Wollobo Day 2: Change
"Love isn't about allowing intimacy to fuel your commitment. But it's actually about allowing your commitment to fuel your intimacy,"
Jeng Ting.
I'm very very proud of this boy here! To state the fact of pride is an understatement. Like the many many dudes and dudettes and brothers and sisters that I know, I'm constantly pleasantly surprised by their little acts of sensibility, maturity and leadership abilities. Whoo! WHoo whoo whoo! Yay! Ahahahaha...
Today, Jeng Ting told us to read his blog (you can find it under his unofficial name - RAYMOND) and it was this long pensive post on love. Now fundamentally speaking, we've always been discussing about love. It's abstraction, it's complexity, and simplicity. I don't even know what's real human love. But Jesus is the exemplar of such a word. And no matter how forcefully warped and twisted it might get, there will always be something pure and truthful to exemplify love. And that's Him. That's my Daddy, my Saviour. He's up there and He's down here, and everywhere else :]
So cruising back to my original point, I'm very happy to see JT grow. And the many many others along with him. The maturity he posseses with each passing paragraph I read, only affirms me that he's grown. Up and up! So awesomely happyyyy!
Every trial and every roadblock we come across, are just lessons we learn in life. Some take years to comprehend, while others take only a few days to attain enlightenment. It's a never-ending process of learning. People change and grow with every hurt, fault, and struggle. And that's amazing to see, to see people around you becoming the men and women they were made to be.
Of course I've also got a long way to learn. A lengthy walk in life with Him by my side. And with each passing trial, comes a little less shedding of the veil that reveals this existentialism that constructs who I am. Today I'm filled with inexplicable joy. Joy in life, in work, in people and I got up feeling extremely refreshed. Some days I wake up and thank the Lord for just making another day for us to live by. Such simple things that we sometimes take for granted, He could've effortlessly taken away.
I'm thankful for change today, thankful for the things we have to go through. Maybe from my point it holds no regard, for I am meerly a soul whose been through the furnace, to come out and praise God for his sovereignty throughout my life. There are still people struggling to find His presence, struggling to keep afloat in depths of problems, and I had been through that... I shall quote from a specific someone - Don't Give Up! No qualms attached, no superiority in my tone. Just plain humility and love.
But as the road goes on for me, there will be more struggles, more obstacles, maybe even bigger than what has already happen. Because to press in for God, is to face deeper and darker challenges, and fight the spiritual warfare with the armour of His love on and with victory in mind.
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Ciao!