Hey guys...
It's past midnight, so... today is the day of graduating!
Where we are getting our masters in love. =)
Say it like you mean it when you've done day 40.
I am a master of love. =)

After learning 38 days about love, today we learn how we should not be slaves to our mind..
our dreams and ideal thinking.
I guess this past 38 days, we have already learnt about God's love...
We have already learnt about the ideal love.
We can probably picture in our head what the perfect life would be like.

But today, I urge you not to be enslaved by your ideals, for you are just creating an idol to worship.

You know like how when you set targets you can't achieve, you just start to feel dejected since you'll never be able to achieve them anyway?
Like during this revision period, you've set yourself an unrealistic study plan to follow, and when you don't manage to accomplish it, you've suddenly lose your motivation to study?
Similarly, when you set unrealistic targets for things that are going to happen in your life, you start to become slaves to it.

And when we set unrealistic expectations, we become slaves to the ideal situation that we would like to have.
As a result, we fail to see what we already have in our lives..
and when that happens, we fail to see the blessings that God has already blessed us with, and we will not be ready to receive the blessings that He is going to bless us with!

I remember last year, I went to watch a movie called Tropic Thunder...
I read the reviews, it was good.
I read the internet webbie, reviews were good too..
like the really good reviews that seem to be 5 star movies...
I started to have high expectations for it, and expected to be wow-ed by the movie...
but apparently, someone didn't show me the script...
I watched the movie, but came out feeling a little disappointed.
It was a good movie, but not as good as I expected.

When we have high expectations, it takes the joy out of the thing.
I had high expectations for the movie, but came out disappointed, even though it was a good movie.
When we concentrate on the ideal, we miss the real.
We miss the things that God wants us to experience.
The things that we ought to experience in our relationships.
It's easy to criticise, but is it as easy to give thanks for the things that happen in our lives?

Stop criticising and trying to perfecting the things in our lives.
Instead, start to give thanks for the things that happen in our lives, and how we can learn from it.
We are not perfect humans.
Everything will be less than ideal.
But when we acknowledge the things that happen in our lives are part of God's plan, and these are the things that he want for us to experience... the great things...
We will start to give thanks, without even thinking twice.
We will start to give thanks to He who is perfect, and not be kept from the joy of the world.
The false image that we built will not be be a wall which keeps us from experiencing the real things in life.
When we keep it real, we start to see the changes in our life, and the great things that happen.
Don't wait for the ideal to happen!
Give thanks to what's happening, and has already happened, and then do something in your love, and begin to love. =)

From me to you,
Lots of love and care...
Keeping it real no matter what...
You are beautiful, because you are a creation of God, and no one can take the joy of that away from you.

Johnson... =)
Lots of love...