January 15th - 'Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.'

'Over and over again God has to teach us how to stand and endure, watching actively and wondering. It is always a wonder when God answers prayer.... It is so wonderful that a great many people believe it impossible.'




(Sorry if the song is a bit sad, but I really love this song.)



GARRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHH!!!

Yes, I know the following will freak some of you rare readers out, and scare off others. Read on at your own risk.

In the last 4 days, I have just finished watching the whole anime series of 'Suzuka'. Yes, it is that romance/sports anime. No, I am not an anime freak, nor desperate, nor gay. But it really is a beautiful story, with surprisingly small flaws, except for the typical ones that I find given the person that God has made me out to be, and given the belief I have in Him. The story just gripped me from start to finish, with lots of sequences in the midst that gripped me, made me yell at the characters, chuckle (probably closer to a giggle) to myself, and sometimes just made me go "Damn, I wish I was in a life like THAT..." My brother even turned around a few times and wondered why I was talking to myself...

*ahem*

But yes. The point of this post?

Not much, besides to post up a short summary/point of my daily devotional book (thanks to Anna. Anna CHEN that is. not PM-wannabe =D gomen!!!) and to release about this story.

And I can go on and give a philosophical blurb about all this and that and how the devotion relates to the story or not, or etc etc... but the main thought that is lurking on behind my head, you know, is this:

"I wish I can have a story and a romance like that. My heart is practically going to burst waiting."

And reason steps in:

"... that is properly centered on God, giving me something that is just missing from that story..."



One thing that I just find... kinda interesting, is the concept of stories. Sometimes, men and women are capable of crafting such tales that I cannot find words to describe them. Some of them can be a beautiful little story like 'Suzuka', where the daily lives and relationships of a few teenagers can touch hearts. Some of them are instead epics of Good vs. Evil, with many elements intertwined into its fabric, and these grand stories can just send us off to another land, where we are the hero, living the adventure, fighting for hope and rescuing the beauty. I love listening, watching, and reading stories, though I should also work harder in my own story called my life, I suppose.

Yet of the many stories that I have read, none of them never satisified me and is capable of making me stop reading and searching for more, for that story that will lift the bar, that will set the standard, that will just make my heart leap with joy and weep in sorrow, that will satisify me forever. I'll be the first to admit that I'm a pretty weird guy: but this is something that everyone experiences, as you well know. That we can never find THE story of all time, at least in the minds of humans.


Makes me wonder what kind of story God will show me on that day, when He returns and make all things new...