food for a thought.

The thoughts of you can't fade away... When you start to think and dream of people you know and have not been talking to them, that doesn't mean they are not part of your life. Thinking and dreaming of them, while I was on the road again. Scanning among the sea of people, sometimes I don't see them and hunting for those familiar faces, I widen my view. This week I've been thinking about 'broken relationships', how it can tarnish my life. It's like a sin.

A story of a girl (I'll call her Chocolate) in a classroom having her usual lessons. One day, a new student joined the class. (Let's call her Lollipop). Chocolate approached Lollipop to get to know her better, however, Lollipop's eyes did not seem to shift to her direction. Ignorace was all that mattered.

Day after day, Chocolate tried to interact with Lollipop, tried to share with her chocolates, lesson notes, involve her in movies, but chocolate seemed to be of no existance before Lollipop. This continued for the remaining 3 years in school. No matter how much Chocolate was expecting Lollipop to open her door to her, it was always shut. Never opened.

On the 3rd year, Chocolate got a new gadget, SUPER MEGA SELF ADJUSTING CAMERA for their photography lesson. It was the latest! The newest! Something that would assured a distinction for their End of Year project. And... at the corner of Chocolate's eyes, were knees crawling up to her, asking "May I borrow your SUPER MEGA SELF ADJUSTING CAMERA for a week?"

Would you lend Lollipop your SUPER MEGA SELF ADJUSTING CAMERA after her 3 YEARS of her treating you like an invisible person?


This story is like the broken relationship we have with God. Many years, God is knocking at the door and asking if He could carry our burden for us, help us in any way. But we think we can handle it all. We thought everything is going well and we shut the door preventing God from entering. And when we are at our wits end, and when we finally need help, we go crawling to God and asking for providence and help. Praying for God to provide a way out for us. Will God help us then? This broken relationship with God is sin.



Would it be easier to ask Chocolate for the SUPER MEGA SELF ADJUSTING CAMERA if Lollipop had not ignored her from the beginning? Similarly, would it be easier to seek God's help from the very beginning?
What will you do?