 loaves and 2 fishes, take my inhibitions, my fears, and use it all, whatever i have it can be something great in your Hands!
josh out
@ |8:24 PM|