lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
Love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing, for the glory
Of the risen King
Jesus, Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing for the glory
Of the risen king
Saturday, March 24, 2007
-12:55 pm
No time to post here anymore, seeing how irregularly I update. Yet this blog shall still exist, for old time's sake, where past ruminations can be revisited.
Goodbye blog. I'll miss you.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
-9:32 pm
I am sunburnt. Face is peeling real bad. Have patches of pink skin on my forehead where the brown (dead) skin has peeled off. Eww. And I have to go to the family dinner tomorrow with a funny looking face. :(
Did econs the entire day today. Can't say I've understood/grasped absolutely everything. It's so hard to think like an economist. They don't think like normal people do. (Does that mean they're ABNORMAL? Haha! Okay bad joke.) That's why I'll never be one. (I'm sure my teacher would agree.)
Though I'm really kinda worried about CTs, there's still this peace inside of me. Took a 2++ hour break from studying to write a song today. That's quite a lot of time off from the books but I refuse to say that it was wasted. It's a reassurance of God's promise for me because the same verse keeps popping up in my mind. There're still some kinks and awkward points I have to work out, as always. But yes I know where my help comes from (Psalm 121). (:
Psalm 20:7
Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
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-1:15 pm
Mark Harris - Find Your WingsFrom the album The Line Between The Two
It's only for a moment you are mine to hold
The plans that heaven has for you
Will all too soon unfold
So many different prayers I'll pray
For all that you might do
But most of all I'll want to know
You're walking in the truth
And If I never told you
I want you to know
As I watch you grow
Chorus:
I pray that God would fill your heart with dreams
And that faith gives you the courage
To dare to do great things
I'm here for you whatever this life brings
So let my love give you roots
And help you find your wings
May passion be the wind
That leads you through your days
And may conviction keep you strong
Guide you on your way
May there be many moments
That make your life so sweet
Oh, but more than memories
(Chorus)
It's not living if you don't reach for the sky
I'll have tears as you take off
But I'll cheer as you fly
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
-9:36 pm
Spent a frustrating afternoon in the school library today doing maths. After the 2-hour intense make-up econs lecture, it was the perfect way to fry my brain. Gah I couldn't do even the most basic questions of the revision exercise! :( Got rather discouraged and realised that there ain't that much time left! Didn't anticipate maths taking up more than one day. Ahh... I've got to be more disciplined!
Yet, on a lighter note, I met up with old (okay maybe not so old) friends for dinner. (: (: (: Gosh it was so good seeing the old cell again- Hannah, Daniel, Brandon, Dinesh, Nicholas, Charles, Ben, and my dear SCHEZN. (: Dinner entertainment was of course provided by the FCGs! They're hilarious, as usual. Some things never change (and some people never grow up). I really really miss them. These are the people I grew up with, or at least, have contributed significantly, in terms of influence, to the person I am today. I love them, and treasure them so much. There won't be another bunch quite like them. These are the people I foresee myself still being friends with even into old age.
Still, it's comforting to know that despite the fact that we don't see each other every week anymore, things are still pretty much the same. When we meet up, there's hardly any awkwardness or the distance that seem to usually creep in with time. Nope, none of that. I guess that's the difference when friendships are based on more than just well... circumstances? Similarities? Weekends in church?
It's a love that's different. And I'm so thankful that it sees beyond human weaknesses to love like God does- without judgement or self-centeredness. (:
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
-7:30 pm
Holy Sonnet X.
by John Donne.
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ;
For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou'rt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then ?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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We watched a movie called "Wit" during GP lesson on Friday. It was almost life-changing. There was hardly a dry eye left when it ended. Based on Margaret Edson's play, Emma Thompson stars as Vivian Bearing in this intense and powerful vehicle through which the issues of life and death are thoroughly examined by the protagonist, especially in the monologues. You must watch it. It's the best movie I've ever seen. This is no flippant advertising. To find out more, read the review.
One would tend to think that movies about the meaning of life would be overt, didactic, one cliché after another, convoluted, contrived. But this masterful piece of art manages to sensibly express the most subtle nuggets of truth in all honesty and realness, without sounding overly idealistic (it's in fact the opposite) or moralising. It's bursting with meaning, if you would view the issues presented from the intended point of view, as well as another- your own.
There are some movies that provide you with a good time, a good laugh, good suspense, thrillers and action; pure entertainment. But "Wit" draws you into the story (which is so grippingly real that it's frightening) and makes you think, challenges your notions of what life's all about. Never has a movie provoked so much thought and evoked such strong emotions- empathy and shared pain- with its sharp articulation of life's (and death's) nuances. It's real; it's relevant, and yet this is an understatement in itself, if you fully grasp the essence and gravity of its message.
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"It reads: "And death shall be no more," -comma-"Death thou shalt die."
Nothing but a breath, a comma separates life from life everlasting.
Very simple, really. With the original punctuation restored, death is no longer something to act out on a stage with exclamation marks.
It is a comma- a pause.
Life, death. Soul, God. Past, present.
Not insuperable barriers.
Not semicolons.
Just a comma."
-Professor Evelyn Ashford in "Wit"
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