the parable

This is about a kingdom value/principle that I've been learning in church.

There was a King, who has many commanders, men and people under him. and there was this particular commander involved in this parable too.

The commander was put in charge of the King's money, and because there was so much money involved, he had a committee under him to help him. As prosperous years passed, the commander got complacent and slack with the operations of managing the King's funds. One day, in the nation's annual auditing, they found out that actually a 1/4 of the King's funds (which is a lot of money) was missing! So investigations started, and obviously the first person questioned was the commander in charge.

At the end of the round of investigations, the commander in charge finally concluded that it was careless accounting on their parts, and money was slowly being embezzled in small bits, all unnoticed. and knowing that he was pretty much screwed, he had no choice but to beg the King for pardon. so the King said, "alright. it's ok. Money lost can be earned again. If I executed you, no money can bring you back again. From now on, be more careful with my money."

The commander, filled with immense joy and relief having escaped the death sentence, came out of the court room with a spring in his steps.

Not long after, the commander thought to himself, i must punish those who deserve to be punished! So he held his own round of investigations, and called for all those involved in the careless accounting of the money. Having done that, he sentenced all involved in some way to life sentence in prison.

The King when he heard about it, the King summoned the man and said, 'You evil servant! I forgave you when you begged me for mercy. Shouldn't you be compelled to be merciful to your fellow servant who asked for mercy?' The king was furious and put the screws to the man until he paid back his entire debt.

And that's exactly what my Father in heaven is going to do to each one of you who doesn't forgive unconditionally anyone who asks for mercy.

long weekend..

yo!

finally a 4-day work week's coming! i'm halfway through this wonderful public holiday, and so far it's good. an unusually easy and free day.. i have a bad habit of packing up my schedule to the brim, and complain to myself that i'm too busy. then when there's a day when i'm absolutely free, i go and pack it up again.

in a recent discussion with jeff (an avid reader of this blog), we were talking about people who can't do things without company. is that something that comes with age? because i can do many things alone, and in fact i prefer to do them alone. could it be that after years of trying to achieve whatever u're trying to achieve (the 5Cs which many sinaporeans slave for, success in ur field of work, etc) u realize that life is actually about something more than ourselves? maybe life is about people?

anyway check this out! switchfoot's latest single from Chronicle's of Narnia 2, this is home another cool song would be faust, midas and myself. when i found out what faust and midas meant, i was like WOAH! these guys are cool man..

it's so comforting to know that there's so much more to life, that after this life, there is another more fulfilling, more intriguing, and more "infinite"

why....

was my last post so emo? i don't remember.. hahaha.. well i guess it's time to chillax and do something about it rather than whining as in a GP essay.

i'm gonna be broke again.. getting a pair of HR624s and an apogee duet. leaves with like... hmmm let me calculate..... NO MONEY for my bike!! arghh... and zero purchasing power at the great singapore sale too.. haha well i guess that might turn out to be a good thing. though i HAVE been wearing the same pair of burms for the past 5 years..

diz iz a peekture taken of mee when i bot dat pair of bermoodas.
















now my hair iz shorter..

what spells trouble?

I'd say, people.

What reason is there for not allowing foreign aid workers to come into your country and help your people relieve the tension and pain they're experiencing right now? To quote my CSM the burmese government is "f**kedtype".

And the idea of a superior people eliminating the aliens in "their" land. In Rwanda, they called them "cockroaches" and assumed the right to kill 500,000 of them (they stopped when they stopped).

The rich go on amassing their wealth, which comes from exploiting the poor in one way or another, and they forget the poor. If only the rich would just give a small percentage, to the poor for education, and the most basic of social developments, i'm sure the world will become a better place. It seems ridiculous to us that anybody would believe that their neighbour deserves to die because some authority said so, and even more unbelievable that anybody would execute genocides of such massive scales. We need to bring these people up to this basic understanding of the need to respect each other, and that there's always a bloodless way out.

And there's the TV (and the producers) introducing notions of love(sensationalism could be a better word), rebellion, and egocentric thinking. Looking at issues kids (like us) deal with today, don't you think it's largely similar to what you see on TV? (ok not prison break for me)

I hope as much as we bring trouble, we also can be agents of peace and healing.