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Hi there! Xiuying here. Otherwise known as Karen!
Karen by the way means pure and honest. confirmed on 16th April 2006. Now walking in newness of life in Christ
loves choc, running, reading
It's now end of year 4. Graduation. Growth. Go.
quote of the now
Live to the hilt in every situation you believe to be the will of God - Jim Elliot
song of the now
Come thou fount of every blessing
tune my heart to sing thy praise
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Thursday, May 13, 2004
"Heaven above is softer blue
Earth around is sweeter green
Something lives in every hue
Christless eyes have never seen
Birds with gladder songs o'erflow
Flowers with deeper beauty shine
Since i know as now i know
I am His, and He is mine."
Beautiful hymn from G. Wade Robinson. To behold nature as God's wonderful creation and to know that i belong to God. Yearning to be in a place of such beauty and grace. Webshots does the trick for now.:)
A month has flown by without warning. Time betrayed my perceptions about holidays. Isn't it supposed to be long and "free"? How is it that one month has flown by so quickly? If only the clockworks would cease for a little while. Time is running out. What will happen to people who still say "I'm still young, it doesn't matter." Choices at 20 limit your choices at 40. When doors are gradually closed, what will one do when one comes to the point of no return? To hold time in your hands and see every ticking moment enter eternity, then what?
I see people on the streets everyday, and generally people are nice. It is taken for granted you should be as nice as you can be. Then the world will be a better place! Though at times, you want to be nice, but the head simply cannot persuade the heart to obey its commands. i have foud that to be vey true. At home, i want to be nice to my mum when she nags, my head tells me that i must be NICE, yet my heart is not willing to obey.
In the word's of Paul,an apostle who wa converted after having encountered God but was before an anti-Christ: it is the law of sin and death working within.
15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[3] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Roman Chapter 7 vs 15 to 25
Isn't it so true? Our hearts are always waging war within, you wnat to do good, but you just cannot obey.
But God sets me free from this law of sin and death and gives me the power to choose not to be angered. When i look back at the past few years, i just simply want to thank God for giving me the power to break free from my old ways of being hot-tempered at home.
Clay Aiken's in the player right now. Finally bought it after a 6 month consideration. Yes i still remember talking about it with Qiong the previous sem. It's a pretty good one, nice music and nothing too jaring, plus it has a bonus cd with his MTVS and bridge over troubles water. All for $18.90. Good bargain.
Earth around is sweeter green
Something lives in every hue
Christless eyes have never seen
Birds with gladder songs o'erflow
Flowers with deeper beauty shine
Since i know as now i know
I am His, and He is mine."
Beautiful hymn from G. Wade Robinson. To behold nature as God's wonderful creation and to know that i belong to God. Yearning to be in a place of such beauty and grace. Webshots does the trick for now.:)
A month has flown by without warning. Time betrayed my perceptions about holidays. Isn't it supposed to be long and "free"? How is it that one month has flown by so quickly? If only the clockworks would cease for a little while. Time is running out. What will happen to people who still say "I'm still young, it doesn't matter." Choices at 20 limit your choices at 40. When doors are gradually closed, what will one do when one comes to the point of no return? To hold time in your hands and see every ticking moment enter eternity, then what?
I see people on the streets everyday, and generally people are nice. It is taken for granted you should be as nice as you can be. Then the world will be a better place! Though at times, you want to be nice, but the head simply cannot persuade the heart to obey its commands. i have foud that to be vey true. At home, i want to be nice to my mum when she nags, my head tells me that i must be NICE, yet my heart is not willing to obey.
In the word's of Paul,an apostle who wa converted after having encountered God but was before an anti-Christ: it is the law of sin and death working within.
15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[3] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Roman Chapter 7 vs 15 to 25
Isn't it so true? Our hearts are always waging war within, you wnat to do good, but you just cannot obey.
But God sets me free from this law of sin and death and gives me the power to choose not to be angered. When i look back at the past few years, i just simply want to thank God for giving me the power to break free from my old ways of being hot-tempered at home.
Clay Aiken's in the player right now. Finally bought it after a 6 month consideration. Yes i still remember talking about it with Qiong the previous sem. It's a pretty good one, nice music and nothing too jaring, plus it has a bonus cd with his MTVS and bridge over troubles water. All for $18.90. Good bargain.
Leng Xiuying Karen at 5/13/2004 06:08:00 PM
Sunday, May 09, 2004
Oh horrors!!!!What is Mediacorp showing to people these days? Turned on the telly and was waiting for my weekly dose of Scrubs when i realised that they moved it to an even later timeslot. Sigh... Anyway, that's not the point. The point was: I was horrified at the violence of tt WWF show. EEEKS.... the guy in red shorts was already bleeding profusely from his hand, still his opponent with shaggy hair still came in and then 1....2....3.... wham! Slammed himself onto the guy. Can't you see that you've won already? This is a show aimed at promoting stupidity and paying dollars without common sense, i am pretty sure. No brainers for slamming the guy when he's already badly hurt. And no brainers for flexing your muscles and roaring like a nitwit lion when the other is clearly in pain. For goodness' sake, such TV only serves to bring violence to fruition. Whatever machismo it's supposed to bring is rubbish.
Leng Xiuying Karen at 5/09/2004 12:06:00 AM
Friday, May 07, 2004
"There is no 'if' in my power, it is in your faith"
F.B. Meyer
Am particularly thrilled and dumfounded at an answered prayer of a sister. Her leave was approved such that she is now able to go for church camp! What impossibility it seemed last month judging from the circumstances. But God amazed me by showing what he means by "Ask and you shall receive that your joy may be made complete". It is really true! My sister asked and learnt not to doubt, not to question an "if", not even to say "in God's timing". She simply, with a child-like faith, believe that God WILL give and waited silently for His reply... with an expectant longing. And God REALLY gave it to her, such that now her joy is really "made complete", albeit with much tears and heartbreaks and joys and promises along the way. How many of us are willing to pray and ask but cannot believe with all our heart and with faith that God will give? Such answered prayers are joyful but hard and unbelievable for me to accept. God's power never ever contains any "if", it is only in our faith. How true...
F.B. Meyer
Am particularly thrilled and dumfounded at an answered prayer of a sister. Her leave was approved such that she is now able to go for church camp! What impossibility it seemed last month judging from the circumstances. But God amazed me by showing what he means by "Ask and you shall receive that your joy may be made complete". It is really true! My sister asked and learnt not to doubt, not to question an "if", not even to say "in God's timing". She simply, with a child-like faith, believe that God WILL give and waited silently for His reply... with an expectant longing. And God REALLY gave it to her, such that now her joy is really "made complete", albeit with much tears and heartbreaks and joys and promises along the way. How many of us are willing to pray and ask but cannot believe with all our heart and with faith that God will give? Such answered prayers are joyful but hard and unbelievable for me to accept. God's power never ever contains any "if", it is only in our faith. How true...
Leng Xiuying Karen at 5/07/2004 07:18:00 PM
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Mahjong mahjong
how great thou art
thy rounds aplenty
that brings more iniquity
such joy in clacking
while holidays a slacking
mahjong's the one
to keep the brains a cracking!
Now i know why mahjong is such popular game. I think it can really stimulate the brain.. Hmmm.... what a perfect excuse to play mahjong. Remember those days of that "Joy Luck Club" book. Still cannot figure out what mahjong has got to do with the four winds and the Lindo Jong story...Hmmm....
how great thou art
thy rounds aplenty
that brings more iniquity
such joy in clacking
while holidays a slacking
mahjong's the one
to keep the brains a cracking!
Now i know why mahjong is such popular game. I think it can really stimulate the brain.. Hmmm.... what a perfect excuse to play mahjong. Remember those days of that "Joy Luck Club" book. Still cannot figure out what mahjong has got to do with the four winds and the Lindo Jong story...Hmmm....
Leng Xiuying Karen at 5/04/2004 12:33:00 AM
I have found out that my uni friends and i have "so much" in common that our conversations revolve around these:
"So what modules are you taking?"
"Oh this module very easy to score must take to pull up your cap"
"What do you wanna do after you graduate?"
"must take up more skills then next time won't lugi"
"So what are your plans after you graduating?"
" Any interviews so far?"
" Must enrich your uni life cos next time no time already...do meaningful things to enrich your life."
It has become so much of a cliche i actually get bored of talking about such things. Perhaps me and my uni friends really have nothing in common. But this also brings up the point that everyone is so worried over their future prospects... And the skeltering for more meaningful activities to enrich personal lives. Each time i am puzzled: what do you mean by next time no time to do meaningful activities? Why the point of finding something to enrich lives? Yes making life "rich" in a physical sense, but spiritually, isn't that reflective of a spiritual vacuum that perhaps can only be filled by God himself who created man and know how to make life truly "rich" or "enriched"
I think about the worries and demands of life that will come along with it after graduation. I think this passage is the best assurance for an uncertain future:
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[2] ?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Besides some very common sense logic behind not worrying, it is indeed an identity in Christ: not to worry because God takes care of His children.
"So what modules are you taking?"
"Oh this module very easy to score must take to pull up your cap"
"What do you wanna do after you graduate?"
"must take up more skills then next time won't lugi"
"So what are your plans after you graduating?"
" Any interviews so far?"
" Must enrich your uni life cos next time no time already...do meaningful things to enrich your life."
It has become so much of a cliche i actually get bored of talking about such things. Perhaps me and my uni friends really have nothing in common. But this also brings up the point that everyone is so worried over their future prospects... And the skeltering for more meaningful activities to enrich personal lives. Each time i am puzzled: what do you mean by next time no time to do meaningful activities? Why the point of finding something to enrich lives? Yes making life "rich" in a physical sense, but spiritually, isn't that reflective of a spiritual vacuum that perhaps can only be filled by God himself who created man and know how to make life truly "rich" or "enriched"
I think about the worries and demands of life that will come along with it after graduation. I think this passage is the best assurance for an uncertain future:
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[2] ?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Besides some very common sense logic behind not worrying, it is indeed an identity in Christ: not to worry because God takes care of His children.
Leng Xiuying Karen at 5/04/2004 12:10:00 AM