Of windows and doors

Figure 1: Window of life.

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the new one which has opened for us."

The quote above is stated by a very famous person, whom without we will not have the luxury of the telephone and a lot more modern advances. It proves that one of our natural human feelings which is regret, which causes us to lose focus in life.

It is understandable that life is full of challenges and not everyone can cope the same way for each and every challenging situations. Life isn't that fair but that is not an excuse to be used to argue. The fact that you still can do something about it, only thing is you have lost the will to do it.

There are people who can talk a lot and pour out a lot of ideas, and there are people who listens and do their work with patience. This is where the problem stems, when listeners do not appreciate their speaker and vice-versa. Things would be better if we can appreciate and understand each other.

When someone hurts you really bad, it is so tough to forgive them, especially if they did something with an irreversible effect. However, if you can't forgive that person, how can you feel free to ask forgiveness from God Almighty? Life is complicated but only through forgiveness can we be at peace.

Life is full of fake expectations which turns us into sad ugly monsters. When we can't win, we use hurting methods to get the better of others and win the competition. Winning is great but wining the dirty way, is not worth anything. No glory just fake filled emptiness.

So, what I want to express is that, life is too short to be miserable. Be happy, life live with a living hope that we can see each other once again. Hope, faith and love makes life worth the living. A simple life is better than a life filled with sky-high expectations that you cannot hope to possibly achieve.

Choices

This choice is by far the worst of the choices I've made in life..

For me, this a very embarrassing situation to share, but i'll share this to you, if you keep to yourself and only your needs, evil will envelope you and develop that greed and hate inside which will consume you and finally you're not yourself again, once you've made that decision, you found that it's only selfishness and hate that surrounds you instead of what matters the most which is others.

The Lord has given me choices in life, and as sinful creations, we often choose choices which gives us a limited time of satisfaction which in the end, gives us a great deal of thirst.

Jesus, gave the woman at the well, a drink so that she will never thirst again, a drink which can be shared with friends and family, an eternal gift.

So why don't we, make the a simple choice, by choosing Him, praising Him, thanking Him, and loving Him. For His love is eternal, and everlasting, and most of all, He loves us, all the same.

God is love everyone, without that love, we wouldn't be here alive, Jesus separated from His father, set an example, teach us how to live and love. And finally the greatest love of all, beyond all human understanding, Jesus died for us at the cross. 

Let us love each other, while we await His second coming which is very near indeed.

Activities..

Figure 1: Cross Training "Choices".

I have been at the lab since Chinese New Year holidays are over. I have been struggling on my hardware as well as software into ensuring that everything goes into place. There are lots of challenges and not much help is available for me as everyone has been very busy.

Now there is the upcoming cross training, something which is a hard choice to make for someone who is very busy in his last semester in the final year at university. The choice is hard as there is a lot of stress going on and work still undone, however still have that super-duper guts to go on a camping trip.

It may sound cool, escaping from everything, but imagine, when time is so short, and it is simply wasted on going to a camp which I can probably attend at other times. And during this critical time, I should have been struggling to finish up my final year project which is not an easy task.

Still, deep inside me there is a battle between the forces of good and evil, while the evil side is tempting me not to go, to simple finish up my final year project with my own so called super-duper strength. While there's a soft voice calling unto me to attend the Cross training.

This is no joke and it is a really hard decision to make. It is about sacrificing my time to rest and do my final year projects and study for 2 upcoming midterms next week. Am I actually willing to sacrifice and give up all these precious time to actually just go for camping?

The battle is ever-raging inside of me while I struggle to heave myself out of it and decide to actually think it out deeply. My mind is mixed and full of matters,stress, concerns which are mostly monetary and unimportant and other ravings/cravings which are mostly doesn't exist in my studies.

It is hard to make a choice, so I decided to just lie down, and end my day to actually get some rest which I didn't and spend the next few hours to struggle with assignments and my final year project. I am practically a very lazy person, I find it amusingly amazing that I can make it into the final year without any major problems.

Who do I owe this to? How can I actually achieve this feat? I think I owe it not to myself as I am practically not a smart person, just a normal person, but I think I owe it to a higher divine power. A power which doesn't exists here on a, the power of creation, to put it in simple words, I owe it to God.

So why am I doubting and seem to lose the war to evil? I think I am selfish and my heart definitely has a big problem. Still the Holy Spirit touches me, it doesn't touch my hand, but it touches me deep in my heart, it gave me a warm embrace and let me know that everything is already planned.

Then comes my choice, to make this short, I decide to go for the adventure and take a few days off to just head off to camp and rest my head. Not just resting and relaxing but I want to spend more time with my Creator who died for me at the cross just because He loves me so.

Life is indeed beautiful if we all trust in the Divine power above, I am truly touched and wish to be lead often by the Holy Spirit.