Imprinted~

I love this time of year when our breakfasts consist of food like pineapple tarts, kueh ban kek, love letters and various other types of chinese new year goodies. Yes, a time of break, food, red packets and oranges. each year, I know the exact places we would travel to for some new year visitation, and yet somehow, when the time comes round again, the people, the activities are different in certain ways. I really do like celebrating this chinese tradition, even though it may seem superficial on how we reduce it to the above things, but yet, I love it anyhow. It's just a very comforting period of celebration.

And today being the lunar new year's eve, what better way than to kick start the chinese new year with church?:) so we had fellowship in the morning, and we went for service. I just really love worshipping in that sanctuary of ours, and coming together to sing praises to Him. the joy, the celebration, the laughter, all of which were just simply splendid. Elder jeffrey goh was really amusing today in delivering the word, and I am really reminded by how God exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness, and how He delights in Him. And hence, whenever prof jernigan talks about the POV where some people think the God of the OT is much harsher than the God in the NT, I just feel like saying God has never changed and will never change! and if you think that God is harsh in the OT, it is only because you don't know Him at all. sometimes people just read a little and start judging based on the little they know and just start to believe what they want to.

haha, so if ever we want to boast, let us not boast of how wise, how strong, or how rich we are, but to boast only of how we know and understand Him!

and I just wanted to say how when the service ended, and the girls just gathered together, we just ended up hugging one another in a circle, and talking and praying, it felt really special. we were just standing there at the side of the hall, with our arms around each other, ushering in the new year with our Lord=)

oh, and before I continue reading my Oliver Twist, and start getting dressed for our reunion dinner,(we had a reunion lunch too;)), I just wanted to share this song that we have been singing in church: This is our God, by Hillsong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbrL64Ujb1c&feature=PlayList&p=CB49AB04379450C3&playnext=1&index=4

just copy and paste kay? cause I still have no idea how to upload videos. :(

some of the lyrics,

Freely You gave it all for us,
Surrendered Your life upon that cross,
Great is Your love, poured out for all
This is our God

and whenever we come to the part where the whole church sings in one united voice, "This is our God", it is just amazing. Lord, You are our God, and we will have no other. For Lord, there is none like You, and indeed, knowing You Jesus, is the greatest thing. Help us be Your victorious overcomers Lord; for the victory is won!


P.S- I kinda like the physical scars I got after falling off my bike. It brings me back to times I have forgotten, to people I have somehow written off. and just for a moment , when I look at them again, I remember.