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Thursday, December 31, 2009

On New Year's Eve we learn something about time we can never learn in any other way. Then we look at our watch or clock quite differently from any other day of our lives. Usually we glance at our watch in order to see what time we should be at a certain place, or whether we are going to make an appointment on time. But on New Year's Eve we suddenly, look at it, not in order to move ourselves, but because we become aware of the fact that time itself is moving.

We become quite aware, as the midnight hour approaches, that time is moving continually on and that we can never go back, that what we have been will unalterably remain, forever. It can never be changed. We can never retrace our steps nor refill the contents of the past with something either better or worse. It remains exactly what it was. Perhaps last year we made a wrong decision or got married (the two are not necessarily linked) or entered into some new project or achieved some goal. Whatever it was, that has now become an unchangeable part of our destiny, our lot. It is irrevocably the same, it can never be changed. God's grace has moved him to bear certain effects of our misdeeds himself, but they remain for him to bear and are never dissipated into nothingness.

Ray Stedman
5:41 PMsent a prayer

Helen, her grace exceeded that of queens'
Her love equaled that of saints
Roses envied the fragrances her presence breathed
Her head held high in Christ
She walked taller than trees
She stooped not for fools
Yet bent her back for the burden of the broken
Helen kept easy company with the great
Yet walked with the lonely
Her serving spirit bathed friends and family with milky kindness
Her furnished table feeds thousands
Preparing her food garnished with love
Her ears listened without a price
Never tiring and judging
Everyone knew she was their friend
Helen flowed like a stream giggling
In harmony with those who loved
Sobbing tears with those who cried
Helen trusted, Helen the truest of friends
Armed with glittering love her sword
She brought down the proud with mounting kindness
But in her war she triumphed again and again and yet again
Until the one she loved above all, Jesus, whispered her name
And called her to Himself
She graced His house from the start to the end
His house was her home and hers was His
Her love for His Word, His people
His house exceeded only by her love for Him
God's only Son who had saved her
Her foot landed softly and the earth kissed her feet
Helen remains a picture for all daughters to view
Her life - the very reachable, the very touchable
Lift up your eyes, daughters of the church
Yes you men take heed also
Of a life born of Heaven, lived as she lived
And you'll receive a crown as she has beyond here
But I know selfless Helen, already she has given it to another
She gave her whole life to others
She lived the keys of God's Kingdom
Laying down her life for her family and friends
Maybe you're the one to live a life like hers
So a lost world can see Jesus
So a lost world can see how to live
Helen, though dead, yet speaks
A life in Heaven, delighting in dance, singing with her King
Hopeful that you and I hear her message, her life
And even to live a shadow will suffice
This would be your best way to honour a life pleasing to God
Helen
5:20 PMsent a prayer

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around.


"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls were connected. Maybe they always have and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

When i look at you, i see your charm and your gentleness and know they hve grown stronger with every life you have lived. And i know i have spent every life before this one searching for you. not someone like you, but you, for your soul and mine must always come together. And then, for some reason neither of us understands we were forced to to say goodbye.

I would love to tell you that everything will work out for us, And i promise to do all i can to make sure it does. But if we never meet again and this is truly goodbye, I know we will see each other again in another life. We will find each other again and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each other in that time but for all the times we had before."

Nicholas Sparks
11:11 PMsent a prayer

Friday, December 25, 2009


"I think you can use up your love. I think you can blow it all on one person. You can love so much, so deeply, that there is nothing left for anyone else. You could give it all the time in the world, and I would never find someone to fill the gap that she has left. Because how do you find a substitute for the love of your life? And why would you want to?

And perhaps I could learn to live with it if I could resist this ridiculous urge to phone her. Things would be more bearable if I could remember, really remember, that she's gone and never forget it."


"It's funny. You love something and then one day it's suddenly gone or changed or lost forever. But somehow that doesn't stop your love. Maybe that's how you know it's the real thing. When it doesn't come with conditions and get-out clauses, when it doesn't have a best-by date. When you just give your love and never stop giving it and know that you never will. That's when it is real. That's when they can never touch it or spoil it or take it away from you."

One for my Baby by Tony Parsons

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what if what life served were not 'end products' but rather intermediates and transition states. will we still strive toward the finish line with the same level of perseverance and anticipation?
5:25 PMsent a prayer

Thursday, December 10, 2009

broader perspectives // the end product of reflux

We're all on Earth to fulfil God's greater plan and that we're not actually left with a choice whether or not we should follow it. What if beyond the fact that we could not choose who we're born to, where we're born in, what socio-economic background we have had, there was indeed a choice as to whether we were born on Earth or somewhere else, which perhaps could better justify our existence? Would that leave, say, a better or more significant legacy, if it could actually be measured?

Suppose 1+1 = 2 (as we all know), but the equation of life is actually 1+0 = 0, and that we are the ‘1’ in the equation. Where does that place us? Does it indicate that despite the trials and tribulations that life throws at us, we eventually end up living for nothing more than ourselves, or do we live for others? Are these even mutually exclusive in the first place? The thought that our lives actually resonated for absolutely null and that it disappeared on the surface of the Earth almost as transient and fleeting as it had appeared. On retrospect, doesn’t life’s challenges consist of the recurrent relation that swings from improvisation and repetition of one’s mistakes indefinitely? If so, where is the true benchmark and yardstick for what one deems as success?

And do we really think we know one another? Looking at something from a whole new perspective, a new paradigm does indeed provide us a ‘soothing and refreshing’ take on what actually matters of relationships. Why should there be the collision between two distant people when in actual fact, mutual reciprocity finds it ever so difficult to gain a foothold in relationships? How then can relationships be built on a solid foundation that will not be shaken, especially among people you truly care about, thereby imploring one to question the rationale behind relationships in the first place and the heartbreaks that often accompany them in the not too distant future, when suddenly, by a twist of fate, people didn’t seem to matter to one another anymore.

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thanks Victoria, Hannah, Katharine, Thomas, Stacy, Kenrick, Diana, Geraldine!

12:07 AMsent a prayer

Tuesday, December 08, 2009
QUIDAM

(sg.) "a certain", (pl.) "some", or "anonymous passerby" in Classical Latin


Your world is yours
not mine, Quidam.
Your dreams are yours.
You may have touched the stars
but they weren't moved.
And if you reach for me
I may not choose
to hold your hand.
I might smile
or I might turn away.

An ordinary man, Quidam.
I'm everyman.
I'm anyman.

Quidam, Quidam
la nuit recule.
D'un rêve à l'autre tu valses.
Du creux de toi
c'est bien le mal
qui dresse tes silences.

There's nothing left.
There's nothing right.
There's nothing wrong.
I'm one. I'm two.
I'm all yet none of you.
The truth the lie,
the tear, the laughter,
the hand and the empty touch.
Here I am alone
waiting for the curtain call.

An ordinary man, Quidam.
I'm everyman. T'es l'inconnu.
I'm anyman. T'es l'étranger.

Quidam, Quidam
la nuit recule.
D'un rêve à l'autre tu valses.
Du creux de toi
c'est bien le mal
qui dresse tes silences.

Bailo en este lienzo de dolor.
Funà mbulo sin mapa ni brùjula.
La dulce locura mi sòlo refugio.
Nazco en la sombra del payaso.

Quidam, Quidam
la nuit recule.
D'un rêve à l'autre tu valses.
Du creux de toi
c'est bien le mal
qui dresse tes silences.

Quidam, Quidam
aux rives du rêve.
Au seuil de l'ombre, tu valses.
Autour de toi
c'est bien le mal
qui dresses tes silences.

Quidam, Quidam
la nuit recule.
D'un rêve à l'autre tu valses.
Du creux de toi
c'est bien le mal
qui dresse tes silences.
9:20 PMsent a prayer


"I, um, have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. The thing is, they're both you."

The Pact



Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give - and realise that it still isn't what they need?

The Pact




"Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone and feel like you've come home? Some people spend their lives looking for that one person, I was lucky to have her all along."

The Pact
6:06 PMsent a prayer

Wednesday, December 02, 2009


So we see how it goes. Just another man and wife having trouble. But it seemed like the saddest thing that what we had right now was not good enough to stay for, and not bad enough to leave...




ONE DAY MORE

VALJEAN
One day more!
Another day, another destiny.
This never-ending road to Calvary;
These men who seem to know my crime
Will surely come a second time.
One day more!

MARIUS
I did not live until today.
How can I live when we are parted?

VALJEAN
One day more.

MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
And yet with you, my world has started!

EPONINE
One more day all on my own.

MARIUS & COSETTE
Will we ever meet again?

EPONINE
One more day with him not caring.

MARIUS & COSETTE
I was born to be with you.

EPONINE
What a life I might have known.

MARIUS & COSETTE
And I swear I will be true!

EPONINE
But he never saw me there!

ENJOLRAS
One more day before the storm!

MARIUS
Do I follow where she goes?

ENJOLRAS
At the barricades of freedom.

MARIUS
Shall I join my brothers there?

ENJOLRAS
When our ranks begin to form

MARIUS
Do I stay; and do I dare?

ENJOLRAS
Will you take your place with me?

ALL
The time is now, the day is here

VALJEAN
One day more!

JAVERT
One day more till revolution,
We will nip it in the bud!
We'll be ready for these schoolboys,
They will wet themselves with blood!

VALJEAN
One day more!

M. & MME. THENARDIER
Watch 'em run amuck,
Catch 'em as they fall,
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all,
Here a little `dip'
There a little `touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much!

Students (2 Groups)
1: One day to a new beginning

2: Raise the flag of freedom high!

1: Every man will be a king

2: Every man will be a king

1: There's a new world for the winning

2: There's a new world to be won

ALL
Do you hear the people sing?

MARIUS
My place is here, I fight with you!

VALJEAN
One day more!

MARIUS & COSETTE
I did not live until today.

EPONINE
One more day all on my own!

MARIUS & COSETTE
How can I live when we are parted?

JAVERT(overlapping)
I will join these people's heros
I will follow where they go
I will learn their little Secrets,
I will know the things they know.

VALJEAN
One day more!

MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away

EPONINE
What a life I might have known!

MARIUS & COSETTE
And yet with you my world has started

JAVERT(overlapping)
One more day to revolution
We will nip it in the bud
We'll be ready for these

Schoolboys

THENARDIERS(overlapping)
Watch 'em run amok
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free-for-all!

VALJEAN
Tomorrow we'll be far away,
Tomorrow is the judgement day

ALL
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!
4:01 AMsent a prayer