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Thursday, August 16, 2007
11:04 AM
staying at home rocks : )
sarah loves cooking japanese food : )
-*running for Him
Sunday, August 12, 2007
8:59 PM
school's starting :( :) happy and sad at the same time.
need to study hard this sem. more hours in the library are probably in order.
Lord empower me. like the rushing waters flowing through the sea.
somehow in the back of my mind i feel that i lack love. not His love of course.
how high and how wide. how deep and how long.
the inadequacy of me leaves me powerless to imagine i can take up mentoring.
anyway. this is probably not the place to bear my soul. sigh.
-*running for Him
Saturday, August 11, 2007
9:47 AM
06/1/07
A Radical Grace (an excerpt)
Jill Carattini
*this really made me cry...there is no doubt that our God is real and the Almighty.
Watching Christ, we begin to see a God who is entirely countercultural, who affirms those who are rejected and overlooked, who gives women a voice and safe place to be heard, and who calls everyone to transparency, compelling a broken world to come to Him with their pain and shortfall, sickness and sin. We see a God who not only can handle our real stories--but demands them--because He Himself is real.
Mary Magdalene's is one such story. She left behind the life she knew to follow the one who knew her. To this day, her story remains one God has deemed worth retelling.
On the morning after the death of Jesus, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb, and was bent over with grief. She had followed Jesus and his disciples from city to city, watched him heal the sick and free the captives, turn ashes to beauty and mourning to gladness. She looked on as Jesus was taken and beaten and bound to a cross, and she watched as they buried him in a tomb, death having silenced the very life that changed her own. Like many women in Scripture, Mary's tears were perhaps the last desperate words to the God she hoped was listening. The body she had come to anoint was missing, and she thought the gardener had something to do with it. In devastated affection, she pled for the body of the one she loved: "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him" (John 20:15b).
It was the sound of her own name that opened her eyes. Jesus said to her, "Mary." And she turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means teacher). Jesus later appeared to all of his disciples, but it was Mary--a life once filled with hopelessness turned around by a compelling love and the courage to follow--who Jesus chose first to appear. She who loved much was given a place in his story, not as a testimony to her sins or in rebellion to a cultural norm, but as yet another reflection of his radical grace.
Jill Carattini is senior associate writer at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.
-*running for Him
Thursday, August 09, 2007
9:04 PM
happy birthday Singapore! : )))
-*running for Him
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
10:03 AM
An excerpt from "How Shall We Be Relevant?" by Betsy Childs:
I believe that showing the relevancy of the gospel has more to do with being different from the world than it does with looking the same as the world. How, besides chasing an elusive image of progressiveness, can Christians remove the perception of Christianity's irrelevancy? Consider with me three key areas:
Transparency. If Christians want to be relevant, we must fight the temptation to put on masks and pretend that all is well in our lives. When we admit our struggles, people can relate to us, and we give them permission to be open about their own struggles. Transparency, even when our spiritual lives are in a tangle, is a sign of spiritual authenticity, and authenticity is rightly prized by our culture.
Sin. Christians need to be honest with the world about sin and its consequences. Humans innately know that all is not as it should be. We only need to read the headlines to know that our world is deeply broken. We must resist the urge to sugarcoat poison or anesthetize wounds that are still bleeding. Though it may not be a comfortable subject, the truth about sin is vitally relevant.
Joy. There are few things rarer, and hence few things more sought-after, than true, abiding joy. The good news of the gospel is that joy does not have to depend on our circumstances, and it is not something that can be bought or earned. True joy is found only in God himself, and God delights to be delighted in. Christians do not always feel joyful, but we can point the world to the source of true joy by pursuing it in God. It has been said that the greatest crime in the desert is finding water and keeping silent. We live in a world deserted by joy, but we know where it can be found.
Culture critic Brett McCracken writes, "True relevance is not about making faith fit into a hipster sphere as opposed to a fundamentalist box. True relevance is seeking the true faith that transcends all boxes and labels." The gospel itself is the most relevant thing we have to offer to the world. We must be careful not to obscure its true relevance with our own well-intentioned attempts at it.
Betsy Childs is associate writer at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.
-*running for Him
Thursday, August 02, 2007
7:46 PM
oranges make me happy : )))))
-*running for Him
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
10:55 AM
alrightey...thanks to all the reminders (yes i know..just lazy la) ive decided to update my blog...its been almost 4 months since i last updated! wheeeee thats a record man..i know it : ) anyway..its probably time to sift thru all that's been happening since i started my summer holidays...proper 3 and a half months of PURE REST! heh : ) i guess i appear to have wasted my whole hols to those who dont know what ive been up to...but seriously. its not like i havent been doing anything constructive : )
1 major thing that ive done is to educate myself on japanese cooking and language : ) basically thats why my new skin is on one of my favourite japanese food - sushi!! yum. been quite successful in learning several dishes such as zaru soba, okonomiyaki, sushi, tonkatsu and yes. even tempura : ) not bad at all man..this really sounds like im food-obsessed...but yeah well. my love for japan and japanese things go back a LOOOONG way man. people have no idea : ) 1 of my greatest wishes is to like live in japan for a really long time..preferably hokkaido : ) i could go on forever la but thats the gist of it..yeah.
currently im kind of looking forward to starting school n kind of not...more of not actually...but i cant wait to do the forensic science module that im going to risk hand n limb to bid for this sem..yes yes yes yes yes! some people think my passion for forensics simply stemmed from watching way to much CSI, but seriously man all these things are so interesting! hair samples, dna, fingerprinting, ballistics, audiovisuals, chemical analysis...there's no end to the amazing world of criminalistics : ) see my joy - : )))))))))))) heh. anyway hope this sem i will b able to handle the work load better..since ive decided to keep to 5 modules and no more 3 arts modules like last sem which almost drove me insane...so hopefully i can do something about pulling my grades up..think im kind of underperforming? not really sure but yeah im sure i can do much better than this. i need motivation! just like the drive i have for running : ) yes yes. great eastern run coming up..plus our final goal the great stan chart half-marathon! : ) alright back to watching tv then..think ive updated enough : ) it's family forensics time : )
-*running for Him
oranges make me happy : )))))