The road less traveled...

For the very first time, I saw a rainbow in the western sky. I've not seen one since I arrived in UK. It was a big rainbow spread across the highway. It was lovely. As always, it reminded me of God's covenant. So did it remind me that I am His covenanted child. "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love ." 1 John 4:8 A simple truth like that can blow your mind when you realise that God, is love itself. I've always heard teachings to personalize a scripture or a passage in the Bible to relate it with your own condition or speak something into being. One of the most famous passage read and quoted during weddings is from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always persevere...

This season of love is also a time of dying a thousand deaths... These days I feel like I have to die a thousand deaths before I can move on to another stage in life. I am reminded that the seed must die in order for the plant to grow. Strength comes when one can lay it all down again - build an altar of sacrifice before God. Indeed, this lesson is not and has never been an easy one; but it is a necessary process, til the day when I truly die...

God remembers... He remembers everything about me. He remembers that I exist in His plan. He remembers and calls me by name. He knows me so well. Yesterday was Remembrance Sunday in England. It's a special day to remember men and women who sacrificed their lives during the first and second world wars. How often do we even think about people who have made an impact in our lives? Or stood for us when we needed someone to defend us? Cried with us when we needed a shoulder? Prayed together with us when our words were limited? How often do we think and remember them? How about the people who crossed our paths and have gone to the grave? Do we value their lives and what they've done for us? Of this I'm sure, that God remembers them. Each and everyone of them. He even remembers each and everyone of us. Nothing slips His mind. Nothing is too small to be hidden from God. His love is so vast... wider and deeper than the oceans, further and broader than any sky that's above us. H...

It has been quite a while since I last updated my blog. October has been quite a busy month. It feels like life has started once again. My classes in Uni started, new time-table to get accustomed to, getting back into a student's life once again, learning to balance my time along with new commitments I've taken up since Summer, balancing work and studies, practising my Cantonese (which sounds really odd), getting my dissertation started, learning that it can snow in October... well with all these in mind, I attended 2 conferences and made a day-trip to Stratford -upon-Avon. I'm left with hardly any 'personal time' for myself but I make sure that there's always time for God. New challenges I've faced this past few months - allowing the life of Christ to be revealed through me and sharing Christ to people around me. There were times I wished I could just abandon it all and go all out for God like the missionaries back then or just being in the dirt loving and ...

Rendered speechless by Your beauty Lord, I'm blown away With everything that's in my heart A million words could never say all there is to say You're more than just a song You're more than just a whim You're more than just a passing fantasy You're my Everyday You're my Every Way You're my Everything If I could see forever In just one moment I would say These todays are worth tomorrow When I will see You face to face I want to be with You I need to be with You I long to be with You, precious King So with every day, Lord, in every way You're my Everything You're my Everything You're my Everyday You're my Every Way You're my Everything http://www.box.net/shared/y415i0g4tf

August has been rather melancholic yet praises and thanksgiving has never been lacking. In my pursuit for true love and true self, I have known The One who is always constant and true, perfect in every sense, never lacking in any way. His name is Love. 1 John 4:16 says that "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." Life isn't easy without love. Life cannot go on without love. Love is part of who we are because it reflects our Maker who is full of love. One cannot love unless he has known Love. One cannot give unless he has received the gift . One cannot see unless he has encountered. One cannot know unless he is known. One cannot die to which he has not a heart for... And one cannot live unless he has known love. I have also discovered that life is full of fears. I fear if I would run out of love for God... I fear if I walk this journey of life without God... I fear if I place other people and ot...

Here I sit Staring into the deep blue sky Wondering how far You are from me I’m sure heaven could see me smile at You. A few planes flew past… I wished I could fly home For home is where my heart is. More than that, Home is here - where You are. Home, where I belong Where I came from; From whom You created And said “It is very good.” I desire to embrace You My soul longs for You My heart yearns for more of You My spirit is one with You. Who can separate us O Lord? I don’t want to be apart from You I just want to be near You Close to Your heart For Your heart captivates me In patience, I set an ambush Waiting to capture You As if I ever can… Can I hold You in my arms? Can I lean on You to hear Your heartbeat? Can I stay forever at ‘Home’? Can I be… like You? My heart thirst for something that’s real. There must be more than this… Could there be nothing else, but You? Must there be everything else, and You? It feels like forever when You are near My one desire, as always, is to be with Y...