Sunday, October 26, 2008
Wells Sunday has sure been fruitful and eventful.
Started off the day by waking up at 7.45am, dragging myself outta bed for
Hopekids.
It is really great seeing all the kids and having fun with them. Back up singing went great too except
tt for praise the speaker on my side wasn't turned on
haha. Couldn't hear myself. The harmonies for worship went quite well. Its really funny watching the kids play games DURING SERVICE!!! They have a game component
lol! Its called
flippin cheese balls. Met a lot of familiar faces from youth, Peter, Yong Deng and even Alvin! Its really great to know that those people whom you were running the race for God with back then are still
running!
ONward people!!!
After
Hopekids Kat rushed back home. Collecting stuff for tuition later on and having a quick lunch. Lunch was finished in a record 8
mins. Don't think its too good for the stomach but oh wells what is one to do when time is running out.
Tuition was quite fruitful, my kid got back his results.
He got B4 for
eng(oh no!!!), A1 for math =) and A2 for Science.
Haha ok so I need to give him intense
English training! His
family is really nice. they are
Christians and his mother feeds me well!!! =)))))) I get fruit juices, buns,
baos and even glutinous rice dumplings.! God! You really understand me!
haha!
After Tuition, I rushed down to Orchard to meet up my Mom for some shopping. We bought 2 dresses and stuff. H
aha its really great shopping with her since I dun get to see her often and in addition, she pays for the shopping!!!
Haha the latter is secondary!
An interesting twist of events after shopping
cuz she asked if I
wanted to have dinner with my father. It really took some time for me to ponder if I should say yes, considering the emotional stress I was put through last Sunday. It was definitely not the happiest family time that I have had last Sunday. I would really prefer to forget it. Alas, I still went. Whilst taking the train, we helped a stranded Indonesian find his way to Mt.
Alvernia. (
Ahh now I know its near Novena)
Wells Dinner was eaten with apprehension, but thank God that no fights broke out and we attempted civil talk. The tension that was there for the past 6 days between me and my Dad was almost gone. And out of dinner, apparently I am going on a 3 day trip with my Mom to Bangkok to shop and my father agreed to sponsor my Taiwan mission trip! Yeah man! Praise God! Now, moving on to the food part!!!!!!!!!
We ate at Chinatown, not some fanciful place but my goodness the food was AWESOME! Shall upload pics and give my comments for each dish another day.
God really blessed my day
cuz we went to visit my aunt. (she felt down and fractured her leg. one of my triple whammy experiences that
occurred last Sunday. It shall be known as T.W. Sunday, 19/10/2008. that was definitely a spiritual attack.
Neway, god was really faithful to her and she was really blessed, too many blessings to type it all down.
Just a few:
-She managed to get the best doctor to operate on her, Dr
Ooi-She bought life insurance beforehand
-She got the full refund for her planned holiday trip
-A nice young man Kenneth introduced her to Dr.
Ooi. (P.s. if you are that Kenneth
pls leave a tag if you happen to see this)
-There were nice Christians in her ward
-etc etc etc ... ... ...
Although she didn't understand why this happened to her, she still has faith in God and thank God for that. How many a times have we turned our back on God, just because of our perceived 'betrayal or unfaithfulness' of him? I think we all need to grow in the aspect of faith. We have to realise sometimes that God is God and we are not and wouldn't you prefer to let him take charge of the situation? Rather than trying all possibilities you can
conjure up, only to be exhausted and broken at the end of the day? Even when T.W. Sunday
occurred, I came to a conclusion at the end of the day that those incidents must have happened for a reason. Remembering the book of Job (thanks brother for reminding me), it could have been God testing me. Will you only praise God in good times, then turn your back and curse him in your bad? I had prayed for more evident growth during corporate prayer meeting and I can see how God is using T.W. Sunday to grow me.
Firstly, for the incident regarding my aunt. each time I went there, it was with different family members. Each time, I ended the visit with a prayer for her. I realised at that point that I had never really
out rightly expressed
Christian faith in this manner to them. My mother was the one who even initiated for me to pray for her. (My mom had converted recently. Hopefully, my father will draw back to God again.) I had a good time to chat with my brothers concerning certain issues. God really turned the worst of situations into channels of blessings. If you see this, do pray for the recovery of my aunt's leg.
Secondly concerning the dispute in my family. i realised that I had been harbouring emotions towards my father for some time and that incident caused it to sorta erupt. I didn't blow up, but it was really emotionally stressful. However, God used the song 'So you Would Come' to help me forgive. Somewhere in the song it goes 'Nothing you can do can make him love you more, and nothing that you've done could make him close the door.' It made it
easier for me to forgive.
I really thank god for my Mom, there are so many bad tempers in the family but thankfully, she is very forgiving and sweet tempered. What would we do without her?
Lastly, I had been really troubled about my ministry. I am a very choleric and task driven individual. One of my greatest strengths and pitfalls. When things dun start improving, when people don't grow in the areas which they should be tangibly, I would be very harsh on myself.
Haha, my ex-shepherd Kiwi would know this best. I really hope to see breakthroughs, and a strong CG! God please read the previous sentence!
A bit random but oh wells, it just came into my mind. God! I hope to have a
never ending and
ever changing buffet in my house in heaven. Please let it be 85% meat!
Amen!
