While I am missing from blogging, JR’s mainly-photos-blog picked up again.
She got, as a birthday present, a 5Megapixel camera phone (Samsung Jet) and started to snap away and upload to her FB. It’s definitely not a substitute for a real camera, but I guess we are living in a different world now. There is an [...]
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Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas – Vanity of vanity, all is vanity! [1] So declared the Teacher in the opening of the old Hebrew book of Ecclesiastes.
What does anyone gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? [2]
Humanity, whether from the species called philosophers or not, has been [...]
My first words on blogs were penned in honour of two great men of literature. But, no, I did not write about them, nor about their work. Rather, I wrote with the acknowledgement of their inspiration to me. I wrote borrowing their names, forming my own nom de plume – Jack Said.
I will leave Jack [...]
…and it’s darn scary.
Especially when you are like me, checking emails at the ungodly hour past midnight.
May god bless her soul and may justice be done and seen to be done. Al-Fatiha.
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For living persons only.
Alexamenos Graffito (c. A.D 2)
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us. (1 John 3:23-24)
We always forget that as human, we are not only weak, but incomplete.
A friend of mine, in her 40s, single, quite well-to-do, the kind who seemed to have little worries in life told me that she is longing for a companion. Not really a marriage, she said. Read as, companion, not commitment.
The thing is, it [...]
When we talk about “celebrating cultural diversity”, are we being too selfish or too ignorant?
Preserving cultural diversity is considered a supreme virtue today, but the members of the diverse cultures don’t always see it that way. People have wants and needs, and when cultures rub shoulders, people in one culture are bound to notice when [...]
This morning, we sang Graham Kendrik’s The Servant King at church.
I admit, I cried a little when we sang:
There in the garden of tears
My heavy load He chose to bear
His heart with sorrow was torn
‘Yet not My will but Yours,’ He said
This is our God, the Servant King
He calls us now to follow Him
To bring [...]
I came back to find this…
