my life isn't about me.
not when there are kids starving around the world
not when the sick are left untreated, because of money
and lack thereof.
not when there are epidemics and genocides,
war and propoganda,
racism and intolerance,
not when children are taken advantage of,
and brainwashed to kill.
once every ear has heard,
and every eye has seen,
once there's peace in the world,
once people have compassion and care
& once people truly come to know who God is...
then maybe we'll have time to talk about me.
almonds are exceptionally delicious with ice cream...
or,
vice versa.
My Philosophy
What Gives Me Hope
"guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long."
-psalm 25:5
"even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like eagles; they will walk and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint."
-isaiah 40:30-31
"for I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
-jeremiah 29:11
"be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."
-romans 12:12
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
bring integrity into the government...
if only, if only.
What/who changed my life and why
'heart of a lion' by gilbert morris, when i was 13 years old... and its a long, long story...
"if we could all read the secret history of each of our enemies, we should find sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
-henry wadsworth longfellow
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."
-jesus christ
"this is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. if anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. this then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything."
-john
"Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French...What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct...If they [the Jews] must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs...As it is, they are co-sharers with the British in despoiling a people who have done no wrong to them. I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regard as an unacceptable encroachment upon their country. But according to the accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of overwhelming odds."
-mahatma gandhi