A CAST OF LIGHT INTO MY SOUL
21 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment
in Life, Photography, Quote Tags: acceptance, cosmos, flower, forgiveness, Life, love, yellow
When we truly forgive, we do not merely forget but we should ACCEPT the situation. Forgetting could be tricky because it is possible for our memory to flash images of the past, whether we like it or not. However, when we accept the situation, we recognize it as something that has happened. We may forget or remember it, but one thing is certain, we have learned a valuable lesson from it.
Forgiving is love’s toughest work, and love’s biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love’s power to break nature’s rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes
THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE…
25 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
in Life, Photography, Quote Tags: bible, corinthians, faith, hope, love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
(1 Corinthians 13)
Photo-jogging
16 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
in Life, Photography Tags: chinese garden, fitness, garden, jogging, sinapore
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Photos taken at Chinese Garden, Singapore.
V-day is Love Day
14 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
in Holiday, Photography Tags: banned valentines day, love, red, roses, valentine
Red roses are to Valentine’s Day what kisses are to love; they make it that much sweeter.
We sure are lucky to celebrate V-day freely, compared to other countries which ban the celebration of this occassion.
In Saudi Arabia, florists and gift shops were banned from displaying/selling anything RED around the time of Valentine’s day. In India, group of zealous fundamentalists known as the Sri Rama Sene, has issued an odd edict to avoid Valentine celebrations. They will secure that there will be no love in the air on Feb. 14. Too bad.
As long as we have freedom to show our affection to our lovers, family and friends, today and everyday, let’s not hesitate to share our love.
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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. -Siddhartta
Photos by: Me (Tokyo Japan, 2009)
I wish you enough
14 Jan 2010 1 Comment
in Life, Photography Tags: bond, daughter, enough, father, love, wish
Recently I overheard a Father and daughter in their last moments
together at the airport. They had announced the departure.
Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the Father said, ‘I
love you, and I wish you enough.’
The daughter replied, ‘Dad, our life together has been more than enough.
Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Dad.’
They kissed and the daughter left. The Father walked over to the
window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to cry.
I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed me in by
asking, ‘Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be
forever?’
‘Yes, I have,’ I replied. ‘Forgive me for asking, but why is this a
forever good-bye?’.
‘I am old, and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the
reality is – the next trip back will be for my funeral,’ he said.
‘When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, ‘I wish you
enough..’ May I ask what that means?’
He began to smile. ‘That’s a wish that has been handed down from
other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone…’ He paused
a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and he
smiled even more. ‘When we said, ‘I wish you enough,’ we were wanting
the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to
sustain them.’ Then turning toward me, he shared the following as if
he were reciting it from memory.
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray
the day may appear.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may
appear bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.
He then began to cry and walked away.
They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to
appreciate them, a day to love them; but then an entire life to forget
them.
