Saturday, July 29, 2006 @12:43 AM
the month of julyIt has been an eventful month. So many things happened, exciting things though! :)
God has been steering in crusade. I'm always awed by the things that You do, always amazed. How meetings have been affirming and assuring that we're on the right track. Even before I list any objectives, the rest of the committee will come out with exactly the same objectives! It's simply divine, and it's incredible how everything is going in one straight path. From ST retreat to Blast-Off to Prayer Comm meeting. I thank God for the amazing people in Prayer Comm, for their enthusiasm, for also hearing God! The team I have is awesome! I can't ask for a better team of people! Cheryl, Ruby, Stacey, Ian, Elaine and Gail. I'm excited and looking forward to a year of serving God with you guys.
I'm thankful for the people in crusade, whether you're freshmen, or my peers or my seniors, I thank God for every single one of you. Thank you for being encouraging and ever so supportive! Thank you for just a simple "How have you been?" or a warm smile that greets me. The Servant Team and the staff, thank you for also cheering me on and always being on the ball about everything. Thank you for sharing all your experiences and also being open about ministry. =) Gail, Liting, Peiyu, Desmond, Melvin, Joanna, Lindy and Peggy, I've learnt humility and servanthood from you guys. Thank you for simple being part of this team. Each of you are chosen by God, and called to be in this special Servant Team that He has created!
ST retreat - Blast Off - Arts BBQ fellowship - Prayer Comm Meeting. Pics will be up soon! =)
I think my involvement in quartet, music stuff, crusade has caused me spend less time with Jon. Well, not I think, but it has definitely caused me to spend less time with him. To the extent where I'll ask myself the purpose of the relationship that we have. I guess we've come to a point where we're both active in different areas, and we have to find sufficient time to be accountable to one another, to be supportive and encouraging to one another. I guess there's always a time for us to start learning. When we both start a new chapter of our lives. For you it'll be starting work, for me, it'll be starting ministry in crusade and being a Year 3 in campus.
I think God has placed music in my life for various reasons. Thank God for quartet, for Leslie and for the coaches that have taught us. This kind of friendship between us has been an awesome gift. For the times we've performed together, the ups and downs of quartet, the highs and lows of coaching. You guys have been tremendous. Thank you for bearing with my unrefined playing. Through music I've learnt so much, how to listen, how to be sensitive, everything's just so applicable in the life that I live. Playing music is really not about me, but about others, and how I can better fit into other's playing. Espcially in chamber music. Which probably explains why I love chamber music so much. =) Thank God for music.
This whole holiday I've been doing a lot of thinking. I think travelling on my own opens my eyes, makes me see things I've never seen before. When I play with ACS Alumni Orchestra, I see kids who play like there's no tomorrow, how they dare to really play even though they rush ahead and come in at wrong entries. Though it doesn't seem like a good thing, I've kinda learnt something from it. Kids being kids, they do not know or feel ashamed. Just play! That's their attidue. It just reminds me of how as a child, I've been innocent before, I've been not afraid before. But now, as we mature, we tend to be more tentative, hesitant. It teaches me to have faith like a child, how I should be dependent on Him and not worry about anything else because He'll provide, even if I fall, He'll pick me up. Kids are amazing people. Well, they aren't really kids, but they are much younger than me! Like I think lower sec or upper primary.
My cell group, thank you for praying alongside me, and also being willing to hear me talking about the stuff happening in school. =)
Prayer Comm is committing the entire into God's hands, clinging onto this verse. It is also my prayer that I'll grow to be dependent on Him, and not on my own strength/wisdom.
Unless the LORD builds the house,
its builders labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city,
the watchmen stand guard in vain.
Psalm 127:1
