princess paupr’s Reflections

How I’ve changed and how I’ve learned
Becoming less becoming more
and I’m still nothing next to You
I’m still nothing without to You…

What interesting lyrics from “Monday Morning”…

The other day I read something that spoke to my heart from 2 Corinthians 4…I especially like this part:

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

So many “trifles and fooleries” occupy my mind everyday. I don’t know if I can ever “pray continually”…It’s so hard to always be aware and practice God’s presence in life. Of course I need to remind myself that I’m not doing it by my own strength…It’s only by His strength that I can do all things.

Taking the time to be kind…

Today my coworker talked to me about how un-kind and rude our society has become…It’s hard to come by people who take the time to care about other people. North America, as we have learned in social psych, is very individualistic as a whole (har har…oxymoron?). We are about independence and all that… I wonder what it would be like to live in community with people around me all the time. People from asian countries tend to be more helpful and look towards the needs of the group first. In Aletheia, we have been talking about building a community like that of the early church. Whenever I read about it, I wish I could be apart of it

But thankfully, I know kind people do exist=). One of my patients told me today “So few people take the time to say a kind word to another person. But a kind word can go a long way…” And it’s so true.

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese Proverb