Monday, July 30, 2007
Nothingness...
I don't really know what to share. I wanna praise God for having taught me several things this school break. The experiences i had, the people whom i met. These have helped me grown. Strangely i cant seem to share anything at all. i only have this to say. I wan to be HOLY today. Holier tomorrow and EVEN HOLIER the day after. This is my moltivation for the past weeks. For i desire to enter the narrow gate where it leads to life. Seedlings pray for me....
Sunday, July 22, 2007
evan almighty!
Hey Jason, I agree with you.. When you face natural disasters and everything is not within your control, you tend to take things more easily and try your best to get up and get going. In Singapore, everything is so well taken care of that Singaporeans complain and mull over the silliest things.. We are very blessed in that sense but alos undeniably spoilt. Your flood experience inspired me to name this entry as the new movie on the modern day Noah. I say we make this a community event!! What say SP?!
Anyway, sorry guys for vanishing into thin air. I just happen to travel every weekend and am very caught up with work. SORRY!! Miss all your company. Today's reading on martha and Mary reminds me to take time off to just enjoy the presence of the Lord and to receive from everyone I meet. How easy it is for me to judge people sometimes and think that I know more or I have more to offer. I regret those times where encounters with others could have been something more if I had only opened my heart.
ok, gtg do work soon.. take care all of u and Jason, hope you don't catch a cold in that dreadful weather!
Anyway, sorry guys for vanishing into thin air. I just happen to travel every weekend and am very caught up with work. SORRY!! Miss all your company. Today's reading on martha and Mary reminds me to take time off to just enjoy the presence of the Lord and to receive from everyone I meet. How easy it is for me to judge people sometimes and think that I know more or I have more to offer. I regret those times where encounters with others could have been something more if I had only opened my heart.
ok, gtg do work soon.. take care all of u and Jason, hope you don't catch a cold in that dreadful weather!
Flood.
The great flood is here in the UK! Many people are stranded... and i'm one of them!! : (
I'm in Manchester now.. and I'm stuck in Manchester with no way of going home to Plymouth, cus the train line between Birmingham and Gloucester is disrupted due to severe flooding in the Midlands!!
I'm sleeping on my friend's couch.. have been for the past nights... hopefully i get to sleep on my own bed... SOME TIME SOON. The train services say that things will be disrupted for a week! Oh no! how am i going to get to work by tuesday!!??!
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The flood is quite an amazing one... you find it in the Bible when God told Noah to gather 2 of a kind and build a gigantic sampan.. When I saw it flood on BBC news.. I thought to myself.. oh no.. poor people.. houses destroyed.. people stranded.. all sorts of amusingly strange and sad things.
I won't say that people are suffering though.. but the effects of it is greater then what it seems on the surface.. Transportation is brought to a standstill.. i who live in the south, and am in the north can't get back to work in the south.. strawberry, blue berry and other farms in Gloucester/Worcester/Hereford-shires are destroyed..
Its a strange whole new experience.. being disrupted by natural disasters, i never thought of it before. This is as compared to Singapore.. where you can almost never have your life be disrupted by our weather (Going to sentosa to play does not count).
It puts into perspective how in life, you largely can't choose which portion of the pie you want to get. Sometimes you get the pick of the crop, and sometimes, you get the rotten parts. Regardless of the outcome.. its just about picking your ass up, and getting on with life as best as you can, and thats living your life to the full.
Though there are few casualties because of the flood (thankfully) and people are largely taking the severe flooding with a strange light heartedness.. still.. pray for the victims.. especially those who have their livelihoods destroyed by the raging waters, and also.. that London Paddington Station will not burst at its seams and have a major stampede or soemthing, when I fight my way there to go home tommorow. : S
I'm in Manchester now.. and I'm stuck in Manchester with no way of going home to Plymouth, cus the train line between Birmingham and Gloucester is disrupted due to severe flooding in the Midlands!!
I'm sleeping on my friend's couch.. have been for the past nights... hopefully i get to sleep on my own bed... SOME TIME SOON. The train services say that things will be disrupted for a week! Oh no! how am i going to get to work by tuesday!!??!
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The flood is quite an amazing one... you find it in the Bible when God told Noah to gather 2 of a kind and build a gigantic sampan.. When I saw it flood on BBC news.. I thought to myself.. oh no.. poor people.. houses destroyed.. people stranded.. all sorts of amusingly strange and sad things.
I won't say that people are suffering though.. but the effects of it is greater then what it seems on the surface.. Transportation is brought to a standstill.. i who live in the south, and am in the north can't get back to work in the south.. strawberry, blue berry and other farms in Gloucester/Worcester/Hereford-shires are destroyed..
Its a strange whole new experience.. being disrupted by natural disasters, i never thought of it before. This is as compared to Singapore.. where you can almost never have your life be disrupted by our weather (Going to sentosa to play does not count).
It puts into perspective how in life, you largely can't choose which portion of the pie you want to get. Sometimes you get the pick of the crop, and sometimes, you get the rotten parts. Regardless of the outcome.. its just about picking your ass up, and getting on with life as best as you can, and thats living your life to the full.
Though there are few casualties because of the flood (thankfully) and people are largely taking the severe flooding with a strange light heartedness.. still.. pray for the victims.. especially those who have their livelihoods destroyed by the raging waters, and also.. that London Paddington Station will not burst at its seams and have a major stampede or soemthing, when I fight my way there to go home tommorow. : S
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Thankful.
Last night, I was standing on an adit, trying to get to the other side of the passage without standing on the stopes. I had to attach myself to some ropes rigged as a traverse line. As I climbed/scrambled along the walls without my feet touching the stope, I didn't feel fear...
If I put pressure on the wooden ground that has been there since 1800s, the floor would give way and I would fall and most certainly be, dead, or severely injured.
A week ago, I was dangling over a hole that dropped about 20m, trying to remove the ropes from the P-bolts. Again I didn't feel fear.
I realised that many times I have been in ridiculously dangerous situations held up by mere little metalic contraptions and ridiculously thin 10mm static ropes, and I'm still alive!
Been thinking about these things alot recently, and I can only thank God for the graces and safety and common sense that He has imbued in me. For the first time last night, i actually prayed thanksgiving after coming out safely from the gazillionth mine/cave that I stepped off. strangely, it feels very good.
If I put pressure on the wooden ground that has been there since 1800s, the floor would give way and I would fall and most certainly be, dead, or severely injured.
A week ago, I was dangling over a hole that dropped about 20m, trying to remove the ropes from the P-bolts. Again I didn't feel fear.
I realised that many times I have been in ridiculously dangerous situations held up by mere little metalic contraptions and ridiculously thin 10mm static ropes, and I'm still alive!
Been thinking about these things alot recently, and I can only thank God for the graces and safety and common sense that He has imbued in me. For the first time last night, i actually prayed thanksgiving after coming out safely from the gazillionth mine/cave that I stepped off. strangely, it feels very good.
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