弟兄姐妹名言录

看到有人在课室里搬桌椅，问黄秉赋：里面那个谁来的？
黄：好像是沛翀。
我：然后你就让他自己一个人在里面搬东西，你自己在外面打电话？！！
黄：（镇定地）你是不是觉得我是狼—心—狗—肺……
我：好像差不多……
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翀: 我不会跟你们去吃饭，因为（理由）。
依玲: （指着电梯瞪大眼睛凶狠地说）你走！我们是不会留你的！
翀: 我不稀罕！
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很兴奋地跟黄秉赋的小组讲他早上的那个狼心狗肺，他们一脸的平静/冷静/被冷到/没有反应。
黄：（镇定地）你看，他们一点反应也没有……but thank you for trying so hard.

 

We love because He loves us!

It has been a very richly blessed day today. I’m greatly thankful to God for blessing us with this wonderful church community where we honestly and openly love each other. I am personally blessed with loving brothers and sisters who are both kind and wise in their company. Every time I think of the idea that we will be a group to grow old together, I feel filled with joy and anticipation for the future~

 

Blessings

I think such busy-ness is good because under such stress, a lot of love become apparent to me. I can really see how many sweet people there are around me and how much they love me.

My dear’s unexpected little gift… to have kind brothers and sisters see me home… coming home late at night from a meeting, to see the kitchen light left on for me… Mum’s cooling teas…nagging to eat fruits… random funny jokes from brothers and sisters… various notes dropped in on Facebook…

It’s all very beautiful and precious to me

 

Work Mode

11 months into the production, 5 days before Production Day, I’m appointed/annointed Project Manager.

Sigh.

Nah, not unwilling. Just a little amused at the timing of it all. It dawned upon me that authority given is important not because I like to feel powerful, but because it gives me the legality to do what I seem to be doing but am testy about doing because I’m not in the particular position. It’s funny because while I seem to be the secretary/liaison/prayer/do-everything-else-person, I’m not legally an in-charge and it therefore did not seem fitting that I go bother everyone about what their progress are like.

So even though it’s a hasty appointment, I heaved a sigh of relief because I can at least be sure now that there’s someone who’s going to chase after people about the progress of things (even if I’m going to be the one doing it).

I’m strange like that. I can’t take too much stress, but yet at the same time I feel insecure if I’m not in the know of things and watching something go about uncontrolled. Seems like I function best when things are in controlled order – doesn’t matter who the controller is.

Dear said I’m very different when I’m working. (I think that stands for, “Um, I don’t realize you can also bark at people and deal out threats. Oh, and I think I better not say that you looked like a Discipline Mistress during Assembly Period.”) But I guess that’s how I work. Super Slacker (2 x 3 hr naps + Maple Story + Facebook + Youtube/day) versus Serious Work Machine. It’s all me. And dear, you’ll have to get used to it

And may the Lord bless our hearts and resources as we enter our final lap~

 

Hanging on till the day!

Yesterday we were all so tired that we had no energy for the rehearsals… all just nuah-ing and having no idea what to do next.

Slowly…but surely… we are getting there….

 

Diocese Youth Worship

Attended Diocese Youth Worship last night. I actually didn’t really like how the worship leaders put themselves right in the middle of the stage in front of the Cross, nor how they had a whole mass of flag-waving people during the first song. Also, the contemporary music had me very disturbed because it was loud and in my opinion, self-centered (“You came to save ME, you died for ME, I blah blah blah, I blah blah blah, my blah blah blah“).

The heart of worship, is God, not the “performances” of worshipers.

So amidst the loud rock and roll I kept quiet and prayed instead that the Lord will help me quiet my heart to praise Him even amidst the noise.

Thank the Lord, the messages that night was good. Archbishop John Chew delivered an address and he reminded us of our place in the world, as our Lord Jesus had prayed in John 17 – we are in the world, but we should never be part of the world. As he sets the vision for the future of Christians in Singapore, he asked, “Would our youths be able to stand by the principles of the faith, as our forebears had, and pass on such principles to the future generations?”

The message of the night by Mike P(too long and weird to remember) was awesome. He was a gifted speaker and the message delivered was simple yet powerful, illustrated by the quirky little stories that Mike shared.

• We as humans are created to worship.

God does not have security issues and He doesn’t need people to keep telling Him that He is great, in order to feel good about Himself. Worship is an expression of a relationship, our love for Him. Happily married couples who are very much in love with each other praise and affirm each other all the time, they can’t stop adoring each other. Our love relationship with our Lord is much greater than that, of course He deserves to have us fall at His feet and tell Him how much we love Him.

• Worship and Evangelism cannot be separated.

Evangelism is not some Christian “event” in which Christians run out of their carefully protected little castles called the church and tell people that they are going to hell if they don’t become Christians. Evangelism is about loving people like the Lord, so that it may be seen clearly in our lives what Christ has done.

• Worship and Justice cannot be separated.

We cannot worship, fast and pray while doing evil and injustice. Prayers like that would not be heard by the Lord. The subject preached most often in the Bible, after the topic of idolatry, is Justice. God is concerned about justice and whether His people treat others with fairness.

I give thanks to the Lord for blessing Mike with such gifts to talk to our youths about the Lord. In the world today, we young people need to come out of our comfortable, self-centered coves and become interested in what the Lord is interested in. “Break my heart for what breaks Yours.” It was quite an experience to see so many youths come forward to dedicate their lives to the Lord and to fall before Him in worship.

And we pray for ourselves, that we may indeed make worship the heart of our lives and serve Him with all our hearts, minds and souls.

 

Three cheers

Hip hip hooray to our Lord!

He has helped us all survive this crazy day

It was uplifting to see our young people put in heart soul and effort into something for the Lord and have fun at the same time~

I braced myself to get really stressed up today, but things just eased through! The Lord is good

Tired, but yay!

He loves us and helps us learn to love each other!

 

We walk the bridge of Christ

There are many things whirling around in my head, of which some questions like, “Why are teenagers these days so emo?” Then I thought, hey, I used to be emo at their age too… I only grew out of it because I got to know God and His joy. So I must pray for these kids that they may too experience the joy and peace given by God.

Dear is sick As terrible as it sounds, I’m not too surprised seeing how hard he had slogged for so long. Time for him to have a nice long sleep. I hope he’s still sleeping now. As much as I miss him (it’s been a week since I saw him ), I think I still want him to have a good break. Take good care, dear… I’ll go meet you in my dreams♥

Ps Ling gave me a bottle of chicken essence, omg. I thought she was joking when she asked me whether I want chicken essence or a massage last night O_O It is of course, a much welcomed and a mind-bogglingly sweet action. I was so tired yesterday! It was what feeling “drained” is like… I could not say a single word apart from that which was absolutely necessary. Yet last night a sudden wave of inspiration caused me to stay up to write a new song for the Musical with Wanwen and Zeli. It was about 12.30am the time I went to bed and yet I couldn’t sleep! Then a commotion from my parents’ room sent me to check and it happened to be that my dad accidentally knocked his drinking flask over and they were drying up the spill. My mum was surprised that I was still up (at 1 am) and packed me off to bed after a comforting mug of warm Milo ♥ I love you Mum. And Ps Ling you are just like a mum to me already♥

Fellowship was great as usual, today. We had marketplace seminar and it was very inspiring. It really got me to think again about my life goals and what my priorities and principles should be like as a Christian in the workplace. Major ideas:

• God is our biggest boss, so He is the one we should please, above all others.
• Fear and reverence for God! 敬畏神!

I must say, while these couple of days have been physically exhausting, it has been a time of much prayer and work at dropping distractions from my life. And I kept praying, O Lord, please don’t let me fall from Your sight. Please teach me to stay close to You and not sin in my self-centeredness. Don’t ever let go of me, Lord. Don’t ever allow me to stray from You.

For indeed I feel like my spiritual walk is akin to walking on a plank bridge over a river of broiling sulphur. If I stay to the middle of the bridge and focus on my walk, I’d be able to walk it safely, comfortably and peacefully. Yet most of the time I look around distractedly and did my own things, causing me to swerve off towards the edge of the bridge. The heat and sting of the broiling sulphur wakes me up from my distracted stupor each time and I would scramble to the middle of the bridge. A moment of laxity and I could fall to a painful death in the river…

You see, we walk as God’s children in this fallen world, surrounded by temptations to sin. We are protected when we chose to walk on the plank bridge provided by God in the form of Christ, high above the danger. Yet it is not a safety net. We have to walk consciously and cautiously to cross the river, to an eternity of holiness and completion in our Creator. When we walk, there are constantly many things to distract us from our conscious and cautious steps. Sometimes it’s in the form of entertainment, sometimes it’s in the form of money, sometimes it’s in the form of lust, sometimes it’s in the form of worldly power. Most of them look as harmless as little birds flying across our skies, but when we lose ourselves trying to catch these little birds, we fall away from our safe paths.

So, no, let’s not be distracted. Let’s keep our eyes on Christ, our bridge to God. Let’s walk this path of faith and certainty and steer ourselves away from death.

 

Much has happened

Youth Fellowship AGM!

I feel a new sense of purpose…