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Learn to Starve Yourself

Before their hands withhold the plate, Before you're taught that hunger's fate, Learn to dine on less than full, To tame the beast, to break the pull. When crumbs are kings and silence feasts, You’ll find your strength among the least. A man who’s fasted tastes the air, Yet walks with calm through lean despair. Let discipline become your bread, And self-control the path you tread. For those who feast at others' cost Will leave you starving, cold, and lost. So train your gut to not depend On every gift that others send. Choose now the hunger you embrace— Or else be emptied in disgrace. Freedom wears a lighter frame, It does not beg, it plays no game. To starve by will is not to lose— It is the fiercest strength you choose.

Kamalizaman



They said that the person Kamalizaman looked up to was able to accomplish much because no one told her she couldn't do it. That's strange! We live in a world whereby everyone is guilty of saying, "You can't do that!" The guilty party argues that it's a reflex action. His [Kamalizaman's] followers like to dispute about it. Their remarks imply it's a premeditated act. Does this mean that someone can deliberately say, "You cannot create an effective story while keyboarding within an active internet connection since you'll be overwhelmed with distractions. You have to pen it on paper, and then transfer your masterpiece to the computer as soon as you are done" --- huh?

It took Kamalizaman ages to understand that people have differently wired personal philosophies. Ruth was his heroine, his blueprint, and the boost to his ego. She started large-scale commercial poultry farming with just a feather! Kamalizaman doesn't know how she did it; he has a track record in believing the things that don't make sense. Apparently that's what makes him stand out. The public believes in what makes sense, but Kamalizaman consciously chooses to never follow the crowd.

He [Kamalizaman] believes in the God of miracles. Is anything too hard for God? Isn't He able to transform a feather into a large-scale commercial poultry farm? He's able to do it without effort. You got zip, huh? Does your mother-in-law call you a zero? Rejoice, you nada! Christ Jesus seeks and saves the zilch. Lord Jesus Christ takes your nil and replaces it with abundance of life.

Kamalizaman understands that there's no reward in believing the things that make sense. Ruth asserts that sense focuses on the physical, and every physical thing is temporal. The spiritual existed before the physical. Miracles are spiritual. It's hard to understand the spiritual by using physical resources [such as logic]. On the other hand, what makes sense needs no faith. Where there's no faith, there are no rewards. So, Kamalizaman continually chooses to believe in our God of miracles, especially when He performs miracles that don't make sense.

Now, his [Kamalizaman's] followers know that you've heard about the miracles performed by our God of miracles: raising the dead, turning water into wine, making a way [dry land] through the Red Sea, perfectly forgiving the unlovable, healing all the sick that came to Him [God of miracles], protecting Ruth from naysayers, transforming a feather into a large-scale commercial poultry farm... just to name a few. It's the miracles of God that lead you to give thanks. 

Thanksgiving is faith in action indeed, and that is life. They used to tell us 'When God does miracles you don't ask how, you just give thanks' but we never listened to understand. Touché!

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