Unending praise...

;p a wave of relief overcomes me today as i realise the finality of exams after a long, long semester!!! was already 3 weeks ago when sal started holidays, now we only have a few days really for ourselves, then back to busy other commitments... summit starting on saturday (so looking forward to it!!!), and going for a week!!! well, things really aren't so bad then, yah?!?

this morning, as i set off for the exam, walked out of the house to realise the return of clear, blue skies for the first day in many!!! thank God that we'd been spared the rain during the daytime most days, but still the days had been gloomy and overcast... today though, blue was seen in more than jus a small patch of the sky... there was hardly a cloud to be seen!!! revealing in God's creation below the full beauty of nature...

really, creation is a hymn of perpetual motion singing the praise of God... ;p and so too ought our lives be... as humanity strives to discover truth and attain perfection, it's often so easy to acknowledge our setbacks and get caught up in the avoidance of pitfalls that we miss the beauty that clothes our existence... this unending hymn of praise, that even now is but a poor reflection of the perfection that is to come... ;p kinda like this passage in 1 Corinthians 13:8-13

"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

it's like looking at a rainbow, but focusing on the distance between us and the rainbow... looking so far can make us vulnerable to feeling depressed and low, missing the point that there is a rainbow to be marvelled at... and all we do is try to get closer, all the time despairing that it eludes our clutch by so far... maybe for now, we ought to simply stand and behold the rainbow, its immense beauty...

so what's it all abt?!? i guess i'd been despairing upon setbacks and how things could've been better, all the while missing the simple truth that there is so much there to be happy abt and to look forward to... praise God that He is the rainbow to behold in our lives ;p