Please Don't Fall In Love...With Me.

Please don’t fall in love with me –

-If Christ hasn’t already ‘beat me’ to your heart.

If your love is no extension of your adoration of He,

What then will happen when your ‘feelings’ fade?

What do you think would be the fate of me

If the affections I manipulated trickle away?

Tell me, will I not then be a charade?

I’d love if you could indulge me and paint this scenario

Of what would most likely happen if I don’t say no.

What happens when you can’t find what you fell in love with anymore?

When you take me off that pedestal and toss me to the floor?

Come, let me hold that paintbrush

As it appears too great a weight for your mind.

Let me reveal to you how my refusal to rush

Is not sibling to any inability to unwind.

I will tell you what will happen;

You’ll rise from that fallen position.

You’ll get up, put your clothing in order,

And leave me staring at your back.

Yet as you walk away, your steps further crush

An already broken heart.

All because you never loved me right

Right from the start.

So you might hate me now when I turn you down,

Respond to my smiled greetings with a perpetual frown;

You could make fun of me with your friends,

Make jest of my principles to no perceivable end.

You may title me a coward or seasoned actor

In response to not relenting on my compulsory ‘God-factor’.

You may think me inane, unreal or a prude;

But since your thoughts will never change mine,

I doubt they do you any good.

So please don’t fall in love with me,

If Christ hasn’t beat me to your heart.

Because any love void of HIM is a counterfeit…

And nobody wants that.

Get Out Of The Way Eyelash! (Cont'd)

                               

Hi people!

So as I mentioned in the previous post (and as most of you already know), these eyelashes we’re talking about do pose themselves as nuisances on many occasions. Mine are hardly what you’d even refer to as long and full and yet they get in my eyes and bother me all the time! To be honest, sometimes they generate more discomfort than a stray particle of dust, or even a tiny bug, would.

I happen to be well aware of these facts.

However, I believe this also bears a relationship to our life’s happenings as well. Sometimes, when we miss it or mess things up and are totally convinced in our heads – by logical thinking or
systematic rational analysis – that we just have to be in the right, it doesn't feel very nice and pleasurable when the conviction of God’s word lets us know we really are just fooling ourselves.

I mean, ouch.

God's word should shine in our hearts

Now I don’t know about you but I believe it’s more painful to be proven wrong, especially when you’re so certain of being accurate in your judgment, than when someone simply confirms your miscalculation after you’ve detected it. It might not be fun dealing with it when God points out our mistakes to us and we may tug at that conviction and rebuke (just as we’d tug on a stray lash), to get it out of our heads or our hearts but often, they don’t budge. Why? Because God’s truth belongs in our hearts to illuminate it and guide us right; just as our lashes belong on our lids and don't mean to be such pains...they’re just doing their job!

Thus, if you can’t imagine yourself walking around in a mega-dusty room (or in the Sahara), without a single strand of an eyelash to protect your eyes from all those tiny particles, then it should be equally difficult to imagine yourself walking around in this sinful world without the truth and light of God’s word, and the assurance that Jesus is, guarding your heart.

God’s instruction may not always align with our wants – but they never lead us to regret. So even when they don’t always go in the direction I want (literally), I still love my lashes…you can bet. ;)

P.s: They behaved after I took a shower; so I studied a little more & had an awesomely successful paper.

Thank God. :D

xxx, Kwiksie~

Get Out Of The Way Eyelash!!!

Hello people.

Today, my topic of interest just happens to be the eye. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that my last exam is very closely affiliated to biology. ;)

Okay, here’s the deal. Ever since I commenced my examinations for this semester (April 7^th) and – as expected – also launched my rigorous study regime, my eyes have been seriously trying to test me. Actually, I’m not sure if I should have been vexed at my eyes insomuch as at the random things that were getting lodged in them. #shrug

Anyway, there I was staring into a cracked mirror in the toilet, at 3.45am, a few hours before an exam I had lost sleep over, wondering what I had to do to be rid of the pesky prickly disturbance that had been interrupting my studying for almost an hour. I was just fed up. I knew very well the problem (this time) was not my eyelashes because I had spent ample time minutes before, coaxing them way from my eyeballs with mascara. Before that, I had buried my face in water, eyes open, for several minutes and still they wouldn’t quit!

So as I stood there alone, staring at my reddened, swollen eyes; God unexpectedly used the source of my current annoyance to get me thinking about a couple of things…

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You know how sometimes, things get into your eye, and even after you’ve cleared it all out (just like me, with my several hopeful attempts) it still feels terribly itchy and uncomfortable, not necessarily because the particle is still in there now but because whatever got in has thoroughly irritated your eye(s) and has left this annoying sensation as though it’s still in there when it’s not (kind of like mint and the after-taste)?

Why?

Because it never belonged there in the first place.

It got in, made trouble and even after you struggled to get it out, it still left you evidence of its visit. The evidence could remain for some minutes, hours, days or even weeks!

Well guess what? That sounds just like our thoughts!

When we fill our minds with garbage, they stick in there. Sometimes we remember them and feel weird. It could make us feel very uncomfortable, embarrassed and sometimes even guilty. Some thoughts fill us with self-condemnation, others with anger, bitterness, resentment and, worse yet, depression or even suicide. Either way, none of the emotions such thoughts produce are peace promoting and neither do they enhance any sense of wellbeing or happiness.

Why?

Because such thoughts never belonged in our minds in the first place!

We let them intrude by carelessly leaving open the gateways to our mind and heart (eyes & ears) for any particle of ungodly, unwholesome or unedifying information or circumstance to float in. then, just as sometimes when you try to ‘blink-out’ something it only moves further into your eye, some of us disconnect from the main source of the thought, but neglect to keep ourselves from dwelling upon it-thus, it moves in deeper. Then, those of us who try to completely kick the lousy thoughts (images or whatever) out are given a pretty intense hard time.

But, can you guess who could help in situations like this? 

Your eyelashes.

In this case, they (the eyelashes) would represent an in-depth understanding and revelation of God’s word. Constant meditation on and revelations of truth from the scriptures, via the Holy Spirit, will help you sieve out every unprofitable and defiling thought that previously got in or even attempts to make an entrance into your thoughts. Even when they get close enough to get caught on (or in) your lashes, all it takes is a super quick flick – or in my case, a thorough rub – and it/they falls/fall off!

Whenever a silly little lie from the devil (concerning our health, or finances, or schooling, or marriage, or job…), or some lustful imagination (of either sex/gender, of whatever age, whether single or married…) or even a mean and hurtful prank, pops up in our minds for even a brief second, it (they) can be ‘flicked off’ by switching to more profitable and wholesome thoughts instead. For instance:

Think Philippians 4:8

Think on God’s blessings

Think on how much you appreciate your job

Think of how much your spouse trusts you

Think of how nice it feels not to be ‘played’ or ‘scammed’

Think of your great spouse/family 

Think of the blessing your friendly gardener is

Think of how much you love your chirpy pet parrot/cat/toad/llama… 

Think on what would please God

Think on things which are not in defiance of God’s will or contrary to His nature!! Get that 'capital X' thought away before it gets too itchy or uncomfortable and you really hurt yourself!!!

Now, I know there are times when it seems our eyelashes themselves are a pain though-

but I’ll tell you what He had to say about those in the next post. ;)

Just keep this in mind: 

To be continued…

xxx, Kwiksie~