My church friend is diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer after giving birth to her baby gal 2 months ago. When i heard this news, my heart sunk and tears just welled up in my eyes when i read the e mail that said "it is confirmed cancerous". Well, i am not very close to this lady but i have known her for many many years already. She is a very sweet lady-good tempered, always smiling, kind, godly and just so friendly and caring to everyone around her. She never fails to greet me with a smile when i see her around in church.
I believe this news struck her and her family harder than me. She has a two year old son, and a newborn girl that is only two months old. She just dropped from utter happiness- having a baby girl, to utter despair. Never did she expect herself to be suffering from stage 4 colon cancer i guess. Its just so unfair to her, such a kind and nice lady, but still having to suffer from such a disease. I don't see evil people(i am not talking about random people but people whom i know) getting stage 4 cancer, on the other hand, they recover from cancer. It just makes me wonder WHY? What plans does God have? How come in this world the evil prosper but the good suffer? Is it supposed to be this way? I guess i will never know and really have no choice but to see what God has in plan for her.
I really hope everyone that sees this will pray for this lady. Pray that God will be merciful to her and heal her. It really takes a miracle from God.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Rape in Congo
I just finished an article talking about how bad the rape situation in Congo and i really sympathize with the women there.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/the-rape-epidemic-at-the-heart-of-congos-darkness/2007/10/07/1191695742001.html
I don't understand why such perverted peopleexist. Don't they have wives or daughters? This just reminded me of a feature article i wrote for one of my first assignments. I was talking about child rapes after being inspired by ing ing that came back from Africa for a mission trip. She got to interact with many children in the orphanage there and sad to say, many of the young children were raped, and by their own relatives. Worse of all, they don't only get raped once by one person but ganged rape and over a period of time. Can you imagine being raped by your dad, then your uncle then some random person from somewhere? Like i don't understand why they can actually bring themselves to rape someone that is supposed to be kin to them. It's just so bloody perverted.
When i was doing research for my feature article, i also found out that the men rape young children because-especially virgins, because they are pure and can take away their disease such as Aids. How stupid can they get.
When i read this sentence in the article, "Dr Mukwege said his oldest patient was 75, his youngest three", i felt the tears forming in my eyes. How can you bring yourself to rape a child that is only 3 years old??That bloody asshole that did that seriously deserves to die. When i read this, mei mei(my 5 year old niece) just came into my mind. A child so young, and so lovable, yet they can do such a cruel act to her.
Another thing is that, i think these men are beasts, savage beasts. "Many have been so sadistically attacked that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair". How do you rape someone till you can destroy their reproductive and digestive system? I really don't want to think what those men actually did to the poor women.
Dear Lord, please help to control the rape situation in Congo. Do not let the evil get their way and may you protect the women and children there and keep them sane. Grant the political leaders wisdom that they may know how to reinfore the law there, please take care of your people. Amen.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/the-rape-epidemic-at-the-heart-of-congos-darkness/2007/10/07/1191695742001.html
I don't understand why such perverted peopleexist. Don't they have wives or daughters? This just reminded me of a feature article i wrote for one of my first assignments. I was talking about child rapes after being inspired by ing ing that came back from Africa for a mission trip. She got to interact with many children in the orphanage there and sad to say, many of the young children were raped, and by their own relatives. Worse of all, they don't only get raped once by one person but ganged rape and over a period of time. Can you imagine being raped by your dad, then your uncle then some random person from somewhere? Like i don't understand why they can actually bring themselves to rape someone that is supposed to be kin to them. It's just so bloody perverted.
When i was doing research for my feature article, i also found out that the men rape young children because-especially virgins, because they are pure and can take away their disease such as Aids. How stupid can they get.
When i read this sentence in the article, "Dr Mukwege said his oldest patient was 75, his youngest three", i felt the tears forming in my eyes. How can you bring yourself to rape a child that is only 3 years old??That bloody asshole that did that seriously deserves to die. When i read this, mei mei(my 5 year old niece) just came into my mind. A child so young, and so lovable, yet they can do such a cruel act to her.
Another thing is that, i think these men are beasts, savage beasts. "Many have been so sadistically attacked that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair". How do you rape someone till you can destroy their reproductive and digestive system? I really don't want to think what those men actually did to the poor women.
Dear Lord, please help to control the rape situation in Congo. Do not let the evil get their way and may you protect the women and children there and keep them sane. Grant the political leaders wisdom that they may know how to reinfore the law there, please take care of your people. Amen.
Friday, October 5, 2007
God is good!
I often wonder to myself what did i do to deserve God's blessing? I am not a perfect person, or extremely Godly, but instead sometimes i find myself to be more sinful and less deserving than others; but God never gave up on me and he has blessed me so many times in the area of studies. It makes me feel bad at times, that he is so good to me when i am so underserving. I guess there is only one word to explain, that is his love for me.
Got back another 2 of my assignments and i did relatively well for them and i really didn't expect such results. Glitches in the TV production, not enough lighting, too much head space and stuff like that but our group still did well. When i was doing this radio journ thing, in my mind i just kept thinking "gosh this is so bad, i doubt we will do well, so many mistakes i can see now, what more Amy(the tutor)", But God can make it perfect. I guess this teaches me never to doubt God. Do something, commit it to the Lord and trust him. There is nothing you can worry about after doing it cause you cannot change anything anymore so just trust = ) Maybe you could try? Doesn't have to only be on studies, but on any aspect of your life. Don't know what to do? Feeling down and sad? Pushed to desperation? Just try telling it to God, and giving him all your worries. Leave it alone and wait for him to perform a miracle. It won't take up much of your time and there is no harm trying. God bless all of you out there.
Got back another 2 of my assignments and i did relatively well for them and i really didn't expect such results. Glitches in the TV production, not enough lighting, too much head space and stuff like that but our group still did well. When i was doing this radio journ thing, in my mind i just kept thinking "gosh this is so bad, i doubt we will do well, so many mistakes i can see now, what more Amy(the tutor)", But God can make it perfect. I guess this teaches me never to doubt God. Do something, commit it to the Lord and trust him. There is nothing you can worry about after doing it cause you cannot change anything anymore so just trust = ) Maybe you could try? Doesn't have to only be on studies, but on any aspect of your life. Don't know what to do? Feeling down and sad? Pushed to desperation? Just try telling it to God, and giving him all your worries. Leave it alone and wait for him to perform a miracle. It won't take up much of your time and there is no harm trying. God bless all of you out there.
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