Thursday

The simple joys of life...

...of seeing my laundry hanging up to dry...

...which I so often take for granted....

Hey, I'm admiring the colours, ok... And the anticipation of wearing 'em - those clean, sanitized clothes, smelling of anti-bacterial detergent. Hehe.

Anyway....

I went for a missions-team meeting at school this morning, then Kevin, Vanessa, Joseph, Dong Hoon and I went for lunch together at Prima Tanjung. A very meaningful morning, I felt. We worshipped God, Kevin (our team leader) taught us a very encouraging game which I will elaborate a lil' more later, talked about our progresses in preparing for the mission trip and prayed a while - before we adjourned for lunch.

The game that Kevin taught us was simple. We all were given a piece of paper each, on which you had to write your name. Then, everyone's paper was passed around (in a circle) to all the team members, so when it arrived back in your hand, all your team members would have written on it. And what are you supposed to write on another's paper? Well, something good and true you've observed of that person, which you feel would encourage him or her.

Reminds me of Philippians 4:8, one of my favourite verses in the Bible - 'Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think of such things.'

Amazing game, huh? I am so gonna paste my piece of paper in my journal. (Call me sentimental or whatever.)

I've been through many challenging days this year, but thank God - last year's were even more terrible.

A snippet from 9/7/2008's journal entry (a year ago) read:

'Today... Most of my friends would have left Penang. Many of them I'll only probably meet again in heaven. Some of them I'll probably bump into once in a while. And yet some, I might never see ever again. How sad. I need to be more diligent... Family's gone back to KL. I'm getting a little homesick lately. Don't know why... Penang is home... but I'm pretty much alone here..."Today, I'm thankful that many things have changed. No doubt, there are times I am still pretty alone in many things, and each day brings something that keeps me broken before the Lord. But I am grateful, coz I can 'taste and see that God is good'.

What is the meaning of life if we do not know the Giver of it?
What is the meaning of living a life if we do not know the reason we're living it?
What is the joy of living if we have not tasted what is not?