Ezekiel. raise me up Lord

Crying. That's what I'll be doing for quite a while. I have 9 lives like a cat. I will lose 8 in the examinations and one on the results day. Yes, it is going that bad for me.

At least there's still the church to lean on every Sunday. Today's sermon was on Ezekiel Chapter 37:1-14. The valley of the very dry bones. Ezekiel was taken to a valley full of bones in a vision from the Lord. There, he saw many dry bones, a scene devoid of life.

"Son of man, can these bones live?" (trick question? the pastor brought it up)

"O Lord God, You know."

God told him to prophesy to the bones, saying that the Lord God would attach sinews and muscles and flesh and skin onto the bones. He would breathe into them the breath of life.

Imagine talking to bones when you know they are all good and dead. It's like the theory that plants grow better listening to music only bones are technically inanimate objects.I know stuff like inferi and sorcery games have those things rattling along with green smoke... but I think it was a bit more professional.

Most people take history right? What can you infer from unburied bones? They were unhonoured and for them to be very dry they must have been scavenged by vultures and wild beasts and decomposing bacteria. The bones were baked and bleached white in the scorching sun and have no resemblance to the men or even the cadavers they once were other than the main shape.

They represented the scattered people of Israel and Judah. They had lost their favour with God and had lost their blessing because they turned away from him to the gods and goddesses. So in exile the Israelites cried out, "We have become old dry bones." They felt God's presence lost. It's like a separated clique or a separated group of people, all of them feel out of place.

But God wanted to revive them, to send His Spirit and breath to them again because he loved them. So he sent Ezekiel to the vision where suddenly all those little jumbled up bones joined together and flesh came on like stem cell research. Then there's this mass of inanimate blood and flesh. When God said to Ezekiel to say to the bones (yes, it is a little weird, the bones, now corpses, would hear God if they could hear a little guy) that God would breathe into them the breath of life, they became alive.

The whole army of Israel, the living, breathing army in the valley where their dead bones once lay. Just because God loved them so much that he would bring them back again after they knew they were wrong.

When he was at it, pastor mentioned the cheesy advertisement which people paid big bucks to produce and will have the sequel next month. Here's the link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgdYU6iDyh8

Watch it or you won't know what I'm talking about.


See? People need to be told they are loved. Then they feel happy. God told Israel he loved them by by assuring them with this vision he gave to Ezekiel even when they doubted. God promised them so much in those verses, verse 12 and 14 of the passage. It was His glory and reputation at stake if he did not accomplish what he had promised and He did do it. He brought them back home.

But then people don't want to be like that cheesy commercial. We are individuals with our own dreams and aspirations. Our own boss and the person who decides our own lives. We won't drink that plum juice or religion down so easily even with all the facts of no preservatives and now broken promises. That's why the Israelites disobeyed the commandment and chose to believe in other gods instead. A "Because I love you." situation is not always enough to make us feel like it.

I'm basically writing the whole notes for today's sermon. I want to try doing this every week when possible. Not next week but the following. One of my friend's blog has the sermon summarized. It's really heartening. Thanks Tragedia, I'll try finishing the next chapter on fiction press soon. The moment my exams stop. I will be a free, liberated woman.

Hi there again. New muse to our clique now, The Muse of the Indescribable, Tragedia. We rely mainly on a email cum Windows Live Messenger correspondence and have only met once. Going to meet up once the exams are over and discuss some issues since she's new to the clique and all.

Priority now : Exam Schedule

Thursday : English Essay and Paper (needing a good grade)

Friday : Chinese Essay and Paper (needing a miracle) Receiving Art Paper

Following Friday : History 1 hour 20 minutes I think ( help with the inference)

Monday: General Science (You get it... A year's worth work being revised in two weeks)

Tuesday: Geography (Same as Science)

Wednesday: Math (die try it i need a Good Grade)

Thursday: Literature (Seen and Unseen Prose and Unseen Poem)

Friday: Art Paper and Study of the Visual Arts History (I want to do well... It is the only confirmed paper I will pass)

Trust me, the Literature Subject in itself is like a great subject but TWO essays in 1 hour 45 minutes? The darling person wouldn't tell us which story our seen prose was coming from. There are three to study and one has a main character with big wide skirts and big wide pockets!

Gotta go! Computer access terminated.

Knitting and FictionPress

Knitting like anything now, and I bought yarn and books which sums up to about say 30 plus pounds. My wallet hurts like anything after that. I'm not that much a shopaholic but my allowance does make my "spending" feel like over-spending.

Fictionpress is this quaint yet raunchy website community where you can register and post all the stories you've ever wanted to publish. Some of the authors are way good. There's quite a good search engine for stories and what ever by genre and long stories are divided into chapters. Plus, by some odd way of the person who started it, there is an online dictionary at the top of the page.

Here's my profile which is really empty. I have started a little of a story going but it looks horrible for the time being. http://www.fictionpress.com/~musemneme

Wish me luck for completing my homework and my upcoming exams!

Oh, just to let you know I gave up on Kandera's Unbelievable Lightness of Being and settled to finish the English Patient which was good. Till after the exams I guess.