I hereby announce the closure of this blog. I’ve been contemplating this for quite some time. I can’t really verbalize the reasons why, but I’ll try.
I feel that with the current style of writing that’s been accumulated over the years, I cannot achieve the intended purpose for this blog. It’s very restricting, and in one of the saddest words ever (to me)… it’s ’stifling’. I said that I would go on a journey to gather material (in the previous entry). Part of it was to figure out the direction of this blog, and also to refocus on the current state of affairs and my walk with God.
This past month has been enlightening in a sense. I think I’ve been given enough material to move forward in a new direction.
So, this blog is officially closed. There are approximately 10++ drafts which never got posted over the course of its short 3 year lifespan. I look back at the journey with tender fondness, knowing that if I were to get anywhere else, then this is the way to go.
I will move my blogging and whatever new plans I have for ‘expression’ to a new site. Click http://tinyurl.com/115i-it5i-iin35
(And no, the link is not spam nor virus. It’s a redirection URL because I don’t want spiders crawling this blog).
Dear readers, you have permission (finally! :p) to add my new URL to your blog links. Use the tinyurl link instead of the actual address (thank you!).
This blog shall close with verses from 1 Corinthians 13, perhaps highlighting the inadequacies of myself and the blog; and the things I’m striving towards: conformity to the nature of God, which ultimately comes from a communion with God. I pray in accordance to His will for forgiveness on anything I’ve said wrongly in this blog; and that readers of the blog may be blessed by the entries, if He so desires. Amen.
1 Cor 13
1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love 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. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When 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. 12Now 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.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.