I am blessed indeed
Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find;
knock,and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Matthew 7: 7-8
Good advice this is. Even better is that it came from the Lord himself:)
Yesterday started off, continued, and ended delightfully:) Coordinating was a joy even tho i started off apprehensive. I mean, 25 plus kids is really something. Even with an assistant it's a big number to look after, and all boys too! But i wouldn't have traded the afternoon for anything. It was such a ruffly adventure and all the smiling that went on left me with a pleasant cheek-ache. Kids can be so funny. I discovered that they were pretty awful at guessing games with one boy asking if i was 48 and another whether i was 12! i doubt they were serious however, with the majority guessing within the 18-21 age bracket but i left them guessing themselves silly while i served toast:D the conversations spilled everywhere and to repeat them here would do them no justice, but that was an example i couldn't pass up. I felt younger but wiser after such an episode if that even makes sense, lol.
After that shift, i went out with Manda, Ellen & Marianne for dinner and bowling at AMF Westpoint. By the time our 3 games ended it was well past midnight so we drove to Homebush Olympic bay and settled in a deserted ferry wharf for some reflective chit chat. It was a sublime finale to farewell one day and begin another:D
And while I'm on the subject of impromptu outings, today mum called at like midday and asked: 'hey want to have buffet with us?'
[me] 'err ok'
[mum] 'right, wait outside and we'll be there in 2 minutes'
[me] ??!!!
The occasion was admittedly well justified seeing it was my baby brother's 13th birthday, but i was only starting to ungroggify myself when she gave me that 2 minutes notice so it started me like a hot shot. Tho dinner tonight will be probably be a relatively short affair thanks to all the nice buffet we had hehe. funny thing was that my other bro went to a mate's birthday bowling party instead of lunchin' with us, at the same place i went to last night! i was so tickled when i heard that. Anyway the good news doesn't end there -
I received an email today from a christian friend in HK who visited my grandparents this Wed and spent 2 days with them and the news is encouraging:) He wrote that he learnt a lot from them and was given opportunities to relate things to God. Plus he left them with 2 New Testament bibles which is something amazing. Now we pray they'll read it -and understand. I'm very blessed to have a role in linking God to people through my life but i need to be more active in the linking part. Now that the relationship between mother and me is improving i hope to use every opportunity to do what i can. It's hard but I won't forget to keep doing the 3 things Jesus advised:
Asking,
Seeking and
Knocking.
P.S. This is a practical and affirming quote i got today.. note the verbs in particular:
If you want to see God's power at work, you must get out of the church and into the world. Watch the extravagant lengths which God will go to reveal Himself to people who don't know Him. Then you will learn how truly awesome our God is -- Anon
Haircut = delighted
Getting a haircut feels beautiful. Am all ready for summer now:)
Dunno about tomorrow tho. Fridays are always interesting bcoz it's the one day -so far- I get regular shifts.
And no two days at work are
ever the same:D
quotes - friendship
I really like this weather. It's very wet and organic and bug-warding. It's ripe and laden with potential positives. It is simply, that melodious prelude to a deliciously hot summer that i'm sure i'll love to loathe well before it finishes:D
Now today:
* missed a tute:( I'll pay for that one.
** revisited ex-workplace and had a nice mini-reunion (don't you just love the word mini- in prefix form? it can be so charming in this diminutive function) with manager and old faces.
*** did a spot of shopping. I've just been scouring one such item of purchase, a little
'Friends: Book of quotations' i got from Basement Books (my word is that place a treasure trove xx) and here are some quotes which i'll share for your musing pleasure:
::A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. Fr. Jerome Cummings:: -> ::Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light. Albert Schweitzer:: ->
::When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Edward W. Howe:: -> ::It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. Epicurus:: -> ::The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry D. Thoreau:: ->.. and my personal favourite ..
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born -- Anais Nin
not sinking in
I can't believe that Steve Irwin has died. Just like that. It's one of those things you get so use to, that a particular person will always be around and you never think that death could be so close. He seemed so larger than life.. what a loss.
Only one other really famous death has struck me in a similar sort of way; where the news just hits you, makes you stop 'n' utter some unintelligible expletive by way of expressing the couplet of disbelief/shock, and that death was Princess Diana's. It's a bit incomparable really. But aside from all that promotional work for the environment, Australia, endangered animals, etc that he did, it comes down to himself as a character that will be most missed. If anyone embodied that fair dinkum Aussie spirit, he'd come to mind immediately. So this is my sort of eulogy to the 'crikey' man. You'll be missed.
Thankful like you won't believe
Yesterday was drama plus -_-' I never anticipated so much could have happen'd in the space of a few short hours, but of course - things never turn out the way you expect them to. I took the afternoon care shift at an all-boys primary school thinking it'd be a breeze~~ which was the way it started off. Then, all at once, something did happen. A boy fell out of a tree and he was screaming hysterically that he'd broken his arm.
Time moved on and I won't exhaust you with all the first aid details that went on but let me assure you he'll be fine. As i look back on the incident, I have never felt so thankful to God for his presence in everything. In a rare glimpse through nursing, i felt like i'd been given a special privilege. So thank You God for everything words have not revealed on this page that meant so much; for You.
Now :: allow me to digress and point you to a lovely -true- story that moved me deeply =>
http://www.positivethoughts.com/untiring.htm [read it asap] *edit* ..and this one too ::
http://www.positivethoughts.com/fatherseyes.htm xx
