"Children, who will inherit the world. Children to whom, throughout history, stories have been told, chiefly but not always at bedtime, in order to quell restless thoughts; whose need of stories is matched only by the need of adults have of children to tell stories to, of receptacles for their stock of fairy-tales, of listening ears on which to unload those most unbelievable yet haunting of fairy-tales, their own lives; children--they are going to separate you and me."
//Graham Swift; Waterland
I don't know if dogs lose their barking voices completely and start sounding like frogs, get runny noses or develop aches in their tummies from coughing too much haha. But I am as sick as a doggg. Which thankfully got me two days off from work and also managed to get me off some collective sale agreement thing that I was supposed to go to on Saturday haha. Internships are tiring, no kidding, that's why I'm still slacking through my Saw's Essay of Doom which I'm supposed to hand in on Monday. Hope he won't grill me with hard contract law questions, or else I'm seriously gonna be a disappointment to ytm haha!
But thank God for little mercies! I ran into Wendy on my way to school for a BSM meeting and she treated me to Starbucks haha and nothing's changed, we're still trying to make plans for the next time we meet and we still miss who we were a long time ago. But I guess the important thing is knowing when it's time to move on. To put your hand on your heart and say, be still, we're still waiting upon God to bring us to where He wants us to be. I guess to have learnt and walked through that lesson already doesn't make it any easier to watch someone going through that same process.
25 July 2010
;10:45 "Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away."
//Song of Solomon 8:6-7 NIV
Love so amazing, so divine. Demands my soul, my life, my all.
"We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn't fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."
//The Virgin Suicides; Jeffrey Eugenides
I was just in a family law talk with one of the family law partners at the firm I'm interning with. And he mentioned that the family court in singapore handles up to nearly one hundred divorces a week. That would add up to two hundred broken men and women on a weekly basis. And roughly three to four hundred broken children every seven days. How long before all these broken hearts find their way back home?
"Materia watched it all from a great distance, and as the years flew by she missed her father more and more, forgetting everything but that he had cared for her enough to find her a husband. All memories soften with age, and the good ones are also the most perishable - her mother and sisters had long ago been caressed to disappearing soapstone, conjured up till they faded to nothing. Like cave paintings by candelight, she could only glimpse them now in the dark from the corner of her eye. But her father's memory was durable. Obelisk eroded to a dome of rock, the touchstone of her loss."
//Ann-Marie MacDonald; Fall on Your Knees
The truth can do one of two things. It can break us or it can make us stronger. Or it could do one after the other, hopefully in this order. As long as we don't fall apart. We're too good to fall apart.
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
//T.E. Lawrence; The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
It's lovely when people decide to follow their dreams. To put aside their fears of failure and step out into the bold, new world ahead. Don't give up, don't be afraid.
"Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."
//Jeremiah 29:12-14
Sometimes all we need is a word of encouragement at the right time. To help us pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and carry on. Last night, I shared the things that have been on my heart for the past couple of days and I thank them for giving me the words of encouragement that I needed. To know that they have walked the same path that I am taking, that they have gone through the same pain and bitterness that I have, to know that I am not alone. There is so much more to learn, so much more to change, so much more to give up. All I can say is, lead me and I will follow.
"Well, anthropologically speaking, paramilitaristic organizations tend to constrain individuality. But in any group, no matter how restrictive, the free thinkers, the mavericks, the rebels with leadership qualities find a way to declare their distinctiveness"
//Temperance Brennan; Bones S05E16 The Parts in the Sum of the Whole
I've noticed a pattern. Everytime I hit a place where I think it's comfortable, I go right down again and get jolted out of my self-contentment. It tells me that I always have to be on guard, to be careful of wondering back to where I was. Like I said, I'm learning but it's never easy.
"Children, who will inherit the world. Children to whom, throughout history, stories have been told, chiefly but not always at bedtime, in order to quell restless thoughts; whose need of stories is matched only by the need of adults have of children to tell stories to, of receptacles for their stock of fairy-tales, of listening ears on which to unload those most unbelievable yet haunting of fairy-tales, their own lives; children--they are going to separate you and me."
//Graham Swift; Waterland
I don't know if dogs lose their barking voices completely and start sounding like frogs, get runny noses or develop aches in their tummies from coughing too much haha. But I am as sick as a doggg. Which thankfully got me two days off from work and also managed to get me off some collective sale agreement thing that I was supposed to go to on Saturday haha. Internships are tiring, no kidding, that's why I'm still slacking through my Saw's Essay of Doom which I'm supposed to hand in on Monday. Hope he won't grill me with hard contract law questions, or else I'm seriously gonna be a disappointment to ytm haha!
But thank God for little mercies! I ran into Wendy on my way to school for a BSM meeting and she treated me to Starbucks haha and nothing's changed, we're still trying to make plans for the next time we meet and we still miss who we were a long time ago. But I guess the important thing is knowing when it's time to move on. To put your hand on your heart and say, be still, we're still waiting upon God to bring us to where He wants us to be. I guess to have learnt and walked through that lesson already doesn't make it any easier to watch someone going through that same process.
"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away."
//Song of Solomon 8:6-7 NIV
Love so amazing, so divine. Demands my soul, my life, my all.
"We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn't fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."
//The Virgin Suicides; Jeffrey Eugenides
I was just in a family law talk with one of the family law partners at the firm I'm interning with. And he mentioned that the family court in singapore handles up to nearly one hundred divorces a week. That would add up to two hundred broken men and women on a weekly basis. And roughly three to four hundred broken children every seven days. How long before all these broken hearts find their way back home?
"Materia watched it all from a great distance, and as the years flew by she missed her father more and more, forgetting everything but that he had cared for her enough to find her a husband. All memories soften with age, and the good ones are also the most perishable - her mother and sisters had long ago been caressed to disappearing soapstone, conjured up till they faded to nothing. Like cave paintings by candelight, she could only glimpse them now in the dark from the corner of her eye. But her father's memory was durable. Obelisk eroded to a dome of rock, the touchstone of her loss."
//Ann-Marie MacDonald; Fall on Your Knees
The truth can do one of two things. It can break us or it can make us stronger. Or it could do one after the other, hopefully in this order. As long as we don't fall apart. We're too good to fall apart.
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
//T.E. Lawrence; The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
It's lovely when people decide to follow their dreams. To put aside their fears of failure and step out into the bold, new world ahead. Don't give up, don't be afraid.
"Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."
//Jeremiah 29:12-14
Sometimes all we need is a word of encouragement at the right time. To help us pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and carry on. Last night, I shared the things that have been on my heart for the past couple of days and I thank them for giving me the words of encouragement that I needed. To know that they have walked the same path that I am taking, that they have gone through the same pain and bitterness that I have, to know that I am not alone. There is so much more to learn, so much more to change, so much more to give up. All I can say is, lead me and I will follow.
"Well, anthropologically speaking, paramilitaristic organizations tend to constrain individuality. But in any group, no matter how restrictive, the free thinkers, the mavericks, the rebels with leadership qualities find a way to declare their distinctiveness"
//Temperance Brennan; Bones S05E16 The Parts in the Sum of the Whole
I've noticed a pattern. Everytime I hit a place where I think it's comfortable, I go right down again and get jolted out of my self-contentment. It tells me that I always have to be on guard, to be careful of wondering back to where I was. Like I said, I'm learning but it's never easy.
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