the wait

Waiting is our destiny as creatures who cannot by themselves bring about what they hope for.
We wait in the darkness for a flame we cannot light,
We wait in fear for a happy ending we cannot write,
We wait for a not yet that feels like a not ever.
Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

How long will the wait be? What does it take to wait well?

A Red Sea Place

Have you come to the Red Sea place in your life,
Where in spite of all you can do,
There is no way out, there is no way back,
There is no other way but through?
Then wait on the Lord with a trust serene
Till the night of your fear is gone;
He will send the wind, He will heap the floods,
When He says to your soul "Go on."

And His hand will lead you through - clear through -
Ere the watery walls roll down,
No foe can reach you, no wave can touch,
No mightiest sea can drown;
The tossing billows may rear their crests,
Their foam at your feet may break,
But over their bed you shall walk dryshod
In the path that your Lord will make.

In the morning watch, ‘neath the lifted cloud,
You shall see but the Lord alone,
When He leads you on from the place of the sea,
To a land that you have not known;
And your fears shall pass as your foes have passed,
You shall no more be afraid;
You shall sing His praise in a better place,
A place that His hand has made.

-Annie Johnson Flint-

testing

Went to my cousin's studio yesterday night to record her dance for a performance assessment (i think). Anyway, while she was practicing, I was just testing out my new lens.. At last.. I'm truly amazed by it's performance for such a price. I've been waiting for a review from FM on this product but the product was never updated till two days ago (already bought the lens by then). Great and affordable lens.

Through the glass from the studio

Flowers from afar

think simple

This is a story shared by my company's Executive Director yesterday. Very interesting though some of you might have had read before.

" Back when NASA started launching manned spacecraft in the 1960s, they found out that the astronauts couldn’t use pens to write with while in space. The ink wouldn’t flow down through the pen in a zero-gravity environment. NASA decided to retain a man named Paul Fisher to design a pen that would work in space. A mere $1.5 million later, they had a solution. NASA now had a pen that worked in zero gravity, in a vacuum, and in a drastic temperature range. The Russian cosmonauts had the same problem, of course. So they used a pencil. "

According to what is written below, it seems like the story was exaggerated. Which is true? I don't know. This is just what I found on the net.

Now, this anecdote isn’t historically accurate, and has become a bit of an urban legend. The truth is both the US and Russia used pencils at first, and Paul Fisher independently created the pen and sold 400 of them to NASA for a song. The reason the exaggerated story is so widely embraced, though, is because it rings true.

Moral of the Story:
We often expend large amounts of time and effort creating elaborate solutions to problems when a simple answer is right under our noses.

On a Hill Far Away..

Taken nearby Rumah Rehat Adeline, Gopeng