What is life?: July 2005

Friday, July 29, 2005

Blaze of Halley's

It is only a few days ago that I thot I was set.

I know exactly what I want.

Two days ago on Tues, we met. And now I'm still up at 2.45am.

Not complaining -- but things sure change fast.

Shld I be turning up on? Meeting P, J, J, n the rest?

Will I be digging up a can of worms or worse?

Can't find the website I wanted to look for -- ???

Am I compromising?

It's still safe to let go -- as was said...

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Falling in Love... ...

Soundtrack: Mr & Mrs Smith
Title: Mondo Bongo (Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros)


I was patrolling a Pachinko
Nude noodle model parlor in the Nefarious zone
Hanging out with insects under ducting
The C.I.A was on the phone
Well, such is life

Latino caribo, mondo bongo
The flower looks good in your hair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
Nobody said it was fair, oh

Latino caribo, mondo bongo
The flower looks good in your hair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
Nobody said it was fair

Latino caribo, mondo bongo
The flower looks good in your hair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
Nobody said it was fair

For the Zapatistas I'll rob my sisters
Of all the curtain and lace

Down at the bauxite mine
You get your own uniform
Have lunchtimes off
Take a monorail to your home

Checkmate, baby
God bless us and our home
Where ever we roam
Now take us home, flaquito

Latino caribo, mondo bongo
The flower looks good in your hair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
Nobody said it was fair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
The flower looks good in your hair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
Nobody said it was fair


LEANN RIMES - Insensitive Lyrics
How do you cool your lips
After a summer's kiss
How do you rid the sweat
After the body bliss
How do you turn your eyes
From the romantic glare
How do you block the sound of a voice
You'd know anywhere
[chorus]
Oh I really should have known
By the time you drove me home
By the vagueness in your eyes
Your casual good-byes
By the chill in your embrace
The expression on your face
That told me you might have some advice to give
On how to be insensitive
How do you numb your skin
After the warmest touch
How do you slow your blood
After the body rush
How do you free your soul
After you've found a friend
How do you teach your heart it's a crime
To fall in love again
Oh you probably won't remember me
It's probably ancient history
I'm one of the chosen few
Who went ahead and fell for you
I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch
I fell too fast, I feel too much
I thought that you might have some advice to give
On how to be insensitive
[chorus]


Artist : James Blunt

Title : You're Beautiful

My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I'm sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,
'Cause I've got a plan.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.

Yeah, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
Fucking high,
And I don't think that I'll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last till the end.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.


Life isn't fair, but God is Good.

Sunday, July 17, 2005

BUILT to LAST John 15:1-17

What have we BUILT that will LAST?

We have a tendency to rem the things that might have been the silliest, or the unimpt issues -- but what is most impt in life is the purpose we've been made for.

John 15: 16
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.


1 Cor 3: 12-15
12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. [1]

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.


ARE WE BUILDING THINGS TO LAST?

Gal 5: 22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.


Two things tt last -- Character, People.

Proverbs 11:30
30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
and whoever captures souls is wise.


How to be fruitful, and how to bring forth fruits that last?

1. Principle of Linkage -- Fruit
2. Principle of Loss -- More Fruit
3. Principle of Love -- Fruit that will last

"fruit" appears 9 times, and to do so... "remain" appears 11 times -- meaning to dwell, choosing not to leave.

1. To have a linkage, a branch cannot exist by itself -- where do we get life? From Jesus! Thus, to be linked to Jesus.

John 15:7
7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.


Thus, to be not only deeper in the Word, but deeper in obedience. Only when we're linked to Him, then can we hear Him.

2. It's only when things are pruned, or cut, can it grow better.
When sin is in our lives, it stops God from giving us fruits.

Proverbs 26:2
2 Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
a curse that is causeless does not alight.


If we don't sin, there's no reason the Devil can come into our lives. In other words, when we sin, we give the Devil the right to interfere.

Job 11:13-19
13 “If you prepare your heart,
you will stretch out your hands toward him.
14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,
and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
15 Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish;
you will be secure and will not fear.
16 You will forget your misery;
you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
17 And your life will be brighter than the noonday;
its darkness will be like the morning.
18 And you will feel secure, because there is hope;
you will look around and take your rest in security.
19 You will lie down, and none will make you afraid;
many will court your favor.


Clean our sins.
Cut away.

It could be the sense of possession over our belongings, or the people we hold dear.

John 15:12-13
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.

John 15:17
17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.


Mother Theresa: "We can't do great things, but we can do small things with great love."

1 Corinthians 13:1-3
The Way of Love
13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, [1] but have not love, I gain nothing.



Are we willing to love, like God? Are we prepared to be pruned, or cut?

TO be read in public -- so MEN will know you're available

But I've decided to read it at home -- Despite the very alluring "explanation" of how the book's supposed to work...

Haha -- to tone down the weight of desperation...? HAHA.

Anyway, it's a toss up of the 1. gym and 2. blading at the beach today... and it's already 4.58pm.

But I refuse to be rushed about on a SUNDAY. 'It's sabbath.'

GAK GAK GAK.

Let's lift up our prayers to Him, b4 other things... ie. like the beckoning bed.

Jus saw Ps Khong on TV. Interesting show. Starring Aileen Tan, and Zhu Houren.

Think it's been in my heart since the earliest sermons at the church to adopt. Never forgot it. Strange, I know, but true. Who would be able to understand that?

But I did give up mine. Who's to say? Who's to judge?

Housekeeping -- to be done.

Just saw some old neoprints. iiinnntteerressting... haha.

Hmm. Can't find tt letter with the names anywhere. Have they already been thrown? All for the better then.

We move on with our lives. As always. :)

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Daddy, we lift these up to you

Prayer Requests of SaiL12 (shared on 11th July 2005)

SA
- Relationship with QL, for them to come to a common understanding
- Relationships with family members, for God to draw them closer.

SS
- To be able to meet Ps EG in August, and that the meeting would proceed smoothly (pray for favour with EG and for God to help her with preparation for this interview)

CH
- Mum, who just accepted Christ will grow and will find accountability in her church (Lighthouse Tampines)
- Dad to be convicted that gambling is a sin and to repent. Pray that he would also grow as a Christian
- Healing and reconciliation in the family

LT
- Breakthrough in communication between family members, that we can talk to one another without shouting, quarrelling and cursing
- God to show me what to share with my sm2s this sat. Pray for God’s presence and provision for this gathering. Breakthrough with my sm2s, to know them personally. Pray that they’ll go to Spook Show with open hearts and minds

SY
- Pioneering secondary school ministry (tuition). Pray for walls to come down and students will come! Pray for protection from spiritual attacks
- Brother’s work to stablise, that he’ll earn enough and be wise in his spending

SW
- Wisdom and sensitivity to Holy Spirit, as she meets up with her friend, to discuss issues of relationship and morality
- Kind souls to adopt her rabbits, that God will provide a home for them

LL
- Relationship with YL, that she’ll be able to reach YL. YL and bf (Kelvin) have courage to find another church to settle in
- CRL, to understand God’s heart about why God has so many rules. To trust and obey the Word of God
- MYN, to have courage to be open to God’s work in her life, to settle down in a church

LW
- Healing from flu
- Workplace, for bosses to be responsible, for workload to be reduced to acceptable level
- God’s providence for family financially, for sister to find a job

JL
- Time to pray, to focus while praying
- Time to spend with family me

ST
- Relationship with Dad to improve. Dad will come to put the needs of family first. God to provide for them financially
- To balance work and ministry

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Pain is a call to serve

叶子 (蔷薇之恋原声带版) 歌词

阿桑

叶子是不会飞翔的翅膀
翅膀是落在天上的叶子
天堂原来应该不是妄想
只是我早已经遗忘当初怎么开始飞翔
孤单是一个人的狂欢
狂欢是一群人的孤单
爱情原来的开始是陪伴
但我也渐渐地遗忘当时是怎样有人陪伴
我一个人吃饭旅行到处走走停停
也一个人看书写信自己对话谈心
只是心又飘到了哪里就连自己看也看不清
我想我不仅仅是失去你
叶子是不会飞翔的翅膀
翅膀是落在天上的叶子


Haaha. Quite glad, this thing can paste Chinese... :P

It's strange. How seeing someone you've not met for sometime can make you think and miss him so much more.

Just met Zhaoyan today, after so many yrs -- my pri school friend. My best friend in P1, P2. And she's getting married on Oct 8 to Jeremy. Also from CCHS (M). How time flies.

How often shld we take stock of life? To think -- I knew her 20 yrs ago. But I don't think I know her now.

How much do we know of what our friends think, feel, and wat's impt to them, their priorities, their burdens, their problems... how much do we empathise... how unselfish are we?

Does lending someone money make the person obligated to us? How much can we leverage on that?

I pray for Lixia, and Junqi. Why am I so passionate about bringing them to church?

If I think I'm not good enuff, why do I still want to be a star? Is it to cover up for my real self, or am I really a selfish person anyway?

What is money? How much is money worth? Dignity? Sanity? Other's opinions? Integrity? Own measure of self-worth? "One can't serve two masters."

Money isn't bad -- let me reiterate. It's just a mode of payment -- like NETS. haha.

As long as it's not yours, it falls under the category of things that are to be returned to it's rightful owner. 路不拾遗。Do feelings work this way too? Do not covert? Does tt apply to how she already feels for him?

"Let's say if both of us are not married by a certain age then we marry each other lor"... would you ever, say yes?
"Wat u think?"
"If its u, I would"
"What about u?"

Is that a compliment or a snub? ? ? I guess money don't so much matter. Freedom matters more. Freedom. From? Freedom in the Lord?

Think I jus hurt two ppl already today.


10 Jul 2005... STOP PLAYING THE GAME OF SHAME AND BLAME.

He doesn't tempt us, we're tempted by our own selfish desires, and we've allowed the devil to perpetuate the shame and blame, and pain in our lives.

1. Stop your game of shame -- find your dignity in God.
2. Stop your game of blame -- find your destiny in God.

A. Make sure your dignity is not dependent on your looks, your bank account nor accolades from superiors or people around you. Whose approval are you seeking anyway?

His sole purpose in dying for us is to take away our shame. He bore our shame on the cross.

Most encouraging chapt in the bible -- > Romans 8.

Life in the Spirit
8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. [1] 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you [2] free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, [3] he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Heirs with Christ
12 So then, brothers, [4] we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons [5] of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Future Glory
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because [6] the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, [7] for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

God's Everlasting Love
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be [8] against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. [9] 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalms 2:8
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.

He told Beethoven: You don't need to hear music to make music, it's in you.


YOu feel special not becos of the new car, or that salary increment -- they fade in two weeks -- they simply can't replace the proximity, and sincerity of someone caring, looking after and loving you -- For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

B. Take responsibility for your life.
"If only"...

Suffering comes from the Devil who came to sack, steal, kill and destroy.
No one to blame -- you commit sin as you've been thinking about it.

Besides, there is nothing anyone can do to mess up your destiny -- no one can rob you of your destiny with God. Be secure in His love.

A lady told me as she prayed for me during altar call... "My purpose comes from pain, when I serve, it resides... like a reminder, to serve the less fortunate."

Trust in His Provisions. To provide for his provisions.

I pray for happiness, and peace. Amen.

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

This is ME. And?

"I believe life’s too short not to try things out, and I don't like to be dependent on much else than God. Loves movies, especially foreign ones - as they’re different from run-of-the-mill Hollywood. A very people person who appreciates books, cuisines, music, cars (manuals please!) and the great outdoors."

A different host of Cs –
Cooks, has Character, Charitable, Compassionate, Courteous, Cars-and-outdoors lover, Christ-like, willing to Coach and be Coachable, possesses Clarity of thoughts and plans, ability to Commence and Carry through. Too perfect?

Saturday, July 02, 2005

LoveEastTimor

Dear Heavenly Father...

I put East Timor into your hands... as they struggle to stand up on their feet Lord, the youngest country in Asia. I pray against corruption, I pray against greed, against poverty, diseases, and idols. I pray for prosperity for the many families. And PEACE to come. And they shall experience Your goodness thru us, My Lord.

That the little children would grow to know peace in their homelands, in their villages, grow educationally, spiritually, in hope and gratitude to You.

Lord, I pray all of these in your name. Thank you.

Amen.

MY LOVES...

I saw ppl playing music at Marine Cove. As they strummed, something in me stirred. Leaning against, admiring their strength, and their will to do something they like. I wish I had that in me. Being able to fulfill that. Rem Ed said he was going for an audition when he was still in law. I guess tt dream had been let off?

Sing.

Baby, you’ve been going so crazy
Lately nothing seems to be going right
Solo, why do you have to get so low
You’re so...
You’ve been waiting in the sun too long
But if you sing, sing, sing, sing, sing
For the love you bring won’t mean a thing
Unless you sing, sing, sing
Colder, crying on your shoulder
Hold her, and tell her everything’s gonna be fine
Surely, you’ve been going too early
Hurry ’cos no-one’s gonna be stopped
Na na na
But if you sing, sing, sing, sing sing
For the love you bring won’t mean a thing
Unless you sing, sing, sing
Baby, there’s something going on today
But I say nothing, nothing, nothing
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing
Track written by fran healy

AND FILMS... another love of mine. KEWL. Totally. HAHA. Should save up and start doing my own short films. A sony digital. An apple Imovie.

Photography too. Good photos tell a story. :)