Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Most 'fallen' ministers I've met with said they had no-one to talk to, no trusted friends who would understand their problem.

God says, 'It's not good that man be alone.'

Friends are to laugh with, cry with and do life together with.

Friends are forged in fire.

Shared experience is the bases of relationship.

Be there in their ups and their downs and friendship forms.

Our destiny is locked into our friendships.

Jonathan was meant to inherit his father's Saul's throne, but he prepared his soul friend David for that.

How's your friends?

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As u read the above passage, What does it occur to you about friends? How has your friends impacted you for the years that you were here? How has your expectations for your friends changed over the years?

There are many questions which you can ask yourself on the topic 'Friends and Friendship.' And very often such quesations which I had listed above affect how we think and act upon our friendships as we learn to seek answers.

Right here right now, I dare to say I have and had gained new and lost friendships over the years. To those surviving friendships, there are many levels to it too. Whether they are superficial, in-depth (whereby you will know each other), or unstable types etc. I had experienced many of such. I received much from what I had been through, and I tried to learn from it. There's never such a thing called perfection in friendships because we are all imperfect beings. The only thing we can do is to work towards making friendships a better one.
No friendships come without quarrels, none comes without happy moments too. But not all that had been through all these will survive. Only those that involves parties that's willing to make the friendship work will.

I had lost someone dear as a friend 1 year ago. All because I failed my duty as a friend to uphold promises and to be a good friend that trust is all lost. Even till now, I have no courage to really stand up to make everything work again. But I pray one day, that such moments will be over. The price is too great for me to take on, even till now that I sometimes feel like crying whenever I think about it.
Again just this semester and the previous, I believed I'd done a great hurt to her as a friend, though she still believed in me even till now. I'm not sure if she's getting sick of it, I'm not sure how she thinks of the change in friendship over the last 2 semesters. I just don't know. Might be because of my laidback attitude then, my unwillingness to commit till the last minute then, that might have caused the whole thing. I felt regretful for what has happened. It's all about the willingness I suppose? The willingness to make changes...
There's another friendship which I'm holding on now. I have confusion if such a friendship will turn up to be a long-term commitment, maybe even a lifetime commitment as my lifetime partner. Till today the confusion still says, still I want the friendship to just remain as it is. I'm happy with the way things are right now. Maybe we'll see how it progresses in the future, for now, there shall be no commitment into a relationship for me.

My heart turned cold once, if not for the friendships that I have with the rest. They showed me friendships is not just about sharing and supporting each other, it's also about taking the effort to go the extra mile for the other person. The little things that they do for you, it simply shows the love they have for you. It's just so nice, and no matter how little it may be, it means a lot.

Like I said no one is perfect. I'm still on my way on becoming a better friend. I might have started out bad, but least I know I'm working on it not to be at square one. I believe oneday I will improve and not let any of the friendships I have die down, and allow them to grow to be positive and experiential.

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I came to realise, at no point of time should anyone be left lonely. Why? They never deserved to be left ignored or forgotten. --> This is the nick I have from my MSN. It just occured to me that no one should reallybe lonely because they don't deserve to. Everyone deserves to have at least a friend. I guess that's what love is all about and how Jesus teaches us to exhibit God's love by 'loving our neighbours as ourselves and praying even for our enemies.' There's never hatred in the friendship, there's never rejection in the friendship. Only acceptance and love for each other.

I was reading a letter from my Dad just now. Although it's just a one page letter without much contents, it just hit me that I didn't pay much attention to my my family members, especially for my dad who's in prison now. I hadn't shower the love enough to make my family feel loved, let alone time spent in the family.

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It's time for changes now, especially in the new year. No point just sitting down here and do nothing, I just got to make things happen, as long as I make the effort to do it. It may fail, it may not, it all depends on my attitude towards it. As long as I do my best, nothing else matters.

How I wish I can say much more but somehow, I just couldn't put them into words. What I typed might be hurting to some people, or some people tend to disagree. It doesn't really matter to me because it's what I believe in and I will act upon them to make sure that no tragedies ever happen again.

Matthew 19:19 -
Jesus replied, " 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, 19honor your father and mother, 'and 'love your neighbor as yourself.'

it got me home
10:24:00 PM

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