Wednesday, September 21, 2011;
♥ 4:08 PM
God really speaks to us, its really just so amazing.
Devotion for the day: A Lesson in Crying
Has your heart ever been broken? What broke it? Cruelty? Failure?
Unfaithfulness? Loss? Perhaps you’ve crept into the darkness to cry.
It’s good to cry. “Tears are the only cure for weeping,” said Scottish preacher George MacDonald. A little crying does one good.
Jesus wept at His friend Lazarus’ grave (
John 11:35),
and He weeps with us (v.33). His heart was broken as well. Our tears
attract our Lord’s loving kindness and tender care. He knows our
troubled, sleepless nights. His heart aches for us when we mourn. He is
the “God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation” (
2 Cor. 1:3-4). And He uses His people to comfort one another.
But tears and our need for comfort come back all too frequently in
this life. Present comfort is not the final answer. There is a future
day when there will be no death, no sorrow, no crying, for all these
things will “have passed away” (
Rev. 21:4).
There in heaven God will wipe away every tear. We are so dear to our
Father that He will be the one who wipes the tears away from our eyes;
He loves us so deeply and personally.
Remember, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” (
Matt. 5:4).
Think of a land of no sorrow,
Think of a land of no fears,
Think of no death and no sickness,
Think of a land of no tears. —Anon.
God cares and shares in our sorrow.
He is so real, Praise the LORD! (:
the voice of truth
tells me a different story
the voice of truth says
'do not be afraid'
Tuesday, September 13, 2011;
♥ 4:37 AM
Yes i miss home so badly, feel like skyping home these few days but always didnt manage to get the timing right. Miss my mom, my bro, my friends back home.
Had such a horrible day today. Actually the past few days hasn't really been good, since the day i arrived and moved in. Checking in with a States girl isn't really helping cos she's just un-contactable. Like she just knocked on my door at like 830am this morning telling me we actually have to be there at like 930am, when we were supposed to meet at like 1130am cos we thought out stuff was at 2pm. I didn't know why i didnt receive the email from the coordinator! My friend could have just fb-ed me and told me anyway whether i might see it or not. Yeah so i was like rushing to school alone for the first time, and i got a bit lost at first.
The briefing today was totally in french, and i could only pick up bits and pieces of it. But the lady was briefed us was nice enough cos i asked everything in english. Then it took us abt an hour of queueing here and there just to get our card for the restaurants in school, and to top it up, until the restaurants closed alr, so we tried the sandwich bar, but everything was sold out. Lucky i brought my yogurt out which was supposedly breakfast. Then the library tour, was in french again, didnt really know what she was talking either. I need a buddy with me 24/7 man, until everything is settled. Gosh. but glad i met this Belgium girl and another states girl. The Belgium girl was really nice, she offered to help and stuff. I shall just look her up for help as and when. It was another long queue to get the tag card. I don't know why its such long queues everywhere. I'm just so annoyed.
Then we managed to catch the shuttle svc up to our hostel. Doesn't shuttle svc means its free by its own? Apparently its not! And just so happen there were a grp of tickets checkers waiting for us at the bustop. Cos we didnt get a ticket, they wanted us to pay like 40 euros. WTH. i was trying to say it's my first time and i really didnt know, and i thought it was free. We didn't understand them and they didn't understand us. Lucky i had my tag card, cos its like concession. And my friend has the ticket from the tram which is valid for 1 hr. So we were both saved. Gosh.
Finally got back and i really felt like crying, wanted my mom so badly. But thank God i met sijie and friends tdy at school to help us a bit. I really thought i could do it alone, but apparently no i couldn't, i really need friends and family around me. Or should i just stick up with the Chinese peeps up 2 levels and include myself in them. At least i'll feel a little closer to home.
I dno, now im thinking, was this a wrong choice to begin with. Why on earth did i get myself into such an adventure. It's a bit too overwhelming, i kinda cant handle it. It might just be more nights filled with tears. Nights like these, i always wanted to find someone to talk to, but no one is really online at this time on the other side ):
Just remebered that i still have Big Daddy up there. Im not alone afterall. I miss church, i miss tuanqi, i miss choir. I miss SINGAPORE!
C'mon kat you're better than this, don't let the french bring you down yo! A pass is all you need! GO KAT GO!
Dear Father, i pray for strength and wisdom to carry on every single day. Amen!
the voice of truth
tells me a different story
the voice of truth says
'do not be afraid'
Friday, September 2, 2011;
♥ 4:37 PM
Havent blogged in a long while, and havent been doing my devotions either, but I just decided that i must do devotions today, and it reads a beautiful piece:
When I was a kid, I had a hero: Pete Maravich, a high-scoring basketball player who handled the ball like a magician.
Problem was, my desire to be like Pistol Pete blocked my satisfaction with who God made me to be. When I realized I could never play like Pete, I grew discouraged. I even quit my college team briefly because I couldn’t measure up to the Maravich standard.
Kids still do that kind of thing. They grow unhappy with who God made them to be because they measure themselves by their “perfect” heroes.
Christian singer Jonny Diaz recognized this and wrote a song called “More Beautiful You.” The song begins: “Little girl fourteen flipping through a magazine; says she wants to look that way.” Some young girls wish they could be like Disney star Selena Gomez or another star the way I wanted to be like Maravich. Diaz sings, “There could never be a more beautiful you; don’t buy the
lies . . . ; you were made to fill a purpose that only you could do.” Diaz is saying what another songwriter said under the inspiration of God thousands of years ago: “[We are] fearfully and wonderfully made” (Ps. 139:14).
God made us the way He wants us to be. Believe it. There could never be a more beautiful you.
We are beautiful masterpieces designed by God.
Psalm 139: 1-14
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Reminds me of this song
:
展开清晨的翅膀
主耶和华祢已经鉴察了我
我坐下我起来祢都已晓得
我行路我躺卧祢都细察
祢也深知我一切所行
我舌头上的话
祢没有一句不知道
祢在我前后环绕着我
按手在我身上
这样的奇妙是我不能测透
祢的至高祢的尊贵
是我永远不能所及
我可以往那里去躲避祢的灵
我可以往那里去逃可躲避祢的面
我若展开清晨的翅膀飞到地极
就在那里祢的双手也必引导我
Thank you Lord for the wonderful reminder to keep you as the centre of my life every single day.
Missing everybody back home in Sunny island, esp my mum
I love you mum!
the voice of truth
tells me a different story
the voice of truth says
'do not be afraid'