Anyone wanna go to Kuching? The best city in the WORLD! 
Come and stay for free where my sister works, she will flash you her wide smile and give you the best service!
Click through to check on room availability. I’ve checked the few days prior to Merdeka is actually available, then you can move on to Tune hotel after haha. The hotel is right next to some malls, waterfront etc. so it’s great location.
This morning, my pastor was supposed to teach us some leadership course, but he changed his plans when we came in and spoke to us what I think God told him to speak to us about. What he shared led me to reflect on my first love.
Basically, he shared with us about the reasons why we are serving, what kind of answers to the question WHY can we give right now when people ask us why we serve in church, at work etc compared to maybe ten years ago when we first started serving. Most probably when we first started serving, we were excited, because we were so in love with Jesus and we wanted to do it all for Him. But many years down the line, under lots of pressure, many disappointments, are we still doing it out of love, or just because some expected us to, or just because it’s a job, or just because we have no choice, or just because no one else would do it? What is the first thing that comes to mind? Well, my pastor said, if it’s for one of those ‘just becauses’ above, then we are definitely backsliding, or losing this first love we had with Jesus. It takes a lot to maintain it.
Well, as he was talking, my mind drifted to the first time I said YES to Jesus. And that was a loooong time ago, when I was no more than 9 years old. I was in ITS, an English tuition school in Kuching, we were all ushered out of our classes and gathered in the main hall, as our teachers told us we had some guests. Turned out, the crew from Doulos had come to visit us and wanted to perform for us. I guess I can never forget that day, as one of the crew, a lady shared about love. Her first love, and how simple it is we can have it too. Being 9, it is so easy to trust what someone else said. She told about how she changed, how her life changed being on Doulos, and how just simply asking Jesus to come into her heart, things changed. I guess I was a miserable 9 year old, I wanted CHANGE. So, sitting on the floor, in my heart I prayed and asked Jesus into my life. When all the performances were over, we were all given a New Testament bible and some freshly baked bread. The day I met my first love who came and never left.
Snapping out of the past to today, I can only say God is faithful and keep to His words. However, sadly Doulos is no more. The last time I was on the ship was probably more than 10 years ago back in high school, I will miss it, I am sure many met Jesus on the ship and through the life of the many crew members.
As I was putting Josiah to sleep last night, this word TRUST came to my thoughts. How a baby born into this world, completely puts his trust in his parents, in his caretakers. He cannot defend himself, he cannot decide what is right or wrong, what food to eat, when to go to bed, when to take a bath. He just puts his trust in you to do all these for him, and know that you are doing the best for him. Complete TRUST. He knows you are there to catch him when he falls, that when you play with him and throw him into the air, you will definitely catch him again and give him the best beary cuddle. He laughs and chuckles without a care in the world, coz he completely trusts you as his security. When it’s raining and the thunder roars, he puts his arm around you trusting you will make it go away. When he falls and hurts himself, he trust that you will run to him and put your arms around him and kiss the pain away.
Our babies trust us so completely. They do not question why we do what we do, of coz, except later years of toddlerhood when great curiousity creeps in. This just led me to think of God and Jesus. God the father TRUSTed us, the human kind so much, that He send Jesus to become a man in this world, that He sent Jesus in the form of all things, a fragile little baby. A baby who could not do anything for Himself, but had to depend and trust 100% on Mary, His mother, in His growing up years. Jesus, who is God, was 100% man and 100% God. But as 100% man, he was born just like us, crying, needing to nurse, needing milk, needing the mother’s secure cuddle, needing to be pacified, needing love from the parents, needing all that Mary can give Him to make Him grow up healthy and strong. I’m sure Jesus had to go through what every baby went through, from lying around helpless, to rolling over, to lifting His head, to crawling, to His first step. I’m sure He did not just came out of the womb and started preaching. I am just amazed at how God Himself was willing to come to the world to become the most fragile little human being, to put ALL HIS TRUST in us to care for Him in order that He may fulfill the purpose and plans of bringing us back to HIMSELF.
And yet, at this moment in our lives, sometimes we don’t even trust God, we don’t even trust that He will take care of all our problems, we don’t even ask Him when we need answers, we don’t even trust that He is in control. We need to be reminded again and again, to TRUST in Him, to consecrate our lives before Him, to surrender to His plans, yet we are constantly frustrated when things don’t go according to what we planned. To trust God is to ask Him to run our lives. We put our trust in everything we can see but Him, we trust our money, sure, we trust our boss, we trust our friends, we trust our doctors, but do we trust our GOD? Our God who trusts us with Jesus? Our God who is completely trustworthy? For so much trust that He has put in me, I am going to trust Him back. It is gonna be a lifelong lesson, a lifelong journey, but this is an action, to trust HIM, which gotta start today.
Blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is.
Jeremiah 17: 7
On our last flight that landed in KLIA from Kuching last month, I had a chance to visit the mother’s room which was just at the terminal that we exited.
It is actually one of those ‘toilet looking’ mother’s room, but it’s pretty neat at the same time. In it, there’s a diaper changing area that you can ‘lock’ you baby in, coz it’s like a metal crib.
The colour theme is mostly pink, and there’s a cute pink bench for other parents to wait, if any. Or for nursing mothers to use as well…
So anyways, it’s good that our KLIA airport has a nice room dedicated for mothers. There is really none in Sibu… :O
The toilet is in an adjacent room, and it’s the coolest part. There’s an adult toilet seat, and a toddler toilet seat in there, and then there’s actually a baby chair. I can imagine this would be quite useful if you don’t have a stroller, and need some place to ‘hold’ your baby while you do your business for a while. The only prob is that baby might be traumatised having to see you do your business face to face hehe.
The water taps all have hot and cold water, so it’s pretty convenient in case you need hot water, either to wash that baby’s butt or just to make some milk? Not sure if it’s good enough for that though.
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