"A new ending"

Date: 22 Dec, 2001

"No one can go back and create a new beginning, but everyone can start now and create a new ending.."

True. Whoever said this had a lot of insight. We humans have a tendency to complicate matters. We start out clean but eventually we become jaded (Matchbox 20, i know). It is not that we purposely set out to become jaded, hell, we actually start with noble purposes... but somewhere along the way, we compromise such values in exchange for momentary things...

We find ourselves trapped in our own maze. We lose our freedom to do what we really want to do. Take for example saying the words "i love you". Ironically, these three letter words are so easy to say when you don't mean them, but very very hard to say when you really mean it. What's with that? I guess there is this need to have it reciprocated, God knows how a heart could break if it isn't. So we choose self preservation over honesty...to remain silent than to have our heart wrenched out of our chest... We choose our own prison. It is not a nice place, but at least it is our own.

The good news is, we could start from now and get a new ending. Hope is such a nice word. It is even a better verb. The future is what we make it. With God's guidance, we could still go back to the way things were meant to be. Perhaps that is why Christ came into this world. God just couldn't wipe off the fact that Adam sinned. He just couldn't wipe off the fact that we humans have a tendency to deviate away from his perfect love... but he could come down, he could become a human and show us the way... he could offer us a brand new ending... and that is exactly what he did, two thousand years ago.

Merry Christmas