Today’s lesson

Today, I learnt about Honesty.

Honesty before man, but also more importantly, before God.

I learn so much from the girls & women around me. It’s kinda obvious when a girl is God-fearing. It shines through in her speech and manner. Soft, yet strong.

So grateful for sisters in Christ.

Learning still.

the Master’s Hand

In the time of my confession,
in the hour of my deepest need,
when the pool of tears beneath my feet
flood every newborn seed.
There’s a dyin’ voice within me reaching out
Somewhere,
Toiling in the danger
and in the morals of despair.

Don’t have the inclination
to look back on any mistake,
Like Cain,
I now behold this chain of events that I must break.
In the fury of the moment
I can see the Master’s hand
In every leaf that trembles,
in every grain of sand.



Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort

2 Corinthians 1:3

For you.

1 Corinthians 7?

Thought-provoking (for me, dunno about you. go read! –>) post on marriage over at Boundless Line.

“I’ve wrestled with 1 Corinthians 7 for years. It’s not a simple chapter. Paul affirms both married and single states; he encourages people to get married, he encourages people to stay single. He sometimes offers commands and sometimes offers concessions. Sometimes it appears that he’s giving his own personal opinion, while other times it seems he’s providing counsel directly from the Lord.

… this really is a complex chapter, and the tendency is to pick one verse out of it to defend our current lifestyle.

Let’s not do that, OK? Let’s wrestle with Paul’s elegant affirmation of certain instances of marriage, of singleness, and of delay of marriage. And reject arguments in favor of inappropriate marriage, undue singleness, and irresponsible delay of marriage.”

Undue singleness! Irresponsible delay of marriage! Hahahaha! OOPS. I think I’m not old enough to irresponsibly delay marrying (or be unduly single for that matter), but am guilty of possibly being on that track. Let me off the train!

Hellos and Thankyous

because I feel very grateful today (after surviving my first assignment for the year).

THE SISTER: Hello! You’re awesome for tolerating me leaving plates around during assignment period. And I can’t believe you don’t complain when I have my sing-aloud and spastic-dance sessions. Btw, knives (even butter knives) are placed blade facing down in the dishwasher thingy. You know, so you don’t lose any digits while unloading dishes. And, don’t sweat small stuff la.

THE MENTOR: Hello! Thank you for your emails! They’re gems (like you!) and keep me focussed and encouraged. Oh yes, I’ve been sticking to the spiritual discipline I said I’d focus on (:

AGENT WEE: Hall-roamer! I miss your sense and sensibility. Plus your own brand of retardedness. Like special concoction like that. You must train down with tash if I can’t go up to Sydney k? How are you and kern huh ;P so cute.

AGENT MANO: You’re the happiest person I know. Haha! I’m so excited you’re coming to Melbourne I could puke. omgomgomgomgomgomgomg. Like I said, so excited, could puke. And in response to your smses: YES, aesthetic beauty eh (: and NO, I won’t go running with you! I can’t run remember! I hate running. Sharp pain shoots up my ankles when I run. How come ah? I think I shall ask dr kim.

AGENT WEE: kim ah, how come I get shooting pains in my ankles when I run? Is it because I’m bow-legged and there’s uneven distribution of my (large) body weight over my ankles? That’s my current theory.

AMY: HI THE AMY!! (: You’re so funny. And nice to talk to. And beautiful (even if you did spoil the word ‘happy’ for us). I wonder why I used to be scared of you. Oh yeah, the ‘a’ word hahahahaha

GAYLE: We have UNAGI. We have CONNECTION. We have… ESPN. Just something “I noticed” (WINK WINK). Haha, I like seeing your reaction to that. Can we have brunch someday?

CHUI: Haha, miss giggly! I know you also read my silly blog! Hello to you too! Shall we also have brunch one day?

STEPHANIE, THE RESPONDENT on my ‘This Blog’ page: Um, is it really strange and weird that I’m responding after 2 months, or even at all? (What is the blogging protocol for these sorta things?!) You probably don’t visit here anymore, but… Thank you for your lovely post. I was actually pretty down around that time and reading it encouraged me heaps. It’s so so cool to hear from sisters in Christ I don’t even know personally. Cool beans, it just reminds me of the Big Picture – one body of Christ! (:

To write love on her arms.

Last night I had a dream that made me go “dayum, it wasn’t real?!?! oh. …dayum.” in the morning. It was even cooler than my Star Wars and bending-the-space-time-continuum-to-travel-between-inter-galatic-portals dreams.

Anyhoo that was totally random and moving on, Switchfoot’s ‘Up In Arms’ American tour has started.

S’pity they’re not coming here. (Zhen and pet, you should totally go if they’re coming to your town.)

The ‘To Write Love On Her Arms’ movement is one I really support, not because it’s hip or cool, but because it hits so close to home, I guess. Check it out if you don’t already know what it’s about. I was moved to tears when I first read Renee’s story.

“We often ask God to show up.
We pray prayers of rescue.
Perhaps God would ask us to be that rescue,
to be His body, to move for things that matter.

I might be simple but more and more,
I believe that God works in love,
speaks in love,
is revealed in our love.
We are only asked to love, to offer love to the many hopeless.”