"Coloured" Water

The colourful water fountain at the Global Village
(2005 Dubai Shopping Festival, Jan.12 to Feb.12)

Sense and Sensibility

(the pic is not related to the posted message...? mmm...)


Yes, the movie... haven’t read the book yet.
Watched the movie on TV last night.
I won’t comment on anything. This is not a review.

Jane Austen is not in the list of my favorite writers. Neither is William Shakespeare.
But this one's really cute. It was read/spoken by a character in the movie...

“…Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom...”
(Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare)

Total Surrender

A book containing some of the inspiring words of Mother Teresa, Founder of the Missionaries of Charity.

“One thing Jesus asks of me: that I lean on Him; that in Him and only in Him I put complete trust; that I surrender myself to Him unreservedly. Even when all goes wrong and I feel as if I am a ship without a compass, I must give myself completely to Him. I must not attempt to control God’s action. I must not count the stages in the journey He would have me make. I must not desire a clear perception of my advance upon the road, must not know precisely where I am upon the way of holiness. I ask Him to make a saint of me, yet I must leave to Him the choice of the saintliness itself and still more the means which leads to it.”

“Let Jesus use you without consulting you.”

... Total Surrender ...

Tsunami Casualties

Who knows what the exact number is?
Yet believe… Eternity is not a lie.

“Accept death whenever God wants it, the way He wants it, where He wants it… To die is a good thing. How can anyone with faith be, at the same time, afraid to die? But as long as the Lord wants to keep you here on earth, it would be cowardice for you to want to die. You must live… live and persevere… and work for Love—that is your task. // …If I love, there will be no hell for me.” (Josemaria Escriva, The Forge)

…for even hell would turn into a beautiful place if you have God and Love in your heart.