moved.moved.moved

Sunday, September 14, 2003

bursting with............?
just woke up from me nap. wah goodgood. haha feel so immensely rested. still got a teewee bit of the flu and sore throat. anyway had an amazing day. really, ive never had such fulfilling days for reallyreally long! firstly, i went to meet xuee at the airport to study at 12midnight and took a little detour to get her hokkien mee :p and on the way to the airport, my taxi met with an accident! it crashed into the lamp-post. ha! see! im not the only one who cycles into lamp-posts................. heh anyway so i was really quite nerved because i wasnt wearing a seat belt and i slammed into the seat in front of me, so quite painful ah. guess God was teaching me not to take simple things like seatbelts, late nights and of course my own life for granted! thank God it wasnt worst!

yeah studied quite a bit at the airport. did about three incomplete essays. haha actually i was so sleepy so i kept buying expresso shots from starbucks to keep awake. it tasted realllly bad. later the guy came and told us that actually the coffee in the expresso expires after 10seconds[its a shot..] so after tat, its bad coffee im drinking. and i had like 2 shots already? thank you very much! haha. then studied then xuee couldnt tahan so she went back home to sleep around 5.. so i lazed around and den took a bus down to church. a solid one and a half hour. but it was a good trip. the buses were empty and the morning was simply beautiful. its not much now for me to enjoy the simpler things in life, so it was really refreshing.

intended to head to church to sleep for abt an hour before service, but i dont know what in the blazers made me decide to attend the e1 morning service where all the ahgongs and ahmas and older generation ppl usually attended. but u see, we all have this great misconception that the e1 service is condemned to singing old hymns like 'be thou my vision' or 'tasteth my wine'[is there such a song?!] and it actually isnt. i could actually sing along with the songs[voila! amazing!] and i actually sat thru the entire sermon without feeling sleepy. it was about faith in spite of, not because of. will share during cell next week. amazing i tell u!

the best part came later, when i was nearly moved to tears during communion. an elderly lady of erm, not less then seventy or eighty stepped forward and eagerly thrusted her hands out to receive communion, all this while her eyes were closed and her lips tightly pursed, and she had the simplest heart of worship -- a servants heart! i was so touched by her heart that immediately i felt so ashamed of myself. God is an amazing God. the e1 service was the last place i thought i would receive anything from, but if there was one person who walked out of that service touched, it was me :)

i really apologise for the long post today! but i have so much to share abt God's goodness!

then it was off to youth service. i was so refreshed and so rejuvenated! i met gen inside and i was just telling her how words failed to express that feeling i felt during the service earlier:) really amazing. haha if u notice, the word amazing never does seem to leave my lips. amazing! the song 'making a difference' really struck me really hard. and God seemed to tell me to take up anything for we are all already called to spread the gospel and we should be asking God if we have a special calling to stay home! truly, here we should be saying, 'here i am, send me!!'

im all smiles now. thats my faithful God for you :)