To Love One's Enemy

To love one’s enemy does not mean to love the mire in which the pearl lies, but to love the pearl that lies in the mire. - Ralf Luther

Life Without Limbs

If he can do what he does without his hands and feet,
how much more can we do with our good hands and feet?



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Men of Flesh & Blood

The Disciples don’t fit of the conventional image of holy men, they were rough and flawed, capable of jealousy, bitterness, selfishness, and even violence.

The New Testament makes it very clear these are men of flesh and blood, these are really human people, with human wishes, and I find it much more fascinating to realise they are very much like you and me.

Quoted from a documentary.

So yeah, being a christian ain't about being holy or look holy.
Its about being human, about repentence, and about improvements.

Peter, a fisherman, a disciple,
whose faith wavered when he walked the waters,
who cut of another person's ear with a sword,
who denied and fled Jesus when he was arrested,
who has done quite a great deal of 'dodgy' things which the bible does not hide,
became the Church's first pope.
Note: He did not flee when the authorities prosecuted the Church at the time, and chose to stay on as inspiration and support for the Church. He was later martyred, crucified upside-down.

Home DIY List

Now I know why the theme of "Home DIY list" is so popular among the western tv series.
Whether it be 'The Simpsons' or 'Everybody Loves Raymond',
this theme never fails to pop up as the wife nags the husband to do the home DIYs.

Apparently the house does need heaps of DIY fixes.
I fixed the roof the other day because the ceiling was leaking (done).
I try to fix the bathroom pipes today but unsuccessful, plumber needed.
I think thats where the saying comes about, "there goes the money down the drain".
Plumbing is not cheap. Called and asked for a quote but it was too expensive that I decided to try myself.
I guess I'm more a roof man than a plumber man.
Still need to do some electrician's work - yet to find out if I'm electric material!
Also there's gardening to do!
The neighbour's asking every weekend when I'm doing gardening...streesed.
Not that he's a busy body, but because he's offered to do some gardening for me which I refused.
I guess he wants me to start working so that he can come help out.
He's a nice bloke.
But I'm pressured to do the gardening really soon!
And also not leaving fixing doors etc out of the list

The DIY list is creeping longer and longer.
More and more stuff to do during the weekends.
I've been like Homer being a couch potato all weekend.
I suppose its time to put more effort and time into this DIY list of mine.

I'll do bit of gardening tomorrow morning I suppose...

Martian Child

Dennis can I say just one last thing about Mars, which may be strange, coming from a science fiction writer. But right now, you and me here, put together entirely from atoms that've been part of millions of other organisms before they became us, sitting on this round rock with a core of liquid iron, held down by this force that so troubles you called gravity, all te while spinning around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and whizzing through the Milky way at 600,000 miles an hour, in a universe that very well may be chasing its own tail at the speed of light.

And amidst all this frantic activity, fully cognizant of our own imminent demise, which is a very pretty way of saying we all know we're gonna die, we reach out to one another. Sometimes for the sake of vanity, sometimes for the reasons you're not old enough to understand yet, but a lot of times we just reach out and expect nothing in return.

Isn't that strange? Isn't that weird, Isn't that weird enough?

Quoted from David, the science fiction writer, trying to convince his adopted son, Dennis, who believes he is from Mars (the kid in the box), that being from Mars isn't that weird after all, in "Martian Child".