'Sunday Evening'

Short sleeping hours doesn't help to start your day, also there are chances that if you were going to attend a Church service that morning, your attention span would be limited to the 1st 15 minutes of the service. I personally (Sad to say, but it's a fact and an honest truth from me to you), have missed a few services 'cause of late Saturday nights and (worse) took ocassional 'shut-eye' during the sermon time, and have no recollection whatsoever of the main content or summary or idea/gist of the talk. Yes, that was me on bad days. Fortunately, it didn't happen today.

I had the privillage of being called for drum duty in the worship team and of course, the adrenaline rush helped keep my consciousness in check ;-). Today marks the beginning of what Christians call "Holy Week", and today is widely celebrated as "Palm Sunday", i will try and 'keep-it-real' but unfortunately i don't have my bible rite now, so the historical part and chronology of events that lead to celebration of "Palm Sunday", i will leave for later: Tonight.

Personally for me the events celebrated by Christians this week will mirror the universal story of what being a Christian is all about, from celebrating the Triumphal Entry (more on this later tonight), to Maundy Thursday, to Good Friday and finally Easter Sunday.

The events that happen has basically two lines (my point of view, scolars hold ur guns! ;-)

1. Humans were made with love by God as of everything in this created universe, but as we were favored by God, we were given a gift: Freedom of Choice. To take matters into our own hands, to live as we would want to live. The ugliness of being human: that sometimes (or often) we make the wrong choices (also more on this later this week).
2. Constantly God is trying to reach out to us, to save us from ourselves. The reason for the Triumphal Entry which sets a whole chain of events into motion.

It makes me think that sometimes i have taken my beliefs for granted, call me serious but everyone should constantly ask themselves questions that would elevate them to being a better person (= satisfied person). I know for a fact that i'm a bit behind in certain things, and that i've really grown to be a stubborn person as whole. As i reflect upon myself, my growth, change and the moulding process that made me who i am today, i could see that constantly that there were 'lights' that accompanied me through the way, blessings you can call them, but somehow i never really gave them much thought or attention that they deserved.

Don't get me wrong, i'm just sharing my views here, thought what the heck, i've been posting up nonsense here anyways, why not share something that's significant AND important. This sharing by the way, is in no intention to impose or to question anyone. It's basically my views and the fundamentals behind how i work/function as a person. I like to question. I like to see the good and bad taken into account.

And yeah basically, though i call myself Christian, i'm still like anyone that's out there. It doesn't make me any less human or superior. I just have a different reason. And i'm constantly learning and stumbling and falling and getting up and getting into dark places and getting out of them and getting lost sometimes ('cause maybe i didn't pay attention to the 'road signs' ;-) etc. etc.

I'll get back to the proper illustrations of "Palm Sunday" later. Hungry. Dinner. ;-)