Next chapter of life

In conjunction with Cassandra’s comment on my previous blog, I have to write this blog. I have to say that I felt really ashamed that I was being so faithless in God. I mean I was like a ship toasted in the ocean, waving back and forth without really holding on to Jesus as my Savior and Anchor. But I did understand as well that life as a Christian is not always easy and smooth; it is bound to have ups and downs. Therefore, during those times when I was going through the valley of life, I chose to
blog too instead of covering it up and only blog about the nice things in life. And I would say that I am really glad that God helped me out and up again!! He led me out of the depression mode and filled my heart with joy. Though I am sure that I will not always be in this joyful season of my life, but I hope that I will learn to trust in God’s faithfulness, presence and love for me and not to be led by my emotions and feelings.

Recently I felt in love with going to church, going to meet God and his people. Even like I am heading to Florida tomorrow for Disney World (yes, I am), I feel kinda dilemma because I will miss going to church this weekend and also International OCR (an event where our church welcomes incoming international students to our campus).

I am currently living in my friend’s apartment living room because I am supposed to move in my new place on 24th August, so am temporarily homeless (well, I am already used to the feeling of homelessness and my next house is gonna be my 4th house in these 8 months.)

I had been pretty busy lately with attending church meetings, renovating my new church building, helping people to move out, working out and stuffs. That’s why I have been sleeping for 12-14 hours per day for almost a week. I really passed out. It is quite impressive right? ^^ So, I learnt how to speckle, sand, wash and paint the walls, wash brushes (got special technique one! XP), and so on! It was really a nice experience! Next time I can renovate my own house =).it’s a pure joy to see the transformation of the building; from ugly walls to like white washed walls after u speckle, primer, and paint them; they look really, really fabulous! And you know that u took part in doing that! That’s why even though I was really tired, I still chose to go to help renovating the church!

Also, I was working out for about 40 minutes per day, running or swimming, or sometimes both. There is a ministry in my church called “finishing line” where we will gather to run together with other Christians. So I was running with 2 “slave drivers” called loo soon yi and bobby. These two guys literally used all techniques to “drive” me to run without stopping; conning me with water or pleasant mental images such as cold cup of fruit juice, words of encouragement, challenges, etc. It was nice. I know that my stamina and perseverance really improved. Trainings that I thought were too much or impossible were accomplish much easier now (like running for 3.5 miles). It I really thank God for this opportunity to train myself physically; he placed people around me to help me work out so that I wouldn’t be too fat, too lazy, and too unhealthy. My heavenly dad is so good!!!

Arh it’s so late now, guess I am gonna get going to do my QT and sleep!

Oh ya, I wanna thank God also for my LCG partner Sarah too! (LCG is a group where u partner up with another person to keep each other accountable in spiritual life) She is such a good counselor and encourager to me! Sarah is a Korean girl from Malaysia, but I like to tease her that she is a Malaysian girl from Korea. Whatever it is, these people are really God-sent messengers to pick me up running the race of faith again! God is faithful! Even when I don’t see it, he is. Oh ya, I have successfully rented out two of my rooms!! I really thank God for providing people! If he doesn’t help, I have to pay $1800 for the lost! And I just have to say that God is faithful, he has the perfect timing, and he is great and cool! Yay!!

It's gonna be a next chapter of life as the new school year kicks off on sept 1, where I will be having most of my classes in the school of engineering (yes, i am admitted this Fall as a engineering student!). I will be traveling by bus to school, and my new house will gonna be in a living room with two other graduate students in the rooms. slowly, most of the international friends would be coming back from their respective countries!

I am excited now for the new year! =)