Thursday, June 25, 2009
HI LOGGERS!!
dunno whether this is a first, but this is a ADMIN POST!
July is going to be a very busy month so let us all try to commit to these things. It will go in chronological order kaez? =) in point form so its not a wall of text.
----------------------------- SAT NIGHT BBQ ------------------------------------
Yo, there will be a barbeque on the church rooftop this sat starting at 6 pm! All are invited for a time of fellowship and worship as we celebrate God's blessings on the confirmation camp! It'll be potluck as well so bring along something for three poeple if you are coming. Most importantly, tell me by tonight (thursday) whether you are coming. So far, its me and poey confirmed and a couple others who haven't confirm.
----------------------------- CANTEEN ------------------------------------
28th June
Woohoo! Okay this time around I think we will be a bit shorthanded on manpower so if you can come and help please do!!
Hokay a lot of dates here, so please take note
4th July - Presenters Training
8th July - Spiritual Prep
11th July - Spiritual Prep
(both spiritual prep compulsory!)
18th July - Presenters and Facilitators Training (the presenters will present to the facils, then facils facilitate amongst themselves)
The training is compulsory as well, but there are two dates to go for. Since the YMC anniversary falls on the 26th of July, 25th July (for both facil and presenters) would not be a very good date, so we will try to all go for the 18th one.
TSHIRT
IMPT: For those facils and presenters, I need your shirt sizes.
Those who are not involved in the District Youth Day is also invited to attend the rally at CHIJ Toa Payoh! What I need is also your shirt sizes. Because the t shirt is the entry ticket to the rally, same as last year.
----------------------------- 50th Anniversary ------------------------------------
Firstly, an explanation on what its gonna be. It is a 3 Sunday thing. We have two Sundays as the proper for the celebration and the third Sunday is a fund raising effort. This excludes the briefing on the 19th.
19th July - Tentative Briefing date for all participating youths/ get to know each other session
26th July - Outreach Sunday
Okay this one partly my fault, cause the testimonials are still with me. However, only cornerstone and gift bearers have submitted their stuff so we have nothing much to rotate also. So what I need from yall:
Every tuesday! all welcome to go!
Hi I hope yall did reach here, and so please rsvp to me the things that you need to tell me about!
its time we "walk the talk!"
Mark
Sunday, June 21, 2009
i am a knight!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
irrelevant
this is completely irrelevant but guess the actress and the show!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Hi all!
I think me and poey will be alternating between blog entries haha, yay the LOG blog is revived! thanks poey for that wonderful sharing!
Confirmation camp was a very interesting experience for me. Many things to share! Sharing are in blocks, doesn't flow haha, just points that arise in my head k?
I thought the whole camp was really well done, sessions were pitched at a level where the confirmands could relate to. the sharings were all amazing and so touching. Could really feel the Holy Spirit linking all the sessions together and the flow of the camp. (COMPLAINT BELOW LOL)
I had this amazing feeling for the two nights, the first praying with and second, the parents night. I felt that I could just suck in the atmosphere of all the emotions and it is so overwhelming. I could that so much emotions in the air that it was bringing me to the verge of tears, because it was so touching. Truely, the Holy Spirit was present in touching the hearts of many. I felt like I could sense the "traffic" of emotions - so cool right haha.
The confirmands opened up really fast and praise God. Indeed, as Tim Tan chose the song "God in this city", greater things have yet to come. Hope many of them will stay in church and in ministry! So I urge those who are interested to be their formators to tell me k?
I was pretty harsh during the camp I must say and I think I may have offended some people. But you see, in my own opinion, as facils, or service team for that matter, we need that discipline to be innate. to know when to be quiet, when to control your confirmands, and to always look at the bigger picture. By being "(overly) understanding", would be compromising an experience of the confirmands wouldn't it? I could never understand how facils cannot keep quiet when walking in a corridor while the confirmands are inside the room reflecting on something v serious. But I must say, I did not do it in the best way possible. I really respect and praise God for Shaun Lim who kept his cool throughout camp.
Rmb the Cornerstone's session on evangelisation? They quoted this bible verse, Revelations 3:16 "Since you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth." This struck me during camp, the thing about being lukewarm. I think LOG has come to a point in time where we are called to move forward. When I tell myself sometimes that its alright, because (fill in reasons), then I also think so when will be THE time when all the reasons and circumstances have been solved and we start moving forward? I find myself challenging myself and I now present the challenge to you all as well! I am doing this not because I am not an understanding person, its just that I feel that God should not be compromised in our lives. Living as a Christian is not separate from our lives as ourselves.
This previous two paras may reveal to yall the side of me who does not compromise something which i think is important and hence my attitude and views towards these kinda issues. We are God's instruments - yes we leave the direction and end result to Him, and let Him work through us. But we still need to do it to the best of our ability. this was something i reflected upon during a retreat last year.
----COMPLAINT----
Cept for one session, Shireen's session, which i felt (also due to my biasness) that it was a bit too draggy and teaching-style. Had a bad experience with her session last year as well - I just feel like she likes to go on and on to talk about things and isn't focused on bringing points across. What happened was, she taught on the gifts of the Holy Spirit - not exactly a very interesting topic but the worst way to bring it across is to teach it point-by-point. I just switched off and left the room, went to Cheryl's office. Then von and cheryl told me to go up and tell kenny to tell shireen to end in 5 minutes. ok so i thought, they'll wrap it up. Simeon gave a shorten sharing cause of that then i was thinking, ok closing prayer and lets go, otherwise will be late for mass. Then OMG, she took over the mike, continued talking about what Simeon had shared about which in my opinion, was redundant because how can anything be more important than being on time for mass? So i got really irritated but i controlled myself, hurried down to help take the books for confirmands for mass. Glad I could control myself, but really, i need to vent it somewhere somehow huh.
----END COMPLAINT---
wah its very messy =) haha
Mark
Saturday, June 13, 2009
post 282
hello mark. thanks for your sharing, and praise god that he is guiding your life now. like i shared with soo and melvyn and marcus and justin last sunday ( only 5 of us! ) i'll commit to penning one entry every week and hopefully this routine will grow on us all. a little leaven leaveneth us all : )
talk about this week. sucks. sick, and by now all of you are gone at con camp. but, i pray that you'll be able to touch the lives of all the little ones, and make them confirm their faith in god! plant all the little seeds of gods gift in them and let them blossom : ) praise god that they will all come out beating their breasts and dancing along the cobblestone pavement singing gods name! give them your love and gods love
today, i'll talk about COMPASSION! something i have concluded that i am very lacking in. a few sparks started this fire, i'll explain to you. first, reading this book entitled "gargoyle" about a burn victim being nursed back to health in the burn ward, and subsequently re-integrating back to society, but mentally there is the barrier of his physical appearance.
a burn victim's scars can be extensive, and the intensity depends on the type of burn, from first degree burns or "surface burns" to third degree burns, where your skin is damaged beyond your body's ability to regenerate itself, and you require skin grafts and such. chances are, you'll come out looking part like a gargoyle as the book suggests, haha.
anyway, sparks 2 and 3 are little snippets, very negligible observances that somehow glued onto my cranium. at vivo, i saw a couple, except the guy was on a wheelchair. a single disability bounds him permanently to a chair. and i thought to myself " can i bring myself to love such a person? accepting a person is fine, but to love to such a degree? " the answer was, selfishly, no. probably not.
spark 3 is walking towards the mrt, there was a craggly old man begging for money by the corner of the entrance, the noticeable thing being that his left hand ended in a stump. selfishly, again, i thought to myself " one hand missing still should be able to get a job, does not force you to beg what " clearly this opinion had little ground to stand on.
so a moral lesson for myself to share with you all: dont get caught up with physical appearances. the scars on their body may be unsightly, but the mental scarring you lay on these people is like a virus which infects your mind! far worse! so let's be christian in not our actions but our thinking too. have compassion!
god bless!
popo
Monday, June 08, 2009
Friday, June 05, 2009
a vanishing act, some magic and some miracles :)
hi everyone. just a little sharing after going through quite a terrible month or so. firstly, i apologise for my behaviour and absences, it has been very frequent and has probably upset you guys more than it frustrates me. sorry. have been very irritable and angsty with all the time this audlt preparation has wasted.
but, thank god, it ended today, and with a satisfying result. many repetitive nights spent burning midnight oil, and they didnt check my portion. not a single bit. a disappointment that i worked hard for technically nothing, but a relief that it's over.
many nights i was really asking, why the @!)*&# is this happening to me. making "magic" for those who know what i've been doing. my friends and i questioned many a time our purpose in helping our organisation properly "present" data, facts and situations. a lot of emphasis on the ethics of our actions and the underlying reasons and neccessities of doing so. it became very emotionally and physically draining. work always takes a toll on our relationships. : (
but god wasn't lost to me throughout this time. during time spent with the audltor, we were chatting about life in army when for a reason i cant remember, he took out his phone and started to use it. As he was keeping it, i stole a glance before the backlight shut off:
it was a picture of jesus! just like the one we use on our OHP slides.
always a gently reminder that he is watching you through it all, even the longest, most sufferable periods.
after that all my worries about the audlt just vanished. :)
praise god!
popo
HI LOGGERS!!
dunno whether this is a first, but this is a ADMIN POST!
July is going to be a very busy month so let us all try to commit to these things. It will go in chronological order kaez? =) in point form so its not a wall of text.
----------------------------- SAT NIGHT BBQ ------------------------------------
Yo, there will be a barbeque on the church rooftop this sat starting at 6 pm! All are invited for a time of fellowship and worship as we celebrate God's blessings on the confirmation camp! It'll be potluck as well so bring along something for three poeple if you are coming. Most importantly, tell me by tonight (thursday) whether you are coming. So far, its me and poey confirmed and a couple others who haven't confirm.
----------------------------- CANTEEN ------------------------------------
28th June
Woohoo! Okay this time around I think we will be a bit shorthanded on manpower so if you can come and help please do!!
- Oliver is upping the order on the food from external vendors, increasing the mee siam and dumplings to cover up staple food; less packet mee goreng cause previous time not v well-received.
- Swee is bringing Bee Hoon
- Soo is bringing donuts
- Anne is bringing chicken curry
- (Log in and add on to this list if you are bringing something)
- Joan and Poey are coordinating the canteen this time around, together with Oliver. So please tell them what you can contribute!
Hokay a lot of dates here, so please take note
4th July - Presenters Training
8th July - Spiritual Prep
11th July - Spiritual Prep
(both spiritual prep compulsory!)
18th July - Presenters and Facilitators Training (the presenters will present to the facils, then facils facilitate amongst themselves)
The training is compulsory as well, but there are two dates to go for. Since the YMC anniversary falls on the 26th of July, 25th July (for both facil and presenters) would not be a very good date, so we will try to all go for the 18th one.
TSHIRT
IMPT: For those facils and presenters, I need your shirt sizes.
Those who are not involved in the District Youth Day is also invited to attend the rally at CHIJ Toa Payoh! What I need is also your shirt sizes. Because the t shirt is the entry ticket to the rally, same as last year.
----------------------------- 50th Anniversary ------------------------------------
Firstly, an explanation on what its gonna be. It is a 3 Sunday thing. We have two Sundays as the proper for the celebration and the third Sunday is a fund raising effort. This excludes the briefing on the 19th.
19th July - Tentative Briefing date for all participating youths/ get to know each other session
26th July - Outreach Sunday
- Youths in ministry will go around church talking to other youths
- Invite them to come for the 2nd August session
- If they are agreeable, give them a SFX Youth shirt to wear!
- A booth will be set up outside the canteen to showcase all youth ministries and it also acts as a place where youths can sign up to join ministries/communities!
- Testimonies during mass
- There will be a session based on the theme "What Marvels the Lord has Done for Us," in line with the 50th anniversary celebration theme.
- All youths are invited to join in a time of short worship, testimonies and fellowship
- Held in the Parish Hall
- And also National Day - hence there is no catechism --> more kids will be around with their parents
- It will be a flea market where all youths are invited to set up their stalls and sell their "junk"
- All proceeds will go to the funding of the t shirts!
- T Shirt - We will be coming up with an anniversary T-shirt for everyone. We will need to pay around 7-8 dollars for it. So I need the sizes and numbers like by this Sunday. Send me an sms when you see this with the size you want. (let me know if the size applies to both DYD and 50th anniversary)
- Banner/Exhibition - we need to decorate a banner to hang somewhere, and also decide on what to display and stuff on a small booth kinda size.
- Testimony - We need two to go up to the pulpit during mass to give testimonies about youth ministry and community.
- Coordination of the flea market - basically bringing your junk at home to sell - more details to come.
Okay this one partly my fault, cause the testimonials are still with me. However, only cornerstone and gift bearers have submitted their stuff so we have nothing much to rotate also. So what I need from yall:
- Testimonials
- Pictures!
- Need a collage done on confirmation camp - who has the pictures?
- The calender needs to be changed already and as you can see, a lot of events to be put up. Should be done before this sunday! I will be heading down on friday to do it - so join me if you can.
Every tuesday! all welcome to go!
Hi I hope yall did reach here, and so please rsvp to me the things that you need to tell me about!
its time we "walk the talk!"
Mark
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______________________________________________Sunday, June 21, 2009
i am a knight!
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Thanks jess for the passage :) i must say i haven't come across a passage so beautiful as this in a long time.
i'll try and sum up the random sharings from today. I know many people feel very sian, and its partly the fault of people like me, who sometimes don't care and just ignore anything bad thats happening. so all the storms just accumulate into some amazing apocalyptic mega-storm then we are like "shiz, whut we do now?" but i urge everybody, like how jesus calmed the waters with the words be still, lets calm our emotions down and listen to god's soft promptings, i really think they're there. lets not be defeated by spiritual warfare no matter how strong the devil is.
stay strong, for with god, nothing is impossible. and now i'm watching every single one of you! i luvs you all : )
popo. omg chastized for not signing off. : ( : (
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______________________________________________Saturday, June 20, 2009
irrelevant
this is completely irrelevant but guess the actress and the show!
0 Comments:
______________________________________________Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Hi all!
I think me and poey will be alternating between blog entries haha, yay the LOG blog is revived! thanks poey for that wonderful sharing!
Confirmation camp was a very interesting experience for me. Many things to share! Sharing are in blocks, doesn't flow haha, just points that arise in my head k?
I thought the whole camp was really well done, sessions were pitched at a level where the confirmands could relate to. the sharings were all amazing and so touching. Could really feel the Holy Spirit linking all the sessions together and the flow of the camp. (COMPLAINT BELOW LOL)
I had this amazing feeling for the two nights, the first praying with and second, the parents night. I felt that I could just suck in the atmosphere of all the emotions and it is so overwhelming. I could that so much emotions in the air that it was bringing me to the verge of tears, because it was so touching. Truely, the Holy Spirit was present in touching the hearts of many. I felt like I could sense the "traffic" of emotions - so cool right haha.
The confirmands opened up really fast and praise God. Indeed, as Tim Tan chose the song "God in this city", greater things have yet to come. Hope many of them will stay in church and in ministry! So I urge those who are interested to be their formators to tell me k?
I was pretty harsh during the camp I must say and I think I may have offended some people. But you see, in my own opinion, as facils, or service team for that matter, we need that discipline to be innate. to know when to be quiet, when to control your confirmands, and to always look at the bigger picture. By being "(overly) understanding", would be compromising an experience of the confirmands wouldn't it? I could never understand how facils cannot keep quiet when walking in a corridor while the confirmands are inside the room reflecting on something v serious. But I must say, I did not do it in the best way possible. I really respect and praise God for Shaun Lim who kept his cool throughout camp.
Rmb the Cornerstone's session on evangelisation? They quoted this bible verse, Revelations 3:16 "Since you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth." This struck me during camp, the thing about being lukewarm. I think LOG has come to a point in time where we are called to move forward. When I tell myself sometimes that its alright, because (fill in reasons), then I also think so when will be THE time when all the reasons and circumstances have been solved and we start moving forward? I find myself challenging myself and I now present the challenge to you all as well! I am doing this not because I am not an understanding person, its just that I feel that God should not be compromised in our lives. Living as a Christian is not separate from our lives as ourselves.
This previous two paras may reveal to yall the side of me who does not compromise something which i think is important and hence my attitude and views towards these kinda issues. We are God's instruments - yes we leave the direction and end result to Him, and let Him work through us. But we still need to do it to the best of our ability. this was something i reflected upon during a retreat last year.
----COMPLAINT----
Cept for one session, Shireen's session, which i felt (also due to my biasness) that it was a bit too draggy and teaching-style. Had a bad experience with her session last year as well - I just feel like she likes to go on and on to talk about things and isn't focused on bringing points across. What happened was, she taught on the gifts of the Holy Spirit - not exactly a very interesting topic but the worst way to bring it across is to teach it point-by-point. I just switched off and left the room, went to Cheryl's office. Then von and cheryl told me to go up and tell kenny to tell shireen to end in 5 minutes. ok so i thought, they'll wrap it up. Simeon gave a shorten sharing cause of that then i was thinking, ok closing prayer and lets go, otherwise will be late for mass. Then OMG, she took over the mike, continued talking about what Simeon had shared about which in my opinion, was redundant because how can anything be more important than being on time for mass? So i got really irritated but i controlled myself, hurried down to help take the books for confirmands for mass. Glad I could control myself, but really, i need to vent it somewhere somehow huh.
----END COMPLAINT---
wah its very messy =) haha
Mark
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______________________________________________Saturday, June 13, 2009
post 282
hello mark. thanks for your sharing, and praise god that he is guiding your life now. like i shared with soo and melvyn and marcus and justin last sunday ( only 5 of us! ) i'll commit to penning one entry every week and hopefully this routine will grow on us all. a little leaven leaveneth us all : )
talk about this week. sucks. sick, and by now all of you are gone at con camp. but, i pray that you'll be able to touch the lives of all the little ones, and make them confirm their faith in god! plant all the little seeds of gods gift in them and let them blossom : ) praise god that they will all come out beating their breasts and dancing along the cobblestone pavement singing gods name! give them your love and gods love
today, i'll talk about COMPASSION! something i have concluded that i am very lacking in. a few sparks started this fire, i'll explain to you. first, reading this book entitled "gargoyle" about a burn victim being nursed back to health in the burn ward, and subsequently re-integrating back to society, but mentally there is the barrier of his physical appearance.
a burn victim's scars can be extensive, and the intensity depends on the type of burn, from first degree burns or "surface burns" to third degree burns, where your skin is damaged beyond your body's ability to regenerate itself, and you require skin grafts and such. chances are, you'll come out looking part like a gargoyle as the book suggests, haha.
anyway, sparks 2 and 3 are little snippets, very negligible observances that somehow glued onto my cranium. at vivo, i saw a couple, except the guy was on a wheelchair. a single disability bounds him permanently to a chair. and i thought to myself " can i bring myself to love such a person? accepting a person is fine, but to love to such a degree? " the answer was, selfishly, no. probably not.
spark 3 is walking towards the mrt, there was a craggly old man begging for money by the corner of the entrance, the noticeable thing being that his left hand ended in a stump. selfishly, again, i thought to myself " one hand missing still should be able to get a job, does not force you to beg what " clearly this opinion had little ground to stand on.
so a moral lesson for myself to share with you all: dont get caught up with physical appearances. the scars on their body may be unsightly, but the mental scarring you lay on these people is like a virus which infects your mind! far worse! so let's be christian in not our actions but our thinking too. have compassion!
god bless!
popo
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______________________________________________Monday, June 08, 2009
Just a month ago, I remember asking this question a lot - Where are you God?
Now I realise that I should have been asking myself a variant of that question - Where is God in my life?
By the grace of God, I have already answered that question as I slowly find myself back in church a lot more often and with the fire in me once more.
I will share about what has happened in 2009 so far to let me reach this conclusion.
During the January youth retreat I was just so tired with my schedule that I asked the Lord for a solution. I was in the army, had 3 night lessons a week, YMC, LOG, OWL, Sunday bible sharing with the school people and Felly. So yeah, I asked the Lord for his intervention and all I thought or expected was that He take some of the church stuff off me. He works in wondrous ways I guess, taking Felly away and now everything more or less has fallen into place.
Except that I have lost my motivation to study for ACCA - but I feel that this is an inkling/hint that I should not continue with it anymore. Its very tiring to study part time and it is not like I need to study that for a future - Im still going to NUS. I have already gotten my exemptions and some exposure so that should be enough, heartpain the money only. Because of the break up, I don't have to go for the sunday bible sharing anymore because she's there, so I conveniently left the group - not anything bad, I just feel its asking a bit too much from me to stay there.
So yes, my life is back on track and I find myself smiling a lot more nowadays. I love going to church, to attend mass, to have fellowship with churchies and just there, knowing that God will use me. Now in hindsight then I realise how God has indeed worked things out for me, although in a very very mysterious way - making me think through so much things, on the verge of leaving the church and having thoughts about just ending my life. I strayed and distanced myself a lot from God during the times with Felly and before that. All the promises of it being a God-centred relationship never materialised, leaving me now very regretful when I see couples attending mass together. But I have learnt a lot a lot from this experience.
What I have realised on a bigger picture is that, God will really bring you back if you stray too far. When a shepherd realises that one sheep is lost, he will go and search for it and step-by-step, walk the sheep back to the flock, in the hope of making it feel the sense of belonging. If the sheep gets lost too many times, the shepherd will find it, break its leg and nurture the wound himself. So that at the end of the day, the sheep will recognise its master. I felt that I was so bad that God had to break my leg to make me recognise where I've gone.
So I urge each and everyone who is going to read this post to ask yourself this question, where is God in your life? Is He your first priority? When I go to youth events and I see only a few of my community members, I feel disappointed - although I understand that everyone have their own priorities and stuff. But you see, God has to be first!
to LOG members: if you really want to be there for God and for the community, saying it is not enough. Putting God first in our lives means committing to Him and His plans. If God is first priority, there is nothing that is optional. I think we have been dwelling on this issue for a really long time, and I hope during this time of confirmation camp, we could all come back to God and reignite this fire in us. Saying that LOG is gonna die when you do not want to commit yourself to the community is just telling God that He has to do something for you before you would love Him. Who are you to negotiate?
Mark
Now I realise that I should have been asking myself a variant of that question - Where is God in my life?
By the grace of God, I have already answered that question as I slowly find myself back in church a lot more often and with the fire in me once more.
I will share about what has happened in 2009 so far to let me reach this conclusion.
During the January youth retreat I was just so tired with my schedule that I asked the Lord for a solution. I was in the army, had 3 night lessons a week, YMC, LOG, OWL, Sunday bible sharing with the school people and Felly. So yeah, I asked the Lord for his intervention and all I thought or expected was that He take some of the church stuff off me. He works in wondrous ways I guess, taking Felly away and now everything more or less has fallen into place.
Except that I have lost my motivation to study for ACCA - but I feel that this is an inkling/hint that I should not continue with it anymore. Its very tiring to study part time and it is not like I need to study that for a future - Im still going to NUS. I have already gotten my exemptions and some exposure so that should be enough, heartpain the money only. Because of the break up, I don't have to go for the sunday bible sharing anymore because she's there, so I conveniently left the group - not anything bad, I just feel its asking a bit too much from me to stay there.
So yes, my life is back on track and I find myself smiling a lot more nowadays. I love going to church, to attend mass, to have fellowship with churchies and just there, knowing that God will use me. Now in hindsight then I realise how God has indeed worked things out for me, although in a very very mysterious way - making me think through so much things, on the verge of leaving the church and having thoughts about just ending my life. I strayed and distanced myself a lot from God during the times with Felly and before that. All the promises of it being a God-centred relationship never materialised, leaving me now very regretful when I see couples attending mass together. But I have learnt a lot a lot from this experience.
What I have realised on a bigger picture is that, God will really bring you back if you stray too far. When a shepherd realises that one sheep is lost, he will go and search for it and step-by-step, walk the sheep back to the flock, in the hope of making it feel the sense of belonging. If the sheep gets lost too many times, the shepherd will find it, break its leg and nurture the wound himself. So that at the end of the day, the sheep will recognise its master. I felt that I was so bad that God had to break my leg to make me recognise where I've gone.
So I urge each and everyone who is going to read this post to ask yourself this question, where is God in your life? Is He your first priority? When I go to youth events and I see only a few of my community members, I feel disappointed - although I understand that everyone have their own priorities and stuff. But you see, God has to be first!
to LOG members: if you really want to be there for God and for the community, saying it is not enough. Putting God first in our lives means committing to Him and His plans. If God is first priority, there is nothing that is optional. I think we have been dwelling on this issue for a really long time, and I hope during this time of confirmation camp, we could all come back to God and reignite this fire in us. Saying that LOG is gonna die when you do not want to commit yourself to the community is just telling God that He has to do something for you before you would love Him. Who are you to negotiate?
Mark
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______________________________________________Friday, June 05, 2009
a vanishing act, some magic and some miracles :)
hi everyone. just a little sharing after going through quite a terrible month or so. firstly, i apologise for my behaviour and absences, it has been very frequent and has probably upset you guys more than it frustrates me. sorry. have been very irritable and angsty with all the time this audlt preparation has wasted.
but, thank god, it ended today, and with a satisfying result. many repetitive nights spent burning midnight oil, and they didnt check my portion. not a single bit. a disappointment that i worked hard for technically nothing, but a relief that it's over.
many nights i was really asking, why the @!)*&# is this happening to me. making "magic" for those who know what i've been doing. my friends and i questioned many a time our purpose in helping our organisation properly "present" data, facts and situations. a lot of emphasis on the ethics of our actions and the underlying reasons and neccessities of doing so. it became very emotionally and physically draining. work always takes a toll on our relationships. : (
but god wasn't lost to me throughout this time. during time spent with the audltor, we were chatting about life in army when for a reason i cant remember, he took out his phone and started to use it. As he was keeping it, i stole a glance before the backlight shut off:
it was a picture of jesus! just like the one we use on our OHP slides.
always a gently reminder that he is watching you through it all, even the longest, most sufferable periods.
after that all my worries about the audlt just vanished. :)
praise god!
popo