…attest to His good, perfect and pleasing will

Thoughts

Posted by: 2161aneres on: November 11, 2009

After listening to the sermon (the post below), I have some thoughts. I missed my own church for the past few weeks as I attended another church meanwhile (temporary). I do miss my Church a lot.

The emphasis on spending time wisely by pursuing things of value, and the importance of prayer according to God’s will and the study of His words stuck on me. What are the things of value? What is value? Thought-provoking huh. Eternal value is of concern… Not value of the temporal as the value will diminish with time…

May God help me to be more prayerful and to understand His will.

It was said in the sermon that things done against His will, will definitely bring regrets one day.

I should be more in tune with the Shepherd’s voice, rather than the world’s cacophony. Sometimes I  lower down the Shepherd’s voice volume unknowingly as it’s directions may be not seem pleasing to me at times.. But I should change that too.

Am I living for my own whims or His will? Am I running away from the truth, or am I afraid of knowing the truth?

May He guide me along green pastures. For He is able to although I am weak. I just need to obey. But obey is such a heavy word. Not easy to carry at all.

I should not depend too much on His mercy all the while, but rather, I should learn to live a life of obedience, which is at times extremely hard. So I need more prayer and bible reading anyways. Because His ways are the best. That’s why I need to obey.

:)

The road back to the narrow path is filled with thorns and thistles, blood and tears, sweat and pain. Isn’t it? The faster the road back to the narrow path, the lesser regrets there will be. Isn’t it? Or would there be any regrets?

Prayer at the end of the world

Posted by: 2161aneres on: November 11, 2009

http://www.edenbp.org/sermon/moshidaogao/moshidaogao.mp3

This sermon is about how we should live our lives, being in the era of the last days..

Insightful.

But only in Chinese. Translation available upon request.

Aim

Posted by: 2161aneres on: November 7, 2009

If God allows…. and if I’m still alive, and able to…

 

Hope to aim for a Nissan March by the end of next year :)

 

Sweet.

 

 

Happy pics (of food)

Posted by: 2161aneres on: November 6, 2009

A little hungry I guess. hehe.

These are edible! I won’t spare any of them…even though they are really cute..

Had guava for dinner. Not much of an appetite then.

Stable routine= stable Q.T.

Posted by: 2161aneres on: November 6, 2009

Quite happy that with a more stable routine and working hours, I have time in the morning for q.t. especially when sitting on the double decker bus.

:)

Bliss.

Think that I should take some things easy, while putting more weightage on other more important things.

Really feel like visiting the cemetery some day. Kept thinking about it these days. Think that kind of place really helps one to understand one own self better.

Missing old ward

Posted by: 2161aneres on: November 2, 2009

Kinda dreamed of being called back to my old workplace in SGH to work for a night. I was walking through the Chinatown area, saw some interesting things, and thought of going to a coffee shop to eat something first, before heading to work. Kind of happy to go back there to help them, to see the rest of the colleagues like Winnie, Joanna, Angelia, Amanda, Fiona, Jaspreet, aidah, zainab….etc.

Then just this song keep playing in my mind after I woke up from the dream. I kept searching for the song, thought it’s sung by Jay Chou, then realised no it’s not.

How time flies. Life is gone quickly.. Just hope that I’ll be able to add colours into my present life, and when I look back, I’ll still be able to smile and not regret..

Having orientation for a few days at the new work place this week. @@

HAHA

Stars

Posted by: 2161aneres on: October 31, 2009

Иска ми се да напиша името си в звездите.

halloween scare

Posted by: 2161aneres on: October 30, 2009

 

Inspired by Twilight and Wonder girls.

Just for laughs.

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Are weird reasons ever justifiable?

Posted by: 2161aneres on: October 28, 2009

Quite happy to meet my best friend Fifi, and had a really good talk with her.

Kinda realised from her that my motives for doing things are “weird” in a way at times. Like normal people wouldn’t want to do those because of those reasons.

I do realise that and I do find it a little appalling that I have strange reasons for doing certain things. I don’t really understand why that is so. Or why do I operate in that way. Is it due to past childhood experiences or certain experiences that I’ve went through? I can’t really put a finger to any, as a reason for that. I just feel that, it is something that comes naturally to me, like a certain kind of “instinct”, a person once said that I had that kind of “calling” in me. It is something that is part of the essence of my very soul or being, of which I still do not comprehend.

It is scary that perhaps, when one loses hope, which IS essential for LIFE, one loses a third of his or herself? Leaving behind Faith and Love to operate for the other two thirds, which is just activated “blindly”, without “hope”, because when hope is lost, and faith and love operates, the result may be different?

I have learnt to cope with death. Mourning people’s death has been part and parcel of my job and past experiences. Until that any bad thing that happens, I see it as something like death, which one mourns about, but after that, life still carries on. This mortifying mentality may be fatalistic, in which one “anticipates” bad things to happen, and doesn’t feel much sadness as expected when it comes, as one gets so used to it.

Don’t know if there is any other person who is able to understand my weird disposition. I do believe that there is a “Dr Jekyll” and Mr Hyde in all of us. It is only whether we choose to activate the other abominable side of ourselves. The line may be very thin, but the difference can be a whole complete world. How scary and the potential of destruction that lies in one’s own choices? Choice carries with it- consequences, responsibilities, commitment, heart aches, tears, sweat…. fruition or not, it depends on whether the choice is right. It is only when faced with two EQUALLY appealing, attractive choices, or two contrasting but distinctively choices, is one really in a giant dilemma. I know people do say to seek the Lord, to ask for His guidance. But how can one put down one’s own headstrong opinion of one’s strongest desire? Perhaps, that desire has been the strongest that the person has ever encountered in his or her entire life, perhaps it has never been satisfied since the person was a little child. Would that desire destroy him or her? No it wouldn’t, but it would be the choice that can destroy that person. But who is sure that the wrong choice will definitely lead to destruction? Who can be sure that it is really the right choice? I think only God knows it. He is the only one who knows what is the ending of every story. But I hate the stubbornness in myself. I hate the headstrong determined self which seeks to justify a wrong choice that may be actually right.

For life is but a breath.

But the soul lives on forever. I just hold on to that. And try to make my life worth the suffering. . .. . . . .. .  For living is suffering. Though happiness and joy do come by, one does suffer when one lives. Just make sure that it is worth it.

The world and its pleasures are passing away…

 

Hope that the Lord will save me from this paralyzing situation. For I have been paralyzed. I’m unable to make any wise decision of which is the right choice. Totally unable to. Disarmed and disempowered.

Perhaps this is the toughest spiritual battle that I have ever encountered…….

HLA, MHC

Posted by: 2161aneres on: October 25, 2009

A video shows a thousand words, and more. Nice video animation..