Life & Love; Tears & Death

It's been a busy couple of weeks since July! We helped out in 2 weddings (Mr Beh and Mr Ong), I attended a good colleague's wedding dinner the same weekend. All 3 were good fun, catching up with friends and sitting down to eat.

Then suddenly, I get a saddening sms... a friend's dad passed away. We went to the wake, it was a tough time for the family and I pray, knowing that God's peace was with them. AND, it was at that wake, that I found out that another friend's mum passed on as well. We rushed down to that wake the same night.

3 weddings and 2 funerals.

But life is a story continuously unfolding. Just last week, my mum called me to the hospital because my aunty was critically ill. We visited her and my grandma asked us to pray for her as well.

I'd like to think that I'm a person of faith. But in the face of the situation, I honestly found it very difficult to pray in my typical strength of belief - the best I could muster was that "God's will be done".

A day later my mum called to say that my aunt had passed on. So it came that a few weeks before, I was following Bridal Cars, and now, I was following behind a hearse.

It's a stark difference, between a Celebration of Love one day and a reminder of our frail humanity.

Love and Life one day, Tears and Death another.

The Bible reminds us: He has also set eternity in the hearts of men (Ecc 3;11)

In our hearts, is a yearning for the "something more". It is an underlying current in our spirits that tells us that life is more than that which is seen.

I guess my point in writing all this done is that while we think and dream of the great plans and destinies that we all desire, let's remember that life is often the sum of its moments. Every moment we have is an opportunity and a point of decision for eternity. It's a moment to decide to love the people around us that God has placed in our lives. It is to decide that it will be a moment to love, live and laugh.

At the end of this life, there's nothing we can bring along with us.

Ecc 5:15 Naked a man comes from his mother's womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand.

What we do bring is memories of the people we lived life with. Memories of the people we journeyed in our walk with God on this earth. Memories of the people that we touched, people that we shared our Jesus with.

And one day, one day, those memories will become reality again.

John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

That place is prepared for us.

1 Cor 15:52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

That great joy comes not just our memories are reality again and we see those we love. But that we will see HIM who first loved us. And I hope that when that day comes, I will hear my Lord say to me:

Matthew 25: 23 Well done, good and faithful servant... Enter into the joy of your lord.’

And when we love, we remember that God is love:

1 John 4:16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

Chase your dreams! Live out Loud! But remember to love, remember to care, remember to share. Remember that you can make a difference to someone. Just like Jesus.