ThE BeAtiTuDeS
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Happiness and Sadness
shall blog about the happenings for the past days first...
Saturday and Sunday:
Weekend was extremely awesome. Great CG with my ex-leader leading the cg and ex-member playing guitar for us. CG was fantastic and there was a breakthrough!! Hoping that the next coming week will be good too. Had a great time at baptism too. Guess then i was up to my mischief. :P Also thank God for healing me on sunday morny so that i could go to church and even serve in choir.
Really want to thank God for a great fren and brother. Always known him as someone who is very caring to people around. But on sunday, i realised that he was pretty sharp too. Hence he availed himself to help us with photo taking even when i was actually calling out to someone else. I guess i should really thank him for being observant and protective too. My CG leader shouted out to me to move away and the brother who was nearby just came forward and started to protect a few of us when he saw a car coming our direction and i was standing at the position where i could be knocked down.
Here's the link to the photos taken at baptism by someone else. But they are really very blur...
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~mohamed2/churchphotos.htm
Monday:
I went out to watch Mission Impossible 3 in the early evening. I would overall rate this show as nice. :)
What really caught my attention most was on the part where trust came in. Trust is just so important for relationships.
In the night i had a talk with someone special and used to be precious. This someone asked if i'm really okay with whatever that is happening. I replied that i'm alright and am happy. Yet on the other end, i teared. I guess it just hurts when it comes directly from this someone? It really had been about 2 weeks since i teared over sadness. Well, it shows that this someone still cares and is protective. This person just doesn't want to put me thru' what would make me hurt. As for me, i guess i just want this person to be happy. I don't know what lies ahead but i just want to give him the blessings and i hope that by then i will be able to accept the pleasant truth without tears of sadness.
Well, through this incident, i began to realise that he's around merely for a season and a reason but never a lifetime. Nevertheless, i thank God for all the sweet memories and the footprints he left in my life and the changes he had triggered in me.
Tuesday:
I played my guitar for a pretty long time and was praying. There are simply many things on my mind and trying hard to lift my eyes from being cast down. ;)
Played tomb raider in the afternoon before heading out to meet a fren who is very dear. I was in the midst of playing when he messaged that he's about to reach bedok mrt station. Oh man, all i did was quickly rush out of the house without grooming myself. Actually on my mind i thought, he had seen me before at my lowest moment when i refused to get out of bed. Always remembered the day he came over to hall to visit just because he's very worried about me and tried hard with my roomie to persuade me to go to skool. So, i thought it wouldn't be that bad today compared to back then. :P But what really surprised me was that he couldn't recognise me. Haha... but what really made me feel good and edified was that he said that my hair colour suits me and that my hair had grown out really nicely. He's a very silly boy, coz the last time i met him was like about 3 weeks ago. However i guess it had been many mths since he last saw me in specs. hehe...:P ..He really made my day. However, i was kinda sad that i couldn't make it for steven curtis chapman concert with him. But i thank God that his girlfriend could make it on the last minute. Glad that my absence blessed both of them with a concert:) However, i wonder if it was good though...;P but i believe he will love it, coz he always likes gigs and this is a rare opportunity. Of course, not forgetting to thank Rirong for blessing us with the free tickets:P *thanks*
Wednesday ---> Today!!!
I'm glad that it's wednesday, because that means that i can go for bible study. Heee:) Last week i was caught with work that i had to give it a miss and it just didn't feel good at all. So thank God that now i'm having holidays and can avail myself for it;)
Seriously, i'm pretty bored. Mayb i should try to play maple story instead of tomb raider already. :P
Saturday and Sunday:
Weekend was extremely awesome. Great CG with my ex-leader leading the cg and ex-member playing guitar for us. CG was fantastic and there was a breakthrough!! Hoping that the next coming week will be good too. Had a great time at baptism too. Guess then i was up to my mischief. :P Also thank God for healing me on sunday morny so that i could go to church and even serve in choir.
Really want to thank God for a great fren and brother. Always known him as someone who is very caring to people around. But on sunday, i realised that he was pretty sharp too. Hence he availed himself to help us with photo taking even when i was actually calling out to someone else. I guess i should really thank him for being observant and protective too. My CG leader shouted out to me to move away and the brother who was nearby just came forward and started to protect a few of us when he saw a car coming our direction and i was standing at the position where i could be knocked down.
Here's the link to the photos taken at baptism by someone else. But they are really very blur...
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~mohamed2/churchphotos.htm
Monday:
I went out to watch Mission Impossible 3 in the early evening. I would overall rate this show as nice. :)
What really caught my attention most was on the part where trust came in. Trust is just so important for relationships.
In the night i had a talk with someone special and used to be precious. This someone asked if i'm really okay with whatever that is happening. I replied that i'm alright and am happy. Yet on the other end, i teared. I guess it just hurts when it comes directly from this someone? It really had been about 2 weeks since i teared over sadness. Well, it shows that this someone still cares and is protective. This person just doesn't want to put me thru' what would make me hurt. As for me, i guess i just want this person to be happy. I don't know what lies ahead but i just want to give him the blessings and i hope that by then i will be able to accept the pleasant truth without tears of sadness.
Well, through this incident, i began to realise that he's around merely for a season and a reason but never a lifetime. Nevertheless, i thank God for all the sweet memories and the footprints he left in my life and the changes he had triggered in me.
Tuesday:
I played my guitar for a pretty long time and was praying. There are simply many things on my mind and trying hard to lift my eyes from being cast down. ;)
Played tomb raider in the afternoon before heading out to meet a fren who is very dear. I was in the midst of playing when he messaged that he's about to reach bedok mrt station. Oh man, all i did was quickly rush out of the house without grooming myself. Actually on my mind i thought, he had seen me before at my lowest moment when i refused to get out of bed. Always remembered the day he came over to hall to visit just because he's very worried about me and tried hard with my roomie to persuade me to go to skool. So, i thought it wouldn't be that bad today compared to back then. :P But what really surprised me was that he couldn't recognise me. Haha... but what really made me feel good and edified was that he said that my hair colour suits me and that my hair had grown out really nicely. He's a very silly boy, coz the last time i met him was like about 3 weeks ago. However i guess it had been many mths since he last saw me in specs. hehe...:P ..He really made my day. However, i was kinda sad that i couldn't make it for steven curtis chapman concert with him. But i thank God that his girlfriend could make it on the last minute. Glad that my absence blessed both of them with a concert:) However, i wonder if it was good though...;P but i believe he will love it, coz he always likes gigs and this is a rare opportunity. Of course, not forgetting to thank Rirong for blessing us with the free tickets:P *thanks*
Wednesday ---> Today!!!
I'm glad that it's wednesday, because that means that i can go for bible study. Heee:) Last week i was caught with work that i had to give it a miss and it just didn't feel good at all. So thank God that now i'm having holidays and can avail myself for it;)
Seriously, i'm pretty bored. Mayb i should try to play maple story instead of tomb raider already. :P
posted by Cheryl at 4:38 AM
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A Different View of an "Eye for Eye"
The quotation from Exodus 21:24, "eye for eye, foot for foot..." is often understood to mean that that people have a right to revenge an injury to them. This was true in Old Testament times, even though the Gospel of Matthew at 5:38 refers to it and then rejects it at 5:39 ("turn the other cheek") in the New Testament.
What is interesting about the "eye for an eye" quotation, however, is that in Old Testament times it was also meant to put a limit on the amount of vengeance people could take when they suffered at the hands of another.
In ancient times it was customary that if one person from a family killed a person from a different family, the tradition was to kill not only the killer, but also kill everyone in his whole family as well.
So an "eye for an eye" was not only meant to allow for retaliation, but also to limit the extent of the vengeance so that wholesale bloodshed did not occur between families. Vengeance was to be proportional to the harm a person received.
Source: A Short History of Philosophy, Solomon & Higgins
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