Belated Birthday Musings !!!

So the other day my younger brother went on overdrive liking almost all my pictures on Facebook . Some of the picture I couldn't even recognize , for some I cringed wondering how on earth did it reach there. Anyway long story short the picture on the right is a childhood which my brother liked. {I won't tell where I am, you might as well try guessing } However seeing both the pictures and having had my birthday almost a month back I went into retrospection mode and matters didn't help when one of my friends wrote "happy birthday, enjoy the last year of your 20's". I had nearly three decades of my gone, poof !!So here are 3 principles from The Book of Life  that I have learnt and would like to share with you all..

• One of the principle I learnt was in the early formative years of my life when I was being brought up with 25 other boys , I found people can be fun ,compassionate and kind, they can also be viscous and hard at times,they have the capacity to be unpredictable, and the only way I could make sense of it is by following a principle which I found in the Bible,"For whatever you want men to do ,do also to them .." This is also called the golden law in the the bible.This was an answer for me because as long as I followed this principle I noticed that people became kinder, respectful , easygoing and fun .It's not that everybody changed, some were just mean by nature but upside was that life became easier to deal with .This could never be more relevant to us than the present . The problems of war, illegal immigrants, hate, discrimination. For everything it would be an easy answer if we did exactly how we would want people to deal with us when faced with a similar situation as theirs. This world would be a safer , better place for all those inhabit , only if we cared. 

• " And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."  Love is something I learnt the hard way,by falling flat on my face a couple of times, and each time I learnt something. But when you finally meet the ONE , you know that she/he was worth all the wait. You look back and think , Gosh what was I thinking then, thank God it didn't happen. I know love has many dimensions but I just wanted to focus on one aspect only. Love is truly the greatest gift that one can ever get.It's in our design to love and be loved. To revel in the feeling that someone truly ,really loves you, your flaws as well as your perfection.  But sadly we can be confused by lust, especially when we get carried away by butterflies,tinglings and a racing heart. But that's not the way to discern love , here's the list" Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;  it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things (RSV)". I wont add anything else as it couldn't get clearer than this.

• "It came to pass." The phrase occurs again and again in the Old Testament in the Bible. "It came to pass after four hundred and thirty years that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt." This verse really sums up the latter half of my life. It came to pass. Life is never easy ,it has it's up's and downs , more like a roller coaster. So through all my struggles I have learnt one thing, that no matter how hard or precarious our life might become, never , ever give up because the problem didn't come to stay, it came so that it could pass. It came to build your character and pass, it came to challenge you out of you comfort zone and pass , it came so that you push yourself to reach you potential and pass. So remember no matter what you are facing right now , no matter how low you might have fallen it's just a season that will pass. Yes as it is written" it came to pass ...."