wedding bands check! a rainbow! grim reminder

Yes, wedding bands have been purchased. we simply haven't engraved anything yet.

The bands themselves were a blessing from God as they fitted all our requirements. Asymmetrical, two tone and affordable. They were more than affordable really. =) So praise God for such a steal!

last friday I had quite an upsetting day at work and tho i was fine soon after the incident, mood wasn't in tip top form. but as i took a four bus stop ride from my office to the mrt, i looked out (i usually never look out that way cos the bus is usually empty and i'm standing at the no chair area looking to the right of the bus). and the minute i looked out of the window, there was a rainbow. we often lament abt the LAST time we saw a rainbow... but as i stared at it, admiring its colours and the significance of seeing the rainbow that particular day, i wonder if i've missed out the many rainbows in my life simply because i never looked.

yesterday i got a mail that really affected me. i'm sure some of you have received it before. i'm usually unaffected by forwarded mails, often i hardly even open them. but i was clearing my inbox yesterday so opened one or two forwarded mails. this one, showed people starving till they were literally skin and bones. one was of a child, maybe even a baby... but the thing that shook me, that though the child had such young eyes, it was no better than a skeleton with skin. the pulitzer prize-winning photo of a vulture waiting for a baby to die was also depressing. the photographer committed suicide three months after the photo from depression. not sure if it was related. could be, couldn't it?

so i decided, enough with wasting food and water. we really should conserve what we can and not take all that we have for granted. shame on me who always leaves a pile of rice on the plate. shame on me for turning my nose up at vegetable dishes. shame on me for not finishing the water i've poured into my cup. every grain of rice, every drop of water's so precious and can never be gotten back once wasted.

it was a grim reminder at how i take the life i lead for granted. so the next time you go order your lunch or dinner, don't over order. there really are starving people dying everyday.

i thank God for providing for me. I thank Him for opening my eyes to see how i've wasted His many blessings each time i throw good edible food away. i'm appalled i resorted to extreme measures to lose weight in the past, when there are people who don't even have any flesh to keep them warm.

may we all learn how to fully appreciate what the Lord has blessed us in abundance with and always think of our actions so that we won't waste.