Love!

this thing called love! It has become a curse to almost everyone of us - one time or the other. Why do we count on another carbon base life form with common traits to fulfill our desire to feel loved, accepted, appreciated? If you think about it its a weakness, yea thats right a weakness. To be honest its a weakness because of the devil, he corrupted it and made it something totally different. I guess some people would agree with me when i say that "i've had my heart broken". Some once some many times. You end up blaming yourself and maybe you are right - probably you saw it coming but it seems like the nearer the end is is the more you love and the more you fight which works out to be more pain. Maybe you were not to be blamed, deceit, lies, has momentarily destracted you from the obvious and your were taken in or taken for a ride. Love, sometimes it seems to me that in every "love" relationship one partner seems to exert more love or you could say demonstrate or express more love. Is it that one love the other more than the other loves them? I have heard people say get married to someone who love you more. What do you use to measure love? Is it easy to get over, love that is, if it is was it love? I won't even try to give the meaning of love, but it must have a meaning, right? If we go to the Bible it says all love comes from God (1 John 4:16). So, if i were to define love it has to have God in it somewhere. Maybe the hurtful, corrupt, deceitful, lying, love that we know is the love defined without God? The thing that gets to me is that we need love - anything you need can be used as a weakness against you. It leaves me to need the love of God first then, and hopefully the carbon base life form's love that i need will be taken care of by God! I love God, he's smart.

Work?!?

Work! Work is a curse! I am not lazy - well maybe a little - its not that work is hard its just harder to work for someone else than it is to work for yourself (in my dream work that is). God cursed us after Adam and Eve fell, by the sweat of our brow we will eat. I wouldn't mind getting good pay to do my hobbie. Work is hard even if you had to string needles all day long. Is any work fun, or is it really work if its fun? Some people get paid to do their hobbies all day long, a very few to be exact. Work = Force x distance. You see what i mean, work only happens with force multiplied by distance - Force, Distance. To me Force speaks for itself, however, distance is equivalent to time. Week in week out, its a must, Work or die.

Harry Potter?!?

Harry Potter books and movies have the world at its finger tips. Some say its a cult, evil, and some argue that its just another fairytale book, just a adventure movie. What is considered bad a couple of years ago is good now - remember the Bible says that in the last days what is good will seem bad and what is bad will seem good. If you think about it nothing is really bad nowadays unless you commit a crime against someone else but what about crime against God. They have Harry Potter camps all over the states now and Wiccans are growing everyday (http://paganwiccan.about.com/cs/whatiswicca/a/aawhatiswicca.htm). What is really happening, it seems like the devil is playing a big trick on the world that he doesn't really exist and that whatever you do, so long as you don't hurt anybody, its perfectly fine. The story of the rich young ruler in the Bible comes to mind, he asked Jesus what must he do to be saved and Jesus said that he should love God and his fellow men. He said that he did all that from a child, but Jesus said to sell all that he had and follow Him - following Jesus then was more than just being kind to his brother and saying that he loved God. Why Christianity, Bible, Religion, seem so boring to us and the things of the world so exciting? Their are people camped out to see a movie and to buy a book - come on - A BOOK (no offense to book lovers). Anyways, my brain is tired...

Fear

Fear is; "an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)" I like this definition. Why were we designed by God to have fear? Is it a natural part of us or is it learned over time. Does a baby fear anything? I wonder about fear and can it be overcomed in all cases! Does fear make someone weak - or strong; depending on how you look at it. Maybe fear keeps us in check or guide us some way or another. Anyways, i am afraid of the unknown, how bout you?

Adam and Eve?!?

I don't want to blame Eve for the predicament that the world is in, but i am forced to be a little bias judging from the evidences outlined in Genesis chapter 2-3. Eve strayed from Adam's side and was deceived by the Serpent (Satan). If you really think about it most women are like Eve... I asked myself the question; if i were Adam would i have taken the fruit to eat with Eve or let her just die alone - i might have eaten it with her too when i really think hard and true. If you really think about it though most men are like Adam. I even ask why didn't God destroy Satan before he tempted Eve to sin, or even further than that, why didn't he just refrain from creating Lucifer (Satan) in the first place. I am sure that God in His all knowing knew before he created Lucifer that he would turn against him, but God in His infinite wisdom allowed it to happen. What was His diabolical plan or reason i ask? In my finite wisdom i think maybe it had to happen sooner or later and it just happend now. He (God) created every intelligent being with free-will, as far as we know, and eventually they would have choosen not to follow Him and i guess it just happened when it should. The universe has to see the effects and consequence of sin, all along they didn't know what would happen if they choose not to follow God, now we all know. In concluding i ask myself - am i like Adam? Or females you could ask - are you like Eve?

Beauty ?!?

One definition of beauty i've found is; "the qualities that give pleasure to the senses" Among all the definitions i think this works best. There are some who may argue that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, have you ever seen some really "beautiful" women with "not so beautiful" men or vice versa? I think that would go to say that beauty is indeed in the eyes of the beholder. What makes someone beautiful to each of us; is it character, attitude, countenance, dress, charisma, etc. But when you see someone for the first time don't you instinctly register in your mind that they are beautiful, normal, or not beautiful? So then, is beauty all about character and that other stuff or its just what pleasures the sense of sight? Can a blind person tell if someone is beautiful? So its our sense of someones beauty that attracts us to them. Why then are we controlled by our sense of beauty to select who we are interested in or not? Beauty magazines and beauty contest shows only make people watching them feel ugly - they try to curve minds and thoughts to what is accepted as true beauty. Beauty in the Bible ( I Peter 3:3-4) Talks about inward beauty. Have you ever spoken to someone over the phone whom you've never seen and deep down inside you feel their beauty? But that sometime changes when you see them and you realize that they are not "beautiful" as defined by todays magazines and tv shows. Concluding i am compelled to ask the question; is true beauty outside or inside?

D-Day

Jamaica has been blessed for the past few years...though God knows we don't deserve it. We have had hurricanes come close....very close, and still not hit us directly. But we have had major damages because of it. Imagine if indeed some of these powerful phenonemons actually hit...

Thank God for His mercies, and His grace. But the question is: how long will it last? After all, we seem to be getting more corrupt with time...

Cats and Dogs?!?

Our island Jamaica is under seige once more as the hurricane season pops with a bang. Its weird though if you think about it - this is July, early July - the time is really hot too and we should know already that the warmer the air is the stronger the storms will be. Dennis the Menace is the prelude to what seems to be an impressive "Summer of the Storms." I don't want to preach doom and gloom but every year it gets worst and worst. I went outside for a little bit in Ivan and i was pelted with rain drops that came in from the side rather than falling from the sky, the droplets felt like stones. I hope and pray for all of us that we don't get any serious hurt or damage to property. I like to go outside in the storm, i feel scared but i guess i'm too curious, curiousity killed the cat. I will stay in for this season though and if i live probably the next one too, however, i will be sure to be outside when the "smoke clears."

Pink Boots?!?

This morning i read in the news that the United Church of Christ backs gay marriages now. I read in the Bible, in more than one section, that God is displeased with this type of behaviour. People seem to be using the same lame excuse that God will understand beacause they were born this way - but come on, we were born in sin and we are geared to sin than to do wrong does that make it alright to sin and then expect God to take us to Heaven, "oh i'm going to kill and rape because i was created in sin and when God comes i will still go to Heaven". It clearly states in (Genesis 19:1-13; Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26-27; 1Corinthians 6:9) that they will not inherit Heaven and God is 'discussed' with that type of behaviour. We overlook the minute details of decay that is slowly eating away at our society. Not standing for right is saying ok to the wrong, letting feelings and desires rule over morality degrades our society. What does God have to say, or we don't believe in God or maybe He will understand whatever we choose to do?

I Got the Mondays

Mondays are the worst day of the week for me. I don't feel the energy to work even if i had rested the entire weekend. I have to motivate myself to come in and start the day. I keep brooding over the past weekend and feeling depressed on how fast it went along. Before i knew it it was Monday morning and i'm on the bus to work. This is my weekend feeling: Relaxed, my time, even if i have work to do at home i still feel alight. I kick back before the tv on my sofa and i'm lord of the living room. My subjects (remote, and refrigerator) do my every biding - change the channel and provide cold beverage. My domain is temporarily interrupted when i have to visit my throne room to sit on the throne for a few minutes then i'm back to lavishing in my empire. Weekends, ah the weekends. I look forward to the hope that God will let me live to see another because my realm awaits my return.

I pray though that God will give me the energy i need and the zeal to work through today. But every week i get the Mondays, i wonder if there's a cure for it?

What Logic!

Today in the paper i read that 2 girls - 8 & 9 - were raped and killed. That's the second story like that i've heard this year. Someone asked this morning, 'whats wrong with them, is it pleasure they want?' I don't believe so. If a man wants pleasure he usually goes to a strip club, buy's a hooker, etc.- that's if he can't get a woman so easily or he might turn to his girlfriend or wife, right? It therefore leads my mind to think that men who commit these crimes have some deeper resolve to malevolence - its not just pleasure it incorporates pain, dominating, killing, etc. The Bible speak about men hearts becoming more hard in the last days and it is true. We got to pray that we make it true to the end. I believe in 'village justice', i try not to but cases like these beg for it. In the Bible God told the Israelites to kill out a nation, kill everything even children and animals because of how wicked they had become. I am concern, not overly, about the fact that by Monday most of us will forget this ordeal like it never happened.