Fasting Month
Last Thursday marks the first day of Ramadhan also known as the Muslim fasting month. And throughout these 30 days, Muslims in Singapore will have breakfast at 5am in the morning and abstain from food and water till the sun sets at about 7 pm in the evening (where we’ll break-the-fast).
For me, this is the month to detox oneself: physically, spiritually, emotionally and mentally. Physically is pretty easy but the latter few can be quite a challenge.
Someone posed me a rhetorical question “If God loves you, would he make you suffer?”
I would never have an answer to that though I did made an attempt.
“If God loves us, why would he invent mosquitoes?”
Perhaps man needs a lesson from Him. Through which He hopes we will learn to understand.
What is suffering? A breakup with a bf so that God can give us something better?
How can we ever have the capacity to judge our Creator’s work.
Comment by huisuan — September 17, 2007 @ 6:22 am
Exactly. There’s always a good thing that awaits and for this month I am looking forward to shed off the excess love handles!
Comment by Tutee Ng — September 17, 2007 @ 3:38 pm
“He who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
And in our own despite, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God”
-Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Comment by rose — September 18, 2007 @ 9:42 am
“He who learns must suffer..”
Somehow it reminds me of econs. Heh.
Comment by Tutee Ng — September 19, 2007 @ 3:51 pm
God gives us opportunities to learn. He doesn’t give us courage, he puts us into situations so that we learn to have courage. Suffering? It’s just a word which would be nicer if we change it to the word, “test” or “challenge”. There is something to be learnt out of it and it is up to our faith if we want to choose to believe that it is a test. Otherwise, we are just faithless people who thinks we have faith.
May God shed light on all humans on earth.
Comment by the rockstar lullaby — September 20, 2007 @ 12:16 pm