Thank you my friends for your concern. Hee. Well i guess busyness is part and parcel of life, but it's the attitude towards that busyness that fluctuates every now and then. Thank God for Sunday and Monday countdown services, it really brought me from dread to anticipation of the coming, and now arrived, new year. WELCOME TO THE WORLD 2008 YEAR OF SABBATH!! Ysd was a fantastic day. Work, then hung out at Changi airport w Nuan and WH, then to Countdown service...time just flew. It was like 8.45 one moment and 12am the next. I really really loved Countdown service 2007, relished every second. It's like the best countdown i ever had. Gwen your hard labour made a big difference!! Yes i did encounter God haha. Went Reg's house to play mahjong till morn after the countdown, so fun!! haha but yes by 7am i was like knocked out unconscious. Haha i just feel so happy, as Pastor led us to reflect upon 2007 and give thanks for the ups and downs of 2007, I found that i've so much to thank God for...
1. My Spiritual Family. In one year he gave me a complete family, and the cell has been a source of support and delight so dear to me in this year, without which i would not be able to do so many things. Not just my spiritual mother and sisters, but i also want to give thanks for all my spiritual relatives...i hope and pray in the coming year we'd get to know each other more, and delight in each other. And thank God for birthing spiritual children out of me, it is truly an esteemed privillege, that He would deem me enough to take care of others. Not i who choose to be a leader, but He who chose me. Many of them have really inspired me, like Huiwen, and others, melt my heart and keep it soft. I really enjoy simply hanging out and playing games together, or just sharing. =)
2. All my friends, that make life so exciting. I might not have a lot of time to hang out very often, but the time we do spend together, i really cherish and enjoy.
3. Healing me of my gastric.
4. My academic results. Miraculously He turned the situation around at final exams, and salvaged my results.
5. My parents becoming more and more loving.
6. All the tears i've cried in 2007, i know He's bottled them all up, and that every trial i go through, He uses it to strengthen me, and even to relate to others. Thank God for failing my driving test, and for the bad mid-term results that taught me what failure is, and how to handle it.
My Resolutions for 2008Spiritually:
-I want to know God more intimately as a person, as the Lover of my Soul, to feel His presence ever more vividly each day, so that I awake every morning joyful, delighting in the fact that He sits by my bedside, awaiting the time we can spend together when I awake.
-I want to grow in wisdom, in learning to fear God more and knowing the right decisions to make, the right words to say, at the right time.
-I want to take care of the spiritual children He has given to me, not just as “cell members” but to put in more effort and love like a physical mother would to the children she bears.
Physically:
-I want to exercise more regularly, ideally to jog once a week or at least once a fortnight.
Financially:
-I want to learn to save.
Studies:
-I want to be a good steward of my studies, to do my best and let God do the rest. Whether I take honours or not, it’s up to him. =)
Relationships:
-I want to seek God’s will for me, and not my own.
-I want to spend more time with my family, and get to know my parents more as friends.
-I want to catch up with the friends I’ve lost contact with over the years, and deepen the friendships I have now
Hobbies:
-I want to learn to play guitar properly.
-I want to sketch more.
-I want to read more, Lucado and all.
-I want to write more, maybe write a book for fun.
-I want to pass my driving.
Theng, i actually got a B for Groupwork leh, haha i was counting to get B when i got 40% D+ is miraculous, it means i prolly got A+ for finals. I really think it's God's blessing. Ehh or maybe our results got switched? Haha. Seems highly possible. Maybe you can show me yr paper when u review it? Don't know if i'm in any position to help but i can try.
Juan, don't be afraid to ask me out laa!! lol you know i love to spend time with you. No matter how busy i am, i'd find time. Just an emo grumbling then...i just needed to find back my joy and enthusiasm in God. =)
Loi, thanks for the mail, i really appreciated it. Hee. Really looking forward to our Seoul Garden feast, and most importantly BKK TRIP!!!
Gam, thanks for the encouragement and support, they really helped. =) may you get to know Jesus (I like to pronounce it Yeshua like it originally is) more and more each day as we all read our Psalms before food.
Kaelyn
