Does God Exist?

A university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists?
A student bravely replied yes, he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes, sir," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are then God is evil."
The student became quiet before such an answer.

The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?" "Of course", replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody and every object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have too little heat.

The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does".

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. "These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love, that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The young mans name --- Albert Einstein

A Piece of Something

While I was walking, I stopped for a while and thought of the things I don't have. Then I realized that the happiest moment of all people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it. Moreover, its also true that we don't know we've been missing until it arrives.

In the gate way of my heart, I put a sign that says "NO TRESSPASSING" but love came laughing and said "I ENTER EVERYWHERE". Love knows no reason, love knows no lies, and love defies all reason. Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find that you still care for that person. Love is supposed to be a wonderful feeling. It should inspire you and give joy and strength. But sometimes the things that give you joy and strength can also hurt you in the end.

When you love, you must not expect something in return; if you do, you're not loving but investing. If you love, you must prepare to accept pain. Don't go for looks, it can deceive you; don't go for wealth even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile, because only a smile makes a dark day seem bright.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Never try to impress someone to make her/him fall in love with you because when you do you'll have to keep that standard for the rest of your life.

A sad thing about life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, you'll find out then or in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let her/him go. Maybe GOD wants us to meet a few wrong person, we should know to be grateful for the gift. We often don't see that person and that we don't always get what we want, but in the end of it all, we realize that what we wanted wasn't meant for us after all. Everything happens for a reason. When you fall down because you didn't get what you wanted, just sit, fight and be happy because God's thinking of something better for you.

It hurts to love someone and not being loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel. It's always better to have found the courage to love even if you lose it in the end than rather never finding love at all because we're too afraid to face its challenges. The greatest regrets in your life and our lives are the risks we did not take. If you are thinking something will make you happy, go for it. Remember that you pass this way only once.

GOD never closes the door without opening a window. He always gives us something better when he takes something away. Heartbreaks will last as long as you want and cut deep as you allow them to go; challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks but learn from them. In a relationship god knows when you're hurting or crying. There you are given a chance to measure the importance of the relationship of the person and for yourself. When you grow, you don't become a better person, because you experience suffering. We have no right to ask when sorrow comes "Why this happened to me" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.

The reason god puts tears in your eyes is because he wants to put rainbow in your heart.

Words that are Silently Meant for You

Long ago I stopped saying all the tiny things I wanted to say. I figured that if someone wanted to hear them, they would pluck them from my thoughts and listen from my eyes.

The trouble with this is that when I need to say them now, I find myself all stutters and mumbles and under-my-breath-i-love-you’s, and none of the right words are loud enough.

I have never said them loud enough because I was so always afraid of the noise, Because so many people are shouting these things when they don’t really mean them, and i-love-you’s string across roads like electrical wires. Too commonplace, unfelt and fake.

What happens when I say these things and they are drowned out by everyone else’s noise?

She has figured out already that I am not going to come shouting about how I love her or want her or that I don’t want to live in this world without her. She knew all of this things from the beginning anyway. The day I summoned all my courage and gave her my heart, she figured out all of my secrets right then and there. And I never needed to say a word.

She knows how to harvest the things that I am thinking and keep them in boxes and letters and unsigned doodles and someday, she might write a book about it.

She already knows that just by taking her hand I am saying more than just “I love you” and that I am finding a way to say it without sounding trite. She already knows that by brushing my fingers through her hair and resting my chin in her shoulder that I think she is beautiful.

Because the words are already there, repeated in glances and in touches and effortless breaths of everyday love, They don’t need sound frequencies or echoes because they will come in much louder and clearer without them.

It is understood and I never needed to say the words.

Her Protestations Notwithstanding

You deny that I have the keys for all of your locks
but close your eyes and remember the feel of it:

My lips on your ankle.

Is there any door of yours I cannot open?

How about all those times you've looked at me,
And then the times when you couldn't look at all?
You know those moments, as well as I do--
Your protestations notwithstanding,
You gave yourself into them the same--
As you give yourself in other ways, sometimes, still.

You know those moments, not as well as I do--
Moments I couldn't forget, or forgive myself if I did--
When you turned your head or turned your eyes,
Put your hands on your hips and rolled to one foot,
And had a smile find its way to your lips,
With a question asked less innocent than not.

You know those moments, not as well as me,
Because as you told me before, this can't be,
And what you said before, you can’t say anymore,
And what happened before, can't happen anymore,
Or be remembered, at least by you, or
Be told to you, at least by me.

I remember all your smiles, you know,
And store each one away. Some I write down,
And keep others near. Most aren't mine--
Or ours--to be shared, which I find I forget,
Which I hope you’ll forgive, as I remember them only
When remembering you.

I remember you still--but think I ought not--
Before you had told me, no--we should not.
It's just as it's said: “Nothing good seems to last”--
It pains me the same to see you leaving so fast.
But you don't know that, not as I do--
You never will--I can never remind you.