The winds of fate:

One ship drives East and another drives West
With the selfsame winds that blow
Tis the set of sails
And not the gales
Which tell us the way they go.
Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through the life;
Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal
And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My pastor (of all pple) showed us this poem yest. I felt that his message was very passionate but not very well put. I have a belief that for church, whoever is preaching, or leading worship, should focus on the people, just like a speaker would focus on an audience. and they shoudn't get caught up in their own worship, or their own passion.

but thats not the point.

The point is the message of the poem that counts. I think its brilliant. Its just a way to say, essentially, that your fate is determined by who you are, and not what fate gives you.

I was contemplating if i should spent democracy typing out a literary crtique and explanation of the poem. but i decided against it cos i think any critique would be an insult to the poet, and to the universal, honest and sincere message.

and to a certain extent, cos i believe in the message too.

anyway. i'm in class now. lance says that Bingkai has a act steve msn pic. haha. go check it out!