Saturday, June 13, 2009
post 282
hello mark. thanks for your sharing, and praise god that he is guiding your life now. like i shared with soo and melvyn and marcus and justin last sunday ( only 5 of us! ) i'll commit to penning one entry every week and hopefully this routine will grow on us all. a little leaven leaveneth us all : )
talk about this week. sucks. sick, and by now all of you are gone at con camp. but, i pray that you'll be able to touch the lives of all the little ones, and make them confirm their faith in god! plant all the little seeds of gods gift in them and let them blossom : ) praise god that they will all come out beating their breasts and dancing along the cobblestone pavement singing gods name! give them your love and gods love
today, i'll talk about COMPASSION! something i have concluded that i am very lacking in. a few sparks started this fire, i'll explain to you. first, reading this book entitled "gargoyle" about a burn victim being nursed back to health in the burn ward, and subsequently re-integrating back to society, but mentally there is the barrier of his physical appearance.
a burn victim's scars can be extensive, and the intensity depends on the type of burn, from first degree burns or "surface burns" to third degree burns, where your skin is damaged beyond your body's ability to regenerate itself, and you require skin grafts and such. chances are, you'll come out looking part like a gargoyle as the book suggests, haha.
anyway, sparks 2 and 3 are little snippets, very negligible observances that somehow glued onto my cranium. at vivo, i saw a couple, except the guy was on a wheelchair. a single disability bounds him permanently to a chair. and i thought to myself " can i bring myself to love such a person? accepting a person is fine, but to love to such a degree? " the answer was, selfishly, no. probably not.
spark 3 is walking towards the mrt, there was a craggly old man begging for money by the corner of the entrance, the noticeable thing being that his left hand ended in a stump. selfishly, again, i thought to myself " one hand missing still should be able to get a job, does not force you to beg what " clearly this opinion had little ground to stand on.
so a moral lesson for myself to share with you all: dont get caught up with physical appearances. the scars on their body may be unsightly, but the mental scarring you lay on these people is like a virus which infects your mind! far worse! so let's be christian in not our actions but our thinking too. have compassion!
god bless!
popo
post 282
hello mark. thanks for your sharing, and praise god that he is guiding your life now. like i shared with soo and melvyn and marcus and justin last sunday ( only 5 of us! ) i'll commit to penning one entry every week and hopefully this routine will grow on us all. a little leaven leaveneth us all : )
talk about this week. sucks. sick, and by now all of you are gone at con camp. but, i pray that you'll be able to touch the lives of all the little ones, and make them confirm their faith in god! plant all the little seeds of gods gift in them and let them blossom : ) praise god that they will all come out beating their breasts and dancing along the cobblestone pavement singing gods name! give them your love and gods love
today, i'll talk about COMPASSION! something i have concluded that i am very lacking in. a few sparks started this fire, i'll explain to you. first, reading this book entitled "gargoyle" about a burn victim being nursed back to health in the burn ward, and subsequently re-integrating back to society, but mentally there is the barrier of his physical appearance.
a burn victim's scars can be extensive, and the intensity depends on the type of burn, from first degree burns or "surface burns" to third degree burns, where your skin is damaged beyond your body's ability to regenerate itself, and you require skin grafts and such. chances are, you'll come out looking part like a gargoyle as the book suggests, haha.
anyway, sparks 2 and 3 are little snippets, very negligible observances that somehow glued onto my cranium. at vivo, i saw a couple, except the guy was on a wheelchair. a single disability bounds him permanently to a chair. and i thought to myself " can i bring myself to love such a person? accepting a person is fine, but to love to such a degree? " the answer was, selfishly, no. probably not.
spark 3 is walking towards the mrt, there was a craggly old man begging for money by the corner of the entrance, the noticeable thing being that his left hand ended in a stump. selfishly, again, i thought to myself " one hand missing still should be able to get a job, does not force you to beg what " clearly this opinion had little ground to stand on.
so a moral lesson for myself to share with you all: dont get caught up with physical appearances. the scars on their body may be unsightly, but the mental scarring you lay on these people is like a virus which infects your mind! far worse! so let's be christian in not our actions but our thinking too. have compassion!
god bless!
popo