Hope
Thank you mich for your awesome song. :]
Hanif is just as random as I am. haha, we always spew up the all-serious-about-life talk sometimes, this was just one of them.
Actually it's kinda true how we all want to be unique and special in our own ways. It's like a silent rebellion towards conformity, but along the way of striving for it, we don't realise that we're actually all but the same. I find this fact really interesting. Conforming to non-conformity. Haha okay yes I know I'm beginning to sound like some retro-political humanist. But I don't know why these kind of things interest me so much.
Today I finally picked up the book Auntie Konica bought for me for christmas. It's called Jerusalem Countdown, and basically it's a christian book about the possibility of world abomination through events happening in Iran and Israel. It's a huge teeth-sinking chunk of politics for me. I don't read much newspapers and that can be good or bad, but yeah, this was an eye-opener.
Honestly, I don't like to submerge myself in speculations of the end-times, and doomsday, and rapture. I know it's important, but I feel like living a worthy life is so much more concrete than always trying to decode when the world will end. Even as we approach the end, it just goes to show how much more important it is to spread His message to other people. And if the book is to substantiate that, it has done it's point fairly well.
Well the author writes that Israel would probably bomb Iran's nuclear sites by late 2006. It hasn't happen has it? Haha I seriously don't know because I'm not big on news... but as far as my memory is concerned this would have made headline news and I would've heard about it. So I presume it probably hasn't happen.
Alot of things hasn't happened concerning resolutions.
America hasn't made it's stand on the nuclear disorientations in the Middle East.
People are still out there waiting for an answer to drought and famine.
"Heroes" is still having on-going episodes.
Some of us are still waiting for better days ahead in our lives.
I've not eaten breakfast.
Life is all about hope.
We rely on the hope of better days and brighter tomorrows in times of oppression. We lean on His strength and His everlasting love when we find none of that in ourselves. Or at least I do. I know right now, there are alot of things that seem bleak, but it is within our test of faith that things grow stronger. that we grow stronger.
James 1:2-4
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
The testing of your faith develops perseverance.
It's the one phrase that has kept me going these past few months.
Okay, before anything else I'd like to honestly say I have no idea what is happening.
I have absolutely no idea what's been going on through alot of things. And of course, sometimes I won't understand things that are going on.
But everything has it's own time, and I'm always willing to stand it out - as long as it takes - to finally see the bigger picture. And even when I don't, Dad does.
I hope that's not all vague and enigmatical..
And with that, I give you the sincerest of myself, that I wish for the better in the times to come.