Saturday, May 28, 2011

National Zoo Trip

I haven't been going out with my church friends in Tampin for quite some time. So this zoo trip to KL is one of those rare times. :)

It was quite fun - though a horrendous jam and various issues caused us to arrive at 11.30 am (almost noon). Still we managed to walk the whole Zoo Negara, and look at everything. Almost all the animals were hanging around.

Thank God for journey mercies and nice weather timing. It didn't rain until we had lunch and stopped after our lunch was over.

Thank God for a good time of fellowship too. I'm very proud after listening to some of the things they shared - and observing certain behavioral changes. :) Catching up with people can be very encouraging. In fact today I'm very much encouraged to serve more - to place more priority in serving although GLCC, big and well equipped as it is, sometimes seems not to 'need' certain people.

I will serve everywhere -not just in church!

It was a fun outing - but I'm too lazy to put it all down in words. Just remembered what Pastor shared from Romans: Creation shouts that there is an intelligent God who put together the universe (and many universes) each day and it details His wonder. Yet men refuse to believe, and are thus condemned because of this. Was meditating this song to myself in the van:

    O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder,
    Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,
    I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
    Thy power throughout the universe displayed!

      Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee;
      How great Thou art, how great Thou art.
      Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee;
      How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

      Thank God for allowing me to experience Himself even through a day of fun :)

Saturday, May 14, 2011

突然好想你


突然好想你
你會在哪裡
過得快樂或委屈

突然好想你
突然鋒利的回憶
突然模糊的眼睛

很喜欢这首歌的感觉. 五月天的阿信写的歌都很有感觉 (就好象他的<知足>一样). :) 只是觉得最后一句: "突然模糊的眼睛", 如果改写成"突然模糊了眼睛", 会比较让人感叹.

At Home

I'm now at home and am sort of doing my job applications from here.

I said sort of because there are not many jobs to apply for now. Yes, the job market is 'booming' now but most of the openings I see for my field are for diploma graduates. And no, they'd not hire a uni grad to do something that can be easily done by a post-diploma grad. It would be too expensive.

Anyway - I shall just wait and see :) Hopefully our choice of accommodation in Singapore would be determined soon. I shall miss being Tirza's roomie so I hope we will get to bunk together once in a while.

I shall miss BS with Simon in Singapore too. And the BS regulars - Stacey, Justin, and JonC. The Romans journey was most inspiring and life-changing. It was inspiring to see how Simon pulled through it too. Despite immense stress at work and dwindling number of BS participants. I am really thankful for his faithfulness and testimony.


Yesterday I was just singing Amazing Grace to myself. I love all the four stanzas in that song. Usually I'd focus on the first and second, because I'd relate to them. But yesterday I remembered the fourth:

When we've been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun;
We've no less days to sing God's praise,
Than when we've first begun.

I love the way I felt the composer thought - he wanted to sing God's praise through eternity and joyfully reassured that he would be able to do so. First he was grateful for his salvation, and then he was glad that he was saved so that he could glorify God all the way to eternity.

Yes we have been beautifully and wonderfully saved. We have not just been redeemed from sin and death, but more amazingly, Christ now lives in us. That itself is beyond undeserved grace. Just redemption from sin is beyond deserving but Christ living in us, unworthy earthen vessels is more than one deserves.

And I love Pastor Jason's well-used analogy: A child asked his parent:" If Christ is bigger than the universe, and He lives in us, shouldn't He stick out?"

I pray that Christ be magnified in my life.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Let Go


No emotions are too hard to let go in light of what He has done for me. I shan't rant and complain. I shan't moan and sigh. I shan't hide it away. I shall take it out, shake it away, and let it go. What I can't control, He can.

I am bigger than that. My heart is bigger than that. For it is Christ that is in my heart, and it is Christ who lives in me.