Have you ever talked to God above
Tell Him that you need a friend to love
Pray in Jesus' name believing that
God answers prayer

Have You told Him all your cares and woes
Every tiny little fear He knows
You can pray and always know
That He will answer prayer

You can whisper in a crowd to Him
You can cry when you're alone to Him
You don't have to pray out loud to Him
He knows your thoughts

On a lofty mountain peak He's there
In a meadow by a stream He's there
Anywhere on earth you go
He's been there from the start

Find the answer in His word. It's true
You'll be strong because He walks with you
By His faithfulness He'll change you too
God answers prayer

Came across this hymm on Joycelyn's blog, and like her, i found it awfully familiar too.
Tthink this was one of the hymns that really touched my heart in primary school.
could only find that clip on youtube though. but the girl's voice is really quite sweet.

am glad God brought me back to this song, and it has been tlp's source of comfort for e past 3 days. the words just keep replaying, and somehow the familiarity of this helps strengthen me.

situations can change really quickly, and i guess it's rather obvious what's happened. really didnt expect that it'd hit me so hard and so deeply though. have been doing alot of thinking these past few days as well.

Was talking to logan on friday, and he said "know that everything is a temporal gift from God, and that he can take it back at anytime". it's true. everything is only temporal, but they are gifts nevertheless. The present, and the future is, has always, and will alwyas be completely uncertain, and no amount of planning can gurantee anything. Paths can turn in completely different directions in the blink of an eye.

In the light of such uncertainty, there are 2 paths we can choose. To either treasure the present all the more, or to distance ourselves from the uncertainty to prevent potential hurts. It all boils down to exposing our vulnerabilites, and having to courage to face your feelings and fears.
But who can say which choice is right and which is wrong? There are risks to be taken on both paths, one where you risk losing things you treasure, yet at the same time you gain such in-depth experiences, and knowing that you wont live in regret wondering how this path would have been like. On the other hand, we may try to seek sercurity in stability and what we (may think we) know, to minimise losses and hurts, to pretend or convince ourselves that nothing good could or would have come out of the situation anyway, to be totally oblivious to everything.

But nothing in life is ever certain or predictable, so how do we decide on our course of action? even in situations which we may think we know, can we ever be completely certain of the outcome? whatever it is, i'm glad i didnt throw this gift from God back into his face. He gave me this experience, and allowed me to grow from it, and is now giving me the strength to stand up again, though the pair of hands that i'd so wished would be there to help pull me up wasnt there. But he gave me my own hands, and other pairs of hands, and for that, i'm grateful.

Life goes on.