A meaningful Christmas!

This happened on Christmas eve night! Which made this Christmas a meaningful one to me...=)

On Tuesday, while having lunch with these two girls, they asked about why Tanya is so closed with me. Then, I explain the reason that sometimes she would come over and stay with me and my parents when her parents were away. Then, these two cute girls were like, ''oh! So, she's pastor's daughter! No wonder she's so good in praying." I quickly grab the chance to tell them that, praying to God doesn't belong to Pastor's daughter only, everyone of us can pray to God coz we are His children, and also invited them to our weekly night prayer meeting on Wednesday.

So, they came. And that night, we put a little powerpoint that our pastor and Uncle Wu has made on the topic of The Origin of Christmas. After prayer meeting that night, they talked to Uncle Teng, and suddenly Uncle Teng called us over, saying that they wanted to accept Christ into their lives and they said the prayer together. I'm so happy, happy that there're 2 souls that are won!!! =)

Another Day Out

星期三晚上突然來了個TXT﹐說她禮拜五會到HAMILTON﹐然後她要求的第一件事就是﹕可不可以再帶她去吃牛肉面。先PO一張上來讓你們看看~~~她上次來的時候就吃了兩碗(午餐一碗﹐晚餐一碗)~~~

我可以感覺到以後她每次到這裡都會要叫一碗牛肉面哈哈﹗

然後就帶她去THE BASE逛逛﹐沒買什麼﹐就看到人潮一堆﹐好像在家過年的感覺﹐哈哈﹗回來的路上還看到車在排長龍﹐真是少見﹗

看到一個人說﹐一生中最好要有屬靈同伴~~~我覺得我有很多﹐她就是其中一個.認識她就是一件美好的事情。說到我們的認識﹐還滿奇特的。雖然父母都認識的﹐跟她成為朋友卻是今年的事。而且﹐還是在最低潮的時候派來和我一起禱告的天使=)

Day out

Yesterday, went out with these kids....and first time stepping into Time Zone to take sticker pictures in Hamilton. We went to Willow Glen as well...coz I thought the scenery there is nice.....so yup, took quite a few pics there......

Last Holiday

This is a nice movie! =)

Watched this on tv the other day while babysitting. This is a story about a lady that's misdiagnosed of having a terminal illness and only have 3 weeks to live. She questioned God, but there's no answer from Him. And so, she got her savings out and went to the place that she has always wanted to be, and do the things that she always wanted to do. During the holiday, she really had adventures with God, and finally a fax came through from her doctor saying that she has been misdiagnosed. And she told God that He's funny (something like that, can't really remember the exact words).

This story inspired me a lot...in whatever we do juz have faith in Him.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.

For as heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

(Isaith 55:8-9)

A Thankful Heart

God has given me opportunities to work with special need children these few years. I don't know how, but there is something that just connects me to these children.

One thing that I see in these children is that: they have delightful characters, and are happy all the time.

I'm thankful to God that He reminded me through this job with these children, and that I can be a help to these families....=)

pic from: http://www.decoruniqueart.com/catalog/images/A%20Thankful%20Heart%20Large%20Web%20view.jpg

Scattered pieces of puzzle

I don't want to think that a puzzle piece is the whole picture that I see

I want to see the pieces of puzzle being assembled

I don't want it scattered around...



Pls help me to see that you are sorting something out.....

life is fragile

Yesterday, I went to visit a previous colleague whom her daughter died. I have never visited someone alone.....I mean, I used to go with my parents and friends and other adults when I was younger, but yesterday, was my first time to do this alone. I was worried of what words to say to her because her daughter is around my age etc etc...


So yup, prayed and prayed and prayed...bought a bouquet of flowers...and off I went.

When I arrived, we hugged for a long time. And then she sat me down in the lounge and briefly told me what happened and so on....I'm not a person with a lot of words..so yeah, just listened. And then, she told me that she has been quite stressed from her daughter's sickness and hence her body is all tensed up.....then I offered her a massage to soothe hers body, and yeah, lucky that she likes it. And it did help her a bit...I hoped that she did have a good sleep last night.

It just got to me that life is just fragile and tough. I mean, even with Jesus life is tough, what if life is without Him? I can't imagine...just like this friend's daughter who thought that there is no hope anymore to continue to live on.

Glorify

Glory

Glorify

榮耀祂的名

These words again have been coming into my mind....He's trying to tell me something....I have my guesses, but I'm praying for a clearer words from God. Pls pray with me

Thank you!!!!!!

Graces Upon the way

Yup, so I have been in Wellington with Pastor and his wife for 4 days 3 nights, to help out a Chinese fellowship in Lower Hutt. I'm only a pianist down there to help Pastor....but I just have to conclude this mission trip with a sentence: serving God is really really awesome!!!!!!!

It has really been a lot of graces during this trip.

On the day of departure, my sis rang from Wellington and said the weather was really lousy down there, and she would just pick us up, have lunch, n drop us down at the meeting place. And, I brought a coat, coz I thought it would be really windy down there.....but then when we arrived, it was sunny!!!!! and no wind!!!!!!!!! That lasted the whole trip.....so, tat coat was totally a waste = =

And then, I got Christmas presents and nice food from them, and a nice bungalow to stay during our last nite there too....which was a totally surprise! I mean, I was down there to serve, and in the end we were being served as well. I love that bungalow that we were in, the garden is juz magnificent, and it's like we were on a retreat....I'll definitely post the photos up when I have them. This house is like built on a mountain, and the garage is down at the bottom, and we have to walk all the way up to the house...and along the way, the flowers were so pretty! And Uncle Rodger build the deck and layered them, and Aunty Nancy planted the flowers....I felt like I was in the heaven. How I wish my hayfever is totally healed! But, my nose behaved well this morning when Uncle Rodger asked me to go walk around the garden before breakfast is ready, haha! It didn't sneeze....I only felt that my eyes were itchy, that's all.

And when we got to Wellington Airport, we were invited to the Koru Club (which is the vip area) for complimentary food and drink....coz today is the first day launching of self check-in system in Wellington airport! First time ever in the vip lounge =) Then, pastor said to me, 'honour God, and God will honour you too'!

Last, but not the least, my dear lil sis brought me to try out all these nice food in Wellington and window shopping around the city. Loved the time we spent together, and OMG, and the jokes.....she's really the clown in the family!

This trip was awesome!!

You crown the year with your bounty;

your wagon tracks overflow with richness.

The pastures of the wilderness overflow,

the hills gird themselves with joy,

the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,

the valleys deck themselves with grain,

they shout and sing together the joy.

Psalm 65:11-13

I'm back in Hamilton ^^

After a few days in Wellington with Pastor and his wife
I'm finally back in Hamilton this afternoon.
Will write more later.....
as for now....I need a good shower!

A Father's Heart

This was suppose to be a post back in few months ago...but I've been quite slack...so yup! Decided to sit down and write it before I go and see my little princesses =)

I was like ants on the hot pots(translate into Chinese is: 熱鍋上的螞蟻) back in a few months ago, after seeing some people that were so messed up...probably not that 'messed up', but to me, it's like aarrgh!! Really at that time I wanted to strangle them and open up their head and see what they were thinking......and at some point, I wanted to give up on everyone of them, like....really don't want to care about them anymore and just let them be....I even tell myself I don't feel like getting married and have kids anymore...even though I like children a lot....but teenagers are just a bunch of headaches!

And then, I thought of myself at that teenage period...I probably let my parents worried a lot too. Friendships, studies, communications between me and my Mum especially, it was so tensed...I was ok with my Dad though coz I know he's a calm person and I talked to him a lot.I don't know how did my parents handled me as I would have handled this bunch of youth kids...probably a lot of tears and prayers too.

Then, God spoke to me again during my sort of 'grumbling session' of how should I help them and etc...He said "Don't give up on them just like I never give up on you". And after a few weeks a pastor and his wife came over from Taiwan came over and talked to us who are in the ministry especially cellgoup leaders the same exact words, and I take that as a confirmation from the Lord that if He as a creator and saviour of us has never given up on us, we can't possibly give up on anyone. I wouldn't dare to think if He has given up on us, how our lives would be.

I love this scripture on how Prophet Isaiah did mentioned about youths:
Why do you say O Jacob,
and speak, O Israel,
"My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my right is disregarded by my God"?
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint of grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,
and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint.

Juz a sharing...and a future reference for myself =)

6 more weeks

6 more weeks to go!!!
And I will be a student again! How exciting is that......
Well, have been out of uni for 3 years, and I don't know if I can cope again with all the readings and assignments @_@"'

Went to buy second-hand textbook from Sarah, and kinda have a little talk with her about how she finds it...And what she said kinda make me nervous, especially during summer school where she said she only slept 3 hours per day and everyday there will be assignments to hand in...I'm like OMG! 3 hours sleep per day is definitely not enough for me....I have to have at least 10.....Guess I'll have to do some readings now coz I've got one textbook, and to exercise my self-discipline!!!!!!

Less day-dreaming

Less facebook

Less word challenge

Less msn