...Will Smith

' been busy with my Nihongo lessons, which runs from 8:50am to around 4:00pm everyday, so I haven't had time to post. Anyway, here's a word from Will Smith featured in the latest Reader's Digest. It's said so perfectly; it's a waste not to pass:

"There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that."

Of course, we can always dismiss our failures by saying God probably didn't want us to have what we have dreamt of. Yet I think we know almost always if we did our best or if we had been lazy. Some say we tried our best, some say we didn't. Some say we could have done better, some say we did our best. But I think, in our hearts we know, and so, only we, know the pain.

I thank God for the small dreams, the small desires He afforded me in the past and are still granting me each day. I thank God, too, for those He didn't want me to have. I thank God still for the failures, and the things I could have achieved had I been more diligent, or should not have gone through had I been less stupid. Of course it would have been best if I didn't fail, and if I was able to achieve other things with more diligence, or if I didn't have to go through the painful consequences of my stupidity. God's grace and mercy in this, of which I'm a living witness, is that all things that happen in our life, even those which gave us pain and scars, and those we never imagined nor dreamt about that happened anyway, are used by our creator God to achieve His purpose. He does.

In Christ,
Che