Beyond Plastic Beads

Beads: few cents
Strings: even fewer cents
Human Labour: a specific monetary value if according to capitalist system
The Cross: PRICELESS.

Have we sometimes forgotten the significance and essence of the cross. We wear a cross around our necks but do we bear it in our lives. We hesitate to answer sometimes, don't we. A daily struggle to abide - to deny our names and take up our crosses daily, and follow Him. Oh some words are just so hard to utter. Before God, we simply become speechless. (lest we say the wrong things! =)


"I look beyond the empty cross
Forgetting what my life has cost
And wipe away the crimson stains
And dull the nails that still remain
More and more I need you now
I owe you more each passing hour
And battle between grace and pride
I gave up not so long ago
So steal my heart and take the pain
And wash the feet and cleanse my pride
Take the selfish, take the weak
And all the things I cannot hide
Take the beauty, take my tears
The sin-soaked heart and make it yours
Take my world all apart
Take it now, take it now
And serve the ones that I despise
Speak the Word I can’t deny
Watch the world I used to love
Fall to dust and thrown away"

--- by Jars of Clay in Worlds Apart.

The Salt in Us.

A good friend shared with me something a few days ago. She said there's something about tears that's so beautiful. Although the society judges people who cry as weak and useless, but God keeps count of every tear we shed, same as how He knows every strand of hair each person has.

"Tears are God's gift to us." Aye, it's true. The world despises tears; God comforts the person who cries. The world hides its tears and pretends to be strong; God says in me there is no condemnation, a broken and contrite heart I will not despise.

A tear a day
Washing coloured lenses away
May we see the world through God's eyes
To see the silent cries we hide a
Though sometimes they appear in the night
But darkness surrounds and deceives
Behind close doors is where they should be
Truth is, they only grow in strength
Brokeness. Vulnerability. Meekness.
Tears reveal our condition for healing
Through tears of forgiveness
Healing we shall receive
From God that is, our Restorer.

"Before the world began/ you were on His mind/ And every tear you cry is precious in His eye/ because of His great love/ He gave his only son...."