Three Short Segments - Hospital, grace, trust

Hospital
In a strange hospital there are three kinds of terminally ill patients, one kind refuses to acknowledge they're sick, one kind knows they're sick and celebrates, the last kind takes the medicine.

Grace
I love you when you're good, I love you when you're bad.
But if you never trust me then this love can't be had.

Trust
How much does trust depend on evidence, and how much of it is a leap with understanding coming from the resulting experience? I don't know.

It's foolish to trust someone completely without knowing them and having seen some of their proven character, yet it's equally foolish to doubt everything and always distrust people on contact.

Distrust is often a result of pain, being disillusioned by the past, and bitterness. To break this cycle of death unconditional love is required. But people who can't trust anymore usually don't allow themselves to accept this initially. Keep persevering.

When worlds collide

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Ecclesiastes points to eternity

When asked what their favourite book in the bible is, sometimes people jokingly say Ecclesiastes because it's supposedly a book that paints a bleak picture of life .

But actually Ecclesiastes is a wonderful book because it points to eternal joy.

It is the filtered wisdom of an old man who summarizes his observations and experiences in life.
It describes the cyclic nature of life on earth and the grind of daily work
It describes the long term emptiness of hedonism
It teaches us how to enjoy life and not be self righteously over zealous
It reminds us of the brevity of life and that we will all leave this world one day
It points to life above the sun, where men's all is summed up in fearing God and obeying his commandments.