We completed the last part of our True… Series. We hope to have imparted what True Worship, True Action and True Service is to our kids. Last week, we have another 3 to 4 kids sign up for ministry. Prayerfully we will see new kids working on registration, tithing counting and service decoration in weeks to come.
I used my broken MP3 Player in my bible lesson. Chern Han accidently dropped it last week and it died before reaching any ‘hospital’. It was sad because this is one thing that I really have good use for in my learning.
Well, since it was broken, and there was a good chance of using it as object lesson last week, I brought it to service and demonstrate it dropped in front of the kids. From shoulder height I illustrate that we should not to trust material things that will eventually fail or die! All the kids were shocked. You see I only told them it’s was already broken after I dropped it.
After the service, a 11 year old boy came up to me and ask if he can have the player. I thought why since I’ve made perhaps the last use of it as a prop. I gave it to him and he happily went away while I went on my business.
A few minutes later he came back, and interrupted “It worked, it worked”. I took the device, switched it on and it really did work. I was absolutely amazed. Including just a few minutes ago it was a double drop for a hard-disk based player. I wouldn’t have asked for it back but the boy insisted that I bring it back. I was grateful and said ‘thank you’.
A few minutes later he came running back again. He asked “The next time if its really broken, can I have it?”. I smiled and said “Sure”. But now, I’m one happy and encouraged camper.
If you tell me God can heal leukamia, cancer and blindness and God cannot take care of a broken mp3 player. I won’t believe you!
We used around 10-15 people to run a 3 days camp programme locally for kids in June.
This afternoon a pastor from Malaysia requested us to run 4 programmes concurrently with 1 person on my team and 1 on his in each programme for a 3 days conference in November.
Now I’m normally for challenges but that isn’t one of them. Flying one of us there is tough enough. Having to fly 4 and with only 2 person each class for a 3 days programme. My faith is much smaller than a mustard seed. Much much smaller.
I love Starbucks, I love CD stores and I also love hanging out at bookshops.
I believe lifetime growth and learning. We all should always learn first through stories of our own life and then stories of others in the form of their well written book.
Although I’m for buying great books to keep or to pass around, some I would just stand in bookstores to flip. Yesterday I stood and flipped through “The Laws of Lifetime Growth” by Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura.
However this time I only read the title of each of the chapters. That’s all I did! And it’s enough to leave me in some great perspective.
I believe this book is worth going beyond the title/subtitle one day. Someone once said “it’s not how much a book cost but what it’ll cost you if you don’t read it“. This look like one of those book.
2 days ago my laptop power adapter went down. Went to the other side of the island to have it replaced.
Now my audio interface not working and Wan Yueh the songwriter is coming over to do recording in a few hours time.
Co taught with Mabel, the conflict management module of the team ministry course last night. Had internal conflict to deal with before that. A book I read suggest making enjoyment greater than effort. I had heaps of fun teaching. Mabel did too.
Actually, looked forward to teaching because I know that night I can go home and sleep. Not that I cannot any other day, its just that I can sleep better after a harder day’s work.
So I did sleep early … and well… well sort of ….the only problem is that I had a dream that I’ve got cancer. Wrist cancer to be precise. (Don’t ask!)
Woke up and realise I don’t have cancer. It’s almost lunchtime and realise I won’t know if I don’t have cancer. I didn’t do a medical check. If I did, I could have and anyone could have also.
I send my kid to school, had breakfast with Mag, called some people and took out some paints for Chern Han. I decided I am going to do what matters. I wanna help more people (young or old) because that is what matters. The (children’s) ministry from administration to the sunday service facilitates helping people.
I realise if I have cancer I won’t need to change many things that I’m doing. I am cool about that. I hope the Lord is too.
I was eating fishball and pondering. One of the ironies of Singaporean life is ‘eating as a pleasure of life’. Eating the best of foods quite often epitomise a good life. Yet most of the time these food that we consume either leaves us tired, feeling bad or looking fat. Is a good life about eating whatever that taste best on the menu? Is it eating without discipline or responsibility?
I suggest choosing healthy food that is tasty instead of merely tasty food. Vegetable and natural food is often healthier than meat. We are more herbivorious than carnivorious and our body is designed to consume natural produce of the Garden of Eden. Meat is permitted but not to be indulged. I thank the Lord for it everytime i get to take them moderately.
I suggest chewing food and savouring it rather than swallowing. Give your digestion system a break. An universal law, if we overwork people, they will end up giving you less in the future.
I suggest eating slowly and hence eating lesser than swallowing and hence more. Ask any aquaria enthusiast and they will tell you fish die more because of overfeeding than underfeeding. Of course we are not fish… but its not nice to talk about human examples who are dead.
I suggest balance food with other pleasures of life such as exercising, resting, relaxing, praying and fasting. If we eat without exercising. If we exercise without resting. If we rest without praying, pray without fasting and fast without ever eating, what wonder we would we miss out.
I suggest talking to an old person exercising in the park about the suggestion above. They know something we don’t.
Don’t stone me now, try these suggestions and come back in 2 months to tell us about what a good life really is.
it was yeuks and really hated it at first but now its a nice healthy breakfast that makes the biggest difference to my day
Using a Mac Mini now
Can’t get used to the non-PC navigation at first but after some tips from my friend and mucking around, it got me to really really like it. Where was I all these years?
Oh btw, i really hated reading the bible at first …
now i can’t say that I do… its a matter of getting used to.
90% of what we do are automatic habitual actions. If we can make that 90% of what we do good habits, now that will really make the biggest difference.
One of my all time favourite songs of Rich Mullins
“….And I’ve seen by the highways on a million exit ramps
Those two-legged memorials to the laws of happenstance
Waiting for four-wheeled messiahs to take them home again
But I am home anywhere if You are where I am.”
Yes, and the Holy King of Israel loves me here in Singapore and you too wherever you are.
