Healthy Mind, Body & Spirit

Some people lamented that they are not creative. Well, I don’t think that is true. I believes that all have been created with a creative mind. The reason is simple. We are created by a creative God. And since we are created in His image, the creative aspect/characteristic of God was also imputed to us. And this creative characteristic can be seen everywhere.

However, this creative characteristic can be used positively and even negatively. Some may have a higher degree of creativity in them but all of us do have the creativity characteristic in us. So be creative and use this characteristic that God has given to us in a positive way.

A prominent American’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her “How could God let something like this happen?”

(Regarding the attacks on September 11)

Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.

She said, “I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is,I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?”

In light of recent events…terrorists attack, school shootings, etc, I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body
found recently) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school…
the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself.

And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might
damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about.

And we said OK.

Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. The school administrators said no faculty
member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don’t want any bad publicity, and we surely don’t want to be sued (there’s a big difference between disciplining, touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.)

And we said OK.

Then someone said, let’s let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won’t even have to tell their parents.

And we said OK.

Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they’re going to do it anyway, let’s give our sons all the condoms they
want so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won’t have to tell their parents they got them at school.

And we said OK.

Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn’t matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs. Agreeing with them, we said it doesn’t
matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as long as I have a job and the economy is good.

Then someone said let’s print magazines with pictures of nude women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the female body.

And we said OK.

And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and then further again by making them available on the Internet.

And we said OK, they’re entitled to free speech.

Then the entertainment industry said, let’s make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. Let’s record music that
encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes. And we said it’s just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill
strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.

I think it has a great deal to do with

“WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.”

Each one of us has the emotional tank. We need to fill up our emotional tank so that we would not feel dry and depressed. One of the ways to fill up our emotional tank is to go for a holiday at beautiful place. You can gaze at beautiful lake like in this picture and fill up your emotional tank.

Many of us prefers to worry. Worrying does not do anything good to you or the situation. Instead you may cause your health to deteriorate by worrying. Things that are not within your control are not worth to worry about. Things that are within your control, choose to change it. For Christians, take delight in God’s promises and trust in God’s providence.

I came across this picture. It is one of those touching moments. Words sometimes can’t describe the awe of seeing beautiful moments like the one in this picture. But that is the beauty of human feelings. Tender, gentle, cute, awhh, sigh, and something stirred in my heart when I look at this picture. Treasure it.

Most people do not realize that we are spirit being living in a physical body. To some this statement may sounds scary as their only perception of spirit is the evil spirits shown in horror movies. We are made in the image of God so this should be a consolation of how good our spirit image could be. It is with our spirit that God who is also a Spirit being communicates. Yes, there are times when people hear audible voice from God but this is quite rare. Spirit communes with the spirit.

One of the good thing that God has created in our spirit being is the conscience. If we did something wrong, our conscience will tell us and we would have the guilty feeling. This is a good “mechanism” created by a Holy God who wants His created beings to be holy too. We are left with only two choices. First is to repent of our wrongdoing and be free from our guilt. Or we can deny, ignore and cover that guilt feelings and still be in bondage or carrying that burden throughout our lives.

The best thing to do is to repent and be free from that “secret” burden. Why carry unnecessary burden throughout your life. You will be wearied and grow tired and would not be able to do other things. Go to Jesus for He says, “Come to Me all who are weary and heavy burdened” and “My yoke is easy and my burden is light”. Choose today which one you want, a heavy burden of having guilt feeling in your heart or freedom from guilt in Christ Jesus.

As much as men complain about not being able to understand women, women too find men very difficult to comprehend. Women wants the attraction from men and wish to be the Women men adore. It is a simple yet complicated relationship of a man and a woman. Everyone has some ideas of what the relationship should be and sometimes strives very hard to find that ideal guy or girl.

I realized that there is no “perfect marriage” or “perfect relationship” here on earth. What can be done is not so much blaming and shouting angrily “What is it about them!” but to humble oneself to build up that relationship. If you need more help on this area, you can check out the book by Bob Grant, “The Woman Men Adore… And Never Want To Leave”.

Since my wife is hungry, we went out for supper again just now. I was quite hesitant to go as I was not feeling hungry. But if I don’t go, my wife would not go by herself. She would surely sulk and either find some titbits to eat or sulk away her “hungriness”.

Had Roti John and Fried Kuay Teow which is really a lot for us. Did not finished the Roti John as both of us are really full. I don’t think I want to go out for supper so often. Had not enough exercise in the past weeks and supper will not help my body either. Maybe once in a while I will go lah.

Words have the power to give life or death. Words therefore must be used carefully and in all instance should be to give life. All of use are growing older by the day and going nearer towards death. Use words then to give life and delay that process of death.

How many of us take the effort to think first before we say some words to others? Words once spoken can never be retracted. Be careful then of the words you want to say to others.

I always wanted to journal my life with words. Now, I pray that I’ll will be consistent in doing so in this blog.