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read between the lines
past-year reflections just got back from the annual camp i mentioned, so pardon my absence. and in response to the comment that i don't blog as much, well, first of all, i'm not at home anymore; secondly, other more pressing things came up that i felt were of a higher priority than..this, and thirdly, lately i haven't exactly had new nuggets of wisdom (usually inspired from above) to write on. it's not that i cannot write, it's rather that i find nothing worth writing about that i should write.but now, with it being the new year (and hence time for a look at the past year), i do have something to write on. what a headache writing this, haha. i have thought (and tried) long and hard to come up with a condensed (not necesarily short, but shorter) version of this entry's topic (it basically means a recollection of what god has been doing and how He has been working in my life and the lives of others over the past year), and this post is, i think, the most suitable (and condensed) attempt of all. obviously i cannot put all my lessons in one post, and even more obviously i can't even put all the notable lessons in one post, so this is not the complete list of everything important that's happened. a few firsts (as in life's record-breakers) in point form to ease digestion: -i finally got a driving licence (punches fist in the air) -first time i've ever gotten self-supporting income -i got a proper job (see previous point) and i moved out to live on my own (well sort of) -i had the money to do a lot of things, like this really unheard-of (and to some, disagreeable) way of renting hotel rooms to get that much-craved quality time with god, among others -finally got to do a proper night walk (see p.s. in second previous post) not too long ago in which s'pore turned into a tiny little town where i could walk, stop at 24-hour eateries and then continue walking again. i find it surreal (in which senses are heightened) and yet calming to be able to talk to god at unearthly hours while traipsing around. -and many others... and further events from here onwards. 2006 was the year i started to have hope injected into my life, after a bout of relatively dismal thinking. thanks to two prophecies at the start of the year (which were self-fulfilling in a way) and a handful of useful advice, i started to see light finally show at the end of this dark tunnel. it was also a year of taking leaps of faith and trusting in god's plans for my uncertain-looking future (i was pretty much myopic at certain points in terms of looking ahead). i trusted god for a whole lotta things...but basically they centered around what path to take after i finished schooling. and i thank god that very early on, god granted me the overwhelming, much-needed peace regarding this issue that avoid a lot of unnecessary panicking over the next few months. another thing i am definitely grateful to god for is how he revealed a deeper level of his love to me this year, thereby eliminating my nagging loneliness and single status at the start of the year. blame it on people constantly asking me when i would hook up, and the fact that i my social circle of friends from school officially ended in february when school stopped, but yeah i wasn't exactly enjoying remaining single for god at the time. but thanks be to god that over the second half of the year, he showed me more of his love, a love so great and so encompassing that the substitutes of this world fail to match up. finally, i started to appreciate how truly freeing it is to remain unattached and had my eyes opened to what exactly true love is and how it is so readily available from god without condition or limit. last but not least, this past year was also a year of positively-answered prayer. if the previous years' answers to prayers were "no" or "wait", 2006's were "yes". over these twelve months i saw a lot of fulfilled prayers that came to completion in not only my life but the lives of others. as usual, i extend my heartfelt thanks to every one of you who upheld me in prayer or joined forces to combine prayers. so here's to a new year, new challenges, new people, new...everything. and hopefully a new, wiser self as well. admittedly i can still be rather ignorant or stupid (take your pick) in certain things. but at least i know when i fall on my face, god will be there to pick me up. |
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