ah guess wat... i happened to see this piece of article on Yahoo! News..

apparently, there had been a 19 year research done on mortality rates to sleeping hours of people.. and it is noted that people who sleeps less than 5hrs a night would have a 1.7 increase in risk of dying. and it is adviced that we should all have a consistent 7hrs of sleep every night. at the same time, it is oso noted that people who sleeps more than 9hrs a night oso die faster..HA!

sighz...looks like whatever things we do or eat...it'll make us die sooner..haha...life is such an irony..u cant sleep too little or too much....although it is still not confirmed tt sleeping too much would oso alleviate the risk of death...but wat the heck??

evrybody will die someday..its just a matter of how soon is it...and its already pre-determined by God. but it still doesnt mean we could live our life carelessly. i still rmb one pastor tt spoke abt this during service,

"although it is pre-determined my God when we will be called home to our heavenly Father, but if we do not take care of ourselves as normal people should, we would still die before we are supposed to. say for example, if we thnk, 'oh God will protect my child from harm' and even if your child were to run out into the busy road, cars would miraculously miss him? NO. he'll be knocked down..and even die."

when i heard wat the pastor said, i feel that it is really so true. indeed, as in Pastor Jenni's case, if our work on earth is done, we will be called home eventually. but it is provided we take proper responsibility of ourselves for which God had given to us, instead of taking for granted that He will protect us from every harm.

true. many times i had been able to avoid near-misses of serious and not-so-serious accidents alike. and i could sense that it was by His grace that i was protected, but i would still constantly remind myself not to deliberately do anth to endanger my own life.

what's most important is, we should live a life of purpose---God's purpose. Anything that doesn't align with God's will is meaningless. i may be able to say this. but i oso know i'm still far from aligning my will with God's. but i'm definitely working to becoming a more obedient christian. meanwhile, i'm just so thankful that despite being a rather wilful child of God, His tremendous grace shone through in my times of trouble.

it is just so reassuring to know that i have a merciful God who loves me regardless of who i am or how bad i can be.