Sunday, January 27, 2008

First Step

Hajime no Ippo is a boxing manga written by Jyoji Morikawa about a boy who works hard to become a boxing champion. The series is still going strong even though already 83 books has been published. A very nice manga to read, Hajime no Ippo means The First Step.

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"You can take up courses, read books, do your work diligently and so on, but your trust must not be in these things. It must be in what Jesus has done for you. So if you are a student, for example, by all means, study hard. Score straight As for the Glory of God! But don't trust in your intelligence or qualifications to bring you the blessings of God"
- Joseph Prince

Today in church, towards the end of the session, the pastor started praying, and from then on I could not hold my tears, it just kept flowing and flowing. Even until the session was over my tears would not stop, I went up and cried to the pastor and asked for forgiveness.

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He said "it is ok" and I cried more. One of my friend's mum says she could sometimes see "things" and today at church she saw God and he was going around giving blessings. It is true and there have been many witnesses, that when there is a gathering in the name of God, the mighty one will appear or one of his sent angels. I have never seen the Lord but today I felt like I could feel him. My tears kept on flowing because in my heart I felt like someone was telling me "I know your pain, but persevere in it and you shall see its fruit soon." The pastor asked people that want to be blessed to go in front, my father, younger brother and I was sitting on the 2nd row and so we went up. Several other people also went up and a few of them collapsed when being blessed. It was like a process of letting go, people were having problems and all of us has problems. I understand how they felt, the feeling of being forgiven is great.

"Do not judge, and you will not be judged, do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven"
- Luke 6:37

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Today I was talking to my friend's mum. Then the topic about what type of girl do I like came up. I realised that I don't go after girls because of their looks nor status. If I like a girl I will tell her I like her, even though sometimes it is probably the most stupid thing to do. But I do believe that when it comes to love, a guy should just follow what his heart says. But of course I don't go up to a girl I just met and tell her I like her. When I have feelings for a girl I will wait, wait for a second and third meeting. If the feeling is still there then I would tell her straight how I feel. But chance brings so that sometimes we do fall for people that might not have the same feelings.

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In such times we can only hang on to it, I am a guy that pretty much is dumb and just blindly follow my heart in matters of love. When I have a girl in my heart I cannot bring myself to like another. I will wait and hope that, if the girl in my heart is not the one for me, then one day my love for her would be replaced. Of course I must be prepared when this happens and I am not her chosen one.

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In life and love and everything we do, to make it happen we must take the first step, have faith and believe in his plans.

"You don't have to be able to see the whole staircase, you just need to take the first step"
- Martin Luther King Jr

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"
- Laozi

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