cans and recycling

Oh, it’s hard to learn the lesson,
As we pass beneath the rod,
That the sunshine and the shadow
Serve alike the will of God. —Anon

how true is that....it's easy to look at the sunshine and say yeah god i can see how great and awesome you are...

but can you get a whipping and say the same thing??? i bet not! which is really a good thing that god allows time for the whipping to settled down and for the pain to go before we can see the need and use of the whipping :P

i remember having a friend once who told me that he liked learning things the hard way, he said somehow it was only he hard knocks that stayed with him over the years...OUCH!

it's a scary but true thought though...i mean imagine if you were like an aluminum can that went through a bunch of knocks...you'd be recyled in no time at all!

but maybe that's the whole idea...that you keep being recyled...renewed...into something new and better?

i wonder though what happens if you're a pretty good person and you learn fast and quick and you don't need knocks? i mean idealy wouldn't we all want that?

i guess it doesn't mean you don't get renewed...it just means you've been luckily and steady enough that you retain the pristine condition that you were made to be...

but for most of us who'll be knocked around from life....from our own mistakes..don't worry folks...for us...we just need to be recycled and all that we were made to be renewed...and you'll be able to dodge the knocks that come second time around...

and don't forget to tell the other cans eh? if they can dodge it too...we've kept two cans in pristine order!

in a non related manner...
i'm facing a bit of an annoying problem that is a previous issue that's resurfaced...when i thought it was over...so here i was getting seriously upset and annoyed...and just really not understanding why this stupid paper work won't just blow off...

but these are the times i thank god for the lil memory verses that we've been doing at the off...which has stopped...but really shouldn't!....ahem ahem...

"No one who's hope is in you, will ever be put to shame"....psalms 25:3

better is one day in your house

familiar with the verse? bet most christian folk would be after all the song qoutes it...

BETTER IS ONE DAY IN YOUR COURTS THAN THOUSANDS ELSEWHERE....

ok...here's another one of those times where things hit me in a very different yet profound manner...this one was from years ago actually but was just reminded of it....

for all you guilt throdden people....who's wrong doing and self pressure holds you down more than anything think about that verse....it says better is one day than thousands elsewhere...

yes it's a call to come and spend that time with god in his house...and that the one day that u spend there will satisfy you more than the running around for days in headless chicken mode elsewhere...

but this is how it struck me...u know how guilt can hold u back so much...especially if u're like me and it plays up in ur head....no matter how much u know the drill got will forgive you and accept u and he's died for sinners and all that...but somehow...it's because u're so hard on urself...that you get pinned down by this guilt

there's this time lapse or mix up of time between god and us...

so see what i realised is...that the times that you don't fall and u get through well...as i was also told...is reason to rejoice...

cause guess what...god said...that JUST THAT ONE DAY...just that one time that you spent in his place...it's worth soooooo much that a thousands days u spent doing wrong...couldn't take it away...or even compare to it...

so i guess...yeah...every time you fall...look back and know that u're forgiven and remember u're human and that for all the days u didn't fall...god was doing like some woo hoo dance with ya! :)

that don't mean u keep on falling and go oh well yest i didn't...i just means don't stay down...

chin up folks...

he holds everything together

that's a bit from a song.....

i remember when i sang it...it hit home....but not in the way that christs has got my life held together...

more like HE'S HOLDING ME TOGETHER....

see if you don't already know i'm having a crazy time with loads home family personal life the list goes on...and a lot of times i feel myself just breaking...pulled apart....crumbling that i really feel like i might just go mad....and while that seems like quite a joke to lots of yuo....

trust me when u come to a point when u don't know if u're talking to urself or another being...madness becomes very real....

so yeah...it's nice to know even when i'm totally losing it at the brink of insanity...he's holding me together....

btw..can't wait to write bout sunday's sermon and jesus' ridiculous demands...