Pointing A Gun At God.

Revelation can come from anyone and anything including American Dad tv series (another tv series from the maker of Family Guy – so you know what to expect right? ;D)

If you don’t know both series, I suggest you to google it.

It was a christmas edition where Stan being a know it all person that led to his own death. As he got to the after life, he went to heaven trial trying to get his second chance to re-live his life.

Since his life wasn’t as good as he thought, he couldn’t get his second chance. Knowing that and the fact that his family on earth was threatened by cold and could die at anytime, Stan tried to get to God by taking his heaven lawyer as a hostage to get away from the court.

After quite a series of events, he finally managed to see God. Stan forced God to let him back to earth, threatening Him with “heavenly” gun that had the power to kill heavenly being. God commented, “Okay now, you’re pointing gun at me because you didn’t get what you want?” (Haha, we do that quite often aren’t we? :p). Then God told Stan that everything happened according to His will and His time. He told Stan that he couldn’t go back to save his family and that his family was going to die. Stan finally gave up and he said that he felt sorry to have been so arrogant and acting like he knew everything.

And what happened next? God granted Stan’s wish. He gave Stan a second chance, all because Stan showed an act of humility. God told Stan that it’s exactly what He wanted to see from Stan.

As the ending credit rolled, I thought, the story hit close to home. It’s definitely like the usual thing we do when it comes to God and our will.

Like Stan we often think that we know it all, we know better and we want everything to go according to our will. We sometimes even try to threat God just to get what we want. We tried so hard to get things to go our way when it actually only takes a little humility to admit that we don’t know everything and trust from our side that God knows the best for us and that everything will be alright in His time.

Is it that EASY? NO. Not at all. It's hard to deal with things when you can't even see the big picture. It's so easy to think we know what's best for ourselves when in fact not everything we think as best is good for us.

I remember one speaker at church said this, "it's my job to pray and it's God's job to heal" - yep, there are things that we can do and there are things that only God can do. We can't try to do the things that only God can do.

We need to be humble enough before God to let Him take control and to work on our behalf, we need to let go of our pride and let Him direct our path and we also need to trust Him and let Him help us to overcome our unbelief.

Besides, life would be better if we can be a little flexible with the process ;)

Singlehood.

I am single and I have been enjoying myself so far except for the fact that the people around me are quite annoying enough. I believe those who have been living in singlehood would understand what I mean.

There’s nothing wrong in being single, of not having a boyfriend or a husband. What I found as wrong is the society who thinks that it’s wrong. I think I’d rather have a late marriage than having a marriage that would drive me insane because I choose the wrong person just to fullfill society’s expectation of me.

I have quite a number of male friends that I can confide in, that I can trust, that I can get crazy with, those who love me enough to let me be me and those whom I love with my whole heart although I don’t have romantic relationship with them. And so far, I’m content with that. (besides I also have great female friends).

Don’t get me wrong.

It’s not that I don’t open my eyes to every possibilities I encounter. Those who know me, knows that I am a hardcore lover and I always love without hesitation. I have fell in love with several men before, I have been in a close to more than friends relationship with several men, I have been feeling miserable because of love and got all those painful side of romance relationship. Some leave marks that stay for quite a long time. Even so, I haven’t given up on love. Only, I have decided not to put my happiness solely on my status.

Those experiences have taught me to carefully guard my heart and not to just put it on the table because the drama in a relationship can leave you exhausted and tired. It can worn you out. Those experiences have also taught me to really give my time and effort to someone who is really worth it. To someone who thinks that you are worth of his time and effort as well.

Charlie Brown said it well, 'Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.' And nothing is time wasting quite like giving time to someone who’s not even worth it in the first place, because if you use your time to do something else, you would have done many things instead.

While you are still single, there are a lot of things you can do. Don’t get stuck in the mindset that no one loves you just because you’re still single. HEY! There is actually a lot of people who loves you and waiting to be loved by you. LOVE is not limited on the relationship between a man and a woman but LOVE is an universal language that can be understood by everyone. Don’t waste your love on people who only knows how to take granted of it but share your love on people who really need it.

When you give and sow love in the right place you’ll be amazed on the amount of love you’ll get back.

Don’t put the worth of yourself on your status, when you’re still single it doesn’t mean that your worth is less that the people who has a spouse. NO, it doesn’t work that way. The fact that you were born into this world should give you the idea that you are worth to be in this world, you are worth to live and you are worth to be who you are. Nothing should ever change that fact. YOU ARE WORTHY JUST BY BEING YOU and you DON’T NEED ANYONE ELSE to VALIDATE YOUR EXISTENCE.

Do something you love, create, dream and make it happen. Be happy, be yourself and be grateful. If the time is right, the right guy will come and if the right guy is not coming then don’t worry, the value of your life is not measured by who you’re with but by what you’ve done to contribute.

And if you should love and like someone, why not love and like yourself because in the end, the one person who will always be with you is yourself. Enjoy yourself, pamper yourself and treat yourself right. You can never love other people if can’t even love yourself completely.

So, screw what people say about being single. I’m single, I’m happy and I’m living myself to the fullest.