i'll be your vanilla ice cream and i'll sing you lullabies

I don't know how to do this without being preachy. I don't even want to sound preaching or to sound like a goody-two-shoes. But this philosophy has been helping me a lot whenever I find myself overwhelmed with either positive or negative feelings.

Here it is:

Whatever you're dealing with, be it happiness or sadness, it all belongs to The One and Only (a.k.a. God). The luxuries you have, it can be easily taken away when God wants to. So do the tragedies. We're better off thinking that everything we have in life is.. God's deposits for us to manage and use well (and yes, that includes our disadvantages). Bottom-line, nothing is truly ours to begin with. (bahkan pahala dan dosa aja bukan kita yang menentukan kan? apalagi barang-barang yang ga bisa dibawa ke liang kubur)

Anyway,

Dad said yesterday that he heard Mom's voice whispering to his right ear while he was doing the morning prayer. He said that the voice told him not to go with this woman who is interested in meeting him to 'form a new family' (if you get what I mean) and he did what the voice told him to.

I'm not a big fan of supernatural phenomenon like this, but I always believe in my dad every time he talks about these things. I think it's nice when you get the answer for the question that's been nagging you. Especially when you believe that it comes from a divine power. That way you have more faith in what you do next, even though you may not exactly understand why. It's what I've been looking for in these couple of days.

But maybe I have to be as wise and religious as my dad before I get the answer...