I heard that the reason you give Ang Pao when you're married is because you got them when you were young so it's your turn to bless the younger generation (or pay your dues depending on how you see it)
So.... if I've never gotten Ang Pao during Chinese New Year do I have to give them in the future? Haha
We're entering the Year of the Rat... after reading Garrett's blog it hits me that the we the '84 babies are turning the full 12-year cycle... Daniel Tay, Weihao, Peck Lian own up to your age...! =)
Seriously, it's kinda funny to turn 24... when you're 13, 18 seems ages away and mid-20s are like ancient dinosaurs... when you turn 18 you're glad not yet in your 20s... but the truth is each age and season has its beauty and its lessons learnt... so, this means I need to (and will) embrace 2008 with whatever it brings.
Ecclesiastes says there is a time for everything... a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace...
If I made my own saying I'd probably say a time to eat and a time to fast, a time to work and a time to sleep, a time to take the MRT and a time to cab... haha
Time to grow up.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
LOVE
For some reasons God has been putting in my heart to read the love chapter at the beginning of this year. It's interesting how one of my favorite passages in the Bible (that I've read like a gazillion times) can be so fresh and new. Isn't the Bible amazing?
1 Corinthians 13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. LOVE NEVER FAILS.
But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Loving at a God level in 2008.
1 Corinthians 13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. LOVE NEVER FAILS.
But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Loving at a God level in 2008.
...Except for Elmo
... okay this picture has been transferring from blog to blog so it might as well come on to mine... haha...
Hmm... I wonder what he'll look like at the end of 2008... haha
Hmm... I wonder what he'll look like at the end of 2008... haha
A Great Year to Come!
The year is rolling along well... most people have started school except the fanciful people from NUS. Ignite Conference is coming up soon too which means Chinese New Year is coming then Easter then Red Rain and half the year will be gone again.
But before we get there, i just need to say that 2007 passed so quickly and yet, on the contrary, it seems like so many things have happened such that everything has just turned up-side down in a few short months. Seems almost unbelievable that last year at this time I was still sitting at a beachwood desk in Novena Square selling moisturizers haha. As some good friends in the admin office would say it seems like we have worked together and known each other for 6 years not 6 months. =)
And yet, 2008 is gonna be better!
I can feel the difference already... The Beginnings of Leadership.
Luke 2:52
"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men."
This is a year where we will lay the foundations for a church of 3,000 by 2010.
This is a year where new leaders will begin to rise up and take their place as a generation that is competent and successful, pure and holy, radical, passionate, loving people with selfless faith captivated by a vision to build the church and the vision, their vision, together with pastors.
This is a year where we will increase in stature and favour with God and men.
The prayer of my heart as these things come to pass is an increase in wisdom and love and faith for myself and for the church. As we stand on the shoulders of what was built in 2007, no one's gonna stop this year from being great!
But before we get there, i just need to say that 2007 passed so quickly and yet, on the contrary, it seems like so many things have happened such that everything has just turned up-side down in a few short months. Seems almost unbelievable that last year at this time I was still sitting at a beachwood desk in Novena Square selling moisturizers haha. As some good friends in the admin office would say it seems like we have worked together and known each other for 6 years not 6 months. =)
And yet, 2008 is gonna be better!
I can feel the difference already... The Beginnings of Leadership.
Luke 2:52
"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men."
This is a year where we will lay the foundations for a church of 3,000 by 2010.
This is a year where new leaders will begin to rise up and take their place as a generation that is competent and successful, pure and holy, radical, passionate, loving people with selfless faith captivated by a vision to build the church and the vision, their vision, together with pastors.
This is a year where we will increase in stature and favour with God and men.
The prayer of my heart as these things come to pass is an increase in wisdom and love and faith for myself and for the church. As we stand on the shoulders of what was built in 2007, no one's gonna stop this year from being great!
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