An excerpt from Have a little faith
Can i ask you something?
"Ask away, young scholar," he crowed.
How do you know God exists?
He stopped. a smile crept across his face.
"An excellent question."
He pressed his fingers into his chin
And the answer? I said
"First, make the case against Him."
Okay, i said, taking his challenge. How about this? We live in a world where your genes can be mapped, where your cells can be copied, where your face can be altered. With surgery, you can even go from being a man to being a woman. We have science to tell us of earth's creation; rocket probes explore the universe. The sun is no longer a mystery. and the moon-which people used to worship? We brought some of it home in a pouch right?
"Go on," he said.
So why, in such a place, where the once great mysteries have been solved, does anyone still believe in God or Jesus or Allah or a supreme being of any kind? Haven't we outgrown it? isn't it like Pinocchio the puppet? when he found he could move without his strings? did he still look the same way at Geppetto?
The Reb tapped his fingers together.
"Thats some speech."
You said make a case.
"Ah."
He leaned in. "Now, my turn. Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that i must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they cant explain, something that created it all at the end of the search. "And no matter how far they try to go the other way - to extend life, play around with genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty - at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When life comes to an end?"
I shrugged
"You see?"
He leaned back. He smiled.
"When you come to the end, that's where God begins."
Friday, March 26, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
The Truth..
You know the saying that goes. "Tell me the truth!!" and the normal retort to that being.."YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH".. well i finally understand why they say that. I mean the truth can be staring straight at you in the eye. But not everybody believes it.
After reading thru the Bible, doing abit of in depth study of it and learning more about the faith. It shows u the truth, but u can lay down all the evidence to somebody and they will just look at you blankly and try to still push their point. There was no way they could deny what was put on the table, with evidence to support. But nothing was going through. They couldnt handle the truth.. even if it was plainly there.
therefore i really couldnt do much anymore but just pray and hope that i did sow a seed in their lives and hopefully made them think.
What else can i do but pray..
After reading thru the Bible, doing abit of in depth study of it and learning more about the faith. It shows u the truth, but u can lay down all the evidence to somebody and they will just look at you blankly and try to still push their point. There was no way they could deny what was put on the table, with evidence to support. But nothing was going through. They couldnt handle the truth.. even if it was plainly there.
therefore i really couldnt do much anymore but just pray and hope that i did sow a seed in their lives and hopefully made them think.
What else can i do but pray..
Friday, March 19, 2010
Now that Fendi is gone....
It feels like a ghost town again. the bond that somehow weirdly tied all the other 3 of my housemates together is slowly withering away. No one creeps up behind u and talks to u, no one asks u "WHAT U DOING". Im missing my sheep bad...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
11 more hrs
11 more hrs mark the end of my 6 mth sabbatical away from Brisbane. And i must say i thoroughly enjoyed it. New revelations from God, new friendships made, new experiences, i even enjoyed all the part time work that i found!! and to make it even more exciting work came to me.. not the other way..
Really thank God and Jedi for making my integration back in Singapore so smooth and leaving is always a hard thing to do. To even leave Singapore became a harder decision after every single day i spent. But alas, i believe God has called me back for a reason. so toodles to Singapore. toodles to everyone.
Hello Brissy
Really thank God and Jedi for making my integration back in Singapore so smooth and leaving is always a hard thing to do. To even leave Singapore became a harder decision after every single day i spent. But alas, i believe God has called me back for a reason. so toodles to Singapore. toodles to everyone.
Hello Brissy
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Where is compassion?
I just want to affirm everyone that really chipped in to help out with Haiti, during the course of the past 2 weeks, many people have donated money to Haiti because the earthquake that happened killed so many people. But on our own shore in Singapore, there is just as bad a disaster that is happening.
Through the six mths ive been in Singapore countless elderly or handicapped people have come up to me to provide me a service by selling tissue papers or keychains. And as usual i brush them off just as i did because.. i didnt need the tissue paper/keychain. But how is it that i can donate to Haiti but turn a blind eye to the needy people right before me, how could i have been so blind to the fact that they are just as much in need as those people halfway round the world.
Where is my compassion..
Through the six mths ive been in Singapore countless elderly or handicapped people have come up to me to provide me a service by selling tissue papers or keychains. And as usual i brush them off just as i did because.. i didnt need the tissue paper/keychain. But how is it that i can donate to Haiti but turn a blind eye to the needy people right before me, how could i have been so blind to the fact that they are just as much in need as those people halfway round the world.
Where is my compassion..
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