lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
And love that never fails
Let mercy fall on me
When everyone needs forgiveness
Kindness of the Saviour
The Hope of the nation
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything that i believe in
Now i surrender
Shine a light in and
let the whole world see
Singing, for the glory of the risen king
Jesus, Shine a light and
let the whole world see
Singing for the glory of the risen king
Saturday, August 09, 2008
-8:54 AM
Hey Shawn!
haha hope you like this layout. i got it from blogskins.com anyway._.
yeaps. havent added a tagboard yet..so, yeaps. (:
woops, didnt exactly get permission to post.. x:
haha, nights.
abby(:
Saturday, August 02, 2008
-7:19 PM
HAI SING CELL 2008
Was lost, all in a new enviroment... what would it be like? As I probably never knew anyone there, there goes... did i made the right choice? was it really from God.. Oh, just remembered, did i prayed about it? Maybe I should have prayed more... When was the last time i actually prayed? Questions questions... uncertainty.. leaving St Hilda's wasn't as easy for me, as being there for yrs has also made me heart grew really fond of them. Up the stairs to the second floor of Riverlife Church... As I opened the door, suddenly there was a loud voice that went:
MATA!! I looked around, and gosh suddenly all the questions just left my mind. They spoke like they knew me before, for a long long time. Then came fifi with her hospitality, who offered her book as cell Word was going on. And that ended day 01 of Hai Sing cell.
The the journey begun.. and there came.. 
The Love!
The sharing!
The Laughter!
The Discipleship!
The New spiritual baby, and his 2 wonder parents (Left to right)
The sillyness!
Our wonderful Cell Chalet! (June 2008)
The cannot get enough of mata!
More Salvation/Discipleship
That that marks the journey in HaiSing cell. More lies ahead... and more is to come. What's that? well that's what we are about to find out. HaiSing people, if you happen to be reading this, We know an exciting time lies ahead. So let's continue to love god whole heartedly and love people fervently. I look forward to all the fun, laughter, and yes also the tears that we are gonna share together. As one... SUPERNATURAL CELL, let's run the race that is set before us. =)
Saturday, February 17, 2007
-1:53 AM
Came across some humorous quotes that pokes fun at the difference between the genders, its more in the wordly sense.. o well to each individual opinion... here goes:- A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he wants; a woman will pay $1 for a $2 item she doesn't want.
- A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband; a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
- A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend; a successful wife is one who finds such a man.
- To be happy with a man you must understand him a lotand love him a little; to be happy with a woman you must love her alot and try not to understand her at all.
- Married man live longer than single man, but married men are a lot more willing to die
- Any married man should forget his mistakes-- there is no use in two people remembering the same thing.
- A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't; a man marries a woman expecting that she won't change and she does.
- A woman has the last word in any argument; anything a man says after that is the beggining of a new arguement.
- There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman: Before marriage and after.
Well, sounds a little bias towards the man side. Not that i agree with all.. but some after some thoughts, made me believe it is true. Well selecting the right man or woman to marry is important, but its only part of the process of developing a good marriage. Before we marry, the focus is on a future mate. After we marry, its on ourselves. Dating brings out the best, marriage brings out the rest.
Friday, January 19, 2007
-6:11 PM
The Porcupine
Living with people
The longing to attach and connect, to love and be loved is the fiercest longing in our soul. It is the cry in every fibre of our being, the drive behind alot of why we do what we do in our everyday lives much more then we ever realize it.
Especially so with the ones we hold close to our hearts. Our family, close friends, our partner, or spouse. We seek their attention, their approval over our lives, to be special in their sight. That's when we open up for disspointment, we began placing expectation on how they should be towards us, how they should treat us, we expect a perfect almost god-like image of how they should be. Not realizing that they are human just like us. That's when we began to withdraw to solitude, after all love hurts.... being close to people would also mean getting hurt.
Perhaps we have made vows to ourselves "I'm never gonna love again!" "I'm not gonna trust leaders anymore" "This is the last time i'm ever going to go out with them" on and on......... WE become so defensive of our fragile heart, till we never allow anyone to get close to us, because of all the defensive walls (personal vows) we've made.
Porcupines are the most solitiude creatures. Wolves run in packs; sheep hurdles in flocks; elephants in herds... etc. Not so for the porcupine, they travel alone most of the time. However porcupines don't always want to be alone. In late autmn the porcupines thoughts turn to love. Love turns out however to be risky as the femal porcupines are only open to a "candlelight dinner and movie" only ONCE A YEAR. A turndown is often heard of by the male porcupine. Fear and anger makes them difficult creatures to be around. The spines around the porcupines make them hard to get close to one another.
The question is "How do we get close without getting hurt?" Perhaps the porcupine has such diliemma, but isn't that the diliemma of human history today? We see divorces, break ups, broken relationships everywhere. All of a result of hurt and anger.
Well, being in camp the past few months has thought me what it means to "live in harmony with one another" (Romans 12:16) "bear with one another in love" (colossians 3:13), Make every effort to live at peace with ALL MEN (Hebrews 12:14) . As other then my family, i've never been so close to a group of guys i never known. Just this week alone i saw the first quarrel happening in my squad that almost lead to a fight.
How to get close without getting hurt? Well perhaps i could share on how i get along...
1) Realize that no one is "normal", not even you. Human like porcupines have their thorns, it could be rejection, condemnation, resentment, bitterness, arrogance, selfishness, envy. Some hide it better then others, but once u get close to them you'll find that it is there. They burrow the thorns under their skin, they can wound, fester or even kill.. Well "He/she look like the perfect girl or guy for us..." Often such mindset would cause us to place unrealistic expectation on our partner or people around us.
2) We are no different. Everyone has a disgusting, irritating side, including yourself. And most often time, the very trait we dislike in others is in ourselves as well. It could be a blindspot, as Jesus mention "Why do we pay attention to the sawdust in our brother's eyes and pay no attention to the wooden plank in our own eye?" Or it could be we are having difficulties living with ourselves, as we hate that part of ourselves so much that when we see others having that same trait, we impose the same hatred.
We could easily name some porcupines in our lives, but not knowing we are also a porcupine to someone.
3) Well, know that its not about you, its about people.
"People don't exist for you, you exist for people."
Let Jesus be the love in our lives, the closest friend, our security. We can't give what we don't experience ourselves. Simliarly if we have not understood what it felt to be loved with no strings attached, we cannot give that kind of love to the people around us.
Acceptance, approval, appreciation and admiration we reali don't need them, but blessing a life, especially one we find so irritating, would be like pouring cold water over heaps of burning coal.
Well i always remember the story of these two man who happen to meet one day. One had a heart that is clean and spotless, while the other man had holes, some holes were filled but the shape was not exact. The man with the clean and spotless heart began to laugh and mock the man who had the heart with holes. After sometime the man began to reply "the holes in my heart were the people i gave a peice of my heart to, but they never return a peice of their heart to me, while those that were filled with irregular shapes were those who gave a part of their heart back but was never able to fill back the kind of love i showered."
The man with the pure heart then in tears, then painfully took out a peice of his heart and gave it to the man and filled it into one of the holes.
Monday, January 01, 2007
-6:15 PM
BINTAN PART 2
WOOPZ! sorry for the long long absence. Time is so contraint.. 5 days controlled, 2 days free. Never thought the nxt time i'll blog again wld be in 2007. Time reali flies.. and whenever 31st december of every yr comes about, it feels as if the whole year could be summarise in just one day. Well if you could summarise 2006 in a word or phrase what would it be? Man.. just can't wait for April when i'll finally POP/ORD. Both same to me la!!! ok.. here is bintan part 2 as indicated..
O have time come to bintan.. i love that place.. below is handsome me..
ME!
Eating by the pool side, with my alcohol drink. Well, did drank alot in bintan.
Well not alone of course, with my friend.
Do our smiles look alike?
beach volleyball!!!!!!
Its the girls.....
Versus the guys!!!
K... aniticipating to get the ball...
Nope she missed. She always missed. Let M show it to you!
Change sports. FRISBEE! Catch it SHAWN!
Caught it! Over to you....
"Nice try! But i caught it!!"
Evening time at bintan
We just sat and talk. But it was one of the enjoyable moments.
Well.. cool boy!!
Well night time.. saw the many cups of alchol drinks behind. Loser drinks. Well.. i'm confident.
haha... one down... CRASH!!
Oh no!!!!! I'm gone!!
Next morning, breakfast... nah.. dun feel too good and she's disturbing me.
Friday, December 08, 2006
-6:47 AM
BINTAN PART 1
Bintan a Beach resort. Good place to hang in after a hard days of work. A place simply to laze. Great and clear waters, soft sand... dfinetely one of the best beaches i've been to so far.
The Accomodation at night view.
The friends
Sleeping... Caught on camera.
They did the cooking.
We did the eating
And the washing...
Poor K getting pushed ard.
Taking shot... aim and fire...
Slam dunk?
Shoot!!
Get the pass!
PArt 2 coming soon.........
