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< My Reflection for Year 2007 and My Thoughts for Year 2008 >

Year 2007 was a rather eventful year for me. God taught me many lessons but the 3 main significant lessons that was impressed upon my heart was - 1.) To learn to be PATIENT and wait for God's prompting instead of making my own decisions. 2.) To be OBEDIENT to accept his plans rather than building my own plans. 3.) To learn how to SURRENDER everything that I have always held on tightly.

It was also in this year 2007 where God brought me out from a state of spiritual stagnation and pumped out all the "clogged up" stuff within me. Thank God for the renewal and restoration of my mind and heart. God helped me be aware of what it means to be a witness and influencer in the places he has placed me and to be an overcomer to speak his goodness to whom he provides me the opportunity to.

Year 2007 was also a season where God began refining and molding me - showing me areas where he wants to bring about the change in my life. I think and feel that I have grown much as a person, a christian, an employee, a fren and a daughter.

Year 2008 will be the next phrase where God will begin to grant me the opportunities to apply the lessons he has taught me in 2007. Year 2008 will be a greater season of discomfort, challenges and greater shapening of my character. God has also reminded me many times to always go back to my source for strength, refreshment and renewal - To always remember to dwell in his presence and spend my precious moments with him :)

My IPOD is my constant companion as I travel to work. So when I heard this song - By Hear, By Soul by Avalon with Aaron Nevile. It is a love song but as I hear the lyrics, it blew my mind literally .... Cos it really touches me as the lyrics speaks of the deep desire how 2 people wanted to grow toward each other and have the relationship deepen. It speaks of the deep love and committment towards each other.

For me, I feel this is just like my love song to my Abba Father. It really spoke of my desire to really walk and live this one life for God - To continue growing and have that deepening relationship with my Lord and wanting to know him in a more intimate manner.

This song will be a strong reason and reminder for me as I begin the year 2008 :)

Verse 1:
If You were a road,
I'd learn every turn til I
Could find my way with my eyes closed

If You were a song,
I'd sing along til I
Knew every word and every note

But you were everything to me,
A mystery
Your the Love I live to see

Chorus:
By heart, by soul
That’s how I want to know You
Keep you as close as
Breath is to life
Wanna watch Your Love unfold
By heart, By soul

Verse 2:
If You were a place
I'd stay my whole life til I
Had every corner memorized
And if You were a star
I'f follow You home, You would be
The Light that is my only guide

You were everything to me
My A to Z
Your the Love that’s lives in me

Bridge:
I wanna know You inside and out
Better than I even know myself

If You were a star
I'd follow You home
By heart By soul

By Heart, By Soul - Avalon with Aaron Nevile

A Time Of Reflection And Thanksgivings

Children' Camp :
Went there feeling slightly inadequate cos after seeing the program worried that energy level not enough to sustain through the 4 days 3 nights. But God is always good.

• He provided good partnership - Cristal, Benjamin, Paul and Jonathan. Each placed an essential part to help love and assimilate the kids to the camp.
• He grants me the strength and i am able to sleep through the heat at night.
• He grants me enough wisdom and love for all I have to do.
• He grants me opportunity for fellowshipping esp the fun we had while writing all the cards for the children.

Retreat:
When I chose to go retreat, it was basically becos of the theme - Being a witness in the workplace. Though still thinking very much about camp and the wonderful time I always have had over there. I am sure that God has placed being in retreat for his purpose.

• Thank God for my team. Though it was only pastor and I. Had a good time with him and the other teams giving out tracks.
• Thanks God that he helped me open up and have quality conversation with my team during the "Shi Zi Lu Kou" game. Glad that I got to know each of them in a better way.
• Thank God for my wonderful room mates and cosy room and 2 restful nights.
• Thank God for Wee Lee and her sharing with us her "nourishing essence" of her life's experience. Seeing her story and some of the similarities to my life really touched my heart to know how God brought me through the last "XX" years and how he will continue to bring me through many years.
• Thank God for speaking to me and granting me the assurance that he is in total control.

Monday :
I was on leave on monday. Thank God for granting me opportunity to spend time with my mum at the gym and the time i got to spent with God while running on the trekmill - allowing me a time of reflection and being able to hear his voice.

Thank God I got to spend the later half of the day with my mum, sister, little Ruth and Little Natalie while on an outing to the airport :)

Opportunities For Witnessing

• Home Improvement Project at Tanglin Halt
• Christmas Party
• Christmas Service
  

Via Dolorosa

Via Dolorosa is Latin for the “way of sorrows” or “way of pain.” It was located in Jerusalem. This was believed to be the path that Jesus tooked carrying his cross and walking to the site of his crucifixion - Calvary.

This song speaks of a man walking along the Via Dolorosa,Jerusalem. A crowd gathered as the roman solders tried to clear the way. People were pressing in to see a man condemned to die on Calvary. He was bleeding from the stripes upon his back. A crown of thorns pierced upon his head. Each step he bore, people were shouting :"Crucify him, crucify him"

As he chose to walked down that path of suffering, he, our Saviour, our Christ and The King of Kings - blameless but he chose to be the lamb for our sins. He took that road out of the precious love for you and me. The blood he shed to cleanse both you and I. He took all our sins upon himself and chose to use his life in redemption for our lives.

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(Isaiah 53 : 3 - 8 )
v3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. v4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. v5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. v6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way;and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. v7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.v8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken.

Can't Live A Day

I love this song by Avalon - Can't live a day. Many moments in my life, God has always brought this song to rememberance. It always reminds me that God has to be the heatbeat of all i do and i can never leave without him. So it helps me to refocus on him :)

= Personal Reflections =

No matter what season or phrase I maybe in -
No matter how tough or difficult the road may be -
No matte how long the journey will be -
No matter how despairing the sitution can be.

A loving hand gently guiding -
A soft gentle voice prompting -
A joy that spurts out from within my heart -
A hope ensures at every moment of my life.

Lord, your assurances and promises come to embrace me -
It captures every fear and anxieties -
You will only be the reason in whom I live my life for -
The reason for every works of my hands -
Never will there be a moment can my life be without you.

I could do anything and go places my feet could take me to,
But Jesus if u are not there with me,
What life will mean for me?

Can I face my life without your hope in my heart and
your loving arms guiding me through my life's journey
Jesus, Will you be the heart beat of all that I ever will do and live for.
There never will be a day, a hour, a minute, a second and a moment,
Lord, you are not there with me

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v1 Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain. v2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat -- for he grants sleep to those he loves (Psm 127 : 1-2)

Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you. For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the LORD in the land of the living. (Psalms 116 : 7 - 9)

Rest = Contentment

Knowing and trusting him in the midst of all our struggles and yet being able to be filled with his peace and having the confidence and satisfaction to know Jesus Is In Control.

God Moves In Ways We Cannot See

When my mum informed me on tuesday night that my dad's sister's husband has passed away, i didnt really feel very much as i wasn't really close to that family. My parents decided to attend the wake the next day. Found out from my another uncle that the wake was held at the Trinity Casket. I was rather surprised cos he was known to be a stauched buddhist. But i didnt take it to heart.

The next day while at work, i was rather curious when i heard from my mum that my late uncle's family had included a christian verse in the obitury. When i look at it, realised that they used John 14:1-4

("Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.") John 14:1-4

Initially i didn't want to attend the wake cos i only will see my dad's relatives during chinese new year or weddings. So i wasn't really close to them. But that afternoon, something in me just clicked and i just decided to go attend the wake together with my parents.

I guess it is all God's divine appointment for me. I was met with many surprises. When i went there and i realised it was a christian wake and they were having a christian service. I managed to talk to one of my late uncle's son whom i never really spoken before. We talked a little about work, suprisingly it wasn't really awkward. I met many of my uncles and cousins and had a brief chat too.

What strikes me is that my dad's extended family which used to be filled with stauched buddhist or free thinkers however with the recent years, many of them became christians. God is amazing cos even as we pray for them. He moves in his own ways.

As i sat through the service and heard the pastor shared about how my late uncle's children came to know the Lord 2 years ago. My late uncle himself came to know the Lord just a few months ago and even though he had some illness and was staying in the home cos he wasn't able to walk and needed people to take are of his basic needs. It was there at the home where he experienced God's love and hearing how he trusted God and prayed even when he was struggling with his health. The nurse who was taking care of him said that each time he struggled, all he replied was that he will pray and ask God for strength. He too enjoyed hearing all the christian songs.

This is a true testimony of how God touched a man after living for 73 years, suffering from his illness, being reduced to being in a wheel chair was known to be a really difficult and tempermental person. Yet in the last few months of his life, His faith and trust in God was truly exhibted in his life. And becos of it all, his wife and son said that in God's time, they too will come to know the Lord. So we believed that this family has been won for God ! Amen :)

I believed that God has convicted me in my heart to go attend the wake and hear the many testimonies by the family, pastor and staff of the home has increase my faith and compassion. GOD IS AWESOME !! Sometimes all he does require for us is to pray and he will do the work. There are moments where he will call us to go out and share our stories and his gospel to the people he brings into our midst. All we need to do is to be obedient and allow God to grant us the wisdom and compassion as we share.

He HIMSELF will do the work to convict the hearts. It is just so simple but we people are used to complications.

Thank God in this season of mine to continually grant me the compassion for the "lost" and the renewal of understanding of what it means to be his mouth piece ... Thank God for showing me that nothing is impossible becos in GOD, all things are possible.

I believed that my parents are very encouraged to hear and see all that God is doing in my dad's extended family. I believed God will bring more of them into his family. What we are sure now is that we will continue to pray for them.

GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME !!!! cos when one in the household knows him, the whole household will be safe.