It's been a hard day's night ...

6:00 am Alarm goes off. Eyes closed. "Good morning Lord!"

6:30 am Eyes half closed. "Kurabarashandarabashikara ..."

7:00 am
God I pray that this day will go exactly as you have planned. ... (nodding, nodding, nodding) ... Help me see life through your eyes and do the things that matters most to you ... but yet, there are things that needs to be done to get by ... (nodding, nodding, nodding)

7:30 am
Reading Leviticus 25:1-7 ... Leviticus 26:27-35 ... Leviticus 26:40-45 ... I believe God is saying to his people to let the land/servants rest from producing and labor. This is a commandment of the Lord, to practice the Sabbath. Rest.

8:00 am
Reading "Alliances ... MNCs must, therefore, maintain important relationships ..." (YAWN) ... ... ... ... off to work!

12:30 pm
Lunching ... and reading "Alliances ... MNCs must, therefore, maintain important relationships and build new ones ...." Finished my kuey teow noodle soup. "Oh hi Mala! So glad you could rush over to hand me my stuff ..."

7:55 pm
In front of the TV ... and reading, once again, ... "Alliances ... MNCs must, therefore, maintain important relationships and build new ones in times of crisis."

9:00 pm
Halfway through American Idol and still trying to read "Alliances ... MNCs must, therefore, maintain important relationships and build new ones in times of crisis. This may require compromising short-term profitability to facilitate the survival of allies, ..."

10:00 pm
American Idol ends. I am so happy that the final two blue collar workers pitted against one another and the both of them got in! ... Reading ... "Alliances ... MNCs must, therefore, maintain important relationships and build new ones in times of crisis. This may require compromising short-term profitability to facilitate the survival of allies, through channeling sales or resources to key partners, providing greater or more generous credit or long-term loans, and investing in partners."

Golly, after reading those couple of sentences for fifth time throughout the course of the day, I finally realize that perhaps God is trying to tell me something ...

1. That "resting" in front of the TV was much needed ...

2. that in times of crises, certain relationships are key to our survival - God tops the list.

3. Don't be judgmental. Be open to new relationships that come our way - not necessary the most obvious, perhaps the "obviously nots" ...

4. Your decision to befriend the "impossibles" or "the less likely" may set you back a couple, a few, many steps and not make sense in the eye's of the world, ... But it's the right thing, in God's eyes and for the longer term.

Why?

Because we don't necessarily see ahead but God does.

Well, very few saw this global crisis coming. God did.

God causes certain ones to make seemingly odd decisions, and surely those would prove to be the right and wiser decisions in the end.

The proud are humbled.

The humble are called to rise up and seize the opportunities.

And yet the God-fearing shall say, "Lord, not my will, but yours be done!"

Golly ... It's been a hard day's night, and I have been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night, and I should be sleeping like a log ...
Lalalalalalala ... lalalalalala ... will make me feel alright.