Are you ready for a new year?

It’s 2014 but i’m still feeling like it’s the same.
I started my year well, happy watching fireworks in the hotel room of batam & enjoying the company of my Bestie.
I haven’t got to settle down and write my 2014 new year resolutions like how i did the previous years.
It’s probably about the same as the previous year though.
As for this year, I want to cherish the ones I love.
Time keeps passing faster as the years goes by.
People come and go, but I want to treasure those who are still in my life, those whom I am still able to love.
A year to be thankful,
to be hopeful,
and to have faith for what’s ahead and trusting that everything will be alright at the end of the day.
I read from somewhere that worrying means that you are not having enough faith. I want to worry less this year and have more faith. 🙂
A year of forgiveness- to learn to let go of the hurts in 2013 & move on in life
A year of grace- to receive and to give grace
A year of breakthroughs- to do things I’ve never done before
A year of growth- to learn from the past and be stronger
A year of love- to receive love easily, to love others easily
A year of happiness- to enjoy everything i am doing

At the end of the year, I want to tell myself again “The year was great!”
As for now, let’s move on to a new chapter of life in 2014.
Every year is a chance for you to give yourself a reason to make everything right again,
new hope, new challenges, new things..
Whatever is going to happen this year, embrace it.

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Thank God for always loving me as a perfect father. I guess I would never be where I am right now, without you. All the things that happened, I would not have been able to withstand if not for the love you’ve given to me. You’re the dearest & one I can trust wholly.

Thank you E412 for playing a huge role in my life, I’m thankful for a spiritual family I can grow in. We may have our ups & downs, but I know that God is in the center of us all. Each and everyone of you hold an important place in my heart yea? xoxo

Thank you ex-E412 ppl, those who got transferred out of E412 last year. You have no idea how much I love you guys!! But it’s ok, I will still get to see yall around in church & all.

Thank you little children in my N15 bus, you all made my saturday a very happy one! Although every week you guys may be naughty, I still love you. Grow up loving God yea?

Thanks siminy for being someone I can truly be myself with. 🙂 Though we may have petty fights here and there, know that i love you yea? hehe. We’re like friends for 11 years and still counting..

Thanks Carina for being an awesome companion, love hanging out in cafes and drawing dates w you. We’ve been friends for like 12 years and still counting..

Thanks for Hazimah for being my cutest malay BFF~ For always being so girly and flowery with me! For being my friend and the time spent tgt. 🙂

Thanks to **aka uncle :p, for always being so nice to me & everyone else. The memories will stay as memories, and thoughts will be thoughts. It’s been a good 2 years+, hope you will find happiness in life & I’ll never forget ur kindness. ^^

Some may not even see this or read my word-press/ know its existence, but I just wanna express my thanks..
There are so many ppl whom I am really thankful for, I love every single ppl who made an impact in my life yea! No one is forgotten. Muack muacks! 🙂

fearful women and faithfulness

The enemy doesn’t want these women to be able to run to their heavenly Father and be healed, because they will then live as if the trauma had never occured. therefore, even when it comes to approaching God, the enemy makes them a little uncomfortable when they kneel down and say “Our Father”. That term, Father, doesn’t give them the comfort that it does to others. They are tormented by a memory. They are wrestling with a distrust that aborts their faith and destroys their confidence. “Our Father”, they say. What is that? To them a father may be someone who left and did not return.
her fear of a father may be stopping her from believing God’s Word for her blessing, her healing or her miracle. She needs to know that God can be trusted. She will say that she trusts Him, but under pressure she keeps taking back the thing she has just turned over to Him.
What can she do? She has cries; she has prayed. She lies on the floor like a bird whose broken bird whose broken wing has stopped the flight that should have been. She sings her song from the ground.
His love will restore to her the opportunity with a Father who will not fail.
Love is God’s gift against pain.

From:
Daddy loves His girls
T.D. Jakes

side by side

 

Every morning, is a day of new expectations and new hope. 

It’s another beginning, so I always looked forward to mornings. (provided i get enough sleep)

The day didn’t start out on a good note though, i woke up with the electricity gone..

Couldn’t charge my phone and imagine bathing without lights. Thankfully it was daytime though. Thus, I kinda had a phone-less day today. 

Met up with phyllis and pj at pj’s workplace at chinatown. 

We had a good meal together, basically chatting and catching up. Short but catching up is always a good time. 😀

Dinner at marina square with chiewy’s connect group. 

Fav part was eating ice cream and fellowshipping.. Ice cream never fail to cheer me up. hehe easily satisfied. :))

Once thing that really got me thinking today was 

” One doesn’t have to go through the exact same thing to help another person. All it simply takes is for one to be there for him/her through whatever he/she is facing.”

It’s really true, because in a way, not everyone will face certain trials in life. 

For example if ur friend is suffering due to parent’s divorce, you wouldn’t pray that God let ur parents marriage fail too in order to also feel how he/she is feeling. 

But not because you did not go through that certain trial that your friend is facing means that you cannot be of any help. 

Sometimes, the best help someone can offer is simply being there as a friend. 

Being there for him/her means a lot, because if you genuinely care, there’ll be times when you’ll just know what you can do to help him/her. 

I have been thinking,

about times when i feel really down, especially recently, it really helps to know that i have friends who are by my side and are willing to go through trials with me.

They may not know how i feel or what i am facing, but they are concerned and are by my side. That is really blessed. 🙂

And probably this is what i should do during times when people by me are going through tough times. 

It’s the least now i know that i could be a bit of help, by staying by them and going through it with them. 🙂

Not forgetting that faith element that will move mountains. 

Live by faith and not by sight.

BY FAITH. ( Hebrews 11)

 

What if trials of this life. 

the rain, the storms, the hardest nights

Are your mercies in disguise?

Beauty and Ugliness

 

 

What we perceive is what we believe in.

You may look at some one and say she is ugly,

but others may say that she is beautiful.

 

You may have baked some cookies for the very first time,

and your mum would say that it’s the most delicious cookies she has ever eaten.

 

You may think have a very bad hair day,

but someone thinks that you still look pretty.

 

You may be dressed in your comfortable home clothes,

someone may say you look cute.

 

You may have gotten 50 marks for your exams,

but your teacher told you “well done” just because you have improved by passing your exams.

 

You may have already given up on yourself,

but someone comes along and tells you that He believes in you.

 

You may tell yourself that you can never forgive your parents who failed in doing what they are supposed to do,

and someone comes along and pointed to the cross and said, “I did that to let you know that you are forgiven.”

 

It’s true that beauty and ugliness surrounds us every single day of our lives.

Which side will you choose to look at? 🙂

 

 

The one and only

In my christian walk, i believe i survived on the foundation of love, faith and hope.

The reason behind why I love Jesus is because He first loved me, therefore i will also first love Him.

I know the fact that even if i leave Him, He will never leave me. He is ever so faithful to be there for me, therefore i will continue to be faithful in trusting in Him with all that I have.

I was lost in the wilderness with no directions in life, not knowing what talent i possess and not knowing whom I really was. I was given hope and was reassured when He said in His word that I was loved by Him, and that i was His daughter. If God is for me, Who can be against me? 🙂

“Love is not a fight” is one of my fav songs.

Love is not a place
To come and go as we please
It’s a house we enter in
Then commit to never leave

[ Once we enter the house of God, stay committed and rooted, stop entertaining the thought of leaving. The grass is not greener on the other side. With God, the grass is definitely greener on our side.]

So lock the door behind you
Throw away the key
We’ll work it out together
Let it bring us to our knees
[ Lock the door, throw the key because we’ll never need it. When problems come, we can always work it out together with our spiritual family by simply humbling ourselves in prayer. For when two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them. ]

Chorus:
Love is a shelter in a raging storm
Love is peace in the middle of a war
And if we try to leave, may God send angels to guard the door
No, love is not a fight but it’s something worth fighting for

[ Love covers, even though our darkest times. Even though life around us is chaotic, our hearts are comforted by the peace in our hearts. Peace that surpasses all understanding. ]

To some, love is a word
That they can fall into
But when they’re falling out
Keeping that word is hard to do

Chorus:
Love is a shelter in a raging storm
Love is peace in the middle of a war
And if we try to leave, may God send angels to guard the door
No, love is not a fight but it’s something worth fighting for

Love will come to save us
If we’ll only call
He will ask nothing from us
But demand we give our all

Chorus:
Love is a shelter in a raging storm
Love is peace in the middle of a war
And if we try to leave, may God send angels to guard the door
No, love is not a fight but it’s something worth fighting for

I will fight for you
Would you fight for me?
It’s worth fighting for

[ The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.

He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows.

Surely goodness and loving kindness will follow me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23 ]

Sweetie pies just keep blessing.

There are just so many things going on around me in my life,

that i get a little too busy at times.

During this season, so much emotions i feel are just overwhelming me.

And in this season, i just feel so blessed.

And I really thank the people around me for being such a great blessings that can’t be contained.

I really thank God for placing these people in my life.

July is my birthday month, and i honestly wasn’t expecting much as my heart wasn’t in any condition to celebrate initially.

There were just so much burdens in my heart that i felt it so difficult to be happy.

I experience a feeling worse then a break up between a boyfriend and girlfriend,

having felt the betrayal and all kinds of crap between you and your supposedly best friends.

Is just horrible.

I am serious.

I never knew how much it hurts until i experienced it.

I thought that best friends are the ones whom are supposed to be there when you feel down.

But when they are the ones who hurt you, what can i say..

I’ll not waste my time complaining because it’s plain silliness.

The more you meditate on something, the more it’ll grow.

Move on with life, because i have so much more happy things to think about then to ponder on the negatives.

I thank God for all the blessings he’s given to me.

Have a happy heart, to count all the blessings he’s given me.

I just feel that God loves me so much, he made me a happy and easily contented girl.

As long as I feel his love, I’m happy. 🙂

It has been a wonderful birthday for me this year, as it is the best one yet.

I’ve spent plenty of quality times with the ones i love.

Having fond memories that floods my brain.

Had been blessed with presents that i wasn’t expecting to have.

On a side note, most people are just too nice to me, and i feel that they are really too nice.

Through them i feel that God’s grace is just so strong in my life.

Thank you sweetie pies. 🙂

I hope i can be able to bless you as much as well! Will try my best! 🙂

 

 

 

 

Love always.

Saying things that must be said that will hurt the people whom you love and cherish, hurts yourself too.

Being angry at someone whom you love, makes yourself more angry, because you’re more angry at yourself for being angry at someone else.

Love is letting someone put a gun at your head, and believing that he/she will never pull the trigger.

I’ve learnt that Love is trust. And thus, letting urself to be vulnerable to the person.

Love. Believe. Love. Trust. Love. Follow. Love. Fell. Love. Cry. Love. Climb up. Love. With courage. Love. Heal. Love. Learn. Love. Keeping the faith. Love Always.