Wednesday, May 30, 2007
♥ 7:39 AM
you noe something?
bad movie affects me. Especially so after the show.. but only a while. bad movies put me in a bad mood. On the other hand, a GOOD movie like PIRATES place me in a superb good mood.
CONTEMPO ISSUE MOVIE- FAST FOOD NATION
BAD POINTS:
-vulgarities. well, there's an "F" word in almost every sentence. it affects me la.
-no plot, no story line.
-messy.
-gory..but i can take it somehow.
-uninteresting plot. oni some conversation is interesting
-sleepy to some point
- the seats in the LT cannot be compared to GVs
-the show started 1 hour LATE> omg.
GD POINTS:
-popCORNS for dinner?
-it sets u thinking on MNCs.
-fast pace society.
-hopeless. it's useless to say sth and not carry it out. implementation is impt.
-it gave me the impression that LAWS are somehow crap . "i'm being patriotic by violating the patriotic ACt"
-hard time for the mexicans to earn a living huh..must they resort to rapport built by sex?
-shit in meat? awwww..but i'll still eat macdonalds though.
AWWWS. i'm in a totally crap up mode now .i'll get out of it somehow. somewhere over the rainbow. as bree said, this is CHOOGLISH.
send to me by XUAN upon request:
IT HAS BEEN FAR MORE BITTER FOR ME THAN FOR YOU, BECAUSE THE HAND OF THE LORD HAS TURNED AGAINST ME. Ruth 1.13.
Have you ever felt miserable? Has life been difficult and especially hard on you? I wouldn?t be surprised if so! Life isn?t fair all the time to all the people! 'The situations of life could make or break you? they say. It is not true!
The more you watch people, whether Christians or not, the more you begin to understand that ?what makes or breaks you is not what happens to you but your attitude to what happens to you!? This is not just a philosophy. It is a matter for your sheer existence and survival in this world where you cannot control the events of your life. So let us learn how to respond positively to the difficult circumstances in life and become overcomers through faith!
Naomi was a miserable character in the Bible! Famine drove her to a foreign land. There her husband died. She had two sons.
Both married girls from that land. But soon the young men died one after the other.
The three poor widows were left to fend for themselves. Many years passed by. Now news comes that Naomi?s land has prospered. She decides to go back, leaving the two girls behind. But Ruth stuck to Naomi and her ?harsh? God!
Naomi told her daughters-in-law: ?It has been far more bitter for me ..because the hand of the LORD has turned against me" (My bitterness is much worse.. because the LORD has sent me so much trouble)! She told the people in her land once she was back, "the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me. ..the LORD has dealt harshly with me, and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?"(vs 20,21).Some of you may be feeling the same way! Hold on!
The truth is that the time Naomi began experiencing ?the calamites? that the Lord sent her, starting with the death of her husband, was the very time the ?Sunshine of God? had just begun to turn on her! That was the very first step towards going back to her land of promise and becoming the ?great, great grandmother? of the Lord Jesus Christ. But poor Naomi had no way of knowing it. Neither had she a faith strong enough to trust in God?s dealings though rough and devastating!
Dear believer, how blinding the present situations can be to you? How misleading your thoughts about them? How short-sighted can you be? The tragedy, pain, the suffering of the hour when intolerable, you not only complain but sometimes question and even 'curse' God! It is typical of Job?s wife who said to him, ?
Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!" But the attitude of the man of faith, Job, was different! Afflicted with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, scraping himself with a piece of broken pottery and sitting among the ashes, he replied ?You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?" (Job 2.7-10). Dear friend, 'That?s the kind of faith that overcomes!' That's the faith that sustains you and brings you out of darkness into the promises and blessings of God.
Pray and practise with me: Dear Lord, help me to be assured like the apostle Paul and say, 'I know that God causes all things to work together for good to me who loves God, to me who is called according to His purpose. If God is for me, who is against me? (Rom 8.28,31).
BIBLE READING FOR TODAY RUTH 1
1 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and two sons.
2 The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.
3 But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons.
4 These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. When they had lived there about ten years,
5 both Mahlon and Chilion also died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
6 Then she started to return with her daughters-in-law from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab that the LORD had considered his people and given them food.
7 So she set out from the place where she had been living, she and her two daughters-in-law, and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah.
8 But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back each of you to your mother's house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
9 The LORD grant that you may find security, each of you in the house of your husband." Then she kissed them, and they wept aloud.
10 They said to her, "No, we will return with you to your people."
11 But Naomi said, "Turn back, my daughters, why will you go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?
12 Turn back, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me, even if I should have a husband tonight and bear sons,
13 would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, it has been far more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the LORD has turned against me."
14 Then they wept aloud again. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
15 So she said, "See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law."
16 But Ruth said, "Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
17 Where you die, I will die-- there will I be buried. May the LORD do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you!"
18 When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more to her.
19 So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them; and the women said, "Is this Naomi?"
20 She said to them, "Call me no longer Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me.
21 I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty; why call me Naomi when the LORD has dealt harshly with me, and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?"
22 So Naomi returned together with Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, who came back with her from the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
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