Wednesday, November 25, 2009
miraculous. i rmbed the pw. lol.
unlike the single set of footprints in that poor guy's low times, loggers comments on my despairing statuses always keeps me going. lucky yall not as elusive and cheeky as god. hahah.
okay log love. byebye.
vonvon.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Hi guys, just a quick post before I go back to my computing notes (how boring I know).
Anyway, I've been searching for eternity - trying to find out the exact date we got our name and the other day I succeeded! I was reading through people's old blog archives and Justin Kong blogged about it! (yay Kong :D) And so... We got our name, Leaven of God on the 30th of January 2005 :) :) which means. Next year 30th January 2010 WE TURN 5!!! it'll be our 5th anniversary! I think we should celebrate it somehow (so exciting righttt!! it excites me!) So let's plan something okay. Discuss more when I'm done with the horrid exams.
Okay that's all I wanted to post. Oh and prayer intentions..
Prayer Intentions
- Safety of Soo and Swee and possibly Kong (I'm not too sure when this week he leaves for China) while they're all on holiday
- Safety and God's guidance for Mark, Cheryl, Shawn Wong and Fr B at Asian Youth Day
- Exams, school and deadlines - keep praying for us girls
- the 22 people who were massacred in Philippines - so scarrrry.
- Feast Day Celebrations
- God's continued presence in the Sec2s
You're more than welcome to add your own prayer intentions - And we (Yes! You who is reading this right now!) should try to keep each other in prayer. Maybe we can make this a weekly thing.
Have a God-filled week/day ahead - see you guys on Sunday for Feast Day Mass :)
Love, Jess.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
took away the bg picture as a friendly reminder to do something about it. haha. and also cause it couldn't fit the BIGGER blogpost box. :P
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
This song has been on my playlist recently.
Reminds me a lot of what Justin K used to say
"I'll live for all my days, To put a smile on Your face."
Love, Jess.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Hi everyone, I really should be doing my essay but there's been this unsettling feeling so maybe I just need to post this out and I can finally focus on my essay.
As I think about the guys ording (sorry mark, you'll get a post soon too), there’s so much to be grateful for, seriously. I thank God for seeing each and everyone of you through 22 months of NS, for keeping you safe all those months. Especially when you guys went off for overseas exercises: Taiwan, Wallaby, Brunei, Thailand. For keeping you guys safe at all your live firings, as you roughed it out in the jungles around Singapore, for blessing all of you with decent health. Even for the injuries– Sim with his hand – that God was still ever faithful.
I thank God for giving each of you the grace to remain faithful to him, for the times where you remembered to pray even when you were tired,for the times you gave glory to God through your actions. Even for the times NS took you far away from God, I thank God for his graces in bringing you back. I thank God for the people you have met, encountered, befriended and bonded with in each situation you have found yourself in, I thank God for keeping you strong as you had friends and buddies to keep you going and for allowing you to find Him in the people you met. I thank God for your families, that they have remained a source of strength and support. I thank God for giving you the graces to still serve in ministry – for camps, outreaches, sessions etc. For allowing you to rush back to church whenever you were needed, for giving you the chance to come back on Sundays to church, tuesdays for bibles, random days of the week for camp briefings and spiritual preps and even random suppers on friday nights. I thank God for still giving you that strength to serve, even as you struggled with army. this is affirmation worthy, so yes praise God for you guys :)
I thank God for watching over you, for empowering you, for being there for you in your times of desperation and helplessness. I thank God for giving you wisdom, right judgement and compassion – that you have been Christ to the people you have met. I thank God for letting you have the experiences you have had – for allowing you to mature in your own ways (boys become men, haha).
I still rmbr the first two weeks of confinement – how you missed Sunday mass and LOG sessions and how much you missed church. I rmbr you going for your first live firing, first SIT test, first field camp and your first bookout – the many stories you had to tell. haha I rmbr the times you moved on from course to course, camp to camp. I rmbr the times you werent around because of duties, field camps, exercises, range, overseas missions, ndp.. the list goes on. how 22 months have gone by so quickly and how much God has been a part of it. How it has been possible only with God's strength and graces. So praise God, and congrats on ord-ing :)
love, jess.
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Friday, November 06, 2009
Hi everbuddy!
I just want to share how overcome with joy I am this morning and in some inexplicable way for me i want to lift and praise his name amen!! somehow my heavy heart over the past few weeks has been uplifted greatly and i want to smile and thank god!
I spent this morning writing a reflection for the sec3 confirmants and i spent some time trying to reflect and not to get distracted by the computer. then this passage came to me from 1 Cor 13
"Three things last forever - faith, hope and love - and the greatest of these is love"
and it reminded me so much of my own confirmation struggles and how in need of God's love i was. and indeed i was showered with God's love (i'll share with the confirmants how!) and how wonderful it is for us to be Catholic, to be confirmed in a time where our hearts were vulnerable to worldly desires but we chose to journey with god, a path filled with much struggles in itself. and i am so happy to be where i am now, in this community with you, and in this ministry to serve the church :) its just so unexpected and inexplicable why im feeling the way i am now!
after writing the reflections ( and a hearty breakfast of sausage and eggs YESS ) i played some dota... then some how or rather i picked up the guitar and started searching for p&w songs to sing and play. which is very rare because i usually play secular music :x but the more i played to myself, the more the hardness in my heart melted and i began to feel the warmth of God :)
yesterday i found out that some of my certificate transcripts were at Selarang Camp in Changi while my i/c was in Chong Pang Camp in Yishun, so i was dreading it totally today, as if i was going to have an anti-climax ORD. BUT LO AND BEHOLD!!! i gave them a call and they said they can singpost my documents to my DOORSTEP. amazing! and somehow, that inspired me to come and share on the blog. God even takes the time to solve the littlest problems :)
also, just want to pray for timmy swee in the hospitalz (are you still there? hows your shoulder!) and juzzy sim and adam adiyamaa in the australiaz. and for the confirmants!!! you will receive the holy spirit!!!
this is my crymy one desireis to be where you are lordnow and foreverits more than a songits my one desireis to be with youits to be with you jesus :)love ORDpo!!!!!!!!! god bless!!!!
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Relationships are Worth Restoring
by Rick Warren
"If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you . . . agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends" (Philippians 2:1-2 Msg).
Relationships are always worth restoring.
Life is all about learning how to love, and God wants us to value relationships and make every effort to maintain them instead of discarding them whenever there is a rift, a hurt or a conflict.
In fact, the Bible tells us that God has given us the ministry of restoring relationships. For this reason a significant amount of the New Testament is devoted to teaching us how to get along with one another.
The Apostle Paul taught that our ability to get along with others is a mark of spiritual maturity. Since Christ wants his family to be known for our love for each other, broken fellowship is a disgraceful testimony to unbelievers. This is why Paul was so embarrassed that the members of the church in Corinth were splitting into warring factions and even taking each other to court.
He wrote, "Shame on you! Surely there is at least one wise person in your fellowship who can settle a dispute between fellow Christians" (1 Cor. 6:5 TEV). He was shocked that no one in the church was mature enough to resolve the conflict peaceably. In the same letter, he said, "I'll put it as urgently as I can: You must get along with each other" (1 Cor. 1:10 Msg).
If you want God's blessing on your life and you want to be known as a child of God, you must learn to be a peacemaker. Jesus said, "God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God" (Matt. 5:9 NLT).
Notice Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace lovers," because everyone loves peace. Neither did he say, "Blessed are the peaceable," who are never disturbed by anything. Jesus said, "Blessed are those who work for peace"--those who actively seek to resolve conflict.
Peacemakers are rare because peacemaking is hard work, but because you were formed to be a part of God's family, peacemaking is one of the most important skills you can develop.
Unfortunately, most of us were never taught how to resolve conflict, so over the next few days, we'll consider the steps necessary to resolve conflict.
- taken from the MSC blog (mustardseedlings.blogspot.com)
* We've all experienced broken relationships - parents, siblings, friends, lost friends girlfriends and boyfriends, each other.
relationships are worth restoring
love, jess.
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