Got the LP version for 40% off. Great performance but sad to see my old turntable suffer to play even the first track of this record, “Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting”. Just can’t get the punch of the bass riffs out well.
Incidently, tomorrow is our Friday Night Prayer Meeting at Suntec City. The whole church is coming together to pray for the quarter. Yeeeeppp, better sleep early to rise early for my morning club. I don’t want to suffer tomorrow night, the way my old turntable did with Mingus tonight.
Is there something bothering you today that even though the sun has set, but you can’t get it out of your mind? You are not alone. Many people worry because its really quite a national if not transnational pastime. Well, it really doesn’t have to be this way. Nothing ever has to be any certain way.
Chances are what is bothering you is infact only one of many hundreds parts of your life.
For example, If you are worrying about your job that is not doing well, there’s always your family, your God, your friendships, your ability to smell, your bicycle, your lung, your ministry and your dinner that are going right. If you are worrying about your finance because of the economic crisis, there’s always your job, your Lord, your family, your shoe, your dog, your mind, your electricity, time and your printer that is doing okay.
There’s high chance when something is going wrong, there’s a lot more that is right. Focus on giving thanks for what is going right. List them out and say thank you Lord! When you do that enough to look at what you have and not what you don’t have, you’ll get the sanity and strength to handle what’s not right. Sometimes the strength to handle it is just being still, be grateful with what we have and know that He is God.
We have too little chance taking things into our own hands. Really, trust God and seek Him always, its our best bet.
This relatively unknown pastor speaking about the topic of life on purpose. I wonder how he got himself a slot at TED. Good job with a great life on purpose.
Michael Jackson lived up to 50. Hmm, I may only have over 10 more years
Farrah Fawcett lived up to 62…. ahhh maybe I get another 12 more years after that.
But Anthony Yeo died at 60, so perhaps I have 2 years lesser.
As I think upon these people and the legacy they leave behind, I realise our time is short and the choices we make within these short time, determines how we live. It isn’t about how long we live but whether if we have decided and then started to live.
When God gave us the Great Commission, he gave us the greatest mission and the highest dream or venture possible. It is at a scale greater than Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, celebrities, kings and presidents or any world changers in that matter. So as God’s chosen ones, we are to set our heart on the highest dream that God has placed in us and then spend the rest of our time whether it is 10 or 20 or 40 years to live it out. It’s scary but that’s what ‘purpose’ is all about, to scare us into not waiting for life to happen but to make life happen.
Time, resources and talent has already been given and for us to take. Let’s not waste it.
Tips:
1) Are you living by a set of values? If not, set that set of values to live by.
2) Are you living for things or are things living for you? Define your highest dream or calling, so that your time, talents and resources aren’t just consumed but are used for that purpose greater than yourself.
3) Have you started to try rollerblading or the things you always wanted to do?
4) Have you left ever left comment on my blog? If not, do it at least once, start now.
Ever sad, discouraged and doubt that the work you don’t mount to anything in the Kingdom of God? I did just this morning. I was irritated, troubled and had strange thoughts up there. Then the Lord encouraged me. He said “Wake up and get your act together”, so I woke up with that rebuke and got my act together.
There’s something about what they teach you in school or sunday school that is so wrong. School teaches you a lesson and then gives you a test at the end of the year. Life on the other hand gives you a test and then a lesson at the end of it. We have to change the way we do school and church.
That’s why we should believe in getting comfortable with mess, with discipline, discipleship and in being involved life.
I use my mouth too much. This week, I’m learning what to do with my hands and feet when I teach.
1) Use my hands to gesture, signal and as a prop! Not only does it enhance communication, it is also fun and serves as a good cue to guide me when I teach.
2) Use my feet to walk on stage purposefully. Think of myself as a Flash based website rather than a static one cos kids just love the former much much more than the latter.
3 more days before our kids come back from Sydney. Missing them so much. The past few times of meeting and catching up with people, young and old, I can’t help to think that soon I’ll be catching up with these 3 little ones.
Their one week home quarantine is going to be bad for school but good for some catching up.
