Chronicles of Charyl

Well, speaking of moving on, I’m sure that for some of us, the phrase “move on” is such a hard pill to swallow, right?   It’s so easy to say we have to move on, but the actual experience of moving on is not automatic.  There’s the part where you’ll have to go over memories that hurt you.  There’s the part that you have to swallow your pride and admit that it’s over; swallow your pride and accept that you also played a part in that heartache.  There’s the part that you have to cry and cry again because it just hurts so much.  There’s the part that you look down on yourself and drown in self-pity, and crave for someone to affirm that No, you’re not what you think you are.  And there’s the part that you have to repeatedly confess forgiveness…forgiveness for yourself, and forgiveness for the other person.  Can you relate with this?  That’s what happens when people tell you "move on", or when you have to pick yourself up and say, I h...

“May grace and peace be multiplied to [me] in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.”  (2 Peter 1:2, ESV) This verse really struck me now, and I can’t believe I’ve totally missed this before!  This verse just tells me that grace and peace can be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ.  Or, another way of saying it is that the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ has the capacity/power to multiply grace and peace to me. Now, this struck me because I pride myself as someone who has quite many knowledge of God and of Christ (as far as information is concerned).  I mean, that’s why I’ve volunteered in a student ministry even if I’ve already graduated in college, worked in a broadcast ministry for seven years now, enrolled myself in theological and missions courses, read my Bible in three different versions already, and having Philip Yancey and CS Lewis as my favourite Christian writers.   It’s because of these (and more) that I’ve ...