Hmmm, little ponderings to take note of...

There are certain things that are going through my head now, especially in this period where I'm having so much headache and ouch... Food poisoning, flu....zzz

1.Where am I going on in life?
2.What the **** am I doing with my life?
3.Am I in the right ministry?
4.Am I doing God's work?
5.What happen to the community that God implanted in my head?

With retrospect to each of this questions, I have clearly no idea where I'm walking to, except to listen and to obey in faith. Thoughts about this and that have been popping out here and there. In the silence, God speaks and he's very puzzling to me now.

He reavealed the person whom I might be spending the rest of my life with, yet at the same time told me that we are not meant to be together now... And that I should focus on my school/church ministry work. And that is so weird la, Guess what they call a proleptic relationship...

And at the same time, the responsibility of the cell seems to hanging on a cliff, it looks like its not working, but god still asked me to" Hold on!!! Help is on it's way...!!!" But things dun look very bright although the YES camp taught me to look at things from a different angle, and that though there seems to be no light in the things that we are doing, but still a bright little candle wick shines out and its slowly being lead to a TNT case, where explosions and bright lights are gonna follow.

Ahh the mystery and wonder of our Lord, never ceases to amazes his children, though the children still loves the darkness. God is ever patient and wants to bring them to the light, but the children are like, ok Daniel I would cope ur analogy, small infants who want to hold on to their smelly bolsters, a.k.a xiao chou chou, but then god wants to clean the bolsters and wants the children to pass him the bolsters, haha. Reminds me when I was young my mum wanted to clean my smelly bolster, but then i kept wailing and saying: "NO!!!!"

Anyways, a recent event that happened made me realise the possibility of spiritual attacks or diabolical manifestations. I've realised that though we have been emphasising on the father's love, but we forgot that part of this component means setting us free from the chains of sins, which were held on by satan to make us his slaves. And how true it was

That very night on 20th June, While I was experimenting with some funny programs that involved demonism and voodoo, the lights began to flicker on and off, and after closing the program the lights returned to normal.

My brother and I were freaked out horribly, and for that night we prayed like we never prayed before. This supernatural fear overtook me and I was really frighten about the whole matter.

When I spoke about this matter to my dad next morning, he just said that the lights were malfunctioning, and i thought i just scared myself silly... But the real attack by the evil one was not the lights flickering, it was the supernatural fear that followed, fears which only i experienced when evil manifests itself. I realised that as a christian, I have not been praying or having my own quiet time, this brought me to a new shock and wake up call by our father in heaven. He probably allow this to happen to let me realise that its time to get started with prayer life, thanks to our mother mary, we are really blessed and protected that night. Oh well I just hope that the modern society could have a wake up call that demonic entities do exist and they should not be brushed aside especially in Christian teaching.

The greatest trick of the devil was that he convinces everyone that he does not exist. And that is where he deals the greatest harm and damage, since this affliction is not done by me(the devil), aiyah must be some pyschological melodrama, but people sometimes did not realised that there might be other things behind this so called scientific explanation. We humans thought that we have become so smart that we are our own gods, literally we just turned into self centred egoistic people. But how are we really in control of our lives? How much are we in control? Can this power that we have buy the love of others? Can this power that we have make us happy forever? Can this power that we have give us peace and tranquility, the peace that all true christians enjoy?

To my skeptic friends who read this blog entry, open your eyes bigger...

God bless you all, and my love and god's love be with whoever who chances upon this entry.

YES!!! The whole 4 days of breath taking miraculous experience!!!!

I would like to thank personally the whole ZJ group, my fellow family members of group six. For this breathtaking and wonderful 4 days of YES camp experience. I like to affirm my brothers and sisters, Denise, Lois, Julie, Illona, Jacq, Bernard, Chris,James and last but not least, Daniel.

Hmmm i will go through my 4 days of personal experience.

Day1:
Woke up early at 0700, went to church early cos of the heavy equipment that I have to carry, guitars, repair parts, spare parts, spare strings, a capo and other misceallanous repair stuff. I felt in such an early morning that I have nothing to do, but I just realised that I have a duty for the night prayer thingy. So i went to the church, picked up the hymn books and went on to copy some songs into my journal, for use in the future. The songs are as follows

O God You Search me(Psalm 139)

O God, you search me and you know me
All my thoughts lie iopen to your gaze
When i walk or lie down, you are before me
Ever the maker and keeper of our days

You know my resting and my rising
You discern my purpose from afar
And with Love everlasting you besiege me
In every moment of life or death you are

Before a word is on my tongue lord
You have known its meaning through and through
You are with me beyond my understanding
God of present, my past and future too

Although your spirit is upon me
Still I search for shelter from your light
There is nowhere on earth I can escape you
Even the darkness is radiant in your light

For you create me and shaped me
Give me life within my mother's womb
For the wonder of who I am I praise you
Safe in your hands all creation is made new

On Eagle's Wings(Psalm 91)

You who dwell in the shelter of the lord
Who abide in his shadow for life
Say to the lord: "My refuge,
My Rock in whom I trust"

And he will raise you up
On eagle's wings, bear you on,
The breath of dawn,
Make you to shine like th sun
And hold you in the palm of his hand

The snare of the fowler will never capture you
And the famine will bring you no fear
Under his wings your refuge
His faithfulness, your shield

You need not fear the terror of the night
Nor the arrow that flies by day
Though thousands fall about you
Near you death shall not come

For to his angels. He's given a command
To guard you in all your ways;
Upon their hand they will bear you up
Lest you dash your foot against a stone

Be thou my vision

Be thou my vision, Oh Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me save that thou art
Thou my best thought in the day and the night
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light

Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word
I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord,
Thou my great father and i thy true child
Thou in me dwelling, and i with thee one

Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight,
Be thou my armour and be thou my might
Thou my soul's shelter and thou my high tower,
Raise thou me heavenward, O Power of my power

Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise,
Thou mine inheritance through all my days
Thou and thou only, the first in my heart in my heart
High King of Heaven; My treasure thou art

High king of heaven when battle is done
Grant Heaven's joy to me,
O bright Heaven's sun
Christ of my own heart, whatever befall
Still be my vision, O Ruler of all

Then it just so happens that carol and kelly came along early to work on the slides for the pnw, then Mario and company slowly arrived, along with Julianna and finally Joel and Daniel, I just only finish writing On eagle's wings when they came, Do not ask me how this is possible, but the 3 songs came to a miraculous fufilment in god's grace!!! Amen and hallelujah to that!!!

Wait theres this song that came along

Psalm 23

You make me lie down in green pastures
You make me wanting for nothing
You fill my hunger
With honey from your sweet sweet love
You make me worship before you
So I will love and adore you
You are my shepherd, You are my Jesus
You are my Lord

Yeah, well there were some spots on the A/B room that needs to be cleared up. Up came the brooms and pails and mop, haha. We had a fun time cleaning the upper room. Joel and I had a fun time pasting the windows to prevent light from coming in. And though it did to a certain extent prevent light from coming in, i think black paper or trash bags would be better, haha.
It was meeting the group members later that was very interesting, I've met familiar and new faces here and there. We played games and stuff. Its good to know the whole group on how it is. For in each of every one of them I saw christ in them. And unbelievable potential I sense in each and everyone of them. I love my group man!!!

Lunch went on, we introduced ourselves and start to break the ice. Though there are still visible signs of cliques here and there. But God told me that he will break and form them as one!!! Lunch was pretty cool, we had nasi lemak from nonya manis caterers(God bless those hands!!!). After that it was praise and worship. In the start of the camp the response to the praise and worship was not well. But knowing this is the first day. Oh well who cares? Haha

The next activity that we did was going around in surin park and snapping photos. If the chances arive i will paste the photos up in this blog, as all the photos symbolises god's love in each and everyone of our group member's perspective.

The session that was delivered was enriching. There is an interesting thing that I forgot to put in my blog here. One which Brother Michael brought up
"All stories are true, only some actually happened"
The moral values behind the stories are real, that's what brother michael was saying. The stories are just vehicles to drive these truths to our hearts.

Another interesting matter he brought up was," Many of us are still living in the past, or worried on our future. And we did not get to enjoy the present." How true this is. The past hinder our believes in the present and it could affect our future. And there are some of us who worry so much about the future that they cannot get to enjoy the present. Who knows what the future will hold? Who knows what wonderful things god is going to work in our lives. Our experiences good and bad are god's gifts to us. But instead of getting on, many of us are clinging to our past. And many of us do not know we can move on and proceed with life.

Dinner was interesting, we ate with our hands tied together, haha we went to the extent of washing plates and sharing our things together. God bless and Amen to that!!

And night came, we have plenty of sharings and a session on God's love. It was beatiful, and the sharings were wonderful too. We realised that we need not appear as high and mighty facils who are immune to sin. But we are facils with faults too. And that we are one of them. And it is through this that we learn more about one another as family members

Through the night, the prayer was on psalm 139, it was reflective heres the lyrics once more
O God You Search me(Psalm 139)

O God, you search me and you know me
All my thoughts lie iopen to your gaze
When i walk or lie down, you are before me
Ever the maker and keeper of our days

You know my resting and my rising
You discern my purpose from afar
And with Love everlasting you besiege me
In every moment of life or death you are

Before a word is on my tongue lord
You have known its meaning through and through
You are with me beyond my understanding
God of present, my past and future too

Although your spirit is upon me
Still I search for shelter from your light
There is nowhere on earth I can escape you
Even the darkness is radiant in your light

For you create me and shaped me
Give me life within my mother's womb
For the wonder of who I am I praise you
Safe in your hands all creation is made new

Day 2:

Hmmm, a fresh new day and a fresh start. The morning's pnw was good

The morning's session was about the morning prayer that we did around surin park. It was enriching lol!!!

The sessions that follow suit were good too, only pity now is that I can't really remember, but the sharings that follow were pretty deep too. We just realised how broken we (were) and not are, for the lord will heal us later at night.

During the night, healing was evident. Wounds were closed, lives were touched and forever changed never the same. The love of God flowed freely throughout the room, showing the father's love to all.

The night ended around 1230+ for most of the people, but for me and brother dan, its not over, many issues came to our mind. And god once again showed his awesome power and allowed us to be used in his plans.

Day3:

The day arrived and I was very tired, so was the rest of the group, probably the result of lack of sleep. But the immense joy that God gave me kept the rest of the group alive, and so was daniel's joy to the group(Thank God the gift of joy sia!!!)

The sessions that follow were about the Holy Spirit, they were interesting, a pity that I'm halfway sleepy, though trying to preserve the joy, haha. So not much was captured in my brain that night.

Then came QT and mass, we sat as a family througout weekend mass. They were celebrating about corpus christi(a.k.a body of christ)

Night came, baptism of the Spirit was strong, the spirit's presence was felt, the lord moved so strongly yet so gently amongst us. Many people's lives were changed.

The sharing was so strong that many of us testify to him. We ended the night with psalm 91 and psalm 23.

Day 4:

God moved in our midst once more, but there shall be nothing more i shall write, for if i should write, my wrist would be tired. There are several things that i want to testify here

God did not gave me any experiences as he touched me. He touched me by allowing me to be a part of his plan and to witness that people's lives were changed by him. That was worth more than any personal experience that I've encountered b4.

God has worked so many miracles, the session that was planned were changed on the last minute call. And he works so wonderously that even in the homily he reaffirms and ties down several important messages. And it happened for the 3 evenings straight. Praise God!!!

Well tata!!! for those who want to know more can tag me or something, haha. God bless you all, and may you all be so overflowed with his love!!!

Father and a guitar...


Hmmm, just yesterday. Something just came to my mind which awestruck me. Hmmm but lets go through the days events.

Saturday Morning 7am: My dad, mum and I went to the market to have our breakfast. Eating our favorite mee pok, haha. When the end of the breakfast came, I pass my cup of drink to my dad, for i see that he has none to drink. The strangest thing was he kept looking at me while drinking the beverage. I suddenly realised something, he was ensuring that i have my fill before he drinks it, and from his reaction, i can see how thirsty he was, but he kept making sure that i have my fill before drinking the ching chow or grass jelly drink. I realised how much he sacrificed his part to ensure that his offsprings get to enjoy themselves.

Saturday Afternoon 2pm: I've just came back from pnw practice, my dad was pretty shagged out from some stuff earlier that he has to work on. He did not get a chance to have his afternoon nap. But when I got home, I asked him whether he could send me to penisular shopping centre(to have my guitar repaired), and to peace centre(to buy spare strings in preparation for yes camp and a trigger capo). Though he was tired, he stilled say yes and drove me there. Buy all the stuff on total which costs him near to a 100 +. And not to forget fuel fee and stuff which costs him another 30+.

Hmmm, lets not just put this events which my dad has selflessly sacrificed himself. On a whole, when i was young, my parents both got me what I need and not what i want. Sometimes things they regard as useless, they dun buy for me. All for the sake that they think this things will not be good for their son as they grow up. I just guess how true it is today. If I were ever spoilt by my parents, I would not be the Andrew writing this blog entry now. There are too many events and things that my dad did for me and I just could not pen it down here.

All this has come down to the reflection of God our divine father. Our father knows what is good for us and gives us only the best for what we need in our lives. Sometimes we are all like little children and wanted this particular toy or plaything that badly that we whined to god when we did not have it. But it took great wisdom for a man to find out what he really needs is not always what he wants. For the things that he thought are good for him could actually turn around and bite him back.

And there's this question that I've been questioning my self about and I question God about it. Since he has already provided, why do we pray and ask for more? Are we being selfish or uncontented. But i realised no, God has provided for us yes, but like our earthly fathers he wants to give things to us also when we ask. Providing he has done for us, he wants to satisfy our wants also. He's like our fathers who when a child requests for something, the father will give his child the thing that the child wants, and the thing will never harm his child. The same thing applies to god our father, to whom all good fathers on earth are reflections of his great love. Though yes at times, our earthly fathers are imperfect. But in a child's eyes, the father is like the symbol of perfection and someone whom the child models after. And I love both my divine and earthly fathers. Both whom cared for me, brought great comfort for me, supported me.

I just wanna wish all fathers and god the father a happy father's day in advance. =)

Love only love is his way...

Hmmm, I know this seems too recent for me to write a blog entry, but ahhh, who cares...

There are several things that are going through my mind as i write this, today is spencer's b'day. Happy B'day to you, Spencer!!! And also lotsa things that have been bothering me which i find most of us reject as christians.

When I was still with the crusaders(campus crusade),I've learn a lot of spirituality from them. But, due to their hard teachings about certain things which i find extremely contradictory to my faith( I shall not say it, might be sensitive to those who read it). Hmmm, a meeting with one of them about the god of love just left me stunned. They believed that our father, is someone who is righteous and full of justice, not just someone who is a father of love. That which i agree upon. But when the topic falls into loving others the situation just doesn't turn around. It just became such a very weird topic, that even up till now, I find it quite hard to swallow.

The facts that though god is a god of love, he is still a god of justice and god of righteousness. People with sin will still be eliminated??? It comes a long way to us talking about the children that God love? God did not send Jesus to die just for the Christians. God sent his son to die for all<==once again the emphasis is on "all". That means, non believers in our faith like the muslims, the jews, the buddhists, the hindus and all free-thinkers. God loves us so much that he did not die for just the christians and catholics, he died for all. And by his blood, everyone on earth has been made brothers and sisters in him. But acknowledging that for the individual is an altogether different matter, as by coming whether to accepting him as a friend and a brother and knowing that you are not alone. You have a family in heaven waiting for you(God the father and the saints, your brothers and sisters who have gone one step earlier into meeting the lord), a family on earth( the church community that is scattered throughout the world). You will never be alone once you have this knowledge.

And to think of the burning of sinners and non-believers might be too extreme a thought, yes, one can quote scripture and insist that all non-believers will burn in hell, thus creating this fear which most evangelists are driven towards for their mission. The mission of saving souls. The fear of having a friend burn in hell was totally unthinkable. Thus the aggresive marketing of, "Have you been saved?"

The intention was well, but the idea of it bringing across has been twisted by some. Some who go to all lengths just to get their friends converted. Or even roam the streets asking strangers whether they have been saved. But these series of actions had caused potential christians to be pissed off. From the non-christian/ sometimes atheist point of view. "You are very irritating, can you just**** off?" Sometimes they are being forced into situations whereby its either convert or your soul will burn, or making the knowledge that if you don't take jesus, no other way. Its due to actions of insensitvity that caused the rise of atheism among the populace. Rise of skeptism has been pouring out of the communities due to the thoughts of since this god loves us so much, why is he condemning us to hell?

For me i personally believe in this, our god is a god of love. One who loves us all, loves us so much and know that we are in shit that he's willing to send his son down to the shit and drag us out of shit, getting himself dirtied in the process. He is the judge, who, gave men the sentence of death, took of his wig, walk towards the man, take the keys and free his chains, and put the chains on himself. And taking the place of where men is supposed to go. Death and eternal darkness... And why would a god of love sent his son down to die for all, and end up saving those whom he called christians. It makes no sense... Its totally illogical... You dun say you love all and only end up saving a handful?

There has to be an explanation. I've search for answers for some time. And I've realised something. Salvation has been offered to all freely. And whether or not someone wishes to accept it or reject it is up to them. And that for salvation of non-believers, i was wondering about the line from matthew 25

31"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'
37"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'
40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
41"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
44"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
45"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
46"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

Makes you wonder about the unbelievers, for God say something along this lines, and does salvation or getting save really matters here now? I believe that by not doing god's will and not loving at all is an act of rejecting your own salvation. The lord is in the poor the sick, the hungry and the oppressed. Not to mention those who have been judged by our society as outcasts. Are we there for them? Or are we just another one of those supposedly "higher ups " who think these people are dirt and not worth living in the society. Or those who think these people are scum of the earth, children of satan and those who should not mix with the children of righteousness?

Hmmm WWJD(What Would Jesus Do?). There are people who believed that in Matthew 18:15-17

15"If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. 16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.' 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

Hmmm pagan or tax collectors, the most hated people of that time to the jews. Hmmm it doesn't sound right, why would Jesus ask someone to treat him like that? Then again, how did Jesus treat the tax collectors? He loved them even more and pray for them. And what do modern christians do to people who are hated and have faults. They treat them even worse them before and segregate them from the rest of the community. Ahhh, know how atheists are form now?

They are the results of our pride, our rash judgements, people who feel that they do not recieve the love that they should from the community. And when people ask why certan people reacted to this way. They need more love, rather than a thou art holy man giving directions and pointing their faults. We have been so busy to think that we are spotless and point other's faults without checking on our own, my o my... the christian hypocrites we have in our midst this days. But nontheless I do admit that this kinda people exist in my church. The church of The immaculate Heart of Mary, how do I know? I used to be one of them. The so called holier than thou art christian elder bro whom many looked up to. But as the years gone by, I realised we are all imperfect. So why bother judging, the bros and sis that were given to me needs love rather than criticisms/correction =). Love does wonders to people, it makes an empty weekday church feeled with lifely people, credit to youths who has the brotherly and sisterly like love in them.

As much as god loves us, I believe we as christians should abandoned our pride and learn to be humble and to serve, rather than expecting to be served. Yesh, I believe that some people will say that it is impossible, yesh impossible as a mere human. But once we have become the children of god, the holy spirit is available for us. The spirit which teaches forgiveness(unconditionally), love(unconditionally) and no judgement(pure love). Many have said that this traits are impossible to achieve as humans, but have we asked the lord our god who makes all things possible? I've did it, am still doing it and asking for help, and i believe we should all work towards this goal of pure love for all. I believe this love is essentially the key to heaven=)

I try my best to love all, though i know not how, but attempting, I bear no grudges any longer, and my trick is look at everyone, they have the face of christ imprinted on their faces, how can i reject them, for doing so rejects christ. And not to mention that these are all my brothers, the one that shares the divine lifeline from our father, how can i hate my siblings(yesh some of them can be annoying at times, but i still love them, and them refers to everyone in this world, including osama bin laden, saddam hussein, george bush). For with finding the love of god, its too immense to keep it to oneself, it must be spread out, haha.

And as for why i would want to evangelise, I will say god gave me this love, i want to share it with my friends, i want to show not only this love through words, but through my actions, i believed actions speak louder than words=). I wanna spread the love of Jesus to all. And I intend to stop all judgements, hatred and prejudices, especially in my own church.

I want to build a community where there is love all around, no more backstabbing, everyone is truthful to one another. Where everyone can learn and love to forgive unconditionally, where no more judgements and politics running around in church, whereby true friendship in christ exists. And whereby people who walk in will say that Christ truely live in our hearts=). A place where all the youth groups are united and not blabbering about one another's faults. A place where i will live to see my children know god in peace. A community with more than a million youths standing together praising god and loving one another even though they know not each other's names. A place where all will say that heaven has come to earth and its people's hearts.

Sounds like a dream right? I invite any of you all who wish to build this community to join me, Thank you for taking time to read this article and God bless you all =)

I'm back again, 3 weeks to go


Heys, after a tough and long week, i've felt quite recharged. Hmmm I expect to find some peace and quietness and home as I return. Apparently, I was not blessed with it.

I came home and found my elder brother giving his usual atheistic lectures to my younger brother, ranting about the church being the setback for modern humanity. Whereby God the father who created a son left him out in the world to die. Then at the end of the day came back and say I love you??? Haha, the miracles of today might be science tommorow. A lot of crap that came from his mouth as usual. I'm spending half my time trying to find the truths to some of his answers. And i still cant find them. But i have a solution to the world's disasters

Me: Dad, whats this? why did you all0w disasters to occur and take away human life and prolong suffering? Why????

Dad: I've created you, what have you done so far???

Me:.......

I was stumped over that statement.

Haha, i'm not exactly an intellectual, just saying things that come from my heart. Too me, I just guess my head doesn't have teh capacity to store so much knowledge, haha. I would much rather seat down, compose and play music that people enjoy. Though im at my dry creativity stage, trying to improve technically.

Here's a nice poem


THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD

I dreamed I had an interview with God.

“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.

“If you have the time” I said.

God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”

“What surprises you most about humankind?”

God answered...“That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up,
and then long to be children again.”

“That they lose their health to make money...
and then lose their money to restore their health.”

“That by thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”

"That they live as if they will never die,
and die as though they had never lived.”

God’s hand took mineand we were silent for a while.

And then I asked...“As a parent,
what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?”

“To learn they cannot make anyone love them.
All they can do is let themselves be loved.”

To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.”

“To learn to forgiveby practicing forgiveness.”

“To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love,
and it can take many years to heal them.”

“To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”

“To learn that there are people who love them dearly,
but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings.”

“To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.”

“To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another,
but they must also forgive themselves.”

"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.

"Is there anything else you would like your children to know?"

God smiled and said, “Just know that I am here... always.”

-author unknown