lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
Love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing, for the glory
Of the risen King
Jesus, Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing for the glory
Of the risen king
Friday, September 23, 2005
-11:08 pm
Sometimes I wish that I can throw away my conscience/ self-censorship/ self-restrictions and just write about my anger, nasty things which I usually just try to ignore but it's hard keeping it supressed. I know I shouldn't hold on to these things but my way of letting go has to involve an avenue for me to vent it out so that I can get over it.
But then again, I know there'll never be a day when I will freely express how I truly feel with regards to negative emotions. Maybe because for one, I'm afraid of hurting anyone, the fear of exposing myself to vulnerability, and also I guess I don't want to look back on my posts one day in the future and remember all that. But most importantly, I only want to write about things which are
edifying.
"Let your conversation always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone." - Colossians 4:6Anyways, do you believe that dreams will come true? Are they signs to what the future may hold? I've been having many dreams of late; I can't remember a night with me dreaming of something. And the thing is, most of my dreams are pretty weird. If you define dreams to be caused by one thinking too much about a certain person or subject matter, then I guess it can't be true because really, my dreams were so out-of-this-world strange! It's impossible that I had anything to do with the reason for the dreams.
One thing that has been bothering me is that I have quite a number of dreams of this certain person, the most I have dreamt of anyone in my life. The most unbelievable thing is that I dreamt of, let's call the person X, in a rather friendly setting (as though we were close friends) way before I ever became friends with X, although we were acquaintances. And what the dream implied actually kind of came true, although it wasn't exactly the same occurence. All the dreams were somewhat related, as in, what happened mostly fell into the same category. For example, like someone dreaming of the same person who is always antagonising her in all the dreams, though mine not exactly similar to this. Freaky...
Thought about it some more a few days ago when we started talking about dreams in lit class. My teacher mentioned that she dreamt of her husband ten years ago, before she even met him. She dreamt that she married a man who wasn't the type she was expecting to spend the rest of her life with (i.e. not tall, dark, handsome and macho). And at that time, she was dating someone else. Evidently, she ended up really marrying the guy she dreamt of! That seems like an eerie coincidence.
Another friend piped up and said that she dreamt of a friend's brother, although she has only met him once. She dreamt of him getting beaten up and guess what, he had to go to the hospital the following week because he really got beaten up! Some freaky stuff, I say.
Perhaps dreams can mean something, like how Daniel interpreted the crucial and history-making significance of King Nebuchadnazzer. Maybe they are like signs. All this sounds ridiculously mystical but God does speak to us through dreams and visions. I guess we can never know for sure what their implicit meanings are but the saying that dreams do come true is not to be taken lightly because they might just manifest themselves in our very reality.
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at 8:13 pm
runawayy said...
hey ol' friend! thought i'll sign this for you.. r u lucky folks Not taking Os? almost spilling my brain just taking prelims. thanks much for the encouragement!
btw, do u rem someone we used to call 'friend-in-law'? and we got her sis to call him 'bro-in-law'?
do u rem,do u rem?
love, adeline.
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at 8:15 pm
runawayy said...
hey ol' friend! thought i'll sign this for you.. r u lucky folks Not taking Os? almost spilling my brain just taking prelims. thanks much for the encouragement!
btw, do u rem someone we used to call 'friend-in-law'? and we got her sis to call him 'bro-in-law'?
do u rem,do u rem?
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at 10:30 pm
Mich. said...
yea I'm not taking the Os, but I guess every system has its pros and cons. We have to pay a price for skipping them, and it's not as easy as it sounds. Persevere! I'm sure you'll cross the finish line in good time (:
Oh yea I do remember! But was it frederick or shuo nan? I think it was dear 'ol fred (: Rmb how we would go fool around at the water cooler outside the toilets when frederick walked out (in old townsville) and say really loudly that Eunice loves (was it?) mee rebus or smth. Wait. I think it was laksa! Haha it was so hilarious then, the silly things we did, like trying to catapult eunice's eraser using a ruler over to shuo nan's table but then it accidentally flew out of the classroom and over the railings. Those were the good old times... *dreamy look*