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07/07/2024

Love in Action (Romans 12:9-21)

Love must be sincere.
Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
Be devoted to one another in love.
Honor one another above yourselves.
Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Share with the Lord’s people who are in need.
Practice hospitality.
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
Live in harmony with one another.
Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Do not repay anyone evil for evil.
Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.
If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written:

“It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.
On the contrary:
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

05/07/2024

Self-Reminder:
Minding your own business turns out to be biblical lol
"and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody."
~(1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 NIV)

You will be judged by the same harshness you judge others, so stop worrying about what other people are doing, stop judging people at every chance you get to elevate yourself and feed your ego.
Your main focus should be to try and be a good person and treat others well.
Leave the judgement to God and mind your own business, you will never run out of things to work on within yourself anyways, lead by example.

26/06/2024

Quotes from C.S. Lewis (Writer known for "Chronicles of Narnia", Christian apologetics, and English teacher at Oxford)

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good."

"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice"

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."

"A really humble man will not be thinking about humility, he will not be thinking about himself at all."

"When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place."

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind"

"Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good."

"Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having."

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success."

"I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."

19/06/2024

Quoting ~Aldous Huxley:

“The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness.”

18/06/2024

Self-Reminder:
Our main need isn't to have the most knowledge and perfect intellectual clarity,
our main need is the changing of our will towards Love and the highest Good.
Our acquired knowledge and given intellect is only as good as its capacity to make us do good deeds, and be a good person.
It's as bad as it's capacity to make us prideful, lack humility, and treat others poorly.

17/06/2024

I think as an artist, there are times for plucking fruits (putting out new artworks), and times for planting seeds, adding nutrients to the soil, and watering your tree. Dont be too hard on yourself when inspiration isn't coming, take good care of yourself always, stay positive, use that downtime for other things in your life that needs attending, more fruits will come when its time for harvest.

12/06/2024

Self-Reminder:
Procrastination is a kind of arrogance that we will always be given more time to do what we should be doing.
Humility and gratitude is the answer, understanding that every minute we have is a gift to use wisely.

11/06/2024

09/06/2024

A drawing a day keeps the therapist away