sometimes i wonder if i was created for the sole purpose of testing people's patience and tolerance levels.

and sometimes it feels so downright horrible when a friend is going through something terrible, and you feel so helpless because all you can't do anything practical that'll be of help. even when you've gone through the situtaion before. even when you know exactly how the friend is feeling and thinking.

when the friend is overcome with sadness

when the friend is not able to think straight

when it's so hard to make the friend see past the problem and into the future

when you really dont know what to tell the friend because you dont know how you managed to cope in the end

when you just dont understand how one friend can treat another that way, when you realise you dont understand humanity at all

when you want so much to share God's goodness and faithfulness to them, if only they were willing to listen, but are so afraid to even bring up the topic

when self pity takes over and engulfs the friend

when you so want to talk sense into the friend but just cant get through

when you really hate what's happening but cant do anything about it at all

when you've been praying for the best, and things still end up wrong

what is wrong anyway? what's right? what's good and what's bad? why does it take such hard situations for us to grow? why am i still even asking this question?

sometimes we get so overwhelmed that we can never see past the situation, but one day we'll always be able to look back and smile, if not laugh, at how things worked out in the end.

and can we do anything other than that? cos we'll never know the alternative routes that our lives could have taken anyway.

i think i'm blabbering here. but this friend's problems just reminded me of my own, not so long ago.

there really are alot of broken hearts out there.

this world needs plenty of prayer.

and faith

and courage

and grace

and

God