August 2010
12 posts
“Like Jack’s beanstalk, it is rooted on the solid ground of real-life experience, and reaches the heights of creative imagination. Fantastical, yet safe because it is rooted. Unrooted imaginations takes you high, but leave you suspending.”
—Lily Tan
“I would rather be a wet water walker than a dry boat talker!”
—Jentezen Franklin (via inspireyourdream)
“….. and have no confidence in the flesh”
—Philippians 3:3b
“The Singapore spirit and dream are not characterised by those who earn the most or who are the most well-known; instead this nation has always been supported and crafted by the many ordinary citizens who toil faithfully and honestly to fulfill their responsibilities as Singaporeans, and to give their families the best they deserve. That is the true Singapore story.”
—TODAY News; Letter from Kwan Jin Yao - ‘I dream of a nation that cares’
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.”
—August Wilson
The Darkness Of Twilight →
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It’s a long article but it’s a worthy read (taken from Bishop Willoughby’s fb).
(click on title to go the article)
Am never a fan of Twilight nor do I like it even the slightest prior to reading this article…
Whatever principles mentioned in the article can also be applied to anything you allow yourself to watch, listen or read. It’s never as simple a matter as you’re just listening to another song, or reading a book or watching some show…
If you would just pay attention and give thought to some of the lyrics of the songs, the contents of the book and the conversations of characters in the show, are they really teaching Godly values?
Listen
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis Song
by Brooke Fraser
If I find in myself
desires nothing in this world can satisfy,
I can only conclude
that I, I was not made for here
If the flesh that I fight is at best
only light and momentary,
then of course I’ll feel nude
when to where I’m destined I’m compared
Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan
as I wait for hope to come for me
Am I lost or just less found?
On the straight or on the roundabout
of the wrong way?
Is this a soul that stirs in me
is it breaking free, wanting to come alive?
‘Cos my comfort would prefer for me to be numb
And avoid the impending birth
of who I was born to become
Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan
as I wait for hope to come for me
For we, we are not long here
Our time is but a breath,
so we better breathe it
And I, I was made to live
I was made to love
I was made to know you
Hope is coming for me
Hope, He’s coming for me
Hope is coming for me
Hope, He’s coming
Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan
as I wait for hope to come for me
For me, for me, for me
The bold lyrics of this song is a rephrase (by the Brooke Fraser) of the C.S. Lewis quote above. The meaning of this song surrounds the quote and now that I know, I like the meaning of the song.
(Reuploaded/Repost this because there was error with the song)
“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.”
—1 Timothy 6:12
Note to self:
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Hebrews 12:1-2
And it started as a sms I thought could encourage someone for the week but I think God meant it very much for me as well and it’s too much of a coincedence for the number of times this scripture has popped out to me in different settings.
“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”
2 Corinthians 12:10
Thank you God.
