2007-2008.

Jesus, Your love is one step closer
I will trust You will never let me go
Jesus, Your love has won me over
All my trust has found no other

So I will declare the beauty of the Lord
Nothing compares to the beauty of the Lord
Jesus Your love, it takes my breath away
And now I'm living every day
For the beauty of the Lord

- Beauty of the Lord, Jared Anderson

I'm going through withdrawal symptoms!haha, withdrawal symptoms from being away from church and my amazing cell members=)

For the past two weeks we've been going to church for almost three days in a week, and my cell mates and I have been meeting up often too..so it feels really weird not to see them around..haha. how will I cope when I go back to school??

thank God! I have ronnie and yiwen, not to mention grace, carol and the rest of my beloved friends=)I'm like super happy and excited whenever zoogaNders* meet up. And till now, I still think they know me the most.haha. at cell last sunday(the last sunday of 2007!), we were playing the game match the distinct quirk or experience to each person. Mine was: I have a dislike for phones. And only one person in cell managed to guess it..haha, frankly, I think it was a lucky guess. Anyway,I was thinking that if sharon, grace and carol were there, they would have immediately laughed or smirked and say it's me. And there was one quirk raised that was the person always sneezed more than once. I immediately thought, Sharon!haha, I still remember how grace and I will count the no. of times ronnie will sneeze..I think the present record is 8 times?or 10?In a row mind you..haha, till now, I'm still amazed sharon doesn't like collapse after her sneeze attacks..it's really quite amusing=)

anyway, Leadersheep(that's our cell name!) met on 21st of dec for our christmas party with the circles' cells, I met shu hui on the 22nd of dec for some christmas shopping, cell met again on the 23rd of dec for our usual sunday service and sang our first round of christmas carols. We met again on the 25th of dec for our Christmas service!The christmas drama was called,"He ran", based on the prodigal son story in the bible..want to know more?Ask and you shall receive!haha.After that, we met again on the 30th of dec for our usual sunday service with our last cell time for 2007!Then of course, we gathered one last time for one last watchnight service of 2007 yesterday, 31st of dec.And today, 1st of Jan 2008, I met up with Judith and Sammie!=)

haha. wow. no wonder I'm suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

anyway, I'm going to do a next post on just my dearest zoogaNders* girls, or ladies, I should say=)

back to the watchnight service yesterday..I think it was my first!!With the adults I mean..normally we would go to the SMASH party for the youths. But shu hui and I decided to attend the adults' and young adults' service for 2007. Let me tell you, it was simply amazing. The atmosphere was so charged, and so blessed by God. Ice-breakers had us breaking into groups according to our surnames, dialects, how long we have been believing..

And after that, during worship, I just thought, that even though we are of different dialects, different nationalities, different lives and names..but we are all one family of God. We are all related in Christ!And I was just so touched and just so in awe of Him and His goodness.

We gave thanks, we worshipped, we listened to sharings of His blessings, we had our last Lord's supper of the year, we had His word, and than we began the countdown. And there we were, arms linked with one another, candles in our hands, we ushered the new year of 2008 together, united as one body of Christ. Call me sentimental, call me idealistic..but at that point of time, all I could think of was just this,"What better place to celebrate the year passed, and the new year to come?" And I realised, that at that moment, I was right where God wanted me to be, right where I wanted to be. In His sanctuary, with Him and His people.

When it's all been said and done,
There is just one thing that matters,
Did I do my best to live for truth,
Did I live my life for You?

When it's all been said and done,
All my treasures will mean nothing
Only what I've done for love's reward will stand the test of time

Lord, Your mercy is so great
That You look beyond our weakness
And find purest gold in miry clay
Turning sinners into saints

And I will always sing Your praise
Here on earth and ever after,
For You've shown me heaven's my true home
When it's all been said and done
You're my life when life is gone

- When it's all been said and done, Don Moen

Lord, I surrender my 2007 into Your hands, and I welcome 2008 with You, with open arms.