~May Your Light Shine :D~

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Last week I thought I should learn to shut up, but thinking again, I think I just need to be more careful of what comes out of my mouth.

To some, I may look like a busybody, always getting involved in people’s problems, even those who aren’t that close to me. I have been told that there is a difference between being genuinely concerned and being a busybody. Honestly, I do not think I am a busybody (feel free to correct me if you think otherwise). It’s not as though I have nothing better to do than to get myself entangled in such stuff for no rhyme and reason. I’ve got quite a lot of work on my shoulders.

Perhaps I ought to show concern more appropriately, in a way people do not think I am probing or overstepping my boundaries. I could have sounded that all I was interested in was people’s ‘spiritual lives’. But I do not believe in a ‘spiritual’ life. Many a time, we like to put God in a box. We figure He will not be interested in our lives other than the time we spend in church or reading the bible. He wants to be a part in every single aspect of our lives. Likewise, when I ask how you are, I am interested to know how things are going in any aspect of your life. Be it studies, relationships or anything else.

I initially wanted to just mind my own business, but I felt that is not right either. It will be easier for me, if I do not know of people’s troubles, I don’t feel the need to pray for them or think of ways to help them. But that is not what God wants me to do. I ought to be glad that God has given me a heart for people, people whom I do not particularly like, people whom I barely know and people whom I haven’t even seen before. Why? I guess He is teaching me to love them the way He does.

Lydea blogged at 3:26 PM

May your light shine...
in the darkness...