Truly blessed because of Him. ♥

HI.... it's been awhile! I was so so so busy to actually sign in blogger and post something here. But now i'm glad that weekend is here! Whee~ *gasping for air!* Finally i could get some rest, a lil rest, but still thank GOD for that!!! I'm actually sooo excited, i have so many things to share!

Let me start off with something which just happened recently. :)

I went for my family dinner just now. My aunt actually said i look thinner! Hahaha, thanks to all the stress! :p Seriously this semester really is a challenging semester for me. From a busy person to a busier person (perhaps will soon be the busiest). Taking the role of the assistant class monitor ain't an easy job. :'( But it's something everyone of us have to go through, so like it or not, embrace it. :) With that, my lifestyle has totally changed. I slept almost after midnight everyday, and woke up around 5 something in the morning, took bath and got myself ready... sometimes had my breakfast, sometimes had it in the car, sometimes had it in the class, sometimes, no breakfast at all. And, around 615am or 620am, i should be on the road with my dear Pajero. I have to do this everyday, because the school now has very limited parking space, so i have to be there early to get one good place.

Sometimes i got stressed out and wondered why life was so difficult. Arranging lectures, contacting lecturers, fighting for classrooms, homework, tasks, assignments, timetable, research, slides, presentations....satisfying everyone... Apart from these, i also want to spend more time with friends and family... spend more time for tennis, violin, piano, guitar, singing, songs recording, making sushi, photo-shooting, uploading photos, and things i love to do... and i want to spend more time with God! Wow...! Sometimes i really feel that it's really too much for me to handle!

However, if life is easy, we wouldn't even realize the need to lean on to someone and to feel weak. If life is too easy, we would never stop and look around the things we actually have. If life is too easy, we won't even feel the need to surrender all ourselves to someone who's ever-so-mighty. If life is too easy, we will get even lost somehow.

Be grateful that life is not easy! :)

During the Friday gathering at St. Bede today, i totally felt the presence of God in the chapel with us. I believe He brought us all there for a purpose. It's not because we are Christians that we were there together, but rather, it's because He loves all of us and we were gathered there together by His love, and sharing His love! Through sharing, each and everyone of us was enlightened and recharged; the weak was strengthened, the sad was comforted. How wonderful! How wonderful and amazing His love is! Yesterday, today, tomorrow, and always! ♥

There's so much thing we could learn from the downs in our life. Most of the time, we just have to feel weak to experience God's amazing love. Let troubles draw us closer to God. This verse kept popping up to me today:

"For i am weak, then i am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:10

And the verse before that,

'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore i will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12:9

How true. And how relieved it is to hear this from our almighty God. God, i am weak! Come fill me today with your love and strength! Teach me today how to walk firmly in Your way, teach me today how to cast my anxieties aside and let You hold my hand. For when i am weak, i know i am strong because You are here. Always and always.


Another thing shared by one of my friends: Spending time with God.

God has given us so much time, why can't we just spend some of the time we have everyday with Him?

This question struck me. Yeah, i've been receiving 24 hours everyday from God, FREELY, and if it's not because of God, i have no hours, and thus i will not even be here right now! And so, since i have already received so much from God, why is it difficult to at least spend sometime in a day to date with Him? Guilt seeps in. I've been so busy with the things in my everyday life and really neglected spending proper time with Him. God must be upset. :( I want to spend more time with Him. I want to sing songs for Him, play songs for Him, talk to Him, and make Him happy! :) It's not just about serving Him once or twice in a week in church or christian fellowship, or serving Him everyday by doing what i can for Him, and glorifying Him in all ways... it's also about, talking to Him, spending quiet moment with Him, everyday... Enlightened. :)

Living life to the fullest!
Embrace every opportunity, and cherish every moments. :)

We have a new member in our gathering today! Yeepiee! He's a lecturer from the Chinese Dept. I know him because he plays tennis. :) I was playing with the guitar while he asked about my life. When he got to know about my life, he said that i'm a very talented girl, and my life is so meaningful. I know a lot of things, and i fill my life with all sorts of activities. Piano, guitar, violin, tennis, this, that... (oh yea, he included 'driving' in as well, hahahaha) Studies, sports, musics, fellowship, teaching in Sunday School... :)

Come to think of it, it is a meaningful life! :) And with all the talents i have, i am truly blessed that God gave them all to me! :) I'm not special without God, i'm not Agnes without God. In fact, God makes everyone special in his or her own ways, everyone is a very unique creation of his own. :) And God loves us, everyone of us.

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Today, i just feel so blessed. :) Blessed because i'm still alive by the grace of God, blessed because i am weak, blessed because of all the gifts He has given to me, blessed for everything that i have...

i am blessed because HE LOVES ME! ♥