Sunshine Never Dull

Photo by: Jelly Ang (http://weheartit.com/entry/18223668) “ YOU ARE THE ONLY BIBLE SOME UNBELIEVERS WILL EVER READ. ” - John MacArthur,  There was a point in my life after my teenage years where I thought I’ve had enough of all the hard night to night socials with my friends and thought that it was about time to take a TURN AROUND and change life style. It was when I thought that being mature had something to do with hanging out with professionals, people with higher views, people who dealt with life more seriously—don’t get me wrong, it’s okay! Just that my own perception took me to position that most people fall into and later on realize some essential things in life. Backstory: that was the time I also decided to join a Christian community. I thought, “If I would be attending regular prayer meetings, be a servant, too, I have to veer away from the secular world and build a new life with new people, with clean sheets, avoid being seen in the places I used to be in.

“David answered, “You are coming against me in sword, spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord, Almighty, the God of Israelite armies[…]This very day the Lord will put you in my power ; I will defeat you and cut off your head.” 1 Samuel 17:45-46 We’ve all had our taste of being bullied. Sometimes, we tend to be really scared when we get faced up with the bullies. We get to teased, called names, told things that aren’t even true! And we seldom surrender and start to feel negatively about ourselves: We tremble, crumble, breakdown and declare our loss.                 Sometimes bullies are the giants in our lives that we fight against. Sometimes, they overwhelm us in size. We think they have much more than we do because they are greater than us. Many years ago, history has it, that a young lanky, shepherd boy stood up against a ferocious giant and with a swing of his sling, BULL’S EYE! He shot the giant’s forehead! The giant lost consciousness then

Photo by: Nisha Patel “Friends mean well even if they hurt you. But when an enemy puts his arm around your shoulder—watch out.” Proverbs 26:27                                 Friends that seem to be enemies, Enemies that later on turn to friends or vice versa. Our friends and enemies are people who make or break us. In general, let's call them “frienemies.”               It’s nothing but pure joy to be able share laughter with the people we meet, they eventually become our friends. It’s easy to laugh and be silly with them, do crazy things, go to malls, eat out with them, watch a movie and jokingly ridicule each other upfront. These are a lot of the good things we share with friends.                 However, there is also a saying that goes, “familiarity breeds contempt.” The more you get to familiarize a person, the more you discover their hidden and true colors. For sure, their agenda won’t be visible at first but as moments would pass by, you will realize whether

                Life is a long and winding journey, and along the journey we meet different people and circumstances at a time. As we move forward, they remain in us as experiences and memories that make up who are today. Photo credits to: Tasha Marie We cannot deny that we have a full-mix of our experiences we both have good and bad ones. In a week, we sometimes lock our rooms and leave and later on realize we left our keys inside, bad day! Or sometimes, walk our way to the supermarket and in the counter, frisk our pockets and realize we left our money or even our wallets! We can go on with all the stupid things that happen to us in a week. To err is human, we do make mistakes and fail most of the time and even sometimes our errors give us painful, frustrating or even depressing experiences—they are the ones that often overwhelm us and weakens us whenever we fall and makes us think WE ARE NO GOOD AT ALL.                  “For I know the plans that I have for you,” says th