So my new journey begins. Frankly it feels so surreal and awkwardly strange to be freed of numerous commitments.
The time to time weekday night meetings. The trainings. The planning. The Sat morning practices. The Sat night evaluations. The Sun morning practices. The Sun afternoon meetings. The Sun afternoon practices.
Seriously time has been freed up yet the question begets how I ought to be utilising the hours? Is it going to be another series of trying to do more and accomplish more? Or an opportune period to catch up on lost time with loved ones? Or perhaps to do what I loved doing that I have not had the chance to do so for the longest time?
Do I miss what I have let go of? I would guess so. Took me a while, yet I began to grasp and appreciate the need to do so, and the beauty of it all.
As I stepped aside from leading a cell of vastly different yet highly dynamic youth, I appreciated how these precious ones rose above the occasion many a times and maturing in many ways. I must certainly agree that one's followers or disciples can really grow only to the level that of their leader. SO TRUE. I realised just how limited I have been to impart and give to my members. Excited at the coming season, because I know God can grow them so much more, with or without me.
And coming to my pet ministry, Worship. This was probably one of my toughest struggles. Worship has always been the anchor of my faith since stepping past the door of the church. Music was what led me to knowing who the God of music is.
Worship is more than music, to me. Worship anchored me especially through the darkest times, the toughest days. Nothing spurs me on more than a power-packed playlist of praise and worship tunes.
With 2014, I really really look forward to a year of change. 2013 has in a way been too cruel to me and I know I am not yet done processing through it all. I am glad that I am no longer stuck, and I am no longer holding on. So yes, it is time to move on. Time to walk away. Just a matter of when.
This past 8 months of serving as a servant leader has been most humbling. Appreciating the love and givings of those before me, serving in arms together on different platforms. Without this portfolio, I would never had given these people all the due respect they deserve, for their true living of Following Christ and Sacrificial Giving. This generation that I am in, or just me, is too many steps behind in comparison.
This window of service revealed to me that I am probably the youngest one amongst the different arms of service. On one hand it opens my eyes to appreciate more yet on the other, it scares me because I wonder how things will turn out just 10 years down the road.
It really does not help that this society is heading for the silver age. It undeniably has a direct influence on how things are going to be around the congregation. To top it off, the current band of leadership are easily twice my age.
I am not an advocate for change for the sake of change. Yet if the upper calling is for us to make a united effort for change to do things better, I am for it. At this point, it just burdens me so much that these are nowhere in sight for the near future. Maybe we will think about it when it comes? Maybe...
There have been far too many learnings and benefits all these years. However, one particularly stood out as I reflected on my drive home today. I reflected on defining a true friend. I reflected on the traits and values of a true friend. There weren't too many that I could collect in my memory, yet I am thankful for every one whom I could count.
Note To Self: Be a true friend in speech and in deed.
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Sunday, January 5, 2014
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Col 1:9-12
Prayer:
continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives
A heart's desire:
1. Live a life worthy of the Lord
2. Please him in every way
4 parts to please Him:
a. bearing fruit in every good work
b. growing in the knowledge of God
c. being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience
d. giving joyful thanks to the Father
Finally
who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.
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During the trip, a quick encounter with Him made all the difference.
My heart's desire and His heart's desire.
That just summed up everything so clearly for me.
So I entered into 2013 with a grateful heart, testify to a year of God's grace and goodness in 2012, and look forward to 2013 with hope and full of faith that the Lord has yet to finish His work in me.
continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives
A heart's desire:
1. Live a life worthy of the Lord
2. Please him in every way
4 parts to please Him:
a. bearing fruit in every good work
b. growing in the knowledge of God
c. being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience
d. giving joyful thanks to the Father
Finally
who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.
---------------------------------------------------
During the trip, a quick encounter with Him made all the difference.
My heart's desire and His heart's desire.
That just summed up everything so clearly for me.
So I entered into 2013 with a grateful heart, testify to a year of God's grace and goodness in 2012, and look forward to 2013 with hope and full of faith that the Lord has yet to finish His work in me.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Resolutions
And as I embark onto 2012, it hit me that I had not reflected and thought of a verse for 2012.
I have had this practice ever since I accepted Christ back in 2005 when UFS would put a lot of emphasis on stopping and listening, asking God what's next.
As I thought about the verse, I believe God reminded me about loving Him above all.
He put the verse Matthew 22:37 in my mind as I looked for the text.
Looking back, my verse for 2011 was just so fitting as it has been with other years!
My verse in 2011 was 1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
And back in 2011, I just found myself growing so much closer to some of the people around me especially my friends in church. I have also experienced what it means to love one another when my cell put money together on my birthday to support my mission trip to country M. God is just amazing!
And so I believe in 2012, God will teach me something related to Matthew 22:37 and to bring my faith to a whole new level. I shall not anticipate a good or bad experience but if God can use either experiences to His glory, then I guess it would be always a positive one!
Something interesting though is the strong sensing of love and life partner in me. Maybe 2012 is the year! =)
O Lord my God, reveal Your will to me.
I have had this practice ever since I accepted Christ back in 2005 when UFS would put a lot of emphasis on stopping and listening, asking God what's next.
As I thought about the verse, I believe God reminded me about loving Him above all.
He put the verse Matthew 22:37 in my mind as I looked for the text.
Looking back, my verse for 2011 was just so fitting as it has been with other years!
My verse in 2011 was 1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
And back in 2011, I just found myself growing so much closer to some of the people around me especially my friends in church. I have also experienced what it means to love one another when my cell put money together on my birthday to support my mission trip to country M. God is just amazing!
And so I believe in 2012, God will teach me something related to Matthew 22:37 and to bring my faith to a whole new level. I shall not anticipate a good or bad experience but if God can use either experiences to His glory, then I guess it would be always a positive one!
Something interesting though is the strong sensing of love and life partner in me. Maybe 2012 is the year! =)
O Lord my God, reveal Your will to me.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Oh Happy Day
Welcoming the New Year has always been a quiet affair for me, well mostly.
But this year, things got a little different.
Snucked away in a house somewhere in Singapore, a group of close friends gathered together to receive 2012. Singing along to songs that never made it to outros, having heart to heart conversations just about anything in life.
This may seem a little waste of time to some, but to me it would be a waste if this time was never spent.
How the friendships were forged and made stronger; how one gets to hear the experiences of another and even realizing how much in common we all have.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
But this year, things got a little different.
Snucked away in a house somewhere in Singapore, a group of close friends gathered together to receive 2012. Singing along to songs that never made it to outros, having heart to heart conversations just about anything in life.
This may seem a little waste of time to some, but to me it would be a waste if this time was never spent.
How the friendships were forged and made stronger; how one gets to hear the experiences of another and even realizing how much in common we all have.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
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| Keppel Bay |
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| The Logos Hope |
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| Marina Bay Sands |
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| Marina Bay |
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| Focus Focus! |
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| MV Logos Hope |
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| Will I go? |
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| The Dudes |
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| The Dudettes |
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| Bon Voyage! |
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