Sunday, January 22, 2012
, 10:31 PM
⇨tumblers!
For WX, Vicky and the little sis respectively :)
Happy birthday to my twinny + Clara!
Thursday, January 19, 2012
, 9:24 PM
⇨None but you
May I have more love for God and more love for His people.
I more than certainly need it so that I can continue to move forward. I won't say that I've been trudging through the beginning of 2012, but it hasn't been easy anyhow, and I can only expect it to get even busier and more stressful. But as I give, God gives to me, and what He gives is so many times more than what I can give.
But I can say that where I am makes me more aware of the people around me and makes me want to care and love the people around me even more. So thankful for the people around me :)
I more than certainly need it so that I can continue to move forward. I won't say that I've been trudging through the beginning of 2012, but it hasn't been easy anyhow, and I can only expect it to get even busier and more stressful. But as I give, God gives to me, and what He gives is so many times more than what I can give.
But I can say that where I am makes me more aware of the people around me and makes me want to care and love the people around me even more. So thankful for the people around me :)
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
, 9:58 PM
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Well, not much that I have to say about school, because it has always been the same old. Only each year, it gets harder. And this year- the toughest of all in these 12 years of education, but we will survive! And after that, I will go ahead and study at University only because everyone says that you should and you must for practical reasons. And then I will go and become a kindergarten teacher, forget 99% of all I have been taught in school, and live in a house full of cookies and a cat. Looking forward to that. (Unless God places me somewhere else, then of course I will follow. But till that happens, this remains as my plan. With a boyfriend and then husband somewhere in between :))
Sunday, January 08, 2012
, 9:31 PM
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, 6:01 PM
⇨His Love
Well, so there's school tomorrow. I have a Lit essay to do, but I am procrastinating because I don't feel like doing it. I have forgotten so many things about my books, ahhh. Looking forward to seeing my class again, though, and I'm excited at the prospect of air-conditioned classrooms :)
We led cell for the first time yesterday, and I think it turned out fine, thank God. This year I really have to learn to rely on God. Completely. To go in with humility and nothing but humility, and see as God works and lifts and grows us.
Today was Orientation for CC, the kids were so cute. Only 2 turned up in my class (what, 2??) but they were adorable nonetheless, and I can't wait to see how God nurtures all these children into becoming His Kingdom Builders.
So school begins, and ministry begins, and here truly begins 2012/
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
, 3:54 PM
⇨My pledge
In 2012, I will be like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever I do will prosper. I will do everything with all my heart, and I will let God be my shepherd. I will find my rest in God alone. I will let God's love overflow out of me. I will hold on tightly to my faith, love, hope, joy, peace, salvation and I will not want. I will go where God leads and I will serve in ways I had never thought I could. I will encounter God, love God and thank Him every day; I will reach out, love people and appreciate people every day. I will carry a smile on my face. I will encourage and be encouraged; inspire and be inspired.
I will be a testimony for God.
Monday, January 02, 2012
, 1:25 PM
⇨2012
(Strictly Pancakes w Jiayi on the 29th for her bday!)
I'm baking these again today! Finally, after such a long time of inactivity in the kitchen. They turned out chewy and crisp at the same time. I'm so happy :)-
And we have entered into 2012. Expecting another year of God's goodness and grace :)
No long New Years' post this year, because I already did that for Christmas, and all I really have to say is: God, this year is all yours.
Friday, December 23, 2011
, 9:49 PM
⇨Christmas
I was just thinking- I've gone so far in 2011.
There were quite a few firsts this year. My first time playing on the main worship team, my first time writing so many essays in a year (thanks to HELM), my first time on a mission trip, my first time completing Purpose Driven Life, my first time baking a layered cake, my first time dancing modern, my first time treasure hunting..
And this year I experienced God's intense, never-ending, overflowing love for me about a gazillion times.
And dare I say, I have grown? I'm still learning and I'm still making mistakes and trying so hard to mend the broken pieces within myself and outside. But in 2011, I have grown.
I entered 2011 not knowing what was to come, what with entering Senior High and being nervous about auditioning for the worship team, but now I look back and as so many people say, what a short year it has been. A short year, because time has flown past, but also a long one, because there has been so many experiences.
I see snapshots in my head- Wakainga, my worship audition which I jittered over for so long, all my baking sessions, random meals out with family, all the amazing outings with my dear dear friends in church, 4F'10 crazy class dinner, my sweet 5C13 classmates (hair-braiding sessions), CTs, Step Up!, East Timor (especially East Timor. There's just something about the way the locals look straight into your eyes there, perhaps out of curiosity, perhaps something else, I don't know)- so many moments in 2011.
And I have grown stronger because I have learnt to take up (and overcome!) even more academic challenges and people challenges and I have learned to become more aware of who I am and what I really want (as opposed to what others want, all the time). But at the same time, I have grown more vulnerable because I am slowly opening up my heart to God more and more, allowing Him to search every nook and cranny so that my heart can become a home for Him 24/7. A broken and contrite heart, God will not despise, and so I try to achieve that. I don't do it everyday, because I forget, but especially recently I have been trying to think of myself less (rather than think less of myself).
He must become greater, I must become less.
And so this Christmas I thank my God so much and with overflowing gratitude because He has been so good. Through the good and the bad, He is still good. So many times I overlook the truth in these six simple words: God is good. All the time. And truly I must learn to understand and allow that truth to sink deep into my heart.
So as I step into 2012, even more uncertain than I was of 2011, I believe. I trust. I have faith.
That God will see me through it all. And at the end of next year, there'll be another post like this, thanking God for everything that He had done in 2012, and thanking God that He is always, always good.
2012, Trust.