The Harsh Reality

Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Anonymous

About Prayer

"The true relation in prayer is not when God hears what is prayed for, but when the person praying continues to pray until he is the one who hears, who hears what God wills."

Soren Kierkegaard

"On many occasions we find ourselves unsure of the specific action that God would wish to do in the situation that confronts us, and so we present our requests, but we qualify them with the condition "if it is your will." This is not a lack of faith; it is a lack of knowledge. We believe that God will do what is best, but we are uncertain what that is and so we ask according to our best wisdom."

Terrance Tiessen

"Be slow to pray. Praying puts us at risk of getting involved with God's condition...Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests. And when we realize what is going on, it is often too late to go back."

Eugene Peterson

Out of Hibernation

Anyone out there?

It has been 98 days since I penned my last post. I don't even know whether anyone is still reading this blog. :)

I guess it is about time for me to wake up from my mental hibernation and start stretching my brain muscles.

Posts coming very soon...

Do You Know?

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Francis Bacon

Words of Confucius

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius
Chinese philosopher and reformer

The Man with No Esophagus

Jonas Scott was a factory worker who was left near death after being exposed to industrial cleaning fluid that literally ate away his insides. His esophagus and stomach were so severely damaged that they had to be removed. In order that he may be able to eat solid food again, 14 specialists from all over U.S. attempted an operation on him and successfully connected his remaining 7 feet of small intestine directly to the base of his throat. He can now eat solid food, but he has to push every bite of his food down his small intestine with his fingers!

Are you not thankful that you can eat in a normal manner? I certainly am!