The Invisible Hand’s MTV

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While I’m busy with my things, this song refresh me once again. A touching song that pierced through my heart and almost caused my tears to roll down…

 

Quotes…

John Stott says:

“We are not to take revenge but rather to leave the punishment of evil to God.”

 

Rascal Flatts – Bless the Broken Road

Lyric:

I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn’t see how every sign pointed straight to you

[Chorus:]
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

I think about the years I spent just passing through
I’d like to have the time I lost and give it back to you
But you just smile and take my hand
You’ve been there you understand
It’s all part of a grander plan that is coming true

[Chorus]

Now I’m just rolling home
Into my lover’s arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you.

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Another great song from Hannah Montana – the Movie soundtrack….

 

Hannah Montana – “You’ll always find your way back home”

Lyric:

You wake up it’s raining and its Monday
looks like one of those rough days
times up your late again so get out the door
sometimes you feel like running
find a whole new life and jump in
let go get up and hit the dance floor
when the lights go down its the ending of the show
and your feeling like you’ve got no where to go
don’t you know
(chorus)
you can change your hair. you can change clothes
you can change your mind , thats just the way it goes
you can say goodbye and you can say hello
but you’ll always find your way back home
you can change your style you can change your jeans
you can learn to fly and you chase your dreams
you can laugh and cry but everybody knows
you’ll always find your way back home

your best friends your little home town
waiting up where ever you go now
you know that you can always turn around
cuz’ this world is big and its crazy
and this girl is thinking that maybe
that this life is what some people dream about
cuz’ when I’m feeling down
and I’m all alone
I’ve always got a place were i can go
cuz’ i know

chorus)
you can change your hair. you can change clothes
you can change your mind , thats just the way it goes
you can say goodbye and you can say hello
but you’ll always find your way back home
you can change your style you can change your jeans
you can learn to fly and you chase your dreams
you can laugh and cry but everybody knows
you’ll always find your way back home

and they know exactly who you are
where the real you is a superstar
you know its never to far away

you can change your hair. you can change clothes
you can change your mind , thats just the way it goes
you can say goodbye and you can say hello
but you’ll always find your way back home

you can change your hair. you can change clothes
you can change your mind , thats just the way it goes
you can say goodbye and you can say hello
but you’ll always find your way back home

you can change your style you can change your jeans
you can learn to fly and you chase your dreams
you can laugh and cry but everybody knows
you’ll always find your way back home

you’ll always find your way back home

you’ll always find your way back home

you’ll always find your way back home

you’ll always find your way back home

you’ll always find your way back home

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Honestly, I like this movie very much. Hannah Montana – The movie.  There are so many questions in life that worth a while to think and reflect. Although the movie does not mention anything about religion, but it raised quite a lot of ethical and relationship questions.

This song reflects how a person who get famous and popular, but tend to forget their root/background. I think even to some extent, in church ministry, I can see that many of church leaders (include pastor) will keep their personal relationship in very low profile. Is it because their background or any other reasons?

I’m not sure. For some church leaders, who have gained “popularity” after sometime, tends to forget their background as well in which nurture and mould them for the future……

We got to find our way back home….

 

For you, my friends…

Sorry for the delay….I just managed to upload it lo….Tributes to all my friends who journeyed with me in these 4 years….

Thank you for your friendship in which makes my life and time in STM more memorable…

 

Hati Sebagai Hamba

A Journey of faith that need us to continue to learn humility…

Lord, let not your children forget this important lesson of humbleness…

 

What do they need actually?

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7963828.stm

Therapists are still offering treatments for homosexuality despite there being no evidence that such methods work, research suggests.

A significant minority of mental health professionals had agreed to help at least one patient “reduce” their gay or lesbian feelings when asked to do so.

The survey, published in the journal BMC Psychiatry and conducted by London researchers, involved 1,400 therapists.

Many were acting with the “best of intentions”, said the lead author.

Only 4% said they would attempt to change a client’s sexual orientation, but when asked if they would help curb homosexual feelings some 17% – or one in six – said they had done so.

The incidence appeared to be as prevalent in recent years as decades earlier.

“Of course it’s incumbent on a professional to assist a client who wants help, but this should be done using evidence-based therapies – exploring their distress and helping them to adjust to their situation,” said Professor Michael King of University College London.

“We know now that efforts to change people’s sexual orientation result in very little change and can cause immense harm.

“We found it very worrying that there was a significant minority who appeared to ignore this – even if they had all the right intentions.”

‘Right to treatment’

The Royal College of Psychiatrists says all homosexuals have “a right to protection from therapies that are potentially damaging, particularly those that purport to change sexual orientation”.

In the US, where there has been heated debate on the issue of “curing” homosexuality, The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has urged all “ethical practitioners to refrain from attempts to change individuals’ sexual orientation”.

However there are organisations which campaign both for an individual’s right to seek treatment and a professional’s right to offer it.

They point to work by Robert Spitzer, a psychiatrist who lobbied for the removal of homosexuality from APA’s list of mental illnesses but went on to suggest in a controversial 2001 study that therapy could bring about change in sexual orientation.

Researchers in the UK are launching a website to collect stories from around the world about such therapies.

They hope in this way to uncover stories from India, South America and China where little is known about the prevalence of such practices.

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- What is the main root that caused “gayism” and “lesbianism”? Some argued that it is genetical problem, while another party will argued there is a mental blockage for the understanding of sex. What is the main problem that caused male to have interest in another male and vice versa?

- From Christian perspective, God created man and woman. How we can understand these groups of people and how to help them to overcome their “problem”?

- Any biblical understanding of “changing sexual orientation”? I don’t think so.

 

Take a look

Link: http://www.khalidsamad.com/2009/03/ismu-allah.html

Guys, take a look of how MP from PAS “exposite” the name of “Allah”. I think it’s a good article for non-Muslim to refer.

 

Prayer Needed…

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/business/18653-72m-more-asians-to-be-jobless-in-2009

Guys, take a minute off and do browse through the link that I paste it above. I just do not know how to comment, but to open my heart and mind and to pray for those who are needed.

 

Hidup adalah proses

Article from: http://www.airhidup.com/Article.cfm?ArticleID=233&Ref=Article (Bahasa Indonesia)

Kadang kita bertanya dlm hati & menyalahkan Tuhan, “apa yg telah saya lakukan sampai saya harus mengalami ini semua ?” atau “kenapa Tuhan membiarkan ini semua terjadi pada saya ?”

Here is a wonderful explanation…
Seorang anak memberitahu ibunya kalau segala sesuatu tidak berjalan seperti yang dia harapkan. Dia mendapatkan nilai jelek dalam raport, putus dengan pacarnya, dan sahabat terbaiknya pindah ke luar kota.

Saat itu ibunya sedang membuat kue, dan menawarkan apakah anaknya mau mencicipinya, dengan senang hati dia berkata, “Tentu saja, I love your cake.”

“Nih, cicipi mentega ini,” kata Ibunya menawarkan.
“Yaiks,” ujar anaknya.
“Bagaimana dgn telur mentah ?”
“You’re kidding me, Mom.”
“Mau coba tepung terigu atau baking soda ?”
“Mom, semua itu menjijikkan!!.”

Lalu Ibunya menjawab, “ya, semua itu memang kelihatannya tidak enak jika dilihat satu per satu. Tapi jika dicampur jadi satu melalui satu proses yang benar, akan menjadi kue yang enak.”

Tuhan bekerja dengan cara yang sama.Seringkali  kita bertanya kenapa Dia membiarkan kita melalui masa-masa yang sulit dan tidak menyenangkan. Tapi Tuhan tahu jika Dia membiarkan semuanya terjadi satu per satu sesuai dgn rancanganNya, segala sesuatunya kan menjadi sempurna tepat pada waktunya.

Kita hanya perlu percaya proses ini diperlukan untuk menyempurnakan hidup kita.

Tuhan teramat sangat mencintai kita. Dia  mengirimkan bunga setiap musim semi, sinar matahari setiap pagi. Setiap saat kita ingin bicara, Dia akan mendengarkan. Dia ada setiap saat kita membutuhkanNya, Dia ada di setiap tempat, dan Dia memilih untuk berdiam di hati kita.