heartfelt thoughts

It's so nice to feel like a kid sometimes. (Just something random because Andy pat my head today.)

My goldfish appears to be dying. I almost cried as I looked at it struggling for its life. Partly because my heart went out for it, and partly because I feel that many times we're like that too- fighting for our lives though we can't do it on our own. There are so many things we wanna do, so many things we expect.. and so many times we get disillusioned because we place our trust in the wrong thing.

Isaiah 30:15-19

¹⁵ This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:
"In repentance and rest is your salvation,
in quietness and trust is your strength,
but you would have none of it.

¹⁶ You said, 'No, we will flee on horses.'
Therefore you will flee!
You said, 'We will ride off on swift horses.'
Therefore your pursuers will be swift!

¹⁷ A thousand will flee
at the threat of one;
at the threat of five
you will all flee away,
till you are left
like a flagstaff on a mountaintop,
like a banner on a hill."

¹⁸ Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you;
he rises to show you compassion.
For the LORD is a God of justice.
Blessed are all who wait for him!

¹⁹ O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.

Won't You teach us not to be obstinate?