a realisation

yesterday, while we were driving to school, dad told me about the three christians who were martyred in Turkey. Up till now, ive told htis story about five times to other people because unlife what i've read, it was really gruesome and evil. i've read plenty of Jesus Freak books, talking about people who are martyred and do incredible things to stand for Jesus, but nothing could perpare me for this story.

on April 18th 2007, two missionaries and a pastor was martyred in the most gruesome way possible. but, lets go back a little bit..

these three courageous men ran a bible study every week for a group of uni students, even though they faced persecution. little did they know that these uni students were actually extreme muslims who were planing a plot against them. these uni students were plotting to kill the three men. so, one day, they tied them up and killed them. but they didnt just shoot them; oh no! they did something much worse.. they cut each and every of those men into pieces. small pieces and they let them slowly die. one of these men were found with 167 stab wounds (or something like that), another, about the same, and the third, too many stab wounds to count! the men who had plotted to kill against them were arrested, and put into jail, but, their parents of these young men said that they were proud their boys could do it for allah, and it didnt matter that they were going to prison. the wife of one of the men who were killed came out and said something that im not usre i couldve said," god, forgive them, because they dont know what they have done!"

but what i take out most from this story is..

if i was one of those men.. would i have had to courage to stand up for jesus knowing that i face the most gruesome death? would i have stood up for my faith?

on a more happier note..
i was glad to have spent some time with God today, and thanking Him for the beautiful things he has made. i was riding my bike (exercise for our PE theory assignment!) to the milkbar and back and while i was doing so, there was the most beautiful sunset i'd seen. this reminded me of how awesome and great God is. (just something for you all to think about)

on a lighter note..
i did something very interesting today! i developed my very first roll of film! with chemicals and everything in the darkroom at school today for photography. that was quite fun! we had to roll the film onto the spool and put it into the large canister while it was pitch dark and we couldnt see anything! it was a bit stressful i must admit cos we didnt wanna wreck our film. but we did it, then, we had to use the developer, stopbath and fixer and then rinse with water after that. then we had to hang it up to dry. it was lots of fun though and i found it very interesting!

anyway, i have decided to start a photo of the week thing seeing that this whole blog is very photo-ish.. this one is of me and my cousins when we were little =] i think it was taken in about 1998. from left; me, aaron, dave, donny haha.