Haloes! J
“You can't connect the dots looking forward;
you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots
will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut,
destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has
made all the difference in my life…” ~ Steve Jobs
1 Corinthians 13 ~ The Message
If I speak with
human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the
creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his
mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a
mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. If I give
everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr,
but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I
believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love. Love never gives
up. Love cares more for others than for
self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut,
doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me
first,” Doesn’t fly off the
handle, doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others
grovel, Takes pleasure in
the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks
for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end. Love never dies. Inspired
speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will
reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God
is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be
canceled. When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like
any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good. We don’t yet see
things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t
be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all
then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he
knows us! But for right now, until that
completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation:
Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of
the three is love…”
“The time is always
right to do what is right…” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Stay hungry, stay
foolish…” ~ Steve Jobs
Korintiërs 13 is vir my een van die heel mooiste stukke
in die Bybel… Dit “astonish” my elke keer as ek dit weer lees… En iets wat ek
net weer aan gedink het, is dat al hierdie vereistes van wat liefde is, somtyds
vrek moeilik is!!! Gewoonlik as mens moeg, gestress of bang voel, is dit juis
die mense wat jy liefhet vir wie jy kwaad word, met wie jy dalk minder
vriendelik is, of met wie jy baklei oor hulle foute…
If you are not
living on the edge, you are taking up too much space… Hierdie is ‘n
ongelooflike aanhaling… Dis so maklik om so te verval in die alledaagse patroon
wat jou lewe inneem… Werk, slaap, eet… Ek het ‘n clip van ‘n toespraak gekyk
wat Steve Jobs gemaak het by ‘n “graduation ceremony”… Daar het hy gesê – hy
vra homself altyd af – DIT wat ek vandag gaan doen, is dit iets waarvoor ek
lief is, en wat my gelukkig maak? As dit nie is nie, hoekom sal ek dan kosbare
tyd van my lewe mors daarop? Mens moenie goed doen om ander te please nie – net
jouself… So baie mense is vasgevang in ongelukkige verhoudings, of huwelike…
Baie mense bly by mekaar, omdat hulle bang is om niemand anders te kry nie… God
wil NET die beste vir jou hê! Moenie settle vir 2e beste nie… Jy verdien net
die beste, en jy verdien om iemand se 1ste prys te wees… Nie ‘n tweede of derde
nie…
Neem risiko’s waar
dit die liefde aangaan… Hierdie aanhalings is als vir my sulke groot waarhede!
As jy waag om lief te hê en van jouself te gee (liefdesverhoudings maar ook
vriendskappe), is die kans altyd daar dat jy kan seerky… Ons is almal net
mense, met baie foute… Dis dus maklik, sonder dat jy dalk eers probeer! om
ander seer te maak…. Maar as jy nooit probeer en jouself oopstel nie, sal jy
nooit weet nie… Jy sal nooit daardie ONGELOOFLIKE blessing (vriendskappe, maar
ook liefde) wat God vir jou het ervaar, en spesiale oomblikke van die lewe met
iemand kan deel nie… “If you crash and burn” het jy ten minste probeer… En dis
al wat saak gaan maak aan die einde van jou lewe… Dat jy elke dag PROBEER het
om VOLUIT te lewe, dat jy die MEESTE maak van die 86,400 sekondes wat aan jou
gegee word en spandeer het saam met mense wat jou gelukkig maak, en ‘n
opbouende effek op jou lewe gehad het… Mag jy sommer vandag God se liefde en
genade in jou lewe ervaar! Hy is vir jou oneindig lief – met die Liefde soos 1
Korintiërs 13 dit beskryf… “To love is
to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk
failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk
nothing.” ~ Anonymous
blessings!
anel xx
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