Simple Thoughts

The Bible says that:

My whole life I thought sarcasm was fun, a joke, something to spice up a conversation, and even a way to show others that I’m fluent and “cool”.

I never understood how it affected me or others until today.

Today I hurt a friend through sarcasm and I finally learned the hard way how it can be damaging.

Here are a few points I drew from this experience:

• Sarcasm is damaging because it hurts others at an expense to make you feel superior
• It hurts even if you aren’t on the receiving end.
• It confuses people.
• It is evil because it hurts people, belittles them and takes away joy… in other words, sarcasm steals and destroys.

When you hurt me…

Know that I got hurt not because I’m weak, it is because you are a jerk…

A victim

There is only a fine line between special and weird… 

Reading my older posts on this blog prompted me to write a letter to myself. So much has changed and there is so much I wish I could tell myself, and I hope it will benefit you too.

Dear 25 year old me,

God loves you. He loves you beyond what you can imagine. Things will get better and there are many more ways to define happiness, success and fulfillment.

God has a plan for you, do not stress. He will lead and guide you to it at the right time. Do not try to change yourself to be someone else. Those fake friends, bullies, and everyone who played a role in hurting you will in a few years time, come to you for help and you will be too busy to entertain them. They will show you respect, but you will ignore them.

God will provide you with so much more than you can ask for, He will supply you with every need and He will give you financial provision and He will introduce you to really good brothers and sisters and friends.

In a few years, you will make a bold move to Tokyo and will be led to wonderful and not so wonderful people. There, God will provide you with friendship, respect, financial independence, ways to find yourself and ways to accept who you are.

There are a lot of ways to do things, you will see that those who have much are still not content and those who have not as much can be content. Having is not the only indicator to happiness, it is how you see things, and when you learn to be content when you don’t have a lot, God will provide you abundantly.

You will realize that having a job isn’t the only way to make money, IT is not your only path. God will stretch you and move you from your comfort zone and He will make you learn to let go of things that don’t matter. Just be yourself, people will accept who you are, the right people will be there, think of it as sifting flour, out with those that don’t belong (and waste your time) and in with those who truly like you for who you are.

You are beautiful, more beautiful than you think. Don’t listen to your mom or your friends when they say you are ugly or not good enough, these are all lies. You will meet a lot of lovely young men (some will hurt you, and you will hurt some, but that is ok), you will learn to choose who you want to be with, what your love languages are, and know that single isn’t an indicator that you are not good enough. The men, or boys, rather, that you are seeing, are just a very niche group of weirdos, real men are coming and they will treasure you for who you are.

Love,
Your 33 year old self

I moved to Tokyo, Japan, 5 years ago and it seems as if time has stopped or fast forwarded too quickly.

Now when I read this blog, or older entries from my pre-Tokyo days, I can’t imagine who I use to be. Tokyo has changed me… God had shaped me… or perhaps, I am just getting older.

I have definitely lost most of the writing style I use to have and have lost a lot of the innocence from when I was very active on this blog. Things which use to matter so much have become quite meaningless.

And perhaps the most shocking is… when I read some events, I have no memory of them ever happening. It sort of feels as if I am reading someone else’s blog about their lives. For some other events, they feel familiar but have become very foreign to me.

When I read my entries on a certain crush who had gotten me obsessed, I had to look at the date to remember who the person is. It is weird reading my thoughts on someone who I use to have so much hope for and now, I hardly remember even a single detail about him.

I’m happy that I have officially moved on. Tokyo and those around me have helped me. It is strange how Tokyo has a way of mounding you into a different, better version of yourself… I am so glad Tokyo happened.

Wow, So… I’m quite embarrassed… I have abandoned this blog… for a bit too long… it’s not that I have given up on blogging… I do blog… (my reviews blog, my daily blog) but I haven’t had much to say HERE… as tough as it gets when a writer has writer’s block and finds it hard to put pen on paper, I definitely had my equivalent as a blogger.

But rest assured, I am back.

(if anything good were to come from this pandemic, it is this… rediscovering one of my favourite hobbies)

This isn’t my story, I found it on Facebook and thought it is worth to share it here.

His phone rang in church by accident during prayer

The pastor scolded him on the pulpit😡

The worshippers shouted at him for interrupting the ministration 😡

The ushers admonished him and looked at him cross eyed

His wife kept on shouting at him for his carelessness all the way home😭

(You could see the shame, embarrassment and humiliation on his face)

He never stepped foot in church again💔😭😞

That evening, he went to the Bar🍻🍺

He asked for a bottle of wine🍺, and as he was drinking his stress away, the bottle fell by accident

Those it touched rushed towards him

He closed his eyes expecting harsh words💔 and Slaps👊👋

But instead they cared to know if he didn’t get a cut from the broken bottle pieces❤

The waiter apologized and gave him something to clean himself up with ❤

The female manager gave him another drink for free😊👌

The female manager also gave him a hug and she said unto him “don’t worry we understand that it was a mistake”

He has not stopped going to that bar ever since then!!!

#Lesson

Have you ever thought that maybe the reason why the world doesn’t believe our God is loving God is because we ourselves are not so loving?

Sometimes our attitude as believers drives people to hell🔥

This year, know how To treat People!

If You can’t be a bridge to connect people then don’t be the wall that separates them from God!

heart shaped leaf

Genesis 15:6

all we have to do is believe… and He will count it as us being righteous. Isn’t that just beautiful and generous of God? We don’t have to do anything and we can be righteous. It is not done by our works but by our trust and belief in Him.

Jeremiah 31:33-34

Ezekiel 36:26-27

26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

God can make miracles happen… He can restore our hearts so that we can be right with Him. He would perform miracles on us when we fail so that we can keep His laws…

New Testament:

After all that… we still fail, we continue to sin. So God decided to give us His own son, Jesus. He allowed Jesus to die, to be punished so we can be saved. It might not sound like much… but consider this: if you told a lie and someone took the blame for it. How would you feel?

And… this isn’t just a lie… it is all the bad things we thought of and even did… He took it all… on that cross. It might not sound like much… you say? yes… other criminals were crucified… but what He did and what others cannot do is… He took God’s wrath… the amount of hatred that God has for sin… He took it all (so we won’t have to)… and all He asks of us is to believe in Him and all of this will be given to us… if we believe, we will be protected by Jesus… and won’t be punished for all the wrong we have said, done and thought of.

If He can loves us THIS much… why can’t He give us a heart shaped leaf to say “I love you”?

Hey everyone,

apologies for the lack of updates… I have been extremely busy and didn’t have time to write anything… I found this on Facebook today, and thought I would share it with you:

During a robbery, the bank robber shouted to everyone in the bank: “Don’t move. The money belongs to the State. Your life belongs to you.” Everyone in the bank laid down quietly. This is called “Mind Changing Concept” Changing the conventional way of thinking. When a lady lay on the table provocatively, the robber shouted at her: “Please be civilized! This is a robbery and not a rape!” This is called “Being Professional” Focus only on what you are trained to do! When the bank robbers returned home, the younger robber (MBA-trained) told the older robber (who has only completed Year 6 in primary school): “Big brother, let’s count how much we got.” The older robber rebutted and said: “You are very stupid. There is so much money it will take us a long time to count. Tonight, the TV news will tell us how much we robbed from the bank!” This is called “Experience.” Nowadays, experience is more important than paper qualifications! After the robbers had left, the bank manager told the bank supervisor to call the police quickly. But the supervisor said to him: “Wait! Let us take out $10 million from the bank for ourselves and add it to the $70 million that we have previously embezzled from the bank”. This is called “Swim with the tide.” Converting an unfavorable situation to your advantage!
The supervisor says: “It will be good if there is a robbery every month.” This is called “Killing Boredom.” Personal Happiness is more important than your job. The next day, the TV news reported that $100 million was taken from the bank. The robbers counted and counted and counted, but they could only count $20 million. The robbers were very angry and complained: “We risked our lives and only took $20 million. The bank manager took $80 million with a snap of his fingers. It looks like it is better to be educated than to be a thief!” This is called “Knowledge is worth as much as gold!”
The bank manager was smiling and happy because his losses in the share market are now covered by this robbery.This is called “Seizing the opportunity.” Daring to take risks! So who are the real robbers here?