Thank you very much, dezelous, for your encouragement..=) The song lyrics are lovely..=]
Things have quietened down, for the time being.
Is it me? For I feel that each year's Chinese New Year, is getting more quiet and..how to say...not so festive anymore. Perhaps, this is just the child in me growing up..
Perhaps this is my pessimistic siderearing its head, but, somehow, looking back on the years that had passed, I can't help but feel sadness, regrets, bitterness, anger and frustration.
A friend is leaving soon, for studies in a foreign land. He wouldn't be back for 2-4 years. Or even longer. Perhaps he would decide to stay there for good, as he'd told me. I don't know what to do. Somehow, all seems unreal. The fact that he'll be leaving didnt register in me.
Alot of things happened, I am angry, I guess. For what had happened to him.
The last time we met, I came away from the meeting, very distressed. I can only pray, for God to heal his scars and for him to allow God into his life once again.
Personally, I am quite at a loss as to what to do with my life. What is God's purpose for me in this place? I am caught between a promise to a friend and my friendship and relationship to another. For, at a very low point in my life, she came in with help. I can never forget that. What first started as a formal relationship, developed into friendship. I can never, will never and must never cause her distress by the decision that I must make. Though I had known the other longer, but I have stronger ties to her than to him. Suddenly, I realized that things aren't going to be as easy as I had thought they would be.
I was thinking of trying out as a child care teacher. I like the young ones. So innocent and adorable, without guile. But, I don't think I can do that now. Perhaps, this is good, in a sense, that my friend called upon me to my promise, if it was any later, I might have gone for it and things may become complicated if I'd been accepted and signed the bond of 2 years.
One thing that I've settled between God and myself, is that, though, I may not be living life according to His way, nor please Him with the way that I talk, think and act, but one thing I desire, one thing that I will do, is to choose His way. Between love, family, friends, promises and own desires, I choose God.
I am not acting all holy, because, I can tell you that, my life is anything but that. Choosing God's way, is the decision that I have made for my life.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Joshua 1:9
Psalm 23
A psalm of David.
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
Even though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will 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 anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.
"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
Matthew 11:28-30
"Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know"