lately, i've been thinking about,



flying.


not flying as in getting into the aeroplane but flying as in, extending my flexible wings and immediately being able to soar above everything else. how is it like to fly?

i think i've had too many flying dreams and i always remember waking up disappointed that it was just a dream. but how is it like to fly!





or maybe its something like that?



dont know man!

but i seriously hope we get to fly around in heaven. but hmm... they always say they see people "walking around the streets of gold". so, no flying? sighs.

but if God lets me fly, woohoo! but then i'll need training with my wings first, i think. or else,



but after i master the art, i know i'll feel and BE like that!!!!!!




for now, its waking up time. dream's over. while i'm still here on earth, chances are, i'm something like that.

LOVE THE WORLD.

to love or not to love?
that is the question.

so, i found myself twice being embroiled in the middle of rapid firing and discussions whether the name of the bar was dubious and deserve raised eyebrows. but as usual, i didn't say a thing, just sitting there and taking in what everyone said, so i could formulate my own argument/opinion. if you know me, i'm a much better writer than a speaker. so no no to debating. some say its a matter of opinion, whether you think the "world" means "ways of this world" or "people of this world". i dont really know what to say now but,

back to the question: didn't God tell us not to love the world? if yes, then why on earth would a christian bar name itself LOVETHEWORLD?

first of all, yup it is indeed true that the phrase "do not love the world" is in the Bible.

1 john 2:15, 16
do not love the world or anything in the world. if anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

but i beg us to look deeper. yes, it is explicit indeed. do not love the world. but like so many other things in the Bible, you cannot just take a sentence and keep harping on it like its the entire Bible. there are thousands other verses which we must look at, and above all, know the author of the Bible more than the Bible itself. jesus filled His days telling parables. there is so much more to it! don't get stuck at the crossroads of this debate and think its just a matter of opinion.. because i think if we dont find an answer for ourselves, we'll start respecting everyone's opinion and keep toeing the line between what is really right and wrong.

know the context in which 1 john was written.
"my dear children, i write this to you so that you will not sin". perhaps the people were sinning lots? i'm not a bible scholar i dont know.

but take the verse in its context and put it in this context. put it in the context of what's happening today. of what the bar aims to do. it aims to enlarge the christian community through music. it creates a non-threatening platform for christians to do soft evangelism. it opens a new platform for people who like bars, like alcohol, but can't reconcile it with christianity. why? why can't people reconcile alcohol with christianity? those who can't, are they living a double life? i'd much rather reconcile it and live a single life.

there are many interesting verses about love & the world.

john 3:16
for God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son.......

mark 16:15
go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.


God so loved the world. and we should be like God. then we should love the world right?

get what i mean? just comparing verses to verses is not enough. its much better to know God, and know Him and His ways deep enough to not let further debates leave you open-ended and confused, and resign to a conclusion that we think we can live by.


and in conclusion i would like to give you this verse.

though i am free and belong to no man, i make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. to the jews i became like a jew, to win the jews. to those not having the law i became like one not having the law (though i am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law), so as to win those not having the law.

to the weak i became weak, to win the weak. i have become all things to all men so that by all possible means i might save some. i do all this for the sake of the gospel, that i may share in its blessings.

pick up your bible and read 1 cor 9:19-27.

i dare you

:)

a new year dawns. face another set of challenges at school as far as i can tell. but i know there'll be more.

modules i'm taking this sem:

1. intro to paedatric psychology
2. social cognition
3. psychobiological something of emotions
4. understanding the universe
5. medical sociology

hopefully, and prayerfully, these modules can PULL UP my cap.

so ends my 1-month internship with MCYS and school starts after tomorrow. hardly a break at all! and very well, my december was really packed to da brim. and somehow tiredness engulfs me tonight, actually quite like other nights haha. i thank God for the internship, for putting me under the right supervisor, for all the wonderful colleagues, and especially for the nice cubicle where i get a nice view of the outside world. half the staff there dont even get a nice view! so, God knows what i cannot do without and what i need. praise be to Him :)

playing for worship tmr, together with benny. 2 chris tomlin songs which i've never played before! haha.

okay, i think that's it.
fl tmr, fl comm mtg after, 7 wanderers after. then its, back to school!


goodnight sleep tight dont let bedbugs bite.

over one birthday present, oh my goodness

is it worth it at all?

so frustrating i just knew i shouldn't have given him a second chance and suggested it. now i've to deal with the pieces when i could've had a better and more happier alternative of getting it. so much happier.

grrrrrrrrrr

now when i see it all i feel is disgust at how it became like that.

SCREAM. i shall just drop it and leave it and i dont wanna talk about it to him. if he asks i shall just say i dont want it anymore.