After a bit of encouragement I am finally,
Putting a bit a of my thoughts into a soft copy. Hve you ever met a person who is better than you in everything and after a period of admiration that person becomes unbearable as your attempts to catch well aren't a match for that person's natural in-built talent. Somehow that person is better than you in things that you are good at. NO amount of hardwork helped you. Well the truth there are things that you ARE good at because God is always fair and love his children but the fallen side wants the visible gifts that can be seen by other men. Girls will crowd roud the pianist who can play any song requested. No guessing how many crowded round the guy who has utmost patience but has nothing else. Yet most will say that the patient person has the greater gift but that is in theory. In reality the the pianist gets the glory. We shouldn't strive for it but we crave it.
I saw this line in No Left Turns which described Beowulf, the hero of the oldest piece of English literature which is translated to modern English: "He made the best of all he had..... putting each imperfection to the service of integrity...was good because he accepted there things of him that were bad."
This is literature seeking to teach us timeless wisdom all the while maintaining the beauty of the language and the naturalness of speech. What it means is he accepts that he is not supremely talented and accepted his lot but instead using his time to compete he used what he had to basically do good.
Not to discourage all the budding guitarist in church but what are your motives? Rather serve integrity. It lacks glory but builts character and at the end of the day it is probably that which matters.
2 comments:
Hey Guo Jeng...
LONG time i haven't visited your blog!Sorry bout that.. been so busy and etc. Just thought i'd drop a note on your blog, since (to my surprise),it's still quite active.. I'd have thought clinical practise in PMC would have robbed you of a lot of quality time..:)
Anyway,final exams comin up!Argh. Don't even know where to start. Keep me in prayer!
"Gold, glory and gospel".. the classic motives for those colonisers.. I think it's a very rare few that actually only have the "gospel" part as the sole all-consuming motivation for their plans... coz you'll probably end-up having no gold or earthly glory...(look at Jesus)... Of course, nothing wrong with having gold or glory here.. everyone's given their lot.. but i think God will make it up in heaven for those who lack.. as long as we don't lose sight of that hope & GLORIOUS inheritance He has in store..
Hmm, another thing.. the famous S'porean motivation "C"s... Career, Credit card, Car, Condo... (I can't recall where "girlfriend/boyfriend fits in)... that's a more urban motivation these days, eh.. no time to think over those things at the moment... will let u know when i start WORKING and have the means to develop pure/impure motives.. :)
Take care then!
hey guo jeng...
havent been here forawhile too! will reply your mail as soon as i can... but well, actually... the nigerian guy didn't really talk anythin bout his own country... we were talking more on malaysia. =) sorry to disappoint you there! =P
my final year modules are really interesting... something that would be close to your heart... one of the modules is on the Political Economy of Food... how distribution of food is a political issue, not a nutritional one, how globalisation affects the poor developing countries- Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asian etc, how food policies are always favouring the richer nations, fair trade, poverty etc etc
DEFINITELY interesting =)one of the best modules so far! So bored of talking about rich country diseases when most of them are down to individual lifestyle choices that contributes to it... diet, smoking, alcohol etc etc.
anyway... enjoy PMC!
God bless
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