月亮代表我的心

tonight our mooncake festival caregroup epic fail!! no sparklers, no mooncakes, no lanterns… LOL.

BUT……

it’s important to laugh at yourself for silly mistakes made and move on to better things, right cheng and althea?! i think you guys successfully salvaged the situation! (: instead of crying over spilt milk, clean up the mess and make everyone else’s life better, including yours! well done guys!

so we had such an impromptu awesome time playing pseudo 猜灯谜 (more like, CHINESE taboo) at the marine crescent playground, and laughing at our … this really really stupid game that althea led. the sentences were HILARIOUS!!! the funniest one involved our jasmine loh. hahaha.

and after that for one hour or so… we spent time listening to one another share about our families, and at the end of it, i thanked God in my heart because i saw how intricately He’s woven all these relationships, and how he brought us together into this one spiritual family too. the beauty simply lies in how different our backgrounds are, yet our heartbeats are the same. JCEA4, i’m thankful for a beautiful family like you guys (:

i also talked about my family… and i really appreciate my family: my mum, my dad, and my brother. my greatest wish is to see the folks receive Christ and stay in church. ah kor! keep praying with me kay!!

and i also shared about my spiritual family. brings both joy and tears to my eyes. shall not elaborate more. but i literally grew up with this church, albeit all the inconsistencies in my younger years. and i really thank God that the people in this family shaped me, my values and beliefs, and helped me grow in many many areas. its the family i never will wanna leave behind or abandon.

i love this family of God (:

never dance in your room

cos i did it and whacked my ankle against the bed.

and it is hurting like…… like… %&$*# now.

anyways! today went shopping with cat. we shopped from bugis to orchard, and ate alot along the way. we finally sat down at tcc and had some heart-to-heart sharing… back from our cui days to what we’re doing now. my dear, you are a strong woman of God!! i know you’d be fine wherever you go, and God is preparing you for even more things ahead! i am so proud of you (: i’ll keep the rest of my words for next week!! meanwhile have a rolling time in bkk (and remb my blazer… ahha)

life is rilly awesome in Jesus. a thousand words cannot even describe my thoughts, my excitement, my mishmash feelings of fear and anticipation. because right now, i don’t know what my tomorrow holds, i dont even know where my tomorrow will be, but i know God holds my tomorrow. God i’m just looking forward to where you will bring me! love You!!

Your Curtain Call

and it comes to an end. after the past tiring but very fruitful and awesome 3 months. like what jiali says, partly relieved, partly missing the dancers already!

yes, will leave more of the appreciation for retreat night

even as we prepared, slogged, danced, many a times God reminded me to not lose myself in all the work and forget who i am in Him (: i am a child of God! dancing for Him, with Him, to Him alone.

only one life and soon will pass; only what’s done for Christ will last

there’s gonna be a great awakening
there’s gonna be a great revival in our land
there’s gonna be a great awakening
and everyone who calls on Jesus
they will be saved

a simple song God put in my heart as i prayed for the school. i pray that this saturday God will just pour, pour, pour into the hearts of people who will come. whether is it 1 friend, 10 friends, 100 friends… it’s still the same. every life counts, every soul is precious to God, every person matters to us… JCEA4, are you in this together with me? are you ready to see God use and expand this community big time? are you ready for God to use you to impact another person’s life? are you ready for a spiritual revival in this land?! because I am ever ready. and i can’t wait for God to move BIG TIME!!

and i really really really pray that God will bless the 2 pioneering groups with good seeds… and open up the barren land! jiayou to my fellow comrades pioneering. it’s no easy job, but i know people in those 2 schools really need God and i look forward to see the spirit moving there!! yahooo!

and to the ESS team, i am really proud and privileged to serve together with you guys… for the late nights you guys stayed back to rehearse, for the days when many of you had to juggle between exams and rehearsals, for the technical runs that you guys had to come and wait up to 3, 4 hours before your turn, for giving your 101% even though you are sick, for simply the fact that we are in this race together, dancing not for our own glory but for God and through our humble movements bring people one step closer to  Him. sometimes we are really tired, sian (cmon, sharpening those steps, repeating and repeating etc can really be sian at times..) but i know all of you still give your best so that saturday will be a blast.

and thank you to all my leaders who have been very patiently bearing with my complaints and rants and nonsense these past few months. i am learning ALOT, and i am glad you guys are there to keep my life in check and cheer me on when i’m stressed (:

finally, thank You Lord that i am able to serve You in this manner. making a difference not just in people’s lives, but in people’s eternity. You rock!!  

well, we’re not at the end yet. but i think it’s awesome to give thanks and remind myself, that well chia, God is so gracious to decide to partner you!
and keep this saturday in your prayers, friends! it is not a dance thing, it is a God thing. WHEEE!! 

 

ps. met up with sheng today, and i really enjoyed myself with you! i know you’re reading this. gotta meet up more often okie! LOVE YA!!!

dYour faithfulness never fails

today has been an ultra long day. at clm shirls said she hoped it wasnt the 4th meeting for anyone in the day.. but it was for me T.T (and went on for my 5th one after that) but i was still very refreshed by the meeting, and although i’m really tired, i really love my saturdays…… started the day with the dancers (great job jiali!) and ended the day with a bunch of people i really love. and a shoutout to my dearest cl caregroup, i really really really enjoy spending time with you guys, whether is it discussing about serious issues, or just laughing at some people (we know who..) because i know all of us live for one purpose, one God ! it’s really a privilege to serve with you guys, and to do life with ya’ll. thank You Lord for blessing me with such awesome people who will never judge me, who accept me for who i am, and who will be there to halve my sorrows and double my joy – jasmine, apinun, dabian, nicole, kim, louis hor, james (kangli and cat, you girls too!!)

i think as people living in this hectic climate, so many many things need our attention (quote christine hehe) at every point in time. having a little catch up with my friend jason ang ming qis and i think it’s really important to time and time again, remind ourselves of God’s faithfulness and goodness in our lives. God has been so good to us, behind the scenes, that sometimes we totally take Him for granted. everytime i look back at how God so lovingly, patiently picked up the pieces and erases all my mistakes and brings me up on my feet to try again, expressing His belief in me through people around me, it renders me speechless with thanksgiving. and i need to keep myself reminded of this time and time again, because i will forget when other things demand my attention.

i realised i’ve been grumbling (secretly) about my results because of the reality of Bs and not As. haha. well basically i got A for econs (and this is the biggest shock of my life – i have NEVER passed econs ever in my whole entire 2 years in vj) and B for everything else. and come to think of it, i’ve been allowing myself to grumble but not thank God. i looked at the piece of note i jotted during j2s meeting last year after prelims, and i wrote “God, i expect my grades to be AAB – BBB for best case scenario. if i get it, i know it’s You”. why? cos since the beginning of J2 i have been straight E-ing all my subjects. sometimes S even. and God is faithful. He answered my prayer, gave me right in between the grades i asked for – ABB. i don’t think i deserve these grades, but God obviously thinks otherwise and yes God, i thank You i thank You i thank You for Your everlasting faithfulness.

karen taught me something very important: to find joy in the little things in life. i think God has placed many beautiful things in my life that i fail to recognise. but next week, i wanna make it a point to rejoice in God everyday, to wake up and go to bed with a spirit of thanksgiving, because it is a choice to remind myself. no one can do that for me (:

onwards and ahead we go!! next week is a very important week. ESS, J2s having common tests (joel, cheng, celeste, althea, praying for you all!!) and i pray, it will be a fulfilling and fruitful week.

wanna live at life at the edge. whoohoo! let’s go!