Whirlwinds of thoughts... Carefull now, won't want you to be blown away....

"Will you tell me how he died?"

"No Your Honour, I will tell you how he'd lived."

I guess it does not matter how long we live, but how much life we live in our lifetime. It also depends what we live for. Most people say for ourselves laaa! But I totally agree with Albert Einstein when he says, "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

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Change. People are afraid of it. They fear it. They loathe it. Most of them put it this way, "You ruin my life!!!!!" They are afraid because what they came to believe and accustomed to is going to change. They gotten so use to the fact that something will be always there for them. Like laws, relationships, environment, house, beliefs and loved ones. These things always seem like one certainty. The constant variable. The comfort zone.

Guess the only comfort we can get is : "If there's no changes, There'll be no butterflies." (You get the point...)

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Stars. Makes you wonder whether is there more to life, doesn't it? Then when you wonder about that, you'll find that you won't be afraid of death. But afraid of time left before you die. Because after death, there'll be no pain. Nothing to worry about. End of suffering. What you build here you leave it here. Whereas time left, you never know when you're about to leave this world. You wanna do the Things-To-Do-Before-You-Die list. People you have not forgiven. People you have not help. People you have not told them how much you love them.

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Beauty. Some people show it to the world so to have the world praise them.
But some hide their beauty because they want the world to see something else.

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I guess no matter how stubborn, tenaciously unwilling, obstinate a person is, they will change when they meet someone who has a genuine, pure, innocent, loving and forever caring attitude. Watch all those sentimental movies and it is proven. In real life too.

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I just finish reading Taming the Tiger....again and I think I should put down those intresting stories that Tony told the prisonners just to make his point clear. (Since most of you are too lazy to read)

This is the part where Tony is trying to put it clear how great the love of God is when he sent his son into the world to die for us and cancel the debt of sin for us.

"There were two boys who grew up together as best friends. As the years went by they went their separate ways. One had a good career and became a judge. The other fell on hard times, got mixed up with the wrong company and became a thief. One day the judge realised the man standing in the dock in front of him was none other than his old childhood friend who he had loved dearly. He had an awful dilemma. As a judge, he was bound to uphold the law. He knew that he had to serve the thief with a large fine. He also knew that his friend could not pay. If he didn't pay, he would be condemned to prison."

"Well, the judge passed sentence, as he was bound to. But then he stood down and took off his judge's wig and his gound. To the utter amazement of everyone else in the courtrooom he joined his old friend in the dock, took out his chequebook and paid the fine on behalf of the man he loved. His friend was free to go. No fine, no prison sentence, no debt at all."

Now, the judge represents God. So when he step down and took off his wig to pay the debt, he was Jesus. This is because as a judge, He was not only bound to the law, He was the law. And at that time, when Jesus came to pay off the debt is not with money but with his life. For you and for me.

Another interesting story that Tony told was when a Convict ask him how can bad things happen if there was a God.

"There was once a shipwreck, with just one survivor. He made it to a desert island, but when he got there he realised what a desperate situation he was in. He prayed feverishly to God, but nothing happened."

"So all he could do was build a hut to protect himself from the elements. One day he returned to the hut after scavenging for food, only to find that the hut was on fire. The midday sun had set it alight and he watched as his last hoe went up in smoke. He was angry. 'How can God allow such a thing?' he cried. That night he lay under a tree, scared and cold. In the morning he was woken up by rescuers. 'How did you find me?' he asked them in amazement. 'We saw your smoke signals,' they said."

So sometimes, God's love can feel like hatred. We don't always understand why he allows certain things to happen in our lives. So yeah, eventually, it is for the greater good. But what happen to most people is that they forgotten who help them out in the end.

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Finish what you started. Why you might asked. Because you can. Being happy does not make your life perfect. Going through it is really all we can ask for.

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I really think that sometimes, blind faith is what we really need. It takes much greater strength and commitment to believe in Jesus when we have not experienced him first hand. Like what Jesus said to Thomas and the rest of the disciples, "Blessed are those who did not see, and yet believed."

So kudos to you who have taken the step of commitment!

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"It is better for man to lose hope in humanity than to lose hope in happy endings."

Hafðu það gott!! (Icelandic)
Now I that I have finish spewing out these thoughts, I shall now go and curl myself up in a ball and wait for the hour to end. Then maybe when the madness is over, I can hit overdrive into study mode.