let's meet by that shore, someday

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

there are some things i want for my birthday that money cant buy and people cant give to me.

but for everything else theres friends :)

thanks for today.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

it's at times like this when trials come in all shapes and sizes that u realise that nothing in your life really belongs to you. your harddrive with all your important projects could crash. an accident could just be waiting around the corner.

or some hairdresser lurking round the corner doesnt really get you when you say 'BU YAO TAI DUAN.'

i am never going back to clementi to cut my hair again.

any recommendations? lol.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Happiness Keeps You Sweet,

Trials Keep You Strong,

Sorrows Keep You Human,

Failures Keep You Humble,

Success Keeps You Glowing,

But Only God Keeps You Going!

i dunno.. but when i read this in the email by sister babes tears just came to my eyes again.. maybe its just because i'm really exhausted again, but i realise how impactful our connection with the people in tuao is.

well i guess when people of such different cultures come together for a short period of emotional high, God really grants us a taste of heaven. yes we do see some areas we envy each other for, our ways of life have their own good points, but also bring with it struggles and challenges that all shape us for eternity.

its really remarkable how God just pulls me up at the moments i feel most in the pits. perhaps this is when i grow the most.

Monday, January 08, 2007

chinese results

well school i must say has been really exhausting and the first few days have left me really drained, with many assignments still on the 'to-do' list.

but i thank God for my chinese results i got back today. i managed to obtain the highest possible grade, which is 7 points for the exam. yes, 255 out of the 271 who took the exam got 7 points too, and the standard of the chinese language wasnt that high, but i really thank God for my grade because it is kind of like a triumph for me. this is the first time 1 john 5:14 - 15 came alive an incident; uncle winston quoted this verse for me on the last night of the mission trip during the affirmations. i did not really take the verse to heart back then, but i memorised it anyway and i really see how powerful it is now.

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything
according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we
ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

before the exam i was praying to God to help me through this exam, and he really did pull me through. right before the release of the results i told myself that whatever grade i got, i would say a prayer immediately to God, through the noise, through the shouts of joy. and now i really feel that i really dont owe my achievement entirely to myself, but that God's hand was firm in guiding me.

schools getting tougher, my body, mind, and emotional level is getting weaker, but it's comforting to know that God knows my weaknesses, and that one day they will all be stripped away.

Monday, January 01, 2007

first post of the year

This is an email that uncle patrick sent to me on new year's day, and i think it was quite appropriate that i post it here:

Isaiah 52:12

Security from Yesterday.
"God requireth that which is past." At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from remembering the yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God's grace is apt to be checked by the memory of yesterday's sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future. God reminds us of the past lest we get into a shallow security in the present.

Security for To-morrow.
"For the Lord will go before you." This is a gracious revelation, that God will garrison where we have failed to. He will watch lest things trip us up again into like failure, as they assuredly would do if He were not our rereward. God's hand reaches back to the past and makes a clearing-house for conscience.

Security for To-day.
"For ye shall not go out with haste." As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, unremembering delight, nor with the flight of impulsive thoughtlessness, but with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us. Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ.

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

Chambers, Oswald (1963). My Utmost for His Highest. Michigan: Discovery House, p. 366.

well i know that the new year will be exciting and all, but i'm not exactly ready to spring into it, one of the reasons being that looking back on the past year, i can just sense the trials and problems that lie ahead, most eminent now the one of unfinished homework. but i'll let the panic attack start on wednesday haha.

2006 has been a great year for the youth, but what i see lies ahead is a great challenge for us. with kelvin handing down his responsibility as our long time youth leader down to a younger group, comes many uncertainties, which do need a lot of prayer. new arrangements for youth class.. great visions, but carrying them out is also a challenge.

so well i'm just going to spend the last 2 days where the concept of strict time is not present resting and recovering, and bracing myself.

cya.

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