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What did life ever do to you?
Sunday, March 22, 2009 11:42 PM
Hey guys, Deborah here.
I hope you like the new blogskin. I added my own two cents worth because the creator of the layout made it tiny so I made it wider. And I decided to change it because Ann's been nagging me to do it and Shun Bin is always exceeding the width of the posting body. If you have anything you'd like to add, please tell me. Or add it yourself. And I'm working on better material. Our very own blogskin by yours truly. Look out for it. I'm more than happy to have your suggestions and directions on where you think the blog's image should go.
Anyway, here's an interesting thought for you all.
I've been struggling with life for a long while now with what people would say is very little fuel. I often ask myself what is the fuel to hang on for dear life and I often get an array of very different answers. I would think it's the knowledge that God wants to put me through all these struggles because He wants me to learn something out of all of this. He probably wants to tell me that this is what life is and this is what people are. A lot of the struggles I face are because of people. And He probably wanted to tell me that this is why the world needs Him so much. Look around you, there are so many people dying. Every minute, every second. Suicidal teens who think life is a give or take away, abortions because people don't know what love is anymore and even things as simple as your very own friends who change their boyfriends and girlfriends every two weeks.
Sound familiar?
The world needs God and the world needs Him now.
But sometimes, when the dust from one of life's portholes settles down and something better, not good, just better, occurs, I wonder why. Maybe this time, God didn't want me to learn something out of the struggles. And I realise that God's fair, and despite awful thing that might happen to you, life must go on, one way or another. Slowly, painfully, go on.
Anyhow, the point of my post today is not to ask you all to pray for me. It's simply to make you all think about the question:
What did life ever do to you?
We've all been through the time when we struggle. When we hate our lives at that point in time. When all is hopeless and we are lost. We have God, but we still feel lost.
Why God, why?
I'm sure each of you have your own answers to that question. But here's my guess and what I try to do everytime I'm stuck in a situation like that. I try to remind myself that it's not what life has done to me, it's what life has done to everyone in the world. It's what WE have done to life. It's what God has done FOR us.
Even when we don't go through struggles, I think we forget that, a lot of the time. We forget that while we may be out having a great time with friends, there are people on the other end of the food chain who may be lost. Aside from the starving children in Africa, aside from the suicide cases of so called "depressed" adolescents who just want to make a statement and for people to cry at their funerals, aside from that, what about the person next to you? When was the last time you put your happiness aside for someone else? For God?
Think about it.
Now go read a book and take a look at my blog. I think March 19th's post is interesting and it relates to all of us, in different ways. Maybe it'd speak to you.
Love,
I hope you like the new blogskin. I added my own two cents worth because the creator of the layout made it tiny so I made it wider. And I decided to change it because Ann's been nagging me to do it and Shun Bin is always exceeding the width of the posting body. If you have anything you'd like to add, please tell me. Or add it yourself. And I'm working on better material. Our very own blogskin by yours truly. Look out for it. I'm more than happy to have your suggestions and directions on where you think the blog's image should go.
Anyway, here's an interesting thought for you all.
I've been struggling with life for a long while now with what people would say is very little fuel. I often ask myself what is the fuel to hang on for dear life and I often get an array of very different answers. I would think it's the knowledge that God wants to put me through all these struggles because He wants me to learn something out of all of this. He probably wants to tell me that this is what life is and this is what people are. A lot of the struggles I face are because of people. And He probably wanted to tell me that this is why the world needs Him so much. Look around you, there are so many people dying. Every minute, every second. Suicidal teens who think life is a give or take away, abortions because people don't know what love is anymore and even things as simple as your very own friends who change their boyfriends and girlfriends every two weeks.
Sound familiar?
The world needs God and the world needs Him now.
But sometimes, when the dust from one of life's portholes settles down and something better, not good, just better, occurs, I wonder why. Maybe this time, God didn't want me to learn something out of the struggles. And I realise that God's fair, and despite awful thing that might happen to you, life must go on, one way or another. Slowly, painfully, go on.
Anyhow, the point of my post today is not to ask you all to pray for me. It's simply to make you all think about the question:
What did life ever do to you?
We've all been through the time when we struggle. When we hate our lives at that point in time. When all is hopeless and we are lost. We have God, but we still feel lost.
Why God, why?
I'm sure each of you have your own answers to that question. But here's my guess and what I try to do everytime I'm stuck in a situation like that. I try to remind myself that it's not what life has done to me, it's what life has done to everyone in the world. It's what WE have done to life. It's what God has done FOR us.
Even when we don't go through struggles, I think we forget that, a lot of the time. We forget that while we may be out having a great time with friends, there are people on the other end of the food chain who may be lost. Aside from the starving children in Africa, aside from the suicide cases of so called "depressed" adolescents who just want to make a statement and for people to cry at their funerals, aside from that, what about the person next to you? When was the last time you put your happiness aside for someone else? For God?
Think about it.
Now go read a book and take a look at my blog. I think March 19th's post is interesting and it relates to all of us, in different ways. Maybe it'd speak to you.
Love,
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