Iron Man 2 Trailer

Be Blown away...

Iron Man 2 US Official Poster

Nice.

Exam Time-Table: Sem 1 09/10

Date Time Subject Venue
23/11/09 1pm Intro to Computing SR1, SR6 (2h)
25/11/09 5pm SSA2204 Nation-Building in Singapore MPSH1-A.B (2h)
30/11/09 9am PS2236 European Politics AS1-0301 (2h)
01/12/09 9am PS3251 International and Regional Organisations TH (2h)
01/12/09 1pm GEK 1046 Intro to Cultural Studies MPSH2-B (2h)

Shortest but most Excited Blog post!!!

Year 2 Sem 2 Exams has ended! 

Nuff' said! 

X-Men (1992) - Season 1, Episode 1

For all you 80's kids, here's something to reminiscent about. I remember me and my friends rushing our homework and rushing home from CCA (ECA then) to catch the X-men. And whenever we were together as a group, we will assign characters to everyone to be as we go out. The cartoon that started it all...enjoy! 

X-men Origins: Wolverine and a whole lot of videos!

Gamers and comic lovers of the world unite!

We have spoken and they have heard our cries! Yes! 

The most anticipated and cried out game sequel of one of THE best console/arcade game of the last century is coming out this Summer! Store your 50 cents coins or get your PS3/Xbox 360 consoles because of this...

Jia you Marcus!!!

It's been 2 years since SOT 2007, and Team 20 has always been on my 

mind. How everyone is doing well...how everyone is progressing through life

after bible school...

Marcus, we're fighting with you! Jia you!

I want to go eat Steamboat with you again...

Mugging away on a long road to....

I know what you're thinking most of the time when you're studying! Food! 

Delicious fast food for that matter, that smell just swift through the air, in a little paper bag, with it's nice boxes full of amazing surprises! Wooo lahh! 

Take a break and watch these guys order some fooda! 

Easter Production 2009!!!

 

	Singapore Expo Hall 8	Jurong West St 91
	English Service	English Service	Children's Church	Chinese Church	Dialect Church	JAMs Church	Tamil Church
5 April (Sun)
4 p.m.					+
9 April (Thu)
3 p.m.			+
10 April (Fri)
11 a.m.			+ (Expo)
1 p.m.		+
3.30 p.m.		+*
5.30 p.m.	+
8 p.m.	+*
11 April (Sat)
11 a.m.			+			+
3.30 p.m.		+*
5.30 p.m.	+*
7.30 p.m.
8 p.m.	+
12 April (Sun)
10 a.m.	+*			+
12.30 p.m.	+
3 p.m.						+
4.30 p.m.							+
+ Children’s Church services will be held concurrently with the English services at Singapore Expo and Jurong West.  * These services will be simultaneously interpreted into Mandarin.

Sustainability...

No matter how capable a person is, or how well organised and effective an organisation is, the risk of a burn-in is very real. Sustainability has to always be a key consideration...

As such, on a personal level, Howard will...

1) Commit to 2 meals a day minimum. No matter how busy or held up he is. 

2) Exercise once a week. Whether gymming or jogging, or circuit training at home. 

3) Clear all urgent back-log work daily so as to ensure peaceful sleep and mind. 

The challenge is to maintain these even during exams and operationally stress periods. 

Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit...

Trust v.2

Nobody will understand how you truly feel. 

If someone ever comes up to you and say, "I understand how you feel", he's lying. 

Only God truly understands. 

There can be semblance, similarities in circumstances, but life is too multi-faceted for another to have exactly the same life experiences to understand how you feel. 

But that shouldn't stop you from trying to understand and empathise. 

But the fact remains, no one really understands... 

Thoughts on Prayer and Giving...Revolution.

At one point, I felt God ask me," Do you really love? If you really love, then you will be willing to give it away." 

Had the 2ND week of morning prayer in the year and it was great to start the day of with God. Feel more attuned and encouraged that you start the day right and early. Amazing that motivation can cause people to be consistently discipline for a whole week to wake up early. We all need that motivation daily, and perhaps we can wake up at 5.30am everyday to pray. 

Some thought about prayer; 

You see people praying lightly, opening up their eyes, and lightly distracted.  Yet others in intense concentration, in a focused state. What's the difference? Maybe this can explain:

Burden X Degree of Release = Depth of Prayer

Perhaps why some people don't pray as intently is because they don't, or don't want to, experience as much burdens. It's the same as when you feel everything is okay, praise and worship songs are less appealing, and is equated to secular songs with nice tunes. Yet when burdened, songs about God takes on a whole difference dimension and meaning to your situation. What's the difference? Burden. 

Burden doesn't mean deep prayer. One has to have the motivation, love, or Degree of Release to see his or her burden lifted or situation changed. How much do you want what you want? Depth of prayer is a magnification of how much you want your burden's to be lifted and changed. "...The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much." (James 5:16) Burden in the heart (righteous man) X Degree of Release (fervent prayer) = lifting off of burdens (avails much) 

The other permutations are congruent. 

Burden = Depth of Prayer / Degree of Release

When one divides his depth of prayer among his degree of release, and is not focused. If we equate Depth of Prayer to time, taking into consideration that intent prayer takes time, then it can be seen that when time is divided into smaller chunks among your Degree of Release, it will increase your burden. But this increase does not equate to greater prayer life per se, it just increases the feeling of burden. To not pray is to not deal with burdens. To pray not equal to the degree of release increases the feeling of being burdened, because it is not adequately dealt with, as "hope deferred makes the heart sick."

Degree of Release = Depth of Prayer / Burden

To spread out and water your Depth of Prayer (Time, intensity etc.) on your burden(s) will cause a greater Degree of Release. This is evident on the surface level; by spending time and intent on praying over your burdens, you get your burdens lifted, because God answers our consistent prayers and "seeks to meet our every request". Yet on a deeper level, the more you lay your Depth of Prayer over your Burden(s), the more you will increase your motivation and love (Degree of Release, the relation has been established in point 1) to pray, and as one factor increases, you will see a proportionate increase in the line factors in the same equations; Depth of Prayer and interestingly, burden will also increase proportionately. Because as you "...give, and it shall be given back on to you..." and God will give His burden on those that can handle it. 

" Do you really love? If you really love, then you will be willing to give it away." God never hordes, but He is a giver. As long as we say, "I can't do without this" other than God, then you don't really love it. To give away, is the greatest expression of love. We need to give our lives and time to pray and seek the only person we can't live or do without, that is God. That is truly loving our lives and time, because we make right use with it, giving. The hording and fear of lost of money brought us the recent financial crisis. To love time is not to keep it, but to give your time away. The way to healing, and true love, is all in the giving. 

Let us bring a Giving Revolution! Give like you have never given before! 

It is only right. 

My first re-count blog post...try this style of writing...

2nd of April 2009, Drawoh's Journal. 

The sky was dark, with a looming break of sunlight. How queer. Was indoors praying while the Sun creeped up on the world. At least he is consistent. Going indoors, dark. Prayed. Open curtains. Sunlight. Walked out warm. Smile on face. Happy friends are at Jurong. Oh well. Found other happy friends to have breakfast with. Yvonne, Yen, Pauline and Boon Kiat with Mcdonalds. Sinful Hotcakes with sausage. I can afford it. 55 kg and still counting. 60. 

Sat along AS1 studying with Amanda Faith. After talking, she seems happier. That made me happy. Serene surprised me with a can of my favourite drink. Smile. Lessons had Amanda soon. Serene re-appeared with waffles. Smiled but half. I don't eat waffles. They are my favourite. But I'm allergic to waffles, for now. Just like how I am semi-allergic to Pedro shoes. Long story. Ask the flying dragon. Decline but thanked her. 

Invited my professor to Easter. Said he was the Anti-Christ. Not as The Person, but embodying the qualities of. Slaps head. Blows air out of puffed cheeks. Sat bus 151 with him. Talking about theology and comics. Fun. He writes and publishes papers on theology but does not think whether God really exist matters. Tough. Happy that the bus went nearer and nearer to my house. Alas! It missed my house and continued on to the horizon. Decided to be adventurous and moved on. Landed up at Hougang Ave 3. Why do I always end up at Hougang when I let fate lead me?

  

Favourite place in the world now. 

At the back of the bus.

Own world.

Revelation. 

Thinking.

Solitude.

Alone.

 

Another Personality Test

Why the sudden interest in Personality Test? It isn't the test, it's the graphs and causal relationship that interest me. Hazards of statistics class, which I am surprisingly enjoying...(despite all the hair-pulling frustration...i only took E-maths...Sympathy lah....)

INFJ Sage Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

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Quietly forceful, original, and sensitive. Tend to stick to things until they are done. Extremely intuitive about people, and concerned for their feelings. Well-developed value systems which they strictly adhere to. Well-respected for their perserverence in doing the right thing. Likely to be individualistic, rather than leading or following

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Wisdom from Men

Had talks with my two male mentors yesterday and got wisdom and insights about life and being a man; (in a highly paraphrased fashion)

"Be ruthless to self! If one cannot handle his own emotions, one cannot handle his life and definately not other people's."

"When you're hit left, right and center, the Devil must be very nervous. Breakthrough is coming, big time breakthrough."

Think Christ-mindset, not world sub-set 

Year 2 Sem 2 Exam Schedule

PS3260 POLITICS AND THE VISUAL 27/04/2009(Mon) 5:00pm

PS2237 INTRO TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 29/04/2009(Wed) 5:00pm

GEK1012 CONTEM' SOCIAL ISSUES IN S'PORE 02/05/2009(Sat) 1:00pm

PS3257 POLITICAL INQUIRY 06/05/2009(Wed) 9:00am

PS2249 GOVT AND POLITICS OF SINGAPORE 08/05/2009(Fri) 9:00am  

Personality Type

Howard Kuay,

Your personality is Melancholy Choleric.

Melancholy  Strength:10 Weakness:10

50%

Phlegmatic  Strength:4 Weakness:3

18%

Sanguine  Strength:3 Weakness:1

10%

Choleric  Strength:3 Weakness:6

23%

Pass the link on to your friends so you can learn about their personalities.
http://oneishy.com/personality

This test provided by Jehiah

So... which personality are you?

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Jesus Wept

I use to be a rather emotionally shut-down person. Having the mindset that emotions get in the way of expediency. It seems to be more a guy-thing. Certains events in life caused me to unlock and realise my emotional self, and now I feel more complete, better able to express myself and see matters in a better perspective. 

Many people I talk to suppress their emotions because they prefer not to be so "feeling". It is perhaps true, that by embracing and expressing your emotions, you are subjecting and opening up yourself to more heart-aches, disappointments, unmet expectations; but one also loses out on greater joy, happiness, celebration and reflection. There is a price to pay for everything. We tend to lose out on the good when we focus on the negative. God wants us to experience the full spectrum of live, and that includes our emotions. 

Like knowledge and truth, we should be embracing and experiencing emotions fully within our lives, but be careful on how, and who we express it to. It is our responsibility to learn, and also to teach (show). Let us grow in the "fullness" of God. 

Here's an entry from Pastor Kong's blog, that says it so well. 

Jesus Wept

31 MAR 2009

Jesus wept. John 11:35

“Feelings aren’t important.” “Emotions get in the way.” “Don’t trust your feelings.” “Don’t feel sad.” “Real men don’t cry.” “Just trust God.” Have you ever heard such advice before? I suspect you have because many believers have a serious misunderstanding about the Christian life. They think Christians should live stoic lives and never express strong emotions. Yet, the Bible describes more than 20 different emotions that Jesus felt. If Christ is our model of perfect spiritual and emotional maturity, then we should take a look at a few of Jesus’ emotions:

(1) Compassion: Jesus fed the multitude because they hadn’t eaten for three days and He had “compassion on these people” (Matt. 15:32). He also healed the two blind men by the roadside out of compassion (20:34). As a compassionate person, Jesus was profoundly moved by the sufferings and troubles of those He encountered.

(2) Love: If compassion characterizes Jesus’ feelings toward the multitudes, then love epitomizes His relationships with those closest to Him. When Lazarus laid dying, Martha and Mary sent this word to Jesus: “Lord, he whom you love is sick.” Then John records, “Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus” (John 11:3-5). Jesus didn’t try to be less than human by shielding Himself from love and affection.

(3) Joy: One time, following Jesus’ prediction of His betrayal, He said, “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full” (15:11).

(4) Grief and sorrow: John 11:35 is the shortest verse in the Bible. It reveals a Savior who could feel pain for those He loved. Jesus didn’t try, as we sometimes do in times of sorrow, to be outwardly “strong” and hide or deny His feelings. Through His tears, Jesus showed He had the strength to care enough to weep.

(5) Anger: Perhaps the best-known expression of His anger was when He drove the moneychangers out of the temple. To those who sold doves, Jesus rebuked, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” (2:16). Like Christ, mature Christians will experience angry feelings. But those feelings must be stimulated by a love and concern for others and for righteousness, rather than by the frustration of our own desires.

(6) Peace: As Jesus prepared to leave His disciples in death, He told them, “Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (16:32-33). Jesus displayed Spirit-controlled emotions freely. Take responsibility for your feelings. no one makes you feel any particular emotion—positive or negative. you choose to feel the way you feel. So, express those feelings constructively so that in every emotion, God is glorified.

Read Pastor's blog at www.konghee.com and be blessed! 

 

Trust....

Sunday, March 29.

I went out for a drive and a walk at 12.30 am. 

I was thinking about stuff. A lot of stuff. 

Began to say aloud all the promises of God my mind could remember. 

I was in the middle of the open street. I didn't care. 

I haven't cried openly for a very long time. Only in the dark. Only in Church.

Walking along, something in me broke. I cried.

I put on my iPod. Worthy from C3 band. Thought it would help. 

It did. I cried even harder.  

I didn't stop moving. The pace was the same. But my face was not. 

My heart is not burdened. Just preparing itself for a long walk ahead.

Today, by C3 band. I cried for a really long time.

My heart is warm. My heart is beating steadily. 

I wanna remember. I need to remember this feeling.

No one's at home. Took a cold shower. This feeling. 

I didn't sleep. This feeling. 

So help me God. This feeling. 

I need to pray, more. This feeling.  

Trust. Is believing even when you don't know.

7:44 am. 

I need this feeling. 

I am going to pray. 

 

He told me...

God empowers His people; He gave us the Holy Spirit while we were still unholy. If God would wait and only give His Spirit to those you are holy, most if not all of us will still be empty. 

Jesus came to earth to be a change-maker; to give life to the dead, to give hope to the hopeless, to give acceptance to those rejected, to touch the untouchables, to hug the sad, to tell the poor that he can be rich, to tell the people your life will never be the same again.

Every inward realisation and revelation would be met by an equal outward physical reaction. Jesus, upon receiving the full revelation of His position as the Son of God, met it by immediately standing and washing His disciples feet. The full revelation of greatness would be met by the full position and demonstration of servant-hood.  

He empowered His disciples, His people by showing the way, being an example, demonstrating, then teaching them how, then sending them out.   

Jesus knew Judas had a problem with money, yet He made him face his problem by making Judas the treasurer. 

That's trust. That's empowerment. That's change. 

Marvel Movie Update: New Release Schedule!

Marvel Studios Feature Film Pipeline
Film/Character	Prior Release Date	Current Release Date
IRON MAN 2	May 7, 2010	May 7, 2010
THOR	July 16, 2010	June 17, 2011
THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA	May 6, 2011	July 22, 2011
THE AVENGERS	July 15, 2011	May 4, 2012

Aren't you excited! 2010 and beyond will be fantastic!

In the mean time, here's something to tickle you, here is...

In this episode..."Mysterious World! The Man Lives to Fate." When a train suspiciously overturns, Takuya [Spider-Man] believes Professor Monster and the Iron Cross Army are responsible, while flashbacks reveal the tragic details surrounding Garia's arrival on Earth and the transfer of power to Takuya.

Avengers ASSEMBLE!

(Just so you know, Spider-man is an Avenger now...really.)

Tribute to the 2 gentlemen who died in NTU

Here's a song in tribute to the 2 gentlemen who killed themselves in NTU. Nobody will truly know under what kind of circumstances did they die nor the situation they faced. I just feel sad no one tried to understand them to be able to make them value life. 

Never take anything in life for granted, even life itself. 

"New York Minute" - Eagles

Harry got up
Dressed all in black
Went down to the station
And he never came back
They found his clothing
Scattered somewhere down the track
And he won't be down on Wall Street
in the morning

He had a home
The love of a girl
But men get lost sometimes
As years unfurl
One day he crossed some line
And he was too much in this world
But I guess it doesn't matter anymore

In a New York Minute
Everything can change
In a New York Minute
Things can get pretty strange
In a New York Minute
Everything can change
In a New York Minute

Lying here in the darkness
I hear the sirens wail
Somebody going to emergency
Somebody's going to jail
If you find somebody to love in this world
You better hand on tooth and nail
The wolf is always at the door

In a New York Minute
Everything can change
In a New York Minute
Things can get a little strange
In a New York Minute
Everything can change
In a New York Minute

And in these days
When darkness falls early
And people rush home
To the ones they love
You better take a fool's advice
And take care of your own
One day they're here;
Next day they're gone

I pulled my coat around my shoulders
And took a walk down through the park
The leaves were falling around me
The groaning city in the gathering dark
On some solitary rock
A desperate lover left his mark,
"Baby, I've changed. Please come back."

What the head makes cloudy
The heart makes very clear
The days were so much brighter
In the time when she was here
But I know there's somebody somewhere
Make these dark clouds disappear
Until that day, I have to believe
I believe, I believe

In a New York Minute
Everything can change
In a New York Minute
You can get out of the rain
In a New York Minute
Everything can change
In a New York Minute

Japanese Spider-Man, Episode 1

Take a break from your studying and work and watch this amazing piece of unknown google-box madness!

It's unbelivable! Its Toei produced! The synopsis reads, "
The first episode of the Toei-produced Japanese "Spider-Man" TV series sees motorcycle racer Takuya Yamashiro gain the powers of Spider-Man! With his new powers and the help of Marveller, he transforms into Leopardon in order to defeat Professor Monster and his evil Iron Cross Army."

I love the era, the cheesiness, the music and the lame superhero-ness that you just can't help but parody. The props and make-up! Makes you slap your head so hard it hurts!

It doesn't get any better than this!

"Spido! Ta da ta da!!!!!!"

Everyday...is just an Ordinary Miracle.

It’s not that unusual 
When everything is beautiful. 
It’s just another ordinary miracle today. 

The sky knows when its time to snow, 
Don’t need to teach a seed to grow. 
It’s just another ordinary miracle today. 

Life is like a gift they say 
Wrapped up for you everyday; 
Open up and find a way 
To give some of your own. 

Isn’t it remarkable? 
Like every time a rain drop falls, 
It’s just another ordinary miracle today. 

Birds in winter have their fling 
But always make it home by spring. 
It’s just another ordinary miracle today. 

When you wake up everyday 
Please don’t throw your dreams away; 
Hold them close to your heart 
Cause we’re all a part 
Of the ordinary miracle. 
Ordinary miracle 

Do you want to see a miracle? 
ohh ohh ohh, ohhh ohh ohh... 

It seems so exceptional 
That things just work out after all. 
It’s just another ordinary miracle today. 

Sun comes up and shines so bright 
And disappears again at night. 
It’s just another ordinary miracle today. 
ohh ohh ohh, ohh ohhh ohh... 
It’s just another ordinary miracle today.

Jewel's Vblog

Jewel

Jewel reveals that her new self-recorded, self-produced album will be called Lullaby, containing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, with new songs. 

We need more mood-music CDs, rather than hand-banging, new music seeking to impress label producers. Really looking forward to it, hopefully able to get it off the shelves in Singapore; if not, Amazon is the way to go. 

"Somewhere over the rainbow...Blue birds fly..."

Funny E-mail! You will like this!

A child was asked to write a

book report on the entire Bible. 

The Children's Bible in a Nutshell

In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was nothing but God, darkness, and some gas.  The Bible says, 'The Lord thy God is one, but I think He must be a lot older than that. 

Anyway, God said, 'Give me a light!' and someone did. 

Then God made the world.

He split the Adam and made Eve.  Adam and Eve were naked, but they weren't embarrassed because mirrors hadn't been invented yet. 

Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating one bad apple, so they were driven from the Garden of Eden.

Not sure what they were driven in though, because they didn't have cars.

Adam and Eve had a son, Cain, who hated his brother as long as he was Abel.

Pretty soon all of the early people died off, except for Methuselah, who lived to be like a million or something.

One of the next important people was Noah, who was a good guy, but one of his kids was kind of a Ham.  Noah built a large boat and put his family and some animals on it. He asked some other people to join him, but they said they would have to take a rain check.

After Noah came Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  Jacob was more famous than his brother, Esau, because Esau sold Jacob his birthmark in exchange for some pot roast.  Jacob had a son named Joseph who wore a really loud sports coat.

Another important Bible guy is Moses, whose real name was Charlton Heston.  Moses led the Israel Lights out of  Egypt and away from the evil Pharaoh after God sent ten plagues on Pharaoh's people.  These plagues included frogs, mice, lice, bowels, and no cable. 

God fed the Israel Lights every day with manicotti.  Then he gave them His Top Ten Commandments. 

These include: don't lie, cheat, smoke, dance, or covet your neighbor's stuff.

Oh, yeah, I just thought of one more: Humor thy father and thy mother.

One of Moses' best helpers was Joshua who was the first Bible guy to use spies.  Joshua fought the battle of Geritol and the fence fell over on the town.

After Joshua came David.  He got to be king by killing a giant with a slingshot.  He had a son named Solomon who had about 300 wives and 500 porcupines.  My teacher says he was wise, but that doesn't sound very wise to me.
After Solomon there were a bunch of major league prophets. 

One of these was Jonah, who was swallowed by a big whale and then barfed up on the shore.  There were also some minor league prophets, but I guess we don't have to worry about them.

After the Old Testament came the New Testament.  Jesus is the star of The New.  He was born  in  Bethlehem  in a barn.  (I wish I had been born in a barn too, because my mom is always saying to me, 'Close the door! Were you born in a barn?' It would be nice to say, 'As a matter of fact, I was.')

During His life, Jesus had many arguments with sinners like the Pharisees and the Democrats.

Jesus also had twelve opossums.

The worst one was Judas Asparagus.  Judas was so evil that they named a terrible vegetable after him.

Jesus was a great man.  He healed many leopards and even preached to some Germans on the Mount.

But the Democrats and all those guys put Jesus on trial before Pontius the Pilot.  Pilot didn't stick up for Jesus.  He just washed his hands instead.

Anyways, Jesus died for our sins, then came back to life again.

He went up to Heaven but will be back at the end of the Aluminum.  His return is foretold in the book of Revolution.

Timing + Path Way

In the last 4 days, 2 themes have constantly come up time and again in different people's conversations; on timing and the decisions, or paths, in which one decides to walk in.

Solomon in the bible says "there is a season to everything", and God says, as long as the world remains, seed-time and harvest will remain. Therefore if we are to live well, and I'm not talking about prospering, but just having a progressing life, we have to understand and appreciate this concept. In my observation, life is sequential in this order; 

a) Actualisation (Revelation)

b) Preparation (Sowing)

c) Incubation (Waiting)

d) Realisation (Reaping) 

What's the problem then? God made everything good in it's essence, and functionality and operationality comes naturally. Therefore actualisation stage, or the understanding that we have to do something, or things can be processed into workable products, comes fairly easy. Boy John grows up and realise that riding a bicycle would probably be fun and decides to learn how to ride a bicycle. 

God made man to dream and receive visions. If there's one thing every man, regardless of social strata or locale can do, it is to dream and hope. Thus, man in his mind, would jump from step A, actualisation, to desiring in his heart, step D, realisation. Although not in reality, his or her heart, and soon his or her mind, would linger on step D, ignoring step B and C. It seems there is an in-built understanding on the difficulty and attempt on escaping step B and C. Every child, with little or no exposure to the "Social", would whine and fight against Work. John thinks about riding the bike but hates falling down.

"Hope deferred makes the heart sick." Here's lies the problem. Without a full understanding and appreciation of "seed-time" and "harvest", people falter and give up. "My people perish because of ignorance." This is so true. "Giving up", can also be called "compromise", "back-sliding" or "choosing the narrow path." In every race, visualising the ending line or goal is tantamount to not only finishing the race, but more importantly in this context, staying on the race. John is faced with a choice, continue trying and risk the hurt of falling, or deciding riding a bicycle "is just not his thing."

The longest step in "seed-time and harvest" would most definitely be C, incubation. What about B, preparation? Sometimes step B is as long as step C, yet because there is work involved in step B, it doesn't seem as long. Step C is a time where the "farmer", that's you and me, steps back and allow nature to take its course. Its a time where you know, nothing you do can improve its growth, you can only hinder. It takes faith! It takes trust. This is where people falter and give up. Take detours to the "wider" path. It's tough, no one can deny. "Why so long?", "I don't deserve this," "I can't take it anymore," "Maybe a easier path would be better for me," "I could do without this, its not worth fighting for."

Waiting builds character. It is God's way of training his people. No army goes head-on to battle. I'm reminded of my time in police. It takes 2 weeks to plan an operation, 1 week to prepare, 1 week to wait for the guy to turn up, and 3 seconds to arrest him. What??? A month in exchange for 3 seconds? Yes. Fruits are hard to bear. 

A wise farmer would use the waiting time to build up; to get more Revelation and to prepare for Realisation. Whatever situation you are in, don't give up. Recession is the best time for training. Tired is the best time to praise. A low love-bank is the best time to give. What's so great about giving in excess? An empty store-house is positioning itself for harvest. Lack builds hunger, space allows fire to burn, waiting cultivates patience and value is realised in absence. 

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. - 1 Cor 9:24-25

Whatever situation you're in, I gotta be honest, no one on earth can and will ever fully understand. We can only empathise. But God understands. Don't give up! Don't give in! 

Does John ride a bicycle? 

 

Dino! the Dashing Dachshund!

Here's the new addition to the family! Dino is Dashingly Cute and Brave! He's a Dachshund, or what's commonly known as a "sausage dog"! He arrived home on the 5th of Febuary at about 7pm. I was away at a meeting and only got home at 11am to see him and the little boy took my breathe away!  

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See what I mean! How do you ignore that look?!

He's a young 4 months old puppy, small and all ready to go!

He barks when he needs but most of the time he whines...So cute right?!

“If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.”