Erling Thu

Category: Relationship

  • Connecting people

    To be somebody is being in the business
    Of connecting people and
    Allowing yourself to be connected to people
    – Constantly reaching out to others
    – Constantly breaking down barriers
    – Constantly jumping over walls
    – Constantly removing borders
    Receiving and giving spiritual insight
    Leaving comments and responding to e-mails
    Talking on the phone and sending SMS messages
    Touching, hugging and kissing
    As you generously encourage others
    Blessing them with your big smile
    Accepting them for what they are
    Receiving them into your heart
    Lifting them up to God in prayer
    Allowing God to speak to you
    Through those who are different from you

    Great people have the capacity
    Of being joined in heart with a diversity of people
    Each time they enter a covenant relationship
    By the uniting Spirit of God
    Their capacity for connecting with others is being enlarged

  • Failing to stand up for the right values

    To be human is to speak
    Big words about yourself
    But still being scared
    Of lifting a single finger
    Against injustice
    In your own environment
    In that way a somebody turns out to be a nobody

    Failing to stand up for justice
    Failing to fight for the downtrodden
    Failing to speak for the voiceless
    Failing to meet the need in front of your eyes
    Failing to show loyalty to friends
    – because they have become unpopular with the majority
    Failing to practice love
    Failing to speak the truth
    Failing to defend the accused
    Failing to do your best to change yourself and society

    Not taking the appropriate action
    Quickly reduces you to a normal human nobody
    But acting according to divine values
    Put you on the path of becoming somebody

  • Creativity and beautiful living

    To be somebody is to create life
    In the virtual world or by physical material
    It is to give it a new form
    That touches other people’s lives
    Because it stirs their emotions
    Speaking with or without words
    Making the imagination pregnant
    Releasing exuberant joy
    And fruitful ideas of the heart
    Generating new forms of life

    To be somebody is releasing others into creative living
    By rejecting the self-absorbed life
    For a life of generosity and nobility
    The great things of a creative life
    Come out of small acts of faithfulness and love
    Every creative act is created in a generous heart
    Not out of selfishness or self-indulgence
    Creativity and generosity always result in a work of beauty

  • Having young people for dinner

    To be somebody is having young people
    Eating dinner with you in your home
    And enjoying their company
    Sharing our life with one another
    As we talk of many different aspects
    Of our life with God and our families

    To be somebody is enjoying
    Interaction with grown up people
    Belonging to a different generation
    That could have been our own children
    But not noticing age at all
    Because we all enjoy being God’s children
    Having fun together
    Appreciating one another’s company

  • Being married

    To be somebody is to be married
    Because marriage is a risky enterprise
    To marry is to dare to commit yourself
    – to another person for life just because of love
    To marry is to renounce a life of sovereign decision making
    And to embrace the views and opinions of another person
    Before any decisions are made – together!
    To marry is to dare to open up your life
    And fully share it with the one you love!

    To be somebody is to stay married
    In spite of differences and conflicting interests
    In the faithfulness and loyalty of love
    You will find strength and wisdom
    To overcome the biggest obstacles
    And fight through the battles to win the war of Love
    By laying down your life
    To make your marriage partner happy

    To be somebody is being married
    And enjoy every minute
    As you find your way – together

  • Leaving an impression

    To be somebody is to leave an impression
    Of depth and purity, integrity and love
    On the people you spend time with
    It is to make a lasting impression
    On precious people created in the image of God
    As you touch them with your life
    Of honesty and transparency
    Even though they seem indifferent to you

    To be somebody is to leave a beautiful mark
    Of the loving presence of God
    On persons you interact with

  • Living beyond self-interest

    To be somebody is to live beyond self-interest
    Knowing that you are sent on a mission
    Knowing that your life has a purpose
    Knowing why you are here
    Not living for yourself but for something greater than yourself
    Not living for self-interest but for the will of God
    Not living for your own honour but to glorify God

    Those who do the works they are sent to do
    Are really somebody who have achieved a lot in life
    For they have embraced the cross
    And died to themselves
    To become something for others