i couldnt' think of an appropriate title.. so i just left the title blank.
i'm at home.. just came home.
had dinner with Yaosh at Long John.
we had an interesting dinner.. and were looking at skaters and bladers at the skate park near cine..
saw an emo guy skating.. and slamming his board on the ground. but he was good!
now feels like the time to be charged up. and renewed.
some food for thought from the events that happened today..
an observation..
sometimes.. its not that people are trying to be different.. it is just that we really are.. and most often.. the very thing we despise about ourselves could be the verythings that people like us for. the irony.
i was also walking home.. and i saw a star and the moon. both were shining rather brightly in the dark night.
it suddenly occured to me. the moon is nothing more than an ugly sphere rock. but when aligned with the sun, it reflects light. The bible said when God created earth there was the greater light and the lesser light. The sun and the moon.
Although the moon didn't produce its own light.. in the darkness it looks as though it is simply because it reflects light.
putting this in perspective.. its much like how Christians reflect God's light. Even though the light isn't from the Christians, it looks as though the Christians are the light.
to connect it with the earlier part..
as we are... we are imperfect rocks. placed in the very place we are standing right now. awaiting the time when our paths become aligned with God's path.. we just reflect His glory. in the day.. it may not be seen.. no one may even notice.. but in the dark of the night.. they shine. imperfect, but still bright in contrast to the darkness. a pleasant sight that is pleasing.
i can't really describe it .. but i felt a sense of awe.. when i had the sudden realization of how easy it is to look at ourselves and think we could be someone better than we are.. we should be this and that..
i have a theory.. what if God created us perfectly flawed?
and that trying to be someone we weren't created to be is simply unnatural??
for instance.. for a naturally passive person to be aggressive is unnatural.
however... it is perfectly unnatural for an aggresive person to be unresponsive when provoked. there are other ways of looking understanding what i'm trying to say.. one man's meat is another man's poison. why does the ugly guy get the pretty girl? Or.. why do the bad guys get the chicks? we simply are created unique.. not just our looks... but the way we respond in life.. or the way we are driven...
Its the reason why there will always be losers, winners.. in betweens. When God created all men equal.. he created men as men.. not as winners, losers or in betweens. as long as you are alive.. you are still a man. regardless of whether you are poor or rich, maimed or fat or ugly or pretty..
Man created the labels and judged himself to be better off and worse off then his neighbour. In the sight of man, God did not create all men equal.
hmm.. sounds like a good word.
where is God?
i ask . when my friends are feeling lost.. when i'm feeling stupid.
i don't really know myself..
but.. i know that when i align myself with him. he lets me know hes there when i'm listening and looking for signs of him.
life is simple and yet not simple.
simple because we know what needs to be done. yet not simple because our actions more often than not choose what pleases us more often than what is right.
its been a while since i had something that i felt that i had to blog about.
today is that day.