Perception of life

I do visit Nicole's blog now and then for some readings. Just recently, she updated her blog with a post pertaining to her friend's situation of being pregnant and receive no love from her husband and husband's family. My mind is haunted all the while after reading her post. I really pity the girl and her helpless situation. To not be loved, it's the most disheartening state anyone could bear. Some more, she is pregnant with a child of her husband, making the situation even worse.

As per my humble opinion about life, it is all about being love and to love. Of course, if you're loved, you're the enjoying the best the world has to offer you. To love, it's not a bad thing either. It's the matter whether you enjoy the process of loving someone else or otherwise.

Being brought up in used-to-be-a-non-Christian-family, I learnt something invaluable in the past 17 years after i accepted God in my life. I am a Methodist Christian and being a Methodist, it's all about tradition. Compare all you can among the others, Methodist sticks the most to all the rules, hierarchy and etc and i used to think that that was sooo boring. But, as i grew up, i realised being traditional doesn't do me harm. In fact, it keeps me safe. Safe from..? I dont know. At least, i am sure it doesn't and hasn't do me any harm.

If you take a look at how things happen under the sky, they all happen in order. In the way that He had already planned them. If one uses force to make a step ahead of how things ought to be, one needs to be ready to bear the consequences of doing so. It's all fair. One gets pregnant before marriage, one needs to bear the consequences. Why one wants to change the procedure? I think the main reason is human like excitement. They need some changes to make life seems more interesting. Life is dull. And repetitive. So one tries to skip a step and step ahead BUT the timing isn't right in His plan. That's fine. There's no actual law or regulation saying one cannot do that. Go ahead. But, everything that we do, there are responsibilities and consequences for us to bear. Now, it's the matter of whether or not the responsibilities are just good or beyond one's limit.

One point that i strongly hold my belief in and that is if the old customary and traditional marriage can survive for thousands of years, there must be a great reason behind it. And i'm definitely not saying that if you get married, life is going to be a bed of roses for you. It's just to be safe than sorry. To be pregnany before marriage, all the rest is about responsibility. And of course, to follow the old tradition to get married before having kids, you have the great L~O~V~E as a stronghold between the couple to overcome any sufferings and difficulties that might get in the way when the responsibilities lay upon you.

Dont get me wrong. I still pity the girl of her situation.

Down the Via Dolorosa & The Passion of Christ

(Music video and lyrics of Via Dolorosa by Sandi Patti, Music video Scenes from Passion of Christ by Mel Gibson)

When i searched for this piece of song cuz i sang it in choir before and to my delight, it came together with this heart-aching yet touching movie (in video clip) that for once, it shook the whole world. It reminded we people that He had died for us all. Once and for all. I am not ashame to admit that i cried together with my other friends in the cinema watching this movie. I was and am very thankful for the grace of God for not forsaking me when i was deep down in the valley endless of times.

I
Down the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem that day
The soldiers tried to clear the narrow street
But the crowd pressed in to see
The man condemned to die on calvary

II
He was bleeding from a beating, there were stripes upon his back
And he wore a crown of thorns upon his head
And he bore with every step
The scorn of those who cried out for his death..
Chorus:
Down the Via Dolorosa called the way of suffering
Like a lamb came the Messiah, Christ the King
But He chose to walk that road out of
His love for you and me
Down the Via Dolorosa, all the way to calvary.

III
Por la Via Dolorosa, triste dia en Jerusalem
Los saldados le abrian paso a Hesus
Mas la gente se acercaba
Para ver al que llevaba aquella cruz

IV
Por la Via Dolorosa, que es la via del dolor
Como oveja vino Cristo, Rey, Senor
Y fue El quien quiso ir por su amor por ti y por mi
Por la Via Dolorosa al calvario ya morir

Bridge:
The blood that would cleanse the souls of all men
Made its way through the heart of Jerusalem.
Coda:
Down the Via Dolorosa called the way of suffering
Like a lamb came the Messiah, Christ the King
But He chose to walk that road out of his love for you and me
Down the Via Dolorosa, all the way to Calvary.
hmmmmm..hm……hhhhmm…………..