banana yoshimoto.

"Sometimes people put up walls not to keep others out,
but to see who cares enough to break them down."

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life = time



time = life

"We Couldn't Make It Up"

❝Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect. For instance, when you have grasped that the earth and the other planets all go round the sun, you would naturally expect that all the planets were made to match--all at equal distances from each other, say, or distances that regularly increased, or all the same size, or else getting bigger or smaller as you go further from the sun. In fact, you find no rhyme or reason (that we can see) about either the sizes or the distances; and some of them have one moon, one has four, one has two, some have none, and one has a ring.

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have.❞

- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

works in progress:

workmanships (workmenship?) in progress.

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¹⁰ For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2, NIV)

¹⁰ For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (NLT)

❝Everyone who believes in God at all believes that He knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow. But if He knows I am going to do so-and-so, how can I be free to do otherwise? Well, here once again, the difficulty comes from thinking that God is progressing along the Time-line like us: the only difference being that he can see ahead and we cannot. Well, if that were true, if God foresaw our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose God is outside and above the Time-line. In that case, what we call 'tomorrow' is visible to Him in just the same way as what we call 'today'. All the days are 'Now' for Him. He does not remember you doing things yesterday, He simply sees you doing them, because though you have lost yesterday, He has not. He does not 'foresee' you doing things tomorrow; He simply sees you doing them: because, though tomorrow is not yet there for you, it is for Him. You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He knows your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but then the moment at which you have done it is already 'Now' for Him.❞

- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

God already sees us in our most perfect and best state of being.



*masterpieces in progress
*predestination, free will

learn to love.

{Living Life: quote from The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren}
{felt a heavy need to repost}

❝Life is all about love.

Because God is love, the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love. It is in loving that we are most like Him, so love is the foundation of every command he has given us: "The whole Law can be summed up in this one command: 'Love others as you love yourself.'"

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. That's why we're given a lifetime to learn it...

Why does God insist that we give special love and attention to other believers? Why do they get priority in loving? Because God wants his family to be known for its love more than anything else. Jesus said our love for each other--not our doctrinal beliefs--is our greatest witness to the world. He said, "Your strong love for each other will prove to the world that you are my disciples."

In heaven we will enjoy God's family forever, but first we have some tough work to do here on earth to prepare ourselves for an eternity of loving. God trains us by giving us "family responsibilities," and the foremost of these is to practice loving each other.

God wants you to be in regular, close fellowship with other believers so you can develop the skill of loving. Love cannot be learned in isolation. You have to be around people--irritating, imperfect, frustrating people....❞

unasleeep

eeep!

Just felt like writing. I don't have anything going on, but sometimes I start to write and thoughts I never knew I had start flowing out. Maybe they're thoughts I never did have...just conceived and born upon whim. (regarding last post.)

It's amazing, the things you gain by watching dramas. I mention this because of one thing I thought was worth noting from a drama...hahaha. You can contain the whole sky in those three wee letters: s, k, y. Or ㅎㅏㄴㅡㄹ. Or whatever other language. You know and understand the fluidity and liquidity of hydrogen oxide by its more identifiable string of w, a, t, e, r.

I'm just admiring the power of language and words and communication. It's something I've wanted to write about but forgot to. Anyway, this ain't enough but it's already too late for me to think even more deeply into and I'm pretty tired so I'll maybe be back to do this justice. Somehow.

balderdash

Sometimes without reason I just want to write even though there is nothing in particular to write about I just have this weird urge to write write write as if something mattered though there is nothing in particular that really does matter As I write this I am stalling a lot because even this topic about being topic less is pretty hard to write about How much harder it is to write without having a topic

Sometimes without reason I just want to let go even though there is nothing in particular to let go of There is nothing no one I am holding on to at the moment but why do I feel the need to let go I wish I were more certain of myself and more confident in myself Maybe it is because I do not trust in myself that I am trying to let go Since I can not trust in myself to let go maybe letting go first will allow me to trust in myself What am I so fearful of What if life were like this no periods commas punctuation marks just letting go letting on Should going with the flow be this un flowy and rigid I guess in life there is no such thing as a smooth ride Life is always going to have its fair actually unfair share of bumps and storms and mountains and bullies

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mmhm. Without its punctuations, life'll definitely be nonsensicality at its worst.