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It's been a while since i've written anything on my blog. I mean, i felt, there never really was a need to write one. What with the ease and use of facebook, who needs a blog nowadays?

But i've come to realise, this is for me. And for those who read them still.
This is where my thoughts and my heart are laid bare. And it remains for keeps. Not overshadowed after a day or two by new and more recent news feeds.

Anyway, i got my 'mojo' back (sorry to borrow a line from you, Austin Powers).
I'm in the mood to write again.

Lately, i keep finding friends from high school on facebook. And it brings back sooo many memories of our younger years. Remember our slum book years? Questions we try to wittingly answer hoping our future would turn out to be so. Oh well, now i see these friends of mine, and it puts a big smile on my face how we all turned out to be. After more than 10years, its great to know we still look the same (well, some of us anyway). Ha ha!

But what i wanted to really talk about is the thing that's bugging me.

Assumptions and how it can make or break a man.

One makes assumptions without facts and believes it to be so. Therefore bringing in doubts and suspicions that causes one to distrust the other.

I see this all the time. In my family, this was the cause of my parent's distrust for one another. With some group of friends, it causes disunity and within a relationship, it breaks it apart.

Now, we all make assumptions. Whether in big or small ways, its our nature to do so. We assume, mom will not allow us to go out so we sneak out instead. Or we assume the baby is hungry so we overfeed him.
We make so many assumptions, in the end it burns us out from worrying and deep thinking. What if?!?

Some assumptions aren't further from the truth. Some could have some truth in it but without real honest facts, how can you be so sure?

I guess that's where honesty comes in. How can you go wrong if you don't wander from the truth? And how can you know the truth if you don't ask? Or speak what's on your mind so you can talk about it. There's nothing more honest than taking the route to humility. Admitting that you've made assumptions doesn't make you lesser of a man. Talking about your doubts opens up the other to see his/ her faults. What if you were wrong all along?

As for me, it all depends on how much you trust and love a person. I do believe any doubts and fears can be overcome with the confidence that God alone can give.

I'm just grateful that despite of my shortcomings and weaknesses, He remains.
His love does endure forever.

Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs. (NIV)

1 Corinthians 13
Love never fails....And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (NIV)

Psalm 15
LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill? He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman, who despises a vile man but honors those who fear the LORD, who keeps his oath even when it hurts..... He who does these things will never be shaken.