Define close friends.
Spent a significant amount of significant time with me.
Went through quite a few seasons in my life.
Consistently encouraging, and adding value to me.
Most importantly, tell me what makes me, me.

me, "Why do people throw away people (friendships)?"
chai, "Because they think those friends are not worth keeping. But they usually forget that those whom they throw away, might become good friends in the future."

The close friend whom you threw away might seem bad enough to be thrown away.
But who is worse?
The one who was thrown away, or the one who threw the friendship away?

Presuming everyone has a capacity to do good, if given the right amount of time and influence, would not that rather horrendous person turn good one day?
I guess that is why i don't throw people away.

me, "How do you feel about the list of close friends whom you used to care for but now you don't?"
jill, "I think it is my loss."

It will never be a one sided loss.
A friendship is always made up of two person, both will make losses.


Now ask yourself, why did you throw away those close friends whom you used to care?

If you are a really good friend, you would be patient enough, caring enough to bring the good habits out, and destroy the bad habits within that close friend.

God is never in a hurry.
He has all of eternity to shape us.
He never threw us away.
What then is your justification in throwing other people away?

I wont throw away people.
Simply because, every close friend is like a safe.
You deposit large amount of time and value into them.
Throwing them away, is like throwing away a part of yourself.

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God and food

me, "God will we be eating in heaven?"
God, "Of course we will. I am the God of food too, (God of everything) and the food you eat will be ten times better than the favourite food you like."

I was thinking, there are some tastes where it takes 10 seconds for different flavours to unfold itself, imagine food in heaven.
It might take 100 seconds to produce 10 different tastes.
Like when you eat ice cream that has a lot of tastes in one flavour.
Banana, walnut, Mint....bla bla bla.

Ever imagined Hitler living in hell?
I think the thought of that really makes me want to go heaven.
Dont even consider having the devil around in hell.
Hitler is enough.

Ever imagined how long is eternity?
We as teens would think eternity is about another 60 years in heaven.
The truth is, we can not comprehend.
We never experienced it before.
We would simply call it infinite, but what is infinite?

If we are going to live for an eternity, does all the things we are doing, or buying, worth eternity?

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Constant reason to smile.

I will always smile because Christ died for me.
Christ died for me, so i may live.
Live with a smile.

Christ died for me, so that i may enjoy God's love.
That is another good reason to smile.

In your sufferings, keep smiling.
Your sufferings will not change the fact that Christ loves you and died for you.

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Keepmysmile.