Do Yourself A Favour…Forgive!

Family Portrait (Photo credit: Gideon Tsang)

I once heard the story of a guy who has been married for fifteen years and then his wife came to him one hot summer afternoon weeping uncontrollably.

”What’s the matter darling,” the man asked obviously concerned.

”I can’t do this anymore,” she bellowed uncontrollably, tears streaming down her pale red face in torrents.

Like most husbands, this man was confused and a little scared by the dramatics going on in front of him. After a couple of more ”oh God what have I done?,” the wife calmed down and then there was an uneasy silence.

The man waited for an explanation behind the outburst of emotion but when none was forthcoming, he did what most men would do, no! let me not generalise. He did what ”some” men would do, he lost his cool demeanour.

”What the hell is wrong with you!”

”I am sorry,” she hurriedly apologised, ” but I can’t live a lie anymore.”

Well you can guess the temperature in that room must have dipped to about minus forty degrees.

The wife confessed and you’ve guessed correctly, she was an adulterer and has been having an affair which had lasted till that moment.

And can you guess the saddest part of the story? This couple was blessed with four intelligent, healthy boys and not a single one of this kids was the man’s.

I am positive you can correctly predict the end of the tale but can you forgive such a woman?

This was a true story and the man in question did forgive but the woman couldn’t forgive herself…

Forgiveness is hard but it releases you from a prison of bitterness. God can help ease the pain though, only He can do that.

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Let No One Steal Your Dreams

Oct3

The words of Paul Cookson are so irresistible and endearing that I just had to post it;

English: Follow your dreams, Graffiti on the sidewalk in Urbana, IL (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

”Let no one steal your dreams, Let no one tear apart, the burning ambition that fires the drive inside your heart.

Let no one steal your dreams…Let no one tell you that you can’t. Let no one hold you back. Let no one tell you that you won’t.

Set your sights and keep them fixed. Set your sights on high. Let no one steal your dreams. Your only limits is the sky.

Let no one steal your dreams. Follow your heart. Follow your soul. For only when you follow them, will you truly feel whole.

Set your sights and keep them fixed. Set your sights on high. Let no one steal your dreams. YOUR ONLY LIMIT IS THE SKY”

No truer words well written, ponder on this folks!

Shadows And Dust

Oct1

Let the Feelings Go (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Feelings are useless and trivial if it cannot be substantiated with facts and how do you do that?

What people say or do can influence how we feel but that shouldn’t be the case else we’ll just end up frustrated and sad all the time.

Life basically, is what we feel, several times I’ll say to my husband,

”I am so tired, I hate my job, I feel I should quit,” and he would smile coyly with a knowing look in his brown expressive eyes and reply,

”Why don’t you have a little nap and I’ll take care of the kids and make dinner”

Once those golden words are out, my job is no longer a hell hole. The fact of the matter was, I was simply tired and assumed that because I was physically drained my job was to blame because that was the way I was feeling.

But my feeling was wrong. My job should not dictate how I feel, I should decide my own emotions and how I react to people or events in my life. However, without feelings, emotion, sense, sensation, mood, reaction we would all be robots.

Don’t get me wrong guys, maybe, you work in the most horrible place on earth but your feelings should not dictate your pursuit of happiness. You can never get along with everyone but why not try to get along with yourself first!

Feelings are like shadows, they follow us around. It is associated with love, hatred, murder, lust you just name it, the list is endless.

But feelings can be tamed and controlled. You can choose the way you react to circumstances in your life even if you can’t control a larger part of it.

Dust are filth that should be cleanse, some of our feelings should be totally ignored, so that we can forge ahead and achieve great things in life.

Less Of A Monster!

Jul31

A View of Earth from Saturn (Photo credit: alpoma)

Of recent, I have watched different programmes about the end of the world. And it really got me thinking of what really matters, not the bills which sneaked stealthily through my door this morning, nor my recalcitrant agent or my elusive publishers. None of this weighty issues bothered me this morning when I woke up but just this composite thought. Our beautiful earth is groaning under the weight of incessant wars, uncontrollable population and sheer wickedness and cruelty directed towards all living things. The degree and level with which these atrocious acts have been repeatedly committed is alarming. And I thought, will the world truly come to an end?

Yes, there will be an end, but no one can really predict the exact time and moment. And you would think that sometimes we should just pause and reappraised our lives, but do we do that? Don’t know about you but I sure do once in a while, like now as I am writing this piece.

And I ask myself soliloquizing, are we living in a cocoon? Isolated from the real world or actually living in ‘a world village’ whereby we can integrate and live with anyone from any race, tribe or ideologies. Where there is nothing like been politically correct, where there is no cast system, where the smoky bridge between the rich and the poor are irrevocably extinguished.

But It was not so in the beginning. God created all things beautiful and then the devil came and mess it up right? Wrong! Humans did the messing up bit, we lost the plot big time. But how do we rectify it all, simple! By becoming less of a monster!!

But if the world will really come to an end then what is the essence of life itself? This is a question I often ask myself; why the race to be rich at all cost and at the same time why would you want to be a pauper? If the world should implode today due to our destructive natures and selfishness, what would have been the reason for it all in the first place?

Why was the earth created by God? Why create humans and allow them to build weapons of mass destruction to annihilate each other? Now, these are questions I can’t comfortably answer but I do know that God gave us free will, it’s up to you what you make of it!

And to all my questions above, I believe the essence of life is love. It’s as simple as that and I truly believe God created the world out of His love for humanity and all the richness of the earth for us to enjoy.

Maybe time is running out but we can still make an impact. Whether the world ends when I finish writing this post or in five billion years. We can make a change. A random acts of kindness will make us less of a monster.

Thanks for reading my post!