ourgig

ourgig - "our God is good" hopes to build an authentic community of fellow sojourners of faith, love and joy.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

To my beloved

May nothing comes between us;
Our communion and oneness.

Sadness and sorrow,
thoughts unshared,
heart's rhythms unsung.
Poorer, lesser, not richer or more
My joys, my surprises, my hope..all to myself

Unfinished lyrics and staggered rhymes
broken dreams, uncertain dreams,
dreamless future, fearful tomorrows;
You listen
with smile in your eyes;
the touch of your hands holding mine

My beloved,
I can face anything
with you beside.
We will commune;
tears and warm embrace
Simple prayers and a little faith
Walk with me, hold my hands,
Till we see Him face to face.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

So few lovers and healers.

Is the desire and the delight to forgive and to love often birthed from our desperation to be forgiven and be loved?

Are you in love with Jesus? Do you know the incarnate God? In our world of loneliness and despair, there is an enormous need for men and women who know the heart of God, a heart that forgives, that cares, that reaches out and wants to heal.
—Henri Nouwen

A Classic from Keith Green
Oh Lord, You're beautiful
Your face is all I seek
For when your eyes are on this child
Your grace abounds to me

Oh Lord, please light this fire
That once burn bright and clear
Replace the lamp of my first love
That burns with Holy Fear
- Keith Green

The power and the freedom of repentance and forgiveness comes only through the Power of the Cross. The liberty from the oppression of unforgiveness can only be sustained by the continual receiving of the grace of God.

Friday, February 03, 2006

Suicide or Sacrifice

"So many times I think of jumping off the building" - he said.
Why do people think about suicide?

1. They feel there's no one and nothing to live for.
2. A great sense of aloneness - detached - unconnected.
3. An un-understood pain.
4. Want people to know their pain.
5. No roads out of their predicament.

"But I am scared" - he continued.
What are people afraid of?
Why people don't carry out the suicide thoughts?

1. Scared of being "half-dead" - unsuccessful suicide.
2. Scared of ending up in hell. :Heaven's haunting question - Why did you kill yourself?
3. Not being around to know whether people actually realise their intense pain.
4. God's Mercy.

Like to share your thoughts?


John 10:10 -Jesus said -" I have come that you may have life and life more abundantly."
John 15:13 - Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
John 10:11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father-and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Romans 5:6-8.6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 5:2 and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
1 Jn 4:10 -This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

THANKS BE TO GOD.