Saturday, July 24, 2010

Beautiful insights from Thomas Smith...or rather...the Bible

Rabbi: "Come follow me."
It simply means, "You can be like me."
We're called to discipleship as God knows we've the potential to be like Christ.
And what a disciple needs is the 3 "F"s,
Free to love
Faith in Christ
bear great Fruits

Learnt in-depth of the background of the city of Corinth and Ephesus.
So beautiful are the correlations/relevance to the readings of Corinthians and Ephesians.
I like the name Corinth. Maybe give that name to my kids...+)

A lot of historical background...
drawing references to Old Testament, and even modern day...
was perpetually sleepy throughout the day.
Kept writing notes to keep myself awake.

oh yes, finally...we're also called to be prophets of today.
Role of prophets are not just to foretell the future,
but they are mainly to give encouragement, build people up and consoles people.
This is what some of the prophetic books does like Malachi, Haggai.


Yesterday was at Angela's house for the Taize gathering.
Her house was jaw-dropping.
I felt like I was in some tropical parts of Europe or smthg.
Br Ghislain from Taize was there and led the sharing with Taize songs.
It was surreal.
Relieving the memories and some of them got emotional.
Coz we're just sucked into our work and back to the swirl of things,
often trying to find our centre and re-focus back.
Trying not to forget what we brought back/learnt from the pilgrimmage of trust.
Angela worked as a lawyer for 3yrs after graduation...
and she got fed up and decided to go travel for 6months with another friend.
There...she stumbled upon Taize in France and slowly...
the Taize community in S'pore starts from then.
God calls and leads in mysterious ways.
Indeed.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Commenced

More than half a year has gone by
And I finally had a proper closure to my Uni education on 9th July 2010
Donned the graduation gown and mortar board
Went up stage for a brief 10seconds
Had hours of photo-taking with families and friends.
After all, truly it's just a ceremony.
What matters most is the heart, memories shared and experienced gained over the 5years.
Saw Richard Ho's comment on Colin's fb wall,
"the journey has just begun".
Now then it dawned on me that our graduation is called "Commencement".
Truly, the journey has just begun.

2 months and going on to 3 months in RSP,
work has been challenging yet exciting and fun.
Practically learning something new every other day.
Stress level can be high when people just keep coming back to me and task me with work.
Should I be heartened that they trust my ability?
But just can't help to lament the neverending work at times.
Being the perfectionist and efficient person,
I often get frustrated for not being able to accomplish tasks in time.
Just thursday I missed my haircut appointment coz I've to clear my work before going on leave on Friday for my graduation. Felt irritated.
I need to be realistic and accept certain facts of life and myself.

Praying and hoping that my work will not gravely affect my upcoming commitment in my LRSS Cell Groups...if not i'll be even more frustrated.
Balance?
Trying to find.
Peace and harmony at heart?
Trying to achieve.
Ministering in church?
Trying to prioritise and discern.

So many things seemed to be deficient for me...
not enough this not enough that...
what is enough?
what is abundant?
questions
searching

I need to exercise regularly.
I need rest.
I need to pray.

wants and needs....another tussle.

random thoughts...
I think S'pore and the world is going to suffer from the iPhone disease.
it's a powerful and useful tool.
Depends on users.
But more often, people choose escapism and enter the world of iPhone...
when they're on train, when they're practically everywhere.
Their soul seemed to be sucked into the phone.
Possessions...
Indeed, possessed by possessing the iPhone.