Max Lucado - Six Hours One Friday
What are your beliefs? What do you believe in? What are the values or the things you hold onto that keep you going in life? Hadn't you heard of what a Man did for you 2009 years ago for six hours on one Friday that had changed your life in an instant - even before you were born?Peace where there should be pain. Confidence in the midst of crisis. Hope defying despair. Does death have the last word? I can see Jesus wink as He gives the answer:
'Not on your life.'
"It's all right, I've seen the storms and it's still all right." - Jesus.
New Look Singapore has such an amazing spread of shoes – I LIKE! They have size 3 for my pretty little feet! Woooots. I’m gonna head off there to get my party essentials for the upcoming dinner and dance parties in December! I want some funky red heels. And that shimmy-looking dress. Anyone up for shopping in the next 2 days? Shopping is good!
Anyway, yesterday was awesome Malau’s birthday and the bunch of us stayed over at his place after his dinner reception. It was then I found out something about me: I enjoy being driven around, hahaha. Okay, so I guess most women love that but I really, really love to be driven around! Perhaps it’s just the attention, hehe. So bring me all the good men who can also drive, my dear Jesus!
And then there was the whole long weekend buzz over work and piled up assignments – I hadn’t had time to revise for the upcoming term tests yet. Jesus has indeed increased me to do His good work under the ministry’s events team. I’ve been enlarged to do publicity-related work and I guess it’s a good start. Adobe Photoshop is a new friend I’m starting to enjoy being around with. But alongside Jesus, of course. Photoshop without Jesus is crazy insane.
Okay! Tonight’s mundane entry has got to end here. My inner Spirit is prompting me to prepare for tomorrow’s classes and head off to bed after the Chelsea versus Arsenal match. Go Blues! Oh, wait. DROGBA JUST SCORED! GREAT GOAL! AWESOMEEEEE! Wooohoooooo!
Goodnight, world! Cheers to Chelsea!
There was a song that caught my ears while I was watching the latest episode of a TV series and somehow, it became a pretty special song to me. It’s about the amazing emotions you feel when you’re crazily in love with someone. It’s titled “This Is Beautiful” by a musician named Tyrone Wells. A part of the lyric goes like this:
I never could have seen, never could have seen this coming. The most amazing things, they arrive within a moment. I never could have seen, never could have seen this coming on. This is beautiful. Unmistakable. Unforgettable.
Ever felt overwhelmed when you meet someone who sort of… Takes your breath away somehow? I’ve had one or two encounters like that and honestly, you feel like you’re in some dream, some fantasy – a fantastic dream. Which brings me to another track on my current playlist. It’s titled “Sea Breeze”. I kind of like the way the lyric talks about the sea, because I love watching the tides come in. I could sit at the breakwaters at East Coast Park just passing the day away. And I actually take a day off to do that every year (for a couple of years now) on a certain date. It’ll be great if I can just find someone who relates to me like this song, finding each other just by watching the waves.
But today, I want to share with you another track by the same musician. This one is pretty popular – I think – and it’s called “Wondering Where You Are”. I’ve been having random serious thoughts about my future love for about a week now. And this is really apt. Cheers to all the single men and women out there, well done. Let’s go on preserving ourselves for that someone special, yup. Sometimes you’ll feel lonely but it’ll all boil down to one person – Jesus. 
Enjoy.
Yesterday was November 23.
I was too sick to start being emo over Reu. I was too ill to realise that another year had passed without someone to have chicken rice for lunch and talk about anything under the sun with. I was reluctant to pen an entry about anything and everything. Because I just wanted to leave it as it was.
November 23 was a special day. A day I felt so disoriented, and a day I found out that partings were still never easy for me. I never thought 2 years could fly past so quickly. I guess the pain of the loss is less significant this time round, knowing my awesome big Brother is safe in Jesus’ arms, thinking why on earth am I still being so sad over this when he is singing with joy up in heaven. Oh, folly.
Tonight, I just wanna go someplace far, far away. Away from all the deadlines I have to meet and just lull myself to bed with anointed piano pieces cooing on and on and on…
It’s been a really long while since I wrote about Reuben. There’s nothing to be ashamed about, but somehow I just feel like I’m missing him less and less. One day, I’m afraid I may forget him completely. I won’t, will I?
I won’t. Because a lifetime’s not too long to live as friends.
My God of SO MUCH MORE has set forth restoration in my beloved siblings and family. Nothing beats having loving parents whom Daddy provides to for the sake of providing for His beloved Prince and Princesses here at home. They’re going to be away for more than a week and I’m already missing them right now.
Nothing beats seeing the faith seed of my loving Abba Father being sown into these young hearts. Nothing beats having a Sister turned away from her bad ways and becoming a steady-growing child of God, ready to buy me supper on a night like this. Nothing beats having a Brother inquire impatiently about his Bible being ‘drowned’ in Mommy’s little fountain because of our dogs upon his return from an overseas camp trip. Oh, the sweet taste of restoration and so much more.
The songs ‘Healer’ and ‘With All I Am’ and playing on and on and on and on and on my computer whilst I eagerly wait upon my healing to manifest in my body. It’s no joke to be falling ill at such a period, but you know, Jesus knows and He cares. So I boldly receive my healing that is to come.
It’s so amazing. To feel disorientated today yet be so guided by the Spirit voice leading me every step of the way. It’s the nitty gritty things He tells me, like how the person sitting, dozing right in front of me on the train is going to alight at the next stop so I get to sit and sleep myself. Or the favour I get with store personnel when I went around Yishun doing field research for MMIT today. They just let me take down notes and snap photos all I want – it can only be Jesus.
You hold my world in the palm of Your hands, because You are my Jehovah Adonai, the loving Abba who truly cares. And what a privilege it is to be loved and molded by You.
No, it don’t come easy.
No, it don’t come fast.
Lock me up inside your garden,
Take me to the real side.
There you are in your black dress,
Moving slow to the sadness.
I could watch you dance for hours.
I could take you by my side.
Fire burning me up.
Desire taking me so much higher,
And leaving me…
Fire turning me on.
Desire taking me so much higher,
And leaving me whole.
Cheers to a newfound infatuation. I must be insane. Things stay status quo for now. No time for boys, amen. I want a man. A real man. But they hardly exist in school, bleh.
Off to bed now. Augustana is singing me a lullaby to sleep.
Goodnight, world.
