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Friday, June 22, 2007


hello all! Been busy the whole wk...and ya i'm working as a cashier at heartland mall cold storage. i thought being a cashier is gonna be fun..so i took up this job even though i'm pd peanuts.so anyway...this job is really terrible. T.O.R.T.U.R.O.U.S. Anyway it's my turn to post something on the blog this wk.

On Monday I had this huge quarrel with my mum. I was really upset that day cos i hardly have any heated argument with her. After the quarrel I felt that I was wrongly accused, and well, wallowed in self-pity. I really needed to turn to someone to talk to, so I talked to some ppl online, trying to forget bout what just happened. However my inner self was not feeling happy still. I prayed to God to speak to me, and I flipped thru the Bible…yea the flipping thru method. I turned to Matthew.

Matthew 7:3-5 : 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

So I began to reflect on what I said to my mum, and realised tt I was quite unreasonable and rude actually.. :( but I didn’t apologize to her straight away. Both of us were not on talking terms for the rest of the night. I felt so guilty, but my pride was stronger. The nxt day it was my mum who broke the ice (oops). She called me after my work ended and pretended that nothing happened. When I reached home I kept telling myself to apologize no matter wat, but I just couldn’t get myself to do it. Until finally in the car I picked the “appropriate” moment (when she was concentrating more on the road condition to enter the CTE :D ) to apologize. Then she said she did not take it to heart otherwise she would not have called me. This incident may not sound like some big thing but it was to me. And I was really thankful to God for showing me the bigger picture.

Anyway before I turned to Matthew I turned to Psalm 6: 6-10 : 6 I am worn out from groaning; all night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. 7 My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes. 8Away from me, all you who do evil, for the Lord has heard my weeping. 9The Lord has heard my cry for mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer. 10 All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.
I don’t think that was wat God wanted me to read…more of the devil trying to manipulate me at that point of time when I was feeling angry and couldn’t decipher the passage. It made me think that I was right and that my mum was the enemy (haha sounds stupid now), and I felt my anger was justified. After feeling satisfied for a while *hehe*, I felt something was not right, and flipped to Matthew, which was wat really made my anger disappear and realise my mistake.

From this incident I realised that when we are reading God’s Word, the devil can still manipulate us by taking advantage of the situation we’re facing, and make us depict the passage wrongly. Does this happen only to me I wonder :( Just have to be extra careful I guess.

I received this email from my friend, and I thot I’ll post it up too. It reminds us of how deep God’s love for us is, and that we can always turn to Him because He is always there for us. We often don’t rmb that because He is not tangible, and rather turn to Man or depend on ourselves when a problem arises.




God’s Wings

A little something to put things in perspective... An article in National Geographic several years ago provided an interesting picture of God's wings.

After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno's damage. One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree.

Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick. When he gently struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under their dead mother's wings. The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing that the toxic smoke would rise. She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her babies.

Then the blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her small body. The mother had remained steadfast because she had been willing to die, so those under the cover of her wings would live.

"He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge." (Psalm 91:4)

Being loved this much should make a difference in your life. Remember the One who loves you, and then be different because of it.


♥ Li
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