As the new year just started…as usual I start to reflect back on last year and what I want to see in 2007. Many many things happened last year, good and bad…but as I look back, I can’t help but be amazed at how God works. Humanly speaking, we are very much affected by situations, feelings, current issues, but God knows the beginning and the end, and sometimes, until we reach the end can we only see why certain things happen in the beginning.
Anyways, I still slap myself awake to believe the blessings and providence God had brought to my life. Last year was the year I got engaged, when my fiance bought a house, when I got offered a ‘full-time job’ and well, went full time at church, when my responsibilities in ministry and work increased, (that’s supposed to be a good thing :P), when I went to Hillsong Conference! (can’t get over that!), when I went back to Kuching to witness the wedding of my best friend and had great fun with my family, when I passed my driver’s license, and finally 2 weeks ago, when I got a new car! There’s so many more things though….
It seems hard to digest how God has blessed so much in these things…stuffs that I can’t possibly afford if I look at my finances, yet it’s all there now. I know this year is going to be even more amazing…let’s just see what will happen. As for some hard stuff that happened last year, well there was the time I had to talk to my parents about me not going back to Kuching to settle, that was real hard. It felt like breaking my mum’s heart, but I just had to do it. I think it’s about a year already, and the reality had sunk in for her and she’s already accepted the fact. I also had to do lots of growing up quickly, I knew I was been tested in so many things, especially patience…even right now.
Well, I guess one of my resolutions is to be able to grow more in Christ, to pray more, to spend more time reading the Bible and meditating on it. Coz I believe, there’s nothing like it, everything that happened around us seems tied to how much we know Him and how deep the relationship with Him is, even our response to circumstances and people.
And of course I really need to finish my thesis! And write more letters back home. And drive more like a pro 😛 Watch less TV, read more books. At the moment I’m reading 3 books at one go! 2 biography books and 1 fictional…. I would love to finish at least 1 a month, books that help me to grow spiritually, skillwise etc.
And I should really blog more? Well, maybe. And one thing I hold close to my heart, is to sponsor another Worldvision child. Currently me and John sponsor a Cambodian girl called Theary. It’s always an exciting thing to receive letters from her and write to her. I gotta get my finances stabled and look into this soon. I got really broke after all the Christmas shopping. I know it’s so commercialised to be giving gifts all, but I believe people feel really appreciated and blessed and loved when they receive gifts…after all it’s one of the love languages. So it’s still a great thing to do.
Alrite, may God bless all of you this 2007 with much abundance!