Yayyy!
So I had a fun time this past week!
On the 12th went over to my bro’s place to celebrate my mom’s birthday. So happy to see the kids. Paulyne has become soooo cute!!! We also took a family pic…which you can see in the photos section.
Then on the 13th, we went to Café Cartel, as Nick’s (our temp staff for less than a month – he couldn’t tahan the job nature hahaha… see what we go through) last day was on the 14th. Since it was mummy’s birthday, they suggested why not she come along too. So no need to arrange another day. So my mom joined us! My mom and the CR team. It was fun. My mom could get along with them and all. I love my mom. She was so funny and sociable. And I loved it how they all could get along and were friendly and nice. I’m always so happy when it comes to this. My good friends get along with my other group of good friends. My mom get along with my friends. Hehehee. And I am always impressed when people can get along or make an effort to talk to my mom or be nice to her. So, hint hint. If you wanna get in my good books, or, if you like me, hehe… then get along with my mom. :D
Then on the 14th. Me leading praise! Was a bit worried. Coz Monday (10th) was my rest and relax day at home. Tuesday was also my relaxing day and I realised that I had lost my tuner… :( so sad coz on Sunday I had just changed my guitar strings and how could I play my guitar if it was out of tune. I tried tuning it by ear but cannot, I’m not that expert yet hehe. Luckily Dennis kind enough to lend me his tuner. But that was about 11pm at night so it was time to sleep and Wednesday and Thursday I was out the whole day. I did decide to squeeze in some time after Café Cartel to choose the songs but it the end I still had so many songs and was still undecided. I very much wanted to play but the songs that I was choosing I was not good at playing, and furthermore I had quite a bit to read – Fr Damian wanted the Sunday’s gospel and I wanted to read “The Attorney” this email forwarded to me which I thought was nice. So in the end I decided, I should not play this time round.
By Friday I was worried… coz I still had not chosen the songs! So during lunch time I did a bit of reflection on the Gospel passages, on the story of The Attorney, and I came up with this:
Reading:
The Attorney
Opening:
When God Ran
Hungry
Reading:
Mark 6:7-13
Jesus sends out his 12 disciples
Songs:
I will run to You (optional)
Living for this cause
Reading:
Ephesians 1:3-14
Spiritual Blessings in Christ
Songs:
Forever
Glory
Intercessory:
Pour out my heart
Okie, I was all set! Happy sia! Realised that the theme was “Come to me, and trust in me”, based on the songs and the bible passage. Coz I was trying hard to discern what the people need. That’s why the opening songs were all Worship songs…. For the people to let go of themselves and go to God… and once they’re there… lead into praise to Him!!! Cool right.
Ok, although I was set, still a bit scared lah. What if they cant sing the songs like “I will Run to You”. I’m not the very best of singers to lead them. Then when I went to church, I couldn’t find “When God Ran”. Tried writing it out but the song was too long and it was too time consuming. So I scraped that.
During praise, in the end I did not read the Gospel passage too. And did not sing Glory. But I think it all worked out well. I heard that praise was good and that the people felt His Spirit. That’s great man! Amen! It’s all Jesus, all the Holy Spirit! The whole time I was just praying for Him to use me as His instrument. If you were to tell me that my leading was good, then I would not agree. At some point in time, I panicked as well. I have to share this with you because there could be one point in your life when you will be leading too and will probably experience the same things as me.
Yes I panicked. The songs that I chose I felt did not lead into free worship. So immediately after “Hungry” I went direct into “I will run to You” and after that, there was silence. Great! Me being the leader people were probably looking to me. I did not feel like going into the next song “Living for this cause”. Okie, so I had to open my mouth. Which I did, and the people followed, thank God, praise God. I also dunno and can’t remember what I said. All I know was that I was afraid that some of the younger ones may not know what we were doing or not sure of what to do. And it would sound weird for me to say it out in sentences. So I just carried on praising and leading in telling them what to do, as in do not be afraid, in my praise. Thank God he took over.
And then after the reading from the bible, I had to say that it was a bit awkward again but thank God I had some response from the people like when I said “Amen”, they said “Amen.” Thank God for that. Yeah, and thank God that everything worked out. It was all Jesus. It was all His Spirit.
I find that, although it’s hard in the beginning, to follow God, as you take that first step, and keep on trying, it really gets easier. Like, you will just be thankful for everything, joyous in everything. Like I dreaded coming back to work today after the weekend. But now I’m at work, I still feel happy coz I have the love of the Lord. Same as Friday praise. So worried about how it would turn out. But I just left it in His hands. And it worked out.
I hope that the next time I lead I would be able to play and lead at the same time. Coz I think it’s easier to lead the people in song and praise that way. Yeah, must practise more.
Oh, and Sunday was so fun. The play we did for the Sec 1s. So happy! I think the Sec 1s enjoyed it too! And I just like hanging out with them. On top of that, I still got a thank you card and bookmark from Charissa. Double bonus, when actually I had such a good time doing the play and staying on in their class already. Praise God for everything. Just wanna stick close to him always. By the way, I’m sure you read the usual email forwards whereby you ask God for this and that, and you get so called “rebutted”, but when you ask God for love, to love others as He loves you, then He says “ahh, you get the idea”…. Yup, so that’s what I ask God for continuously everyday. Amen.
17 July 2006
1.30pm
On the 12th went over to my bro’s place to celebrate my mom’s birthday. So happy to see the kids. Paulyne has become soooo cute!!! We also took a family pic…which you can see in the photos section.
Then on the 13th, we went to Café Cartel, as Nick’s (our temp staff for less than a month – he couldn’t tahan the job nature hahaha… see what we go through) last day was on the 14th. Since it was mummy’s birthday, they suggested why not she come along too. So no need to arrange another day. So my mom joined us! My mom and the CR team. It was fun. My mom could get along with them and all. I love my mom. She was so funny and sociable. And I loved it how they all could get along and were friendly and nice. I’m always so happy when it comes to this. My good friends get along with my other group of good friends. My mom get along with my friends. Hehehee. And I am always impressed when people can get along or make an effort to talk to my mom or be nice to her. So, hint hint. If you wanna get in my good books, or, if you like me, hehe… then get along with my mom. :D
Then on the 14th. Me leading praise! Was a bit worried. Coz Monday (10th) was my rest and relax day at home. Tuesday was also my relaxing day and I realised that I had lost my tuner… :( so sad coz on Sunday I had just changed my guitar strings and how could I play my guitar if it was out of tune. I tried tuning it by ear but cannot, I’m not that expert yet hehe. Luckily Dennis kind enough to lend me his tuner. But that was about 11pm at night so it was time to sleep and Wednesday and Thursday I was out the whole day. I did decide to squeeze in some time after Café Cartel to choose the songs but it the end I still had so many songs and was still undecided. I very much wanted to play but the songs that I was choosing I was not good at playing, and furthermore I had quite a bit to read – Fr Damian wanted the Sunday’s gospel and I wanted to read “The Attorney” this email forwarded to me which I thought was nice. So in the end I decided, I should not play this time round.
By Friday I was worried… coz I still had not chosen the songs! So during lunch time I did a bit of reflection on the Gospel passages, on the story of The Attorney, and I came up with this:
Reading:
The Attorney
Opening:
When God Ran
Hungry
Reading:
Mark 6:7-13
Jesus sends out his 12 disciples
Songs:
I will run to You (optional)
Living for this cause
Reading:
Ephesians 1:3-14
Spiritual Blessings in Christ
Songs:
Forever
Glory
Intercessory:
Pour out my heart
Okie, I was all set! Happy sia! Realised that the theme was “Come to me, and trust in me”, based on the songs and the bible passage. Coz I was trying hard to discern what the people need. That’s why the opening songs were all Worship songs…. For the people to let go of themselves and go to God… and once they’re there… lead into praise to Him!!! Cool right.
Ok, although I was set, still a bit scared lah. What if they cant sing the songs like “I will Run to You”. I’m not the very best of singers to lead them. Then when I went to church, I couldn’t find “When God Ran”. Tried writing it out but the song was too long and it was too time consuming. So I scraped that.
During praise, in the end I did not read the Gospel passage too. And did not sing Glory. But I think it all worked out well. I heard that praise was good and that the people felt His Spirit. That’s great man! Amen! It’s all Jesus, all the Holy Spirit! The whole time I was just praying for Him to use me as His instrument. If you were to tell me that my leading was good, then I would not agree. At some point in time, I panicked as well. I have to share this with you because there could be one point in your life when you will be leading too and will probably experience the same things as me.
Yes I panicked. The songs that I chose I felt did not lead into free worship. So immediately after “Hungry” I went direct into “I will run to You” and after that, there was silence. Great! Me being the leader people were probably looking to me. I did not feel like going into the next song “Living for this cause”. Okie, so I had to open my mouth. Which I did, and the people followed, thank God, praise God. I also dunno and can’t remember what I said. All I know was that I was afraid that some of the younger ones may not know what we were doing or not sure of what to do. And it would sound weird for me to say it out in sentences. So I just carried on praising and leading in telling them what to do, as in do not be afraid, in my praise. Thank God he took over.
And then after the reading from the bible, I had to say that it was a bit awkward again but thank God I had some response from the people like when I said “Amen”, they said “Amen.” Thank God for that. Yeah, and thank God that everything worked out. It was all Jesus. It was all His Spirit.
I find that, although it’s hard in the beginning, to follow God, as you take that first step, and keep on trying, it really gets easier. Like, you will just be thankful for everything, joyous in everything. Like I dreaded coming back to work today after the weekend. But now I’m at work, I still feel happy coz I have the love of the Lord. Same as Friday praise. So worried about how it would turn out. But I just left it in His hands. And it worked out.
I hope that the next time I lead I would be able to play and lead at the same time. Coz I think it’s easier to lead the people in song and praise that way. Yeah, must practise more.
Oh, and Sunday was so fun. The play we did for the Sec 1s. So happy! I think the Sec 1s enjoyed it too! And I just like hanging out with them. On top of that, I still got a thank you card and bookmark from Charissa. Double bonus, when actually I had such a good time doing the play and staying on in their class already. Praise God for everything. Just wanna stick close to him always. By the way, I’m sure you read the usual email forwards whereby you ask God for this and that, and you get so called “rebutted”, but when you ask God for love, to love others as He loves you, then He says “ahh, you get the idea”…. Yup, so that’s what I ask God for continuously everyday. Amen.
17 July 2006
1.30pm
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