I know this is a famous play by Shakespeare. However, the statment keeps popping up!
People seems to be running around in circles over small things. Things which has happened days and weeks ago, is nothing but history! Are we not suppose to clear our 'baggage' every day! Not easy, I acknowledge, as we have to live in it. But we do have a Jesus we can leave our 'baggage' with and to carry. Then, all one only needs to do is to take a moment, stop and watch the world go round - and we could see things quite clearly.
Once I was told this story, by a taoist:-
a. Imagine a tea-cup filled with water. Drop in a pebble. The pebble settles down immediately. However, the water took some time to settle.
b. Then we introduce a drop of ink, the black ink swirls gently around, with the pebble still unmoved.
c. Then we stir the water. The ink mixes with the swirling water. The water turns black. However, the pebble remains a pebble - unmoved.
Guess what am I trying to say is - hei, we are what we are! Don't get pulled into the circumstances around us. If (a), (b) and (c) represents a level of test, and we are everything but the pebble, we are lost!
BE the pebble! Sticks and stones will break our bones! But not us! We only need to remember that the 'little' pebble in us is the 'Rock of all Ages', a most solid Rock and Foundation, indeed! How else could we find a more perfect way to carry on in this 'Paul's world'?
Haiz! So simple! So hard to do, meh?
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