A peek into Lois' diary:

Ok. I have not typed out anything that has been written in my physical wire-bound diary before but it's something not exactly personal and is something more like a book review cum reflection. So I'll just place it here for some sharing:

8/11/2010 at 1.25am

Not many books nowadays draw my attention like real-life stories (aka autobiographies). I appreciate the styles of writing that 'the Time Traveller's Wife' bring about but nothing beats real life accounts, especially those containing the testimonies of those who have been saved by the blood of Christ. One of those books is called 'Son of Hamas' (which i just finished reading in 3 consecutive days.. man my eyes are tired). I never knew what exactly was this Palestinian/Israeli conflict all about. I thought of Palestinians as encroaching on the land that God gave to Israel as the Promised Land quite some time ago in the Bible and never gave second thought to understand that such a conflict cannot be solved at all (by human means), not only because it is a multi-layered and corrupted one but because the source of all this conflict and any other conflict (for that matter), is not the organizations or the armies per se. It is the sinfulness of man's hearts. And Mosab Hassan Yousef drives this home through his story. It was so poignant at the part where God saved him. Mosab's salvation, like my salvation, is as unthinkable an act of man as it is every inch possible as an act of God.

Now, I pity those students all the more in UCIrvine, protesting for their brothers and sisters in Palestine because half or many even 3/4 or more of them do not know what is the root cause of all the conflict happening half a world away. It is sin at work and it is working in the hearts of the protesters in Irvine, people in the Middle East and even in mine. Only Christ is the potion. To know more about Mosab's book, click here