You Make Me Feel Brand New

My love
I'll never find the words, my love
To tell you how I feel, my love
Mere words could not explain
Precious love
You held my life within your hands
Created everything I am
Taught me how to live again

Only you
Cared when I needed a friend
Believed in me through thick and thin
This song is for you
Filled with gratitude and love

God bless you
You make me feel brand new
For God blessed me with you
You make me feel brand new
I sing this song cause you
Make me feel brand new

My love
Whenever I was insecure
You built me up and made me sure
You gave my pride back to me
Precious friend
With you I'll always have a friend
You're someone who I can depend
To walk a path that never ends

Without you
My life has no meaning or rhyme
Like notes to a song out of time
How can I repay
You for having faith in me?

God bless you
You make me feel brand new
For God blessed me with you
You make me feel brand new
I sing this song cause you
Make me feel brand new

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Beautiful song~ :)

Schindler's List

Recently, i've been listening intently to the OST of Schindler's List.. It's one of the best soundtracks i've yet listened to :) Very emotional, very strong, and captures the essence of the Holocaust perfectly..

I haven't yet watched the movie but i will.. However, yesterday i spent a good amount of time reading up on the Holocaust, the Nazi concentration camps, the list of righteous among the nations who protected Jews from the Nazi regime etc etc..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Righteous_Among_the_Nations_by_country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp

Well, so i surfed for pictures of Auschwitz-Birkenau - the largest Nazi extermination camp where millions were subjected to horrific acts of inhumane violence.

http://remember.org/jacobs/

I was just stunned sick at the thought and sight of it all.. I just felt thoroughly sick at the thought that such a horrific thing happened in the history of mankind.

With the soundtrack playing in the background, it felt as though i was transported back in time some 7 decades ago right to the entrance of the camp..

My mind's in a swirl.. i really dunno wat to type anymore.. Just reading the articles alone made me feel sick to the core..

And then i read about some of the righteous heroes like Oscar Schindler, Corrie ten Boom etc and also about some downright sadistic figures in the Nazi regime.. ppl like Carl Clauberg and Josef Mengele who carried out medical experiments on the prisoners in Auschwitz-Birkenau.. Amon Leopold Göth in charge of the Płaszów concentration and labour camp.

And when i read about these figures and saw their pictures online.. in my heart i was like wah may you rot in hell for eternity and may ur flesh continue to burn forever... I may not be Jewish, nor any of my ancestors subjected to the horrors of the Nazi regime but i know inhumanity when i see it..
I was like man.. i felt so much hatred for these people. They were worse than beasts.. i was cursing them with a thousand curses..

And this was a day after Easter Sunday.. And suddenly a thought came to my mind.. you mean Jesus also died for scum like these??? How do u even begin to forgive people like dat?!?! Do these people deserve a 2nd chance??


And then i read Corrie ten Boom's story...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrie_ten_Boom

A little excerpt from the article:

Her teaching focused on the Christian Gospel, with emphasis on forgiveness. In her book Tramp for the Lord (1974), she tells the story of how, after she had been teaching in Germany in 1947, she was approached by one of the cruelest former Ravensbrück camp guards. She was reluctant to forgive him, but prayed that she would be able to. She wrote that,

"For a long moment we grasped each other's hands, the former guard and the former prisoner. I had never known God's love so intensely as I did then."

She also wrote (in the same passage) that in her post-war experience with other victims of Nazi brutality, it was those who were able to forgive who were best able to rebuild their lives.

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Dat was mind blowing to me.. dat's why i'm reminded once again dat only the strong can forgive.. and dat is why i am utterly convinced dat Christ is truly our example.. in no other book will you find someone telling you to love your enemies and pray for them except in the bible wat Jesus said..

I have never experienced the extend of injustice, violence and inhumanity upon mankind that Corrie ten Boom and many millions of others have and i can never fully comprehend it..

But i have a lot to learn.. and i know by my own strength i am certainly not strong enough.. I need the grace of God.. We all do.. :)

Well, may we always remember to love our neighbour as ourselves :)

Gear Up

Feels like a long time since i last posted.

Just finished praying with one of my members for this weekend! It was gd :D Something awesome's gonna happen!


The past few weeks have just been really a period of rehearsals after rehearsals.. And it's been extremely tiring for sure.. :) And maybe dat's why it feels like eons have passed. I think i've come to a point whereby it's all become like a natural part of my life, the late nights, the lack of sleep etc. And i am still going on like an energizer bunny!

How does dat happen u ask? Well, i believe it's really by the grace of God that i havent fallen sick at all when others around me have in one way or another.. Really thank God for the divine protection over me :)

And thanks to everyone who has been praying for the drama production. We know your prayers have been answered. We are doing our best to bring a stellar performance this weekend and we are working hard day and night to make sure everything is in order before the big day :) Without your prayers, we couldn't have made it by our own strengths.

Well, here we go again! Easter, here we come! :D