five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes

525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear.
525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.
In 525,600 minutes - how do you measure a year in the life?
How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love.
Seasons of love.

525,600 minutes! 525,000 journeys to plan.
525,600 minutes - how can you measure the life of a woman or man?

In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried.
In bridges he burned, or the way that she died.

It's time now to sing out,
tho the story never ends let's celebrate remember a year in the life of friends.
Remember the love!
Remember the love! Remember the love!
Measure in love.
Seasons of love! Seasons of love.

the opening song of the broadway musical 'rent'! thanks to yuwen haha im half-addicted to it already. the singing is beautiful beautiful beautiful and it just makes me feel so inferior :( haha but really its sooooooooooooooo niceeeeeeeeeee! and i only barely watched half of it. heh its the kind of thing that i could watch over and over and never get tired of it. haha i always think that aside from the gift of His Son, the greatest physical gift God has given to us is the gift of music. though i cant read music or play any instrument if my life depended on it, i just love listening, it makes me happieee! ;)

measure your life in love. i think thats a really beautiful thought. i came across a question which i asked myself in my journal a few months ago. 'is your faith, your life, beautiful? do people stop to take a second look?' ephesians1:12 [again!] to the praise of His glory. before your faith stands out, do YOU take a second look at people that are hurting? i always ask myself why i cant just learn to be more forgiving, to learn to look at others through His eyes and love like He loves. its hard but a great challenge. always looking towards that, always looking upwards ;)

when i was on the plane back from hongkong, i was just thinking. what do we REALLY live for? and as i thought, the elements of life, love, joy and hope were brought to mind too. haha i went to search for four images that i feel, would best represent these four aspects that have baffled me for a longgg time and will still continue to do so.

life



Christ's coming, His death and His resurrection is, to me, the reason that we live. the reason that we have everlasting life here and BEYOND (: i remember so clearly 1john2:24-25. haha i still remember that a friend once asked me to explain that to him and the thought i found from those two verses made a really huge impression. everlasting LIFE, here and beyond.

"therefore let that abide in you which you have heard from the beginning. if what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and the Father. and this is the promise that He has promised us - eternal life." -1john2:24-25

love



i think the most perfect expression of love we can find in our physical world [which is, by the way, conforming very well to the description of a 'crooked and perverse generation'] is the love between parents and their child. the greatest form of love is, of course God's love to each and every one of us. love between Him as Father, and us as children of God. [im a child of a King, if i have Him, i have EVERYTHING (:]

joy



childlike innocence is always the purest form of joy. when you dont know anything, dont NEED to know anything, and life is just yours for the taking. but after you've got through all the crap in life [and im just started to get a foretaste of what "life" in the our world is like] then real joy only comes when the God-shaped hole is filled.

hope



i think this speaks for itself. (: