just came back from orientation camp!
it's really a nice one,can see and feel the efforts put in by the committee members.friends in the group are nice and cooporative.
but don't know why I just feel something not so comfortable.
but at least it really settles me for the sch reopen next week!

i saw this is one of my friend's blog and decided to quote her cause I have this thought before too but just that I do not know how to express it out. She can really link and express thoughts well. =) =) =)
A thought after visiting back your secondary school, seeing the people, things, places etc:
It has always struck me as rather strange that one can change so much in 10 years but in that same ten years, it seems that time has stopped for the stall owners and school people. Superficially, everything will continue to run as it has for the last decade. A sense of stability amidst constant change or pity that their lives has stagnated.


Friendship.
sometimes i really wonder hard about it.
or maybe, perhaps, a lot of times.

i want to secure my identity in ChristAlone.

In Christ alone
I place my trust
And find my glory in the power of the cross

In every victory let it be said of me
My source of strength, my source of hope
is Christ alone

thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings to me.
thank you for trusting me.
im aniticipating how God will mould you from a young boy to a young man who goes after God's heart :) :)



yesterday had bible study on Daniel chapter 3.

"Trust God."
"Have faith in God."

common phrases, popular phrases, how do you qualify it?
this phrase is so commonly used among the christian community that if we do not attempt to qualify it, we might just miss the essence of it. I mean we may not turly understand what we are saying.

I guess many of us are familiar about the event of Daniel's 3 friends were thrown into the fire furnace? do you know what did the friends say when the king commanded them to be thrown into the fire?

"If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up."

will you say that they are of little faith, because they replied to the king with the "if"? If God didn't...

No. I think they are truly of great faith. They truly understands that no matter what's the outcome, God is still soverign. So even if they are really thrown into the first and burn to death, they know that if God has allowed that to happen, that's the best for them.

will we find that God is wrong or saying that that decision is not wise enough if they are burnt to death?

what i have learnt that having faith is not only in trusting that somethng will turn out better. but is also trusting that even if something worse happened, it is still within God's soverignty, within His wisdom and best plans.

may i continue to love listening to God's Voice through studying of His word. =D

sometimes i really wonder what does it mean to be a good daddy's girl.
does it really mean to obey whatever he says?
but if what he said is wrong, do i still listen?
obviously not right. (before that i have to truly examine whether it's wrong)
but how to tell him with a gentle and yet not offensive way.

i know where you are coming from, but sometimes is just so tiring to explaine.

urgh. i just don't want to be kid that no longer wants to talk.

"Honour your father and your mother,

so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you"

Exodus 20:12

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- not by works, so that no one can boast"

Ephesians 2:8-9

Who doesn't wrestle with sin?
I do.
i ought to feel bad.
but i should not forget the fact that God in His deepest love has chose to set me free!

"Those who look on him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame."

Psalm 34:5

Through Jesus Christ, we are seen as radiant! GRACE.

may i learnt to show grace and forgiveness to others just like what God chose to give it to me.

:)

urgh.
feel so lost and fruastrated.
no handphone, no cash can be withdrawn.
now, i realised my thumdrive is pick-pocketed together with my wallet and hp.
fruastrated over the fact that i feel so worried.

suddenly so many things are happening, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
this reminded me of, sometimes what i planned God can intercept it.
im just a very tiny and vulnerable person.

Lord, teach me to depend on You and to cast my worries upon You.

God is in control by Avalon

This is no time for fear

This is a time for faith and determination

Don't lose the vision here

Carried away by emotion

Hold on to all that you hide in your heart

There is one thing that has always been true

It holds the world together

CHORUS

God is in control

We believe that His children will not be forsaken

God is in control

We will choose to remember and never be shaken

There is no power above or beside Him,

we knowGod is in control, oh God is in control

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Grace last day of work in Spinelli.
my shift manager made a comment that caught me thinking: no one is permanent.

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first meeting with Linda to discuss west girls event.

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a pick-pocket case actually happened on me.
there goes my wallet and handphone. =(

no CCTV in the shop.
shop assitants are clueless.
sercurity guards are helpless.

am i faithless?
Prayers didn't came first, my own thoughts came first into my mind.
I forgot that God is more powerful and mighty than the CCTV, the shop assitants and sercurity gurads,and me.

is not about beliving God can make my wallet and hp re-appear again.
it is about coming to Him first, because it shows that no matter how bad is the situation, i am trusting that God is in control; He knows all things and sees all things.
He knows what's happening to the birds in the sky, obviously He knows what is happening to me at that place and at that moment. So obviously He knows what i need.

no matter how bad the situation or situations in life is, there's still many things that we can thank God for.

for this incident,
i truly thank God for Stef.
I'm so so glad that i have a friend with me ( i can't imagine if i was alone).
thank God that she spotted that my bag was wide-opened.
calmed me down.walk around with me to find.immediately lend me her phone.talk to sercurity guards.provide me with money to travel.travel all the way down togethr to singtel shop to get a new SIM card.together we lodged a report. thank God for her smiles and laughters that helpes me not to be so sacred and tense up.

thank God that there's less than $5 bucks in the wallet, less than a dollar in the ez-link.the wallet is a really old one. so the theif seriously didn't "earn" much.

phew.
lessson learnt: Low crime does not mean no crime. be alert and responsible for your sown belonings. don't be too engross in shopping and forget everything else!

Thank God for your protection.