It's a latitude where you can't tell
whether you're living in dreams or reality
Or ever floating in-between
People say life is but a dream, but these days
I am unsure which is which

Reached up my hand, through the water's surface
into thick air, that felt void
my body hanging mid air

A city of smog underneath
Bustling in an awful silence
Blood trickles down my toes
Drips down, vanishes in the clouds
wait
One drop fell on a man's head
Down his hair, into his scalp

Still he went about his business
Not knowing

Highly Recommended Read:
John Piper explains why Calvinists are so Negative
By Ben Witherington III

Anita's response:
For many years I disliked Calvinists.

I knew a few Calvinists who were gracious and humble. And yet, most Reformed churchgoers seemed to take great pride in their ministers' expertise in explaining the wrongs and degrading other churches. Alas, many of their youths too had followed in that step and adopted the angry and arrogant "we know therefore we are best" attitude. Only less than a year ago I spoke with a 17-year-old who claimed that his Reformed church had the license for arrogance. I was shocked. What has the Doctrine of Grace become?

Even after I 'became' a Calvinist - I consider myself inter-denominational but attend Christian Studies lectures and Sunday services at a Calvinist church - I still am uncomfortable with the apparent smugness of many Calvinist/Reformed believers.

I would not have become a Calvinist myself had I not listened to (now) my pastor at a seminar in February 2008. During the four hour lecture and discussion about Love, Christian worldview and Post-Modernism, he did not even once trampled other denominations' dignity while maintaining his strong Reformed faith.

Ben Witherington III:
"All too often, the apparent intellectual coherency of a theological system is taken as absolute and compelling proof that this view of God, salvation,the world must be true and all others be heresy, to one degree or another. But it is perfectly possible to argue logically and coherency in a hermeneutical or theological circle with all parts connected, and unfortunately be dead wrong-- because one drew the circle much too small and left out all the inconvenient contrary evidence. This sort of fault is inevitable with theological systems constructed by finite human beings ... The truth of God and even of the Bible is much larger than anyone's ability (or any collection of human being's abilities) to get their mental calipers so firmly around it that one could form it into a 'coherent theological system' without flaws, gaps, or lacunae ... in the end our posture should be that of Anselm -- 'fides quaerens intellectum' faith seeking understanding, not 'intellectus quaerens fidium' Understanding seeking and defining and limiting faith." (read more)

13Hakuna jaribu lo lote lililowapata ambalo si la kawaida kwa wanadamu. Na Mungu ni mwaminifu; hata- ruhusu mjaribiwe kupita uwezo wenu. Lakini mnapojaribiwa atawapa na njia ya kutokea ili mweze kustahimili.
1 Wakorintho 10:13

Oh, that was in Swahili. Maybe this one:

13πειρασμος υμας ουκ ειληφεν ει μη ανθρωπινος πιστος δε ο θεος ος ουκ εασει υμας πειρασθηναι υπερ ο δυνασθε αλλα ποιησει συν τω πειρασμω και την εκβασιν του δυνασθαι υμας υπενεγκειν
ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡΙΝΘΙΟΥΣ Α΄ 10:13

Or this?

13 你 們 所 遇 見 的 試 探 ， 無 非 是 人 所 能 受 的 。 神 是 信 實 的 ， 必 不 叫 你 們 受 試 探 過 於 所 能 受 的 ； 在 受 試 探 的 時 候 ， 總 要 給 你 們 開 一 條 出 路 ， 叫 你 們 能 忍 受 得 住 。
歌 林 多 前 書 10:13

Different versions, same concern: the way out - how, where, and when exactly?