THE CRAPPER SPEAKS
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Alvin just shared with me a very awesome attitude I want to emulate. It's nothing new, but put across in a refreshing way.
Treat what we face as challenges and not difficulties.The "difficulties" mentality has us envison what we face as something which actively threatens to overcome us.
The "challenges" mentality, on the other hand, has us envision that what we face is something which is passive, but which we should overcome.
So which is a more positive outlook? And I don't even need to rant about the beneficial effects of positivity... I hope.
There's a certain power in knowledge. In realising your life is now not your own. You can certainly do so much more, because personal hardship is something that is secondary. And you know why spiritual growth's so important to me? That's because as a CL, I don't only have my own life to lead, but all those whom I'm taking care of. And then there's my sheeps and the people that I love. We all want to see our loved ones succeed in life don't we?
Yet for those who are still striving to rise up, there's something I absolutely have to say. Rising up is an honourable decision! It's not about the position, because we as leaders serve. Our purpose is in people, just as Christ' sacrifice was for us.
For in love He came and in love He died.****
I've often heard, and myself have been guilty of this, "It's in my nature, that's why I cannot change."
What about Paul, who changed from a fervent persecutor of the Christian ("sect" they called it, in those days), into the very man who by the grace of God wrote Philippians, Ephesians and the other letters of the New Testament?
I still remember a time I was a hot-headed kid who also struggled with vulgarities. Miraculously God changed in weeks what I struggled for years to control. Remember,
if God is not God of all then God is not God at all!
Change, if we believe (which is in itself, faith), can occur. There is no such thing as because I've always been shy, that I cannot be confident. I mean, come on, Windez was once the quiet Khian Wui who stuttered in his speech.
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Help me to self-evaluate before I evaluate others. Yeah!
Psychedelic;
7:55 AM
