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Thought:
Every single, seemingly small decision I make,
affects my purpose.
What I do with my purpose
affects my generation.
What happens in this generation will
affect the generation after.
“That is why we said, ‘Let us get ready and build an altar–but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices’. On the contrary, it is to be a witness between us and you and the generations that follow that we will worship the Lord at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings.Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to ours, ‘You have no share in the Lord.'” Joshua 22:26-27
Ok so there’s this Facebook campaign that is calling all the atheists everywhere to come together on the 8th of November to have a minute of prayer to deny God.
Ahh people, who needs to watch T.V. when I get all the entertainement I want in real life?
The description says:
As you may already be aware, recently the Atheist Founation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention websites were the target of a significant DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which began on Monday 19 October.
This is a call to all non-believers and advocates for freedom of speech to join us in a global co-ordinated minute of prayer with the aim of inundating God (in this context, the Christian god, God, as distinct from the Greek god, Zeus, the Egyptian god, Ra etc etc) with so many useless prayers that it causes his divineness to go offline as as result of our own DDOS (‘Divine’ Denial of Service).
The prayer minute will be at exactly 8pm (Eastern Standard Time) and 9am (Greenwich Mean Time) on Sunday 8 November 2009.
The prayer can be about anything you want (but say it as frequently as possible in the minute we have assigned to ensure DDOS is achieved) or to whomever god you want. Its mostly directed at the Christian god so as to ensure we don’t get too many return to senders from other gods.
10 thousand bonus points to those who can pinpoint what is so wrong here.
“If God limited himself only to what WE want and need, then he wouldn’t be who he is.”
When you say he doesn’t exist, the only thing that will go ‘offline’ is your heart–not him.
I don’t know, I’m just thinking, imagine if the big crowd who will go to this, turned their prayers of denial into prayers of acceptance, imagine what God would do with that instead.
And so we’re back to the inconsistent updating of this blog. I had hoped that after SOS I would be flowing with revelations and that my keyboard would have been broken by now from the passionate typing in wanting to share them with everyone.
But the only kind of typing this keyboard has ever gotten since then are lame attempts to write essays for uni.
And that just sums up what’s been happening so far: ASSIGNMENTS, studying, etc. Everyone’s doing it, so I guess I have to as well.
I’ve been learning alot though, still havent forgotten to do what is more important. I’ll share it when I have more time to spare, provided I still remember them. haha But I guess if I forget then what would be the point of the lesson? So I will remember. (wow, eloquence Miss Casin, nice)
Before I go, I would like to make a big shout out to my GFRESH family! You guys never cease to inspire me! And looks like the blog-bug, or BLUG as I have just so ingeniously coined (I crack myself up) has infected a few people! Especially the men! There’s only so much that women could teach the men until differences (e.g. hormones haha) catch up. So good job Mcguyver Fuertes for providing a fresh perspective on things and leading the little boys. And awesome start, Mr. Gregory Borg. I look forward to reading more “how-to’s”.
If you haven’t read their stuff yet, I seriously recommend doing so. And understand why we love doing what we do.
So…AAAHH! Back to work.
Love and peace baby.
“Don’t be one of those people who looks for ways how to live life to the fullest.”
I was born in an era where there are so many options, it’s easy to get lost in them. I was talking to a friend not too long ago and we were discussing about our desire to make a change in the world. The only problem is, there’s nothing to change anymore. If we were born a century ago, we would be fighting for women’s rights. A couple of decades back, freedom rights for the discriminated. But now, everything that needs to be done had already been done.
And how many young people do you know are thinking that way? Walking through life trying to find a purpose, jumping from one desire to the next, hoping that it would give them validity? The generation today has the most options, the most liberated generation compared to all the other ones, and yet, why aren’t we heard?
The suicide rate amongst the youth has soared so high, I bet even the heroes of the past would get the shock of their…lives (hahah yes, attempt at “humour” right there). Teen pregnancies, depression, rape, violence…you know that there’s something wrong when fulfillment is replaced by increasing emptiness. Apparently people today are growing up slower; that is, when years ago you stopped being a child when you turn 9 and became an adult as soon as you could work on the field, today, at 28 years old, you’re not even called an adult yet. Suddenly we’re surrounded by kids too involved with themselves and at the same time not knowing where to go and what to do.
I grew up with the Philippine’s national hero’s famous quote: “The youth is the hope of the future” and as a kid, I used to be so proud of that. As I grew up, I found myself being chucked to the side thinking, “No, that’s impossible now. There’s nothing else to do anyway, and even if there was, what can I do? I’ll leave that to someone else.” And I’m quite certain there’s a whole lot of us with the same mind-frame.
But as I’ve recently learned, I shouldn’t be looking for ways how to live my life to the fullest; instead, I should be doing what this generation OUGHT to be doing. I was put in this generation, not out of coincidence and not so I could spend the rest of my life trying to figure out what it is I’m meant to be doing–I was placed in this generation because clearly, there are things that still need to be done, and I am an agent of change.
You want to know your purpose? You want to live life to the fullest? Then why are you looking anywhere else? God has the plan, He has the word. He just needs a voice. Are you looking for a big miracle, for the skies to open up to show that He exists? Well guess what? He’s not going to do that. He is looking for people that would seek to hear His voice which comes in nothing but a whisper in an era that is abound of things that vie for our attention. And you have to answer that call.
Like in Joshua 22, I also fear for that day when the next generation looks at me and says, “Why would I run after God? What did you do with Him anyway?” It’s terrifying to know that if I don’t answer His call now and choose not to be a part of this, I would not only fail my generation, I would also fail the next.
I’m leaving a legacy; that I was part of a generation, an army that ran the race and never looked back.
And since I’m bad at ending things…I’ll end this with: “I LOVE JHONI!!!” (haha)
I wonder if Lady Gaga ever misses wearing normal clothes? That somewhere deep inside her, a voice is desperately begging to let herself just wear dirty trackies, a worn out jumper and a pair of thongs. It just seems like walking around in clothes (or lack thereof) from outer space can get a bit uncomfortable and heavy, you know? Here Lady Gaga, look at this happy chap, with a flannel jacket, a shirt specifically advertising the kind of alcohol you’d like to drown in, and a cold one in your right hand, doesn’t this look fun?
- “Yiih mate, been wanting to do this aye? Grab meself some coldies and just hang with the lads aye?”
But I don’t know, that’s just me. That’s probably why I’m here at home wearing my oldest pants (with a hole on them) and not winning Grammies and raking in the money. It’s all good.
(Note: Fact number 1: I actually enjoy looking at Lady Gaga’s fashion; number 2: I’m bored. And I don’t endorse alcohol. haha! )
A shout out to Miss MARY MAGTIBAY! woot! Great word tonight, you always manage to cut to the chase and get right down to it. =D I’m invigorated.
And with my last post, which was funnily enough quite related to what she shared, it reassured me yes, there are things to be done.
*sigh been staring at this screen for a while now. I should go to sleep.*
This is for my girls,
who in spite of adversity and challenges, still stand and remain strong.
You give me hope and strength to be the beautiful person
I was meant to be.
Your faith inspires me to go against the current and tread on the way that God has laid out for me .
Keep pushing forward lovelies. 🙂
“Look me in the eye. It’s OK if you’re scared. So am I. But we’re scared for different reasons. I’m scared of what I won’t become – and you’re scared of what I could become. Look at me. I won’t let myself end where I started. I won’t let myself finish where I began. I know what is within me, even if you can’t see it yet. Look me in the eyes. I have something more important than courage. I have patience. I will become what I know I am.” (Michael Jordan Commercial)
In reality, there are some things in life that will fail us. If you’re smart, you get back up and try again. Yet, even if you were regarded as the smartest person in the world and even in the best of situations, what attacks our core the most and leaves us in so much pain, is when PEOPLE fail us. When relationships don’t work out after you were so sure it would, it leaves us feeling vulnerable and angry and confused. And in these moments the vows of never putting ourselves in such situations again start to form in the deepest depths of our hearts.
But I just want to say, thank you to the special girls in my life who stay with me not solely because we do things together, or that we have fun (eating lol), or even because we share the same preferences for the opposite sex. XD But THANK YOU, because I know that whatever we do, or however I may stuff up now and heretofore, your actions will be governed by LOVE. That even if I have been let down by so many people in the past, I’m not scared to put my heart in your hands.
Sorry for the cheesiness buttttt…….
I LOVE YOU! *giggles and runs away*
I love this song by Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. Someday I will love someone as passionate as this and that I will be strong enough to fight for them regardless of the circumstances. Oh god, why am I such a sad case?! HAHAH. Oh here’s an English translation of the song. (To do: Learn Spanish 🙂 )
No Me Ames (Don’t Love Me)
Marc: Tell me why you’re crying.
Jen: Of happiness
Marc: And why are you drowning?
Jen: For loneliness
Marc: Tell me why you take my hands so strongly, and let your thoughts carry you away?
Jen: I love you so much.
Marc: And why is that?
Jen: Crazy stubborn person, stop doubting it any longer. Even though in the future here will be a huge wall, I’m not afraid, I want to fall in love.
Marc: Don’t love me because you think that I may appear different.
Jen: You don’t think it’s right for us to see time go by together?
Marc: You don’t love me, I understand the lie that it would be
Jen: If your love I don’t deserve, don’t love me, just stay another day.
Marc: Don’t love me, because I am lost, because I changed the world, because it is destiny. Because it’s not possible, we are like a mirror and you would be my reflection.
Jen: Don’t love me, you would be dying within a war full of regrets. Don’t love me to be on this Earth, I would like to throw your enormous love for the blue of the sky.
Marc: I don’t know what to tell you, this is the truth. When people want to, they know how to show compassion.
Jen: You and I will depart, they would not move, but in this lonely sky, don’t leave me alone.
Marc: Don’t leave me, don’t leave me. Don’t listen to me if I tell you not to love me.
Jen: Don’t leave me, don’t disable my heart with that “Don’t love me.”
Marc: Don’t love me, I’m begging you, leave me with my bitterness.
Jen: You know well, that I can’t, that it is useless, that I will always love you.
Marc: Don’t love me, since I would make you suffer with this heart that is filled with a thousand winters.
Jen: Don’t love me so that you can forget your gray days. I want you to love me just to love me.
Marc: Don’t love me, you and I will fly with the other and we will always be together.
Jen: This love is like the sun that comes out after the storm. Like two comets on the same path.
Marc: Don’t love me
Jen: Don’t love me
Marc: Don’t love me
In the interval of the combat, the warrior rests.
He often spends days on end doing nothing, because his heart needs that.
But his intuition remains alert. He does not commit the capital sin of Sloth, because he knows where that can lead to: the tepid feeling of Sunday afternoons, when time passes – and nothing else.
The warrior calls this “cemetery peace.” He recalls an extract from the Apocalypse: I curse you because you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot! But since you’re tepid, I shall vomit you from my mouth.
A warrior rests and laughs. But he is always attentive and ready to act.
Taken from Paulo Coelho’s blog.
In the midst of the hustle and bustle of the responsibilities of our daily lives, sometimes we need to just stop and rest our hearts. Not so we could stop doing, but so we could listen. Listen to the desires of our hearts that we so often end up suppressing that it starts to kill us slowly.
Rest a while, young warrior, and live.
Pointless Lessons 