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Yuwen’s play

Late at night in school doing project!

HAHA baby chew stolen photo. he’s not digging his nose by the way, he’s just putting his finger there.

the semesters seem to fly by faster and faster. sometimes it would be nice if  i could press pause, play, fastforward as i wish.

jer6:16

You will find rest for your soul.

21

So much to be thankful for…

zzz

keep steady, one thing at a time, accomplish all.

but i’m so sleepy.

*snores

gratitude

1. glad that I am freed from a worldly perspective, and that I know God.
2. glad that I’m tired-happy, it’s been really busy but great.
3. glad that I have good english friends to go through the semesters with. don’t think they’ll read this, but truly, they’re a rare find.
4. glad that I turned 21 during the week. all the birthday wishes and messages were really sweet and I’m thankful for friends who remember.
5. whenever I’m feeling slightly stressed or bored (think I mentioned this before), I’ll do something to my hair. and so today after school I went to colour it again! somehow it makes you feel different.
6. I think the word I’m looking for is gratitude.

perspective.

Certain things you remember…

hope for the things unseen.

maybe it’s just me.

tired. my saturday is gone just like that, came back around 10 plus and instead of doing some intensive studying for next week’s midterms which i really ought to be mugging for, i went to email a friend. a good friend i’ve not talked to properly for awhile and really regret so. and then i went to read the letters that she wrote to me when we were younger and then memories of the past and bethany 2  flooded my mind and i really don’t know why but i felt so sad. can’t pinpoint the feeling but i think i roughly know why… i really miss things, but not that i would give everything to go back to how things were, i love the present, but i keep wondering how it would be like if she had stayed here.

i should do a trip where i just travel around the places i want to go far away and clear my head and realign my thoughts. not that i’m messed up, just slightly messy. but obviously i’m stuck here in my room with assignments waiting for me to complete them so … life goes on.

today pastor mitch talked about an all-consuming principle that the apostle Paul practised in his life. my ears perked up because i had written the same word – consume – in my last post. determining to let the right things consume me.

am so proud of my daddy. even though he was so stressed, he spoke so well for his testimony thing, albeit slow, but he says he was allowing time for the translators to translate for the older folks. funny. thank God for family.

don’t know if this is quite mad a task but i also am quite motivated to learn Greek. no surprise by whom. but how? when? i have no time. at least not now. ):

morale of the story is… unless you have a strong heart and can throw things away easily, don’t pack your room until you’re ready to face things which have changed and sometimes no longer exist. maybe it’s just me.

an eternal hope

2 Corinthians 4:7-10 was something I really needed… and as I continued reading, verses 16-18 really just hit home.

we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

at the end of the day, i really have got to let the right things consume me. excited for the things to come (many things in church as usual, but one bigger and also new thing that some of us have not done before), and at the same time i cannot ignore the mounting pile of things related to school. i know i shouldn’t keep both spheres separate though, that wouldn’t feel right. both should complement each other, the first should help the second, so that i grow in knowledge, strength, wisdom, and ultimately so that i will draw nearer to the Lord.

my Vision

take me over when I’m gone
take me over make me strong
take me over when I’m gone
will they burn for me

without Him I would be broken.

Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.

great is Thy faithfulness.

I really like this verse…amazing how God’s Word is so apt… always relevant at every point of our lives. (on a totally random note (which also means cue to ignore): i’m sure this is completely nothing to do with ‘kairos’ but HAHA just to get that out of my head)

Thus says the LORD:

“ Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls…”

Jeremiah 6:16

The last sentence is not nice though. (that’s why it’s …)

Finding rest in the Lord’s Word and just reading it is something that I need to do more. Sometimes if you don’t do those things, your mind, heart and spirit really goes haywire rushing about life and doing everything else except focusing on the things that truly matter. And then you become so tired out, all because… you didn’t turn to the source of joy, comfort, spiritual rest in the first place. But when you do, your soul is really lifted up!

Something so basic, yet still a struggle to consciously practise. Something I experienced in the week. (the stupid cramps contributed to the physical tiredness)

one more day of school! and looking forward to the weekend (: