Cute little role model!
１普天下当向耶和华欢呼。
２你们当乐意事奉耶和华，当来向他歌唱。
３你们当晓得耶和华是 神；我们是他造的，也是属他的；我们是他的民，也是他草场的羊。
４当称谢进入他的门，当赞美进入他的院；当感谢他，称颂他的名。
５因为耶和华本为善，他的慈爱存到永远，他的信实直到万代。
- Psalm 100
Oh my gosh…
I cant even memorize any books from the Bible…
Feeling guilty, but motivated!
Thanks dawn dawn for reminding us to listen to God’s words everday :)
What is love? (Kids Version)
A group of 4 to 8 year-olds were asked the question, “What does love mean?”
Their answers were so adorable, so pure, and in some ways – so true.
Some of my favourite answers…
“When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.” Karen – age 7
“I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.” Lauren – age 4 (haha seriously! i used to have to steal my sister’s clothes to wear, maybe that means she doesn’t love me :( )
“Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.” Mary Ann – age 4
“Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.” Chris – age 7 (i don’t say that to Gordon… but he will say it himself. muahaha)
“Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.” Elaine-age 5 (love cannot be effectively communicated by words, but more so by actions)
“Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.” Tommy – age 6 :)
“Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.” Noelle – age 7
“Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss” Emily – age 8
“Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.” Chrissy – age 6
“Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.” Karl – age 5
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.” Billy – age 4
Reductionism – We know how things work, but not why.
Im currently glued to this book by Philip Yancey called “A Skeptics’s guide to Faith” & am absolutely loving it.
Someone told me that Philip Yancey isnt a particularly mezmerizing speaker in person, but he sure knows how to write a book. I’m practically stumbling on meaningful takeaways every other page in this book!
Here’re some of my favourite paraphrases/ quotes from Chap 1 – Life in Part.
Endless Invention, Endless Experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness…
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
– T.S. Eliot
I think this really hits home. The spirit of our age has the unfortunate effect of reducing things. Science offers a map of the world, something like a topogaphical map, with colors marking the vegetation zones and squiggly lines tracing contours of cliffs and hills. Yet no map of 2D or 3D can give the full picture. And no map can possibly capture the true majesty of the mountains. Encounter trumps reduction.
Einstein remarked that the modern age has the perfect means but confused ends. Physicists have reduced matter to subatomic particles and software engineers have reduced most of what we know about the world to bits of information. We know how things work, but not why.
The reducer’s approach allows no place for an invisible world. It takes for granted that the world of matter is the sum total of existence. We can measure and photograph and catalog it, we can use nuclear accelerators to break it down to its smallest particles. Looking at the parts, we judge them as the whole of reality.
But… an invisible God cannot be examined or tested… God cannot be quantified or reduced. As a result, many people in societies advanced in technology go about their daily lives assuming God does not exist. They stop short at the world that can be reduced… Materialists mistake what limits life for life itself.
And I shall end off with a parable which I feel, quite aptly depicts many of us living in this modern day and age…
Soren Kierkegaard told a parable about a rich man riding in a lighted carriage driven by a peasant who sat behind the horse in the cold and dark outside. Precisely because he sat near the artificial light inside, the rich man missed the panorama of stars outside, a view gloriously manifest to the peasant. In modern times, it seems, as science casts more light on the created world, its shadows further obscure the invisible world beyond.
I’ll probably be taking note of my favourites as i go through each chapter, but would highly recommend this book to anyone who lives outside of belief, or who’s interested in finding out how to confront the questions from the stance of a skeptic. This is really a good read & I hope i can finish it before my work kicks in proper and starts eating into my weekends!
Paul’s Hardships
2 Corinthians 6
3We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. 4Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; 5in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; 6in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; 7in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; 8through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; 9known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; 10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
Junnebug finds comfort in His Words.
Friendship
“你为友情施肥了吗?”
好朋友固然不讲回报，不应该计较，但好朋友也该懂得珍惜对方。
好朋友固然不必天天联络，但也该让对方有安全感，让他知道无论发生什么事，你都会挺他。就像双人木筏。
如果只有一方拼命地划，而另一方坐享其成，到最后，用力的那个或许会把划桨丢在地上，然后大喊：‘我不干了！’，掉头就走。大家都知道爱情需要细心经营。
可是有时我们却会忘记，我们也应该给予友情一定的呵护。
这个世界，没有理所当然。Quote of the day from DJ Kay.
After 10 years of friendship. 1 of my friends – whom i’ve always regarded as one of my bestest girlfriends – seemed to give up trying to make it work. Was it because of that misunderstanding? Was it because you have moved on to a new exciting phase of your life? Or was it because of… well, just me? Whatever it was – there was no communication, no explanations, not even a sound from your end. I tried. But somehow, I had an inertia to try too too hard - I felt we both have some responsibilites to bear. Sadly, when i did get through to her those few times, I sense the awkwardness, the reservations, the…slight tinge of hostility. Which put me off on top of my weariness from trying.
I hope im imagining things. But I am so tired of the silence. I am scarred from the brunt of your other half, but you dont seem to even bother to talk to me about it, or comfort me in any way. I am emotionally burdened from keeping this up – like nothing has happened, like time will make everything go away. Like hell it would. No – Time does not heal ALL wounds. Anyway, if this is your decision to stay this way, I wish you both all the best. I think I need to let go and move on from here.
Sigh.
NONETHELESS.
I thank God for my other girlfriends who put a smile back on my face. :)
Especially you, who weathered storms with me, and gone through periods with little contact, but emerging as close as ever all the same. Growing up together. Going crazy together. Bitching about life together (oops! mild harmless bitching only! :p) Suppers. Drinks. Confiding in each other. You who are always on standby for me.
If you’re one of them – You know who you are. :)
Thanks for sticking by me.
“Life in Singapore”
In Singapore , the majority of us live in Highly Dangerous Buildings (HDB), and most people have already got used to Paying and Paying (PAP). Not only do you have to pay, you Pay Until Bankrupt (PUB). If that’s not enough, somebody still Purposely Wants to Dig (PWD)and get more from you.
So what more can you do when you are in the Money Only Environment (MOE)?
With the current Mad Accounting System (MAS), you are forced to
Pay the Sum Ahead (PSA),Which will leave some people Permanently Owing Some Banks (POSB). And forced to live on the Loan Techniques Always (LTA) system.When you fall sick and happen to be admitted to a Money Operating Hospital (MOH), You might be able to use your Cash Prior to Funeral (CPF)fund. If you are out of luck, y ou may meet doctors who Never Use Heart (NUH) to treat you, and you will be Sure to Give up Hope (SGH).
To help ease the traffic, motorists have to pay Cash On Expressway (COE). If that doesn’t help, they can always Eternally Raise Prices (ERP)on the roads. If you don’t own a car, you can always make a Mad Rush to the Train (MRT), OR get squashed in a bus Side By Side (SBS).
Lastly, under all these pressures, there are not many places we can relax, not even the good old place we used to go because it has become So Expensive and Nothing To See Actually (SENTOSA)!!!
The howling winds at 23:54
That was the wind blewing out at the window
The way it blows every night
The howling gets louder and louder
Until it gets tired alright.
I forgot how it used to be breezy
lately i often get windswept
Its meaning and purpose all awry
It sometimes make me feel like crap.
With its all mighty stance all around me
I cant do much but whimper
like its blaming me for something
something i cant seem to discover
If only i can catch it in a bottle
tame down the winds a little
maybe it’ll stop and listen
maybe it’ll understand how i feel
Then, maybe the winds will change
to the way it used to be
where the breezes collide & frolick
where it whisper sweet nothings to the trees.
To you.
And to me.
若。
若我身旁的人在受苦， 而我竟不觉察，
因为敏感之灵不在我里面，
那我就还是丝毫不懂加略山的爱。
若在我对祂的奉献里面还有任何保留的余地，
就是对那位如此爱我甚至把祂最爱的赐给我；
若在我的祷告里面怀有一个私下的 ：
[只是 --- 主，什么都可以，只是不要那个。。。]
那我就还是丝毫不懂加略山的爱。
若我说：[我愿意饶恕，可是我不能忘记，]
似乎神 — 那位每日两次把全世界所有的海滩上
所有的沙洗净的神, 不能把那些恨的回忆从我脑海洗去;
那我就 真的， 似乎丝毫不懂加略山的爱。
♥
受难节主日从拜 2009 短文默想
Good game.
WHOS TAGGED: GORDON/ HUIXIAN/ LILING/ SHUWEI/ JIEYING/ AURIE/ RU/ WHOEVER ELSE IS INTERESTED TO GIVE THIS A GO. MAKE A COMMENT WITH THE ANSWERS SO I CAN READ THEM TOO! HEE.
Rules:
Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions.
They have to be real…nothing made up!
You cannot use any word twice and you can’t use your name for the boy/girl name question.
1. What is your name : Junne
2. A four Letter Word : Jazz
3. A boy’s Name : Jun Heng
4. A girl’s Name : Jie ying
5. An occupation : Judge
6. A color : Jade
7. Something you’ll wear : Jeans
9. A food : Junk (is this counted? if not, Jco donuts)
10. Something found in the bathroom: Johnsons baby bath (whoa this was tough)
11. A place : Jerusalem
12. A reason for being late : Just because i love to roll around in bed.
13. Something you’d shout : Jeez!
14. A movie title : Jesus of Nazareth/ Joan of Arc/ Jeepers Creepers/ Jaws
15. Something you drink: Jamba Juice!
16. A musical group : Jars of clay (oh gosh this is so my generation. haha)
(btw, i wiki-ed the band and guess what i found! The band’s name is derived from the NIV Bible translation of 2 Corinthians 4:7 :)
| “ | But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. |
17. An animal : Jack Rabbit
18. A street name : Jubilee Road!
19. A type of car : Jaguar
20. The title of a song : Just A Girl – No doubt
Quote of the day 26/9/08
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime… and too sleepy to worry at night.
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