Saturday, November 24, 2007
Your plan
of all the people who has impacted me the most, my mother has imparted so much into my life. i can always trust my mum to be brutally honest with me... from... what you're wearing is not flattering to you need to fix this part of your character and get yourself right before God. and i guess at times that moment can be a point of tension but i was reminded today of just how much my mum has gone through, the immense suffering and sacrifice that she was often forced to experience. how, by the grace of God, she truly has been a blessing to me, and to so many more. despite so much, God has seen her through, and she acknowledges that by her struggles and pain God has positioned her to be able to help so many more people, to be able to relate to them and be a testimony of God's mercy and love. my mum is not perfect... and we naturally have our disagreements... but if i can be half the woman of God she is.... ultimately she has sacrificed so much for us and:
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother"—which is the first commandment with a promise— that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.
- Ephesians 6:1-3
relying on You to help me....
but yeah... when i think about it... its amazing... i sometimes wonder how i would be with different parents... not even looking at the genetics, but from the perspective of character. haha God's plan is so amazing, how he brought my parents together... how at so many points in time,things may have worked out differently...
O Lord, You have searched me, and You know me.
You know when i sit and when i rise.; You perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
You are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue You know it completely, O Lord....
for You created my inmost being;You knit me together in my mother's womb.
i praise You because i am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your works are wonderful, i know that full well
my frame was not hidden from You when i was made in the secret place
when i was woven together in the depths of the earth,
Your eyes saw my unformed body.
all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.
how precious to me are Your thoughts, O God!
how vast is the sum of them!
were i to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.
when i am awake, i am still with You.
- Psalm 139:1-4. 13-18
You are my safeguard. You go before me. i know i am in safe hands
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
raindrops
gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo
the drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
-Bishop Hugh Latimer 1549
persistence. perseverance. patience.
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Monday, November 19, 2007
all i want
sometimes i struggle with the words to express myself... and its at those times i really appreciate worship songs. i think, when i was younger, it was the melody and instruments that mattered more to me, it was what determined how much i liked the song.
but i remember, a couple of years ago during worship, i began to consider the words that i was singing. what they meant. why i was singing. it was like suddenly, i was asking myself: do these words mean anything to you? cause if they don't, if you don't mean it... then, can you call this worship? lip service seems to be the more appropriate term.
when the words come from your heart, well..at the risk of stating the obvious: it makes it mean so much more. you don't sing a love song to someone when you don't mean it. if anything, that would be cruel wouldn't it? and essentially, worship songs are love songs to God.
haha i like that: worship, is like serenading Him.
that being said, melody still matters to me, there are times when i have no words, but in free worshiping a melody rises up in my spirit that i find i have to sing, even when there are no words, but theres a release in doing that all the same. haha music is another language, another way of expression right?
When all is said and done And everyone is gone Lord You're really all I want When the best the world has Just leaves me feeling numb Lord You're really all I want All that I long for all that I hope for Is just that sense of You coming near All that my heart is hungry to have is Just one more touch from Your loving hand
When all is said and done Lord You're all I want
Labels: FirstLove, love, praise, worship
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Friday, November 16, 2007
summer
know what i don't like about summer? flies. sweatiness and ickyness. too hot and humid days.know what i love about summer? sunshine. blue skies. beach. ice cream and gelati. mangoes, watermelon, plums, cherries. water fights. ice cubes. barbeques. picnics. longer days. not having to bring a jacket when you go out. lazing on the grass under some shade. the feeling of walking into an air-conditioned room after the scorching heat. drinking cold lemonade. a cool breeze. and most of all.... HOLIDAYS!!!! teheheheafter tomorrow? its 3 months of holidays... and I cannot wait!
=D
Labels: freedom, observations, ramblings, summer
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
extraordinary
every now and again, theres a question i have to ask myself.
i know i’m not like my brother. its in my brother’s nature to set very high standards for himself. he strives to be the best that he can be. he’s a perfectionist. me? haha i have standards, but my parents would describe me as being perhaps a little too easy going. haha whilst it sometimes is a good thing, and allows me to be content with what i have, i think the insinuation is that perhaps i have a tendency to settle for less. to be complacent.
so i guess thats why i know i have to stop occasionally and ask myself, am i getting too comfortable?
am i getting content with living a comfortable life? am i settling for less? am i living less than an extraordinary life? because anything less than extraordinary is just plain ordinary. its normal, regular, common, average, mundane. haha and if someone were to describe me in one word, i know i wouldn’t be content with any of those synonyms. because I know my God has created me to be so much more than ordinary.
which begs the question: what does it take to live a more than ordinary life? when i think about it, there are a couple of possibilities that come to mind... things like faith, love, joy, peace, humility, patience, gentleness... but ultimately, as always, the answer is Him.
when they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.
-Acts 4:13
there is nothing else. no one else. just You.
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