✿ Beyond beer and skittles...: November 2011

17 November 2011

16NOV2011 Thornton's.

Got home last night & saw this on the table. How sweet, especially on a winterry night.
Thank you.

16 November 2011

15NOV2011 Not forgetting the less fortunate this Christmas

My Christmas has always been about food, joy, presents, Christmas tree, church family & lots of shopping.
Yes, I am fortunate to live within a family who appreciates Christmas.
And I thank God for that.

With these blessings, I hope someone else feels the same too!
Someone else from another side of the world. I want them to know, God wants to love and bless them too.
Hence with Samaritan's Purse every year, I'll take part in the Operation Christmas Child - Shoe boxes in particular.

My part of giving:

May all children of the world celebrates the Christmas they deserve.

15 November 2011

15NOV2011 Inspired.

Inspired by you, thank you.

Life's journey teaches you much

by Stephanie Tham

Having come such a long way, meeting new people, overcoming challenges and the great predicaments of life, building friendships ?, living up to expectations, whether mine or other people's, learning, living and doing things that shape me as a person, I have learned and grown so much as an individual.

So many times, I've wished that I was able to turn back the clock and undo so many things. But life does not always go the way you want it to be. You just have to grow up and live the way God wants you to. Live with humility, never look back, look however, to the One who created you for hope when all hope vanishes. Look to the One who gave you life when all you see in the mirror is someone hateful. How I wish that I could undo so many things in life. Someone once said " Never regret, because what you go through in life, and decisions you make, shape you." Well I agreed then. Not anymore. God gave me the volition to choose, to make choices that glorifies Him. Well, as I live one day at a time now, I know for sure that every choice that I made before this, follows me in so many ways appearing in many forms, a friend, another decision, another crossroad and etc.

As I listen to the words of the song "There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus" playing from my Itunes playlist, I know I have the abundant hope of Jesus Christ, the faithfulness of a Friend who will never ever walk away, the never ending unconditional love of a Father who chose me before I was born. For He is who He is. Magnificent and Holy, Breathtaking, Awesome, Marvelous One.

15NOV2011 In-betweeners

I've always been told I'm an "adaptor".
A good one especially.
I adapt to anything, anyone, anywhere I need to.
Felt really proud then for being able to adapt well.

As I grow, being adaptable benefits even further.
My network grew so wide that I sometimes barely cope.
But because I do it well, I sometimes wonder, how many truly knows who am I?
Gradually, even I forgot who am I.

"Anything extreme isn't good"
I agreed then.
But that means, you're neither both (ends).
Then what are you?
An in-betweener?

Not that it's wrong.
It's just hard, being one.
Not only an in-betweener, but forgetting who you really are.