posted on: Sunday, December 02, 2007
speaking about blessings. i think i've been really blessed for the past few days. seriously. though i was super duper stretched, but God never short changed me!
was in camp on wed - fri. wahaha, it's been so long since i've had a duty and i gotta send patients in the wee hours of the night. that resulted in me sleeping only a mere 7 hours or so for the 2 days. then on friday i had to wake up in an amazing early timing once again because this super big shot in army was coming to run, thank God he started early and ended early. den i headed off for air rifle training down at safra. basically at this point, i was very tired. whenever i got into a bus, i just sat and dozed off. then from yishun, i was asking telling God, please please please give me a way to get to park way. and God blessed me with info from jiali. i had a good nap all the way from woodlands to parkway. AND GUESS WHAT? out of some sheer coincidence, the bus i took from woodlands to parkway actually passed my house! so i could take that bus home!
during church prayer meet, was reminded about identity. was so refreshed. i asked God, hey i wanna hear from You Boss. like the previous CPM. i wanna hear from You even though i'm so tired. physically that is. the more i praised during cpm, the more freedom i felt. it was amazing. and when the prophecies came. God just reminded me about identity. don't forget where you're headed towards, remember what I've given you. remember what i've called You to do.
wow. and this line of this corinne may song came to my mind.
"tempting me to throw away eternity"
that's totally what satan tries to get us to do, to throw away our eternity.
i tend to forget what i'm doing.
thanks God for the reminder.
anyway, back to the drama of my life. after CPM we had macdonalds. apparently they ran out of curry sauce. i din know that the people around in my table wanted curry sauce, but macs was out of it. den somehow, in my stupor, i found a packet of unopened curry sauce on the floor. =O. then my table was like... CURRY SAUCE! haha, thank You God! that was funny. we happily ate till 12 because we found out that the bus 966 was coming at 1230! plus philo was having a meeting with shuz and all.
woohoo, at 1215, we happily headed to the bus stop. to our horror, the last bus came at 1130. and the bus coming at 1230 was actually gonna terminate at marine parade. nevertheless, we had no other options, thus we just prayed that the bus guide was WRONG. at 1225, we saw a bus down the road! it still had the lights on and all and din say OFF SERVICE. we cheered! for just a moment. then the bus uncle stood up and turned off the sign lights. then me, lays, matthias, lee, philo just stood there and said. OMG.
midnight surcharge plus going to bukit panjang/yishun/woodlands/boon lay = wallets being entirely burnt, not just a small hole. i'm talking about incineration/disintegration. rofl. PLUS WE HAD FIVE PEOPLE. how is matthias or myself gonna like hide or sneak into the cab. but we tried anyway.
GOD BLESSED US. the first cab that we flagged, we asked whether he could take FIVE people, and he said "i just got caught yesterday". meaning, he would actually take us if he din get caught. so we just let the cab go. THEN we saw 36A. den out of some stroke of wisdom, we said HEY LETS GO TOWN TO CAB. then we hopped on and zoomed off to town. den while we were in the bus, God sent some wisdom again and someone said. HEY ITS FRIDAY! NIGHTRIDER!!!
*ding ding ding* so in the end, instead of fire in my wallet, i paid a mere 3 bucks to get home!
THANK YOU GOD. i felt really cared for. and it din just stop there. i dozed off in the bus again. and i just woke up out of the blue right before my stop. it's God cuz i was so tired i could have slept right to the terminal.
in the morning i was supposed to go for choir. by the time i reached home (0130), i was dead tired and sulky. i really din want to go for choir and all. i guess circumstances just overwhelmed me. SORRY LOUIS. in the end, i had some breakfast with my parents first before i headed for choir. reached at 1010 like that. was dozing off the whole day in nexus. haha, den we had filming which resulted in me reaching home at 0100 once again.
for the first time, i'm thankful that i'm in camp. God just let me rest. i slept the whole day today. really, the whole day. i think i've only been awake for 4 hours or something. recharged for the week. time to go for camp =D
p.s. i'm really thankful for the pastoral leadership in minops. shuz, daniel, jem, gwen, philo, eevoon. it's really comforting to know that i'm being prayed for. so to my singers, all 14 of you. know that i'm praying for you guys too.
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