Sunday, November 26, 2006
Spread the Lovemorning sun is shining bright
the flowers in pretty hue
but in her eyes its beauty
that she never knew
she says maybe just someday
when God would hear my prayer
i'd have eyes to see His
wonders laid out there
there would be no tears
no more hurt or pain
joy is all there is
the world a better place
share the love
give a little precious time to care
or simple just to be there
lend a hand
everyone needs someone to lean on
so be a friend today
show someone a better day
a little boy hides in his corner
in the dark back lane
got his box for shelter
to hide from cold and shame
all this will come to an end
that soon someday shall come
when my momma finally
finds and takes me home
there would be no tears
no more hurt or pain
joy is all there is
the world a better place
lyrics & vocalist by Christella Loomusic by Geoffrey Awa song to remember. One day, i will want to present this song. anyway, thanks Joyce for helping me and digging out the root prob yesterday. I really appreciate it super much. (:
"for i am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. i have fought the good fight, i have finished the race,i have kept the faith. now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day - and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing."2 Timothy 4: 6-8
i want to hear God affirming me. Amen.
at 9:13 PM
Friday, November 24, 2006
A Love-Filled email.A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and howthings were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil,without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see."
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity - boiling water. Each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.
The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter.
"When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?"
Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with theheat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, It releases the fragrance and flavor.
If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.
When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; They just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
May we all be COFFEE!
Thanks mom for sending me this email. (: I LOVE MY MOMMY.
at 11:02 PM
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
being salt&light for Jesus.this phrase. really so tough to put into practice in working life. haha! many times i imagine if Jesus is this situation wat will he do. . . .*bow down to Jesus* many times i struggle btw the questions, would i work for a job that the pay is low but i am happy OR a job that the pay is good but you aren't happy. . .which one will you choose?
i really like what veron mention during jamming. if God takes away my voice, still i am a child of God. how true how true. (: my dream is to travel to sing and spread God's love! how to work towards it? dunno. HAHAHAHA. but well, ask & you will receive, seek & you will find, knock & the door will be open. the secret to being a good musician & singer for God? --------->>>>> LOVE God with all your heart, mind & soul.
i must love God more than singing. (">)
2007 is approaching. what are my plans? well, i am not sure yet. hehe~
becoming 21 in 4 weeks time.
at 9:19 PM
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Sunday. ^____^was reading veron's blog. HOW I WISH I WENT TO THE LC. 4 years in Hope, I NV GO FOR ANY LC OR THAI CAMP. can you believe it. . . . .
but o wellz. . .
last night had a great time at my sec sch class gathering~! it was my good frenz birthday bash. At bishan. HAHAHA! for once not at pasir ris. (: it's really shiok to see my classmates again and again (reason behind coz everyone is turning 21 so birthday party after another). how many of us changed and some of coz still remain the same. got pictures but shall upload other days. anywayz, went for supper with dk and really enjoyed the fellowship. its really a blessing to know this guy such a great and anointing guy. how we were chatting about our ministry and jokes and accidents that he had, to future plans. so great to see that both of us are still serving God! very encourage by his love for God and how he is willing to grow the Kingdom. this i am always learning & must have a BREAKTHRU MAN!
had supper till wee hours. both of us were KO-ing liao. HAHAHA.
anyway yesterday nic came! glad to see him man~ btw he is my sec band senior. yeah pray that he will come again next week! ^^
To Johannesburg, am so looking forward to go n help. it will be my VERY 1st mission trip. WOO HOO~!
intro a nice song.
Cao Ge. The man with a big voice.
at 2:26 PM
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
0800.how i like just to come to office early to sit down n relax b4 the real work begins. for those whom i told you that i don't like my job, i take my words back. i will take 1 year to observe this job 1st.
yesterday after work i spent time with my nursing manager in the office after everyone left. i was waiting for time to pass to go for choir prac. i enjoyed talking to my nursing manager. got to learn that her daughter is a surgeon! how cool is that~! by the age of 31, her daughter is already a consultant. 0.O! super woman. her son, bonded with SAF is doing all so well. . . earning big bucks. i feel comfortable telling her my dreams in life and she actually encourages me to pursue it! but of coz knowing the cost of pursuing my dream, i gotta save up. *honestly, savings of 10 years will still not bring me to my dream course. LOL!* but well, who cares, today, i learn to let go. its over, all for good. (: another letting go test in my life.
well, yesterday's choir is a joke la. i was ask just to b a sample for soloist for the upcoming doxolgy in X'mas. O MY TIAN, i couldn't catch the tunes of the 2nd line. how bad. . . but i think its really fun to laugh at my own mistakes! 3 tries, i had. HAHAHAHAH~! had a great dinner with YaoMin and Kelvin. Yokeleng was stuck at work and RuiXia, stuck with her exam revisions. how true, building good r/s with fellow siblings in Christ is important. like how i tell my cg, i learn to cherish my weekends more. as much as i would like to stay home every sunday, i can't. or else i will lose my momentum and soon, all my friendships will just pass me by. i'm really excited for X'mas. ^_____^
last night my QT was rather pleasant.
To Know Him Personally1 And that's about it, friends. Be glad in God! I don't mind repeating what I have written in earlier letters, and I hope you don't mind hearing it again. Better safe than sorry—so here goes.
2-6Steer clear of the barking dogs, those religious busybodies, all bark and no bite. All they're interested in is appearances—knife-happy circumcisers, I call them. The real believers are the ones the Spirit of God leads to work away at this ministry, filling the air with Christ's praise as we do it. We couldn't carry this off by our own efforts, and we know it—even though we can list what many might think are impressive credentials. You know my pedigree: a legitimate birth, circumcised on the eighth day; an Israelite from the elite tribe of Benjamin; a strict and devout adherent to God's law; a fiery defender of the purity of my religion, even to the point of persecuting the church; a meticulous observer of everything set down in God's law Book.
7-9The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I'm tearing up and throwing out with the trash—along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant—dog dung. I've dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him. I didn't want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ—God's righteousness.
10-11I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself. If there was any way to get in on the resurrection from the dead, I wanted to do it.
Focused on the Goal
12-14I'm not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back.
15-16So let's keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision—you'll see it yet! Now that we're on the right track, let's stay on it.
17-19Stick with me, friends. Keep track of those you see running this same course, headed for this same goal. There are many out there taking other paths, choosing other goals, and trying to get you to go along with them. I've warned you of them many times; sadly, I'm having to do it again. All they want is easy street. They hate Christ's Cross. But easy street is a dead-end street. Those who live there make their bellies their gods; belches are their praise; all they can think of is their appetites.
20-21But there's far more to life for us. We're citizens of high heaven! We're waiting the arrival of the Savior, the Master, Jesus Christ, who will transform our earthy bodies into glorious bodies like his own. He'll make us beautiful and whole with the same powerful skill by which he is putting everything as it should be, under and around him.
Philippians 3
at 8:13 AM
Monday, November 13, 2006
waited for an hour plus before i could see the doctor. meanwhile was sms-ing wanqi and was amused at her replies. the moment of waiting seemed SO long and my whole life just flashed in front of me. . . .
i knew tears were forming but had to held back.
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had a great time with Dawn on Sat night. it was her birthday. from douby ghuat to clarke quay, we chatted so much. how i miss her. how proud to see her becoming such a mature woman who simply loves her people n have a great plans for her own life. how we chat about disappointments we face in life and how wanqi n candy came to surprise her. HAHA. that moment was classic. wish i took the photo! darn. ^___^ reach home together with dawn n wanqi ard 3am.
HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY!Dawn, you are always the special someone in my heart. i always thank God for giving me the chance to take care of you before. hearing about your group, your decisions u make in life, your plans to New York, i only can say that i am proud of you. God indeed have used the right person to lead NYP5. to what Jasmine have prophesy over you, continue to grow in humility and in love! we will be good sisters always. no matter how far we are. (: be assured in this. i love you dawn.
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a BIG question in my life i am pondering over.
what do i exactly want in my career life?
=Ask, Seek, Knock= matthew7
at 1:53 PM
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Happy Birthday Joel!had dinner in Fish&Co at glasshouse. though ppl were few but we enjoyed ourselves. HAHA! Joyce, Wanqi, Joe, Eugene, Hendra & Gerald. i guess i was the only hungry ghost at the table. Manz, wanqi girl, sorry that i showed you my unhappy side when i am super hungry. this i gotta change. "a hungry woman is an angry woman" this i will take back.
Well, girls anyone wana know Joel more? just ask any twamers and see what they will tell u. LOL. Joel is a blessing to twam. a bassist who wants to glorify God with his skills & is dilligent. always bring joy & laughter to the grow with all his jokes. As what Joyce n myself mention, if throw Wanqi & Joel on an island, they confirm will survive.
coz they can entertain one another everyday. (agree with me, say amen!)
can imagine how dark our place were.
body desperately needs rest. see ya all on Sat. (:
at 11:23 PM
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Mad Doctor.sorry but guess here is where i can RANT ALL OUT my frustrations.
*scream out loud*
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it will be hell tommorow. God bless us.
at 11:55 PM
