FROM MELBS

Being away has been awesome.
Just time of chilling, being alone, reading and being safe from much communication.


Not proud of the many character flaws I see in myself. But at least it's clear.
Like pimples on a smooth skin.
And when it's clear, then it's easier to treat I guess.

Currently reading Philip Yancey's : what's so amazing about grace?
Interesting read. Interesting concept, not new. But worded so well.
Kinda thought this book would be about God's grace for us but instead it's about Christian grace or rather the lack of it in the church.

" The world can do almost anything as well as or better than the church. You need not be a Christian to build houses, feed the hungry or heal the sick. There is only one thing the world can't do. It cannot offer grace."
" We breathe in the atmosphere of ungrace unaware. Every institution runs on ungrace and its insistence that we earn our way."
" For many, romantic love is the closest experience of pure grace. Someone at last feels that I- I!- am the most desirable , attractive, companionable creature on the planet.... Someone loves me just the way I am."

Hmmm........

So much to think about.
So much to learn.




Missing monday nights FOCUS already ( and the FOCUS ppl)
Missing AIC at night ( such a geek).
Missing surinder's lectures.
Missing the room ( and the roomie =p)
Missing my samurai. =p


" And then along come a movie like Forrest Gump, about a kid with a low IQ who speaks in platitudes handed down from his mother. This dimwit rescues his buddies in Vietnam, remains faithful to his girl Jenny despite her infidelity, stays true to himself and his child, and lives as though he genuinely does not know he is the butt of every joke. A magical scene of a feather opens and ends the movie- a note of grace so light no one knows where it might land. Many thought it naive, ridiculous, manipulative. Others, however, saw in it a rumour of grace that made a sharp relief against the violent ungrace of Pulp Fiction."

And Forrest Gump is my new hero.
A breathe of grace in a world full of ungrace.