April 23, 2006

Mum & Min

Filed under: General

Had a really great time with Mum today. Felt so pampered. Nagged at her too. hahaha! She makes the best curry in the whole wide world. We just hung out with Freckles (left Orli at home to spend one on one time with GirlGirl), and later on my sis & Cola joined us. Spent some time with Bro too. Praying for their salvation. Esp Mum, and for Bro and Sis to return to God. Want to spend more quality time with them.

Came home and Min smsed, so spent some time catching up with her. Complained that I was feeling neglected by her! hahaha! She said she’s an I so needs more time to herself. So what’s an E like me to do but to complain lor. hahaha! Anyways, a compliment you made tonight redeemed you! hahaha! 
Alrighty going to unwind now. Nite nite my friends…

Ah Jo

Filed under: Reflections

Jo, whom I sometimes call Qiu Yi, is my best friend. I don’t think we go by a day & night without talking to, smsing, msning each other, other than the weekends she abandons me to go diving. HAHA! 

Our friendship has been one of the anchors in my life. It holds me together. 
I’ve been sitting here in the last 30 min trying to describe just how much Jo and our friendship mean to me. Each descriptive phrase seems to describe poorly just how. I will say it plainly. I love you, Jo. You are my best friend. A touch of heaven for me. A friend tailored by God to hear my heartbeat; to share my joys and sorrows, and breakfasts, lunches and dinners, and sometimes suppers; to blade with, and to journey with in our walks with God; to enjoy a deep mutual respect, admiration, affection for each other; to do spontaneous things with each other; to complete each other’s sentences and sometimes derail each other’s train of thoughts; to put on weight together (and to lose it hopefully soon); to sit in silence with hearing the rain fall onto the ground; to share deep thoughts and frivolous ones with; to laugh with to jokes only we both understand; to just spend the time with each other, highlight being the company and not the activities. With you, there are no expectations to fulfill. With you, I am myself, my best and worst self. I am accepted. I am cherished. I am me, but only a better me, because you are my friend, my best friend. 
I love you Jo. If you were a man, I would have married you! hahaha! So Mr I you still have a chance. hahaha!

My GateKeeper

Filed under: Reflections

My mind can be too active. Sometimes the sense I make to myself tears me in a very different direction my heart wants to make; these two organs always make indefatigable pursuits unauthorised by me hahaha! The decision-making process I go through was always weighted and conflicted. Thank God He broke the vicious cycle! What a burden lifted! My mind’s renewed and heart set free! I’ve learnt to watch out for the movements of my heart, let go of stray thoughts, reject Satan’s condemning and suggestive whisperings, tune into the still small voice which is calming and brings peace. It’s pure and sweet abandonment. My mind hasn’t stopped thinking, my heart hasn’t stopped feeling, but now I’ve handed the key over to my Gatekeeper.

This Liz Elliot’s devotion sums up how I feel now looking back at the last few weeks of God’s work in progress.

Will God Explain Why?

We sometimes imagine that God must eventually "sit us down" and "explain" his mysterious ways to our satisfaction. Let us suppose we have never seen a skyscraper. We discover a whole city block surrounded by a board fence. Finding a knothole, we peer inside. Huge earth movers are at work; hundreds of men in hard hats are busy at mysterious tasks; cranes are being moved into place; truckloads of pipes and cement are being unloaded. What on earth is happening? There is nobody around to answer our questions. If we wait long enough, nobody will need to. When we see the finished building, all the incomprehensible activity becomes comprehensible. "Oh! So this is what that was for."

stitches & sense

Filed under: Brain Surgery

Pastor Kai had all of us in stitches today! Ask me about it!

Just wanna blog 3 things that stayed with me.
1) They have form but no substance.
2) The greatest moment was not when man first walked on the moon. The greatest moment was when God walked on earth.
3) Happy Meals (gonna ask Ps Kai email me this poignantly hilarious article). When we are older, we are not wiser. Our happy meals just get more expensive. 

little surprises

Filed under: Reflections, Sing Praise

Whole week, this song "Through it All" has been on my mind, in my heart. Today it was sung in worship. Oh, how sweet it felt…

Yesterday afternoon, a friend sent me a song, Your Grace Still Amazes Me by Phillips, Craig and Dean. It ushered in God’s presence unexpectedly. It compelled me to put my book down, close my eyes and just bask in God’s sweet lingering presence. Tears brimmed my eyes. My heart was moved. My hair stood on ends. My heart swelled. Tears trickled down my cheeks… In it contains 3 thoughts that were deposited in my heart all week. That the best place to be is on my knees; that God is the author of my life; that God’s love is mysterious and a wonder to me each time I enter His presence, & what else can I do but praise Him. All 3 in that song.

My faithful Father, enduring Friend
Your tender mercy’s like a river with no end
It overwhelms me, covers my sin
Each time I come into Your presence
I stand in wonder once again

CHORUS:
Your grace still amazes me
Your love is still a mystery
Each day I fall on my knees
Your grace still amazes me
‘Cause Your grace still amazes me

Oh, patient Saviour, You make me whole
You are the Author and the Healer of my soul
What can I give You, Lord, what can I say
I know there’s no way to repay You
Only to offer You my praise

It’s deeper, it’s wider
It’s stronger, it’s higher
It’s deeper it’s wider
It’s stronger, it’s higher
than anything my eyes can see

Front Row & Socks

Filed under: General, Woof!

I LOVE MY IMAC!! Particularly Front Row! While in bed as I woke up this morning, I reached my hand over for the remote control (iMac comes with 1 YES!), hit the play button, and was serenaded by Marti Webb as I hid under the comforter watching the dogs wrestle each other, with a blissful smile on my face, laughing to myself as they tumbled and rumbled with each other wearing a silly grin on their own faces. This blissful moment was broken when I saw what they were tugging!! My Reebok socks!! hahaha! They brought the socks to me as requested, only because they thought I wanted to join in the game! hahaha! I love my dogs. I looove loooove loooove my dogs!






















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