Was sick... and now healed!

I actually had a lot of things to update, but i didn't know where to start off with. Life's been very busy, but i guess i really live it to the fullest! :) Praise the Lord it has been a really blessed month in achieving a lot of miracles with Him. True. Many times, i thought that i was just too weak to be used by Him, but He made me realize that it's Him whom makes me strong everytime. So, it doesn't really matter whether you are strong or weak before He calls you for a mission. :) Let His power fill you and then you will be strong, not strong by yourself, but you will be strong IN HIM.

Yesterday early morning i had a painful gastric attack which in the end turned out to be food poisoning, a very serious one though. I almost got hospitalized! But praise the Lord, it's just a two-hour pain, and thank Him too because my parents were around. If not i think i would die. :( After that painful experience in the morning, i had fever in the afternoon until night. What a combo eh? Then later at night, my stubbornness finally surrendered and i went to see the doctor. I was diagnosed with food poisoning. =S

One thing i would like to share about this whole incident is what my friend told me. He told me to take care of myself, because it's God's temple. It's almost as if a sudden strike which stroke right through me. YES, my body is God's temple, if i always take it for granted, it's actually destroying His temple. Perhaps, i was just too busy (and perhaps, stressed out, a bit) with my assignments, and tonnes of extra work to do at the school that i pushed myself too hard. And just when the holiday started, i got sick, a terrible one. Yeah, it's time to spend more time for myself. :)

Basically yesterday was all about sleeping, waking up, walking around groggily, then back to sleeping again... yep. THANK GOD today i'm feeling so much so much better! :)

Okay, i'm ready for my holiday! Come on!

Just remember: I care.

When you think you're alone
In the middle of the night,
When you've just had an awful dream
And you're shivering with fright,
You lie there alone and scared
And wonder if anyone cares.
If you look into your heart
You'll always find Me there.
Sometimes life is just too hard
And you need to get away.
You need someone to talk to
Who will listen to what you say,
Someone who will let you know
That they'll always be there.
When you can't find anyone
Just remember that I care.
When there is nowhere else to go
You can always come to Me
I promise that I'll be there
In your greatest hour of need.
I'm sure you can find Me
If you take the time for prayer.
When the whole world seems to hate you
Just remember that I care.

This is something i read in the Internet last week and i wanted to show. :) Just as simple as a reminder for you that i care, but it means a lot more than that.

Thank You, Lord...

Holding hands.

You hold it,
not because you like holding it.
You hold it,
because you want to hold it forever.

Hold it tight,
not because you are afraid of losing it.
Hold it tight,
because you know you will hold it everytime it needs you.

So will you?

Hello August!

Wow, life's been like so busy, so busy! I can't believe it, it's August already! Lots of things happened lately. Good as well as bad, but God made them all end well... :) Learnt a lot of things. Perhaps i will try sharing it here this Friday. :)


Was it God talking to me? Hmmm. It came up so suddenly, like out of nowhere. But it somehow answered the question i've been struggling. God, is that the answer?

Thank you, dear... ♥

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! ♥

PRINCE, oh be mine!

My princeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Please be mine! ♥

=)

It's really blessed to have awesome people around you. :)
God, I'm so blessed because of You. :)