apple dreams away…

Some things are best left as it is.

Some things are not meant to be.

You could only place the hidden feelings in the hands of the wind.

Kitchen Help!

You Make Me Laugh

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The wife was busy frying eggs, when her husband came home. He walked into the kitchen and immediately started yelling. “CAREFUL!!! CAREFUL! MORE OIL! TURN THEM! TURN THEM NOW! WE NEED MORE OIL! THEY ARE GOING TO STICK! CAREFUL! CAREFUL! TURN THEM! TURN THEM!!! HURRY UP! ARE YOU CRAZY! THE OIL IS GOING TO SPILL! USE MORE SALT! THE SALT!!” The wife was very upset, “What is wrong with you? Why are you yelling like this? Do you think I don’t know how to fry an egg?” The husband calmly replied, “I just wanted you to know what it’s like for me when I am driving the car and you’re sitting next to me.” *Thanks to Pastor Tim for this joke!*

Cards I made =D

Looking at all these cards put a smile on my face. This coming holidays I will try card making again. Probably dropping by at Pauseability? Who knows ?:)

I must say it’s one of my best service today.  I felt the ownership and stood the stand.  Can hearers becomes speakers? Certainly!

Third week into my course training. Thanking God always for His strength that has carried me through this far. It may seems like a endless road without an end in mind. No matter how long it takes, we can still savor and embrace the process.

 

If you lie flat on the field and look up at the sky. What would you see? I truly pray that you will find the rainbow that brings a smile to your face.    

pink apple reader: Teach to change lives.

” We read but we forget to reflect”

It’s NOT the END unless you have GIVEN UP

Current Status: Blogging from School.

Current Status Mental Staus: Sleepy mode

I know I shouldn’t have entertain the thought. I shouldn’t look back and regret over the decision I made a year ago.  I move on from where i left but there are times where the re-occuring thoughts creeped back.   I need to let go further.

Current Upgrading Status: Busy =D

1. Certificate in Children Ministry

I’m kinda of excited to complete the certification course. It should be completed in two mths time!!

2. Specialist diploma in Teaching

There’s practicuum too. Wonder how its going to be…

2. Biomedical Sciences

Hmm…I still need to send in my application forms!?!!!!!

3. SUPA camp

4. Church camp

Grace of God again.

I think i totally lost it. It could be the monthly business thingy that most ladies face or was it just me? I just broke down and felt completely out of control. I felt terrible in and out. I almost wanted to give up altogether. I dont get much support or help from him either, and even if he does, i feel even worse than ever.  But a prayer request from me works wonder. I felt my heart settled down and peace came embracing on me.

Recovering from my emotional hangover  - It all came back to one thing - The Grace of God.

Lesson Learnt

It was a total disaster this afternoon. I laterally felt that my brain was left somewhere else. When the questions were posed. My brain was frozen. None of the answers sounds motivating or convincing. I was just wondering what happened to me? Why didnt the right answers came in at the right time and right place? I felt hopeless. Oh gosh…It was truly one of the worst…Though there weres parts where I  responsed correctly but still overall… I expect alot on my part. I never like giving sub-standards performance. Even everything i laid on, i can try my very best to do it well.

But today I felt completely opposite. Everything just going the way i wanted. God really knocked some sense into my head. I couldnt leave him out in the planning.  Ultimately He has the final Say in my life. I tried going through the whole planning process based on my experiment and qualifications. In the end, God taught me a real lesson. It was unexpected…

Theres just so much to learn from this short devotion which i chanced upon in my emailing list.

 

Worship: The Barrier of Pride
by Rick Warren
It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God. 2 Corinthians 3:5 (NLT)

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Life is a struggle, but what most people don’t realize is that our struggle, like Jacob’s in Genesis 32:22-32, is really with God! We want to be God, and there’s no way we’re going to win that struggle, but we try anyway.

 

A.W. Tozer said, “The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us.”

 

We aren’t God, and we never will be. We’re humans, and the times when we try to be God are the times we end up most like Satan, who tried to be equal with God, too.

 

We accept our humanity intellectually, but not emotionally. We give mental assent to the idea, but when faced with our own limitations, we react with irritation, anger, and resentment. We want to be taller (or shorter), smarter, stronger, more talented, beautiful, and wealthy.

 

We want to have it all and do it all, and become upset when it doesn’t happen. Then, when we notice God gave others characteristics we don’t have, we respond with envy, jealousy, and self-pity.

 

What it means to surrender. Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness. It is not accepting the status quo. It may mean the exact opposite: sacrificing your life in resistance to evil and injustice, or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed. God often calls surrendered people to do battle on his behalf. It’s not for cowards or doormats.

 

Surrendering is not putting your brain in neutral and giving up rational thinking. God would not waste the mind he gave you! God does not want robots to serve him. Surrendering is not repressing your personality. God wants to use your unique personality. Rather than being diminished, surrendering enhances your uniqueness.

 

C. S. Lewis observed, “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because he made us.He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”