Say hi to a new friend in the family,
brought home by my dear brother, without prior permission
think my dad aint that pleased..
my mum is the most caring of all


Inside his makeshift bed with lefa's shorts


Breakfast


Pawing around my thigh


stroll

its legs are still pretty weak, mum says it's probably around a month old
dad says to give it a "probation term" of 2 months
if we find that we can't cope with taking care of it, we will give it away

aint easy taking care of a pet
but thank God, it sleeps like a log
sleeping almost 3/4 of the day

I am extremely encouraged and blessed by this song led by Israel on his album "Alive in South Africa", one of the best albums I have ever heard

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Still Standing
Israel Houghton

Verse 1:
You gave me courage to believe
that all your goodness I will see
and if it had not been for you
standing on my side where would I be

Chorus:
If not for your goodness
if not for your grace
I don't know where I would be today
if not for your kindness
I never could say
I'm still standing

if not for your mercy
if not for your love
I most likely would have given up
if not for your favor
I never could say
I'm still standing
but by the grace of God

Verse 2:
To you I lift my offering
and set my heart on higher things
for if it had not been for you
standing on my side where would I be

Vamp:
I'm still standing
I'm standing
I'm still standing
but by the grace of God

Expressions of Your love
Rebecca St James, Chris Tomlin

A symphony of color
Painted on a western sky
The thunder roars and the rain it falls
Over fields, over streasms, over us, You're
over us...

Expressions of Your glory
Expressions of Your heart
In all You are
You speak to us
Expressions of Your love

A message sent from Heaven
Walked among us as a man
The Son of God and Light of the world
Love divine, crucified, (and) made alive,
You're alive...

you speak to us(9x)

Oh Jesus make me
An expression of You

When Love takes you in
Steven Curtis Chapman



I know you’ve heard the stories
But they all sound too good to be true
You’ve heard about a place called home
But there doesn’t seem to be one for you
So one more night you cry yourself to sleep
And drift off to a distant dream

Where love takes you in and everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
When love takes you home and says you belong here
The loneliness ends and a new life begins
When love takes you in

And somewhere while you’re sleeping
Someone else is dreaming too
Counting down the days until
They hold you close and say I love you
And like the rain that falls into the sea
In a moment what has been is lost in what will be

When love takes you in everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart

And this love will never let you go
There is nothing that could ever
cause this love to lose its hold

When love takes you in everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
When love takes you home and says you belong here
The loneliness ends and a new life begins
When love takes you in it takes you in for good
When love takes you in

Lam 3:25 (NIV) The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him.


I am still very much bothered by the adam air incident
it's been more than a week and no news, no nothing, of the missing aircraft

I can imagine the agony of the families of the 96 passengers on board, plus the air crew

If i'm still in service, i won't mind being deployed to partake in this search and rescue..

hopefully with the US Navy oceanographic survey ship coming to help, the search will yield some results..

in the midst of preparing worship material for music ministry

was looking at various verses and this passage "Jesus talks with a Samaritan woman"

this particular verse jumped right at in my face
and absolutely, totally, blew me away

John 4:10
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."