The Lifebuilder's Creed

Greatly motivated by this- "The Lifebuilder's Creed" by Dale Witherington

when I first came across it in 'Today Matters' by John C. Maxwell.

So just thought of sharing it with you guys.

May we make each day our masterpiece for Him, by His grace. = )

Today is the most important day of my life.

Yesterday with its successes and victories, struggles and failures

Is gone forever.

The past is past.

Done.

Finished.

I cannot relive it. I cannot go back and change it.

But I will learn from it and improve my Today.

Today. This moment. NOW.

It is God’s gift to me and it is all that I have.

Tomorrow with its joys and sorrows, triumphs and troubles isn’t here yet.

Indeed, tomorrow may never come.

Therefore, I will not worry about tomorrow.

Today is what God has entrusted to me.

It is all that I have. I will do my best in it.

I will demonstrate the best of me in it-

My character, giftedness, and abilities-

To my family and friends, clients and associates.

I will identify those things that are most important to do Today,

And those things I will do until they are done.

And when this day is done

I will look back with satisfaction at that

Which I have accomplished.

Then, and only then, will I plan my tomorrow,

Looking to improve upon Today, with God’s help.

Then I shall go to sleep in peace…content.

May you be greatly encouraged by this poem by Dale Witherington.

God bless ya = )

By His facilitator

消失了？

今天想用中文写写心情~

还没算过自己写了多少身边的人、事、物。但很感谢这么久以来愿意花时间来了解我们身边所发生的事情的朋友们。呵呵。。。谢啦~

消失了大半年，到底做了些什么？

6月之7月：

1) 去了趟欧洲 - 在法国差点儿被小偷得逞；终于爬上了瑞士少女峰，还学人家寄了张明信片回家；在摄氏40度的意大利罗马逛到脚麻痹；奥地利的花真的很美；德国的香肠没有想象中好吃；荷兰的红灯区，隔壁就是一座教堂，错过了看郁金香的季节，但看到了风车。

拍了很多照片，跟很多人聊天，和陌生人擦肩而过。

三个字，“很过瘾”。

欧洲，我会再回来~

2）终于毕业了 - 戴上了梦寐以求的四方帽，告诉自己，“熬这么久，就是为了这个，值得！”我常常告诉自己，英国是上帝让我开眼界的地方；想要看到不同的风景，就要有勇气离开原来的地方；想要挑战自己的极限，就要去有竞争力的地方。所以我来到了一直不敢尝试 的国家 - 新加坡。

8月- 9 月：

1）在家待了一个多月，一面担心自己的前途，一面找浏览jobstreet.com, jobsdb.com； 一面寄履历，一面祈祷自己赶快找到适合的工作。一天晚上，睡前做了一个祷告，“上帝，如果新加坡在袮安排之中，让我找到合适的工作吧。” 就这样，开斋节前夕到了新加坡，准备面试。心情非常紧张，一路上哥哥一直陪我聊天；幸好有他，要不然我真的会胃穿洞。朋友告诉我这家医院很有名，自己心里有底，“应该不会请我吧，但没关系，慢慢找。” 结果第二天给了我一个大大的惊喜 – 被录取了；那时还在逛街，看着iphone，手一直在发抖。拨了一通电话告诉爸爸，眼泪在眼眶中打滚，很想哭。

就这样，签下了第一份 聘书，开心的不得了。但接下来，却是漫长的等待 – 申请工作证。一心想着可以快点拿到工作证，赶快开工，素不知一等再等，结果还是一样。。。等。每天醒来，一样的事情重复着做；吃饭，睡觉，看电视。一直告诉自己，去运动，看书，出去找找朋友 ，但一觉醒来，什么都不想做，赖在家发呆。朋友说就当作放假吧，要是哪一天开工了，想要请假就难了。哥哥说，“买份报纸，继续找工，总要有个plan B。” 这时再也忍不住，流泪了。从那时的充满自信到现在渐渐失去信心、不踏实。。。说真的，我也搞不清楚了。

2）听到一个消息，朋友进了医院，家人朋友都不放弃，一直在身边陪伴及鼓励她。这位朋友，中学同班一年，毕业后聚会偶尔会碰面。回想起中学时期，忘了多少次擦肩而过，彼此都知道对方的存在。淡淡的友情，心里却掀起了很大的龙卷风。今晚没来得及看天空，不知道你在吗？如果有机会梦到你，我们不要再擦肩而过，我们。。。坐下来聊天，好吗？

10月：

此时此刻，心情五味杂陈，你呢？

如果让我重新选择，我会选择安全牌，还是不安牌理出牌，勇敢冒险，然后写下一些值得回味的文章？你呢？

没有解不开的心结，过不了的关，放不下的恨。。。不要等到失去，才知道当初自己有多笨。撑过了今天，明天就没有那么痛了。就算哭到旁边的人都顶不顺，告诉你，一百年才见一次，管他的~~

p/s: 朋友，梦里见。还有。。这首歌，送你~

文字与音乐

HIV . HOPE . TB

Faith.Hope.Love. 
Ya, sounds logic and relevant.


But HIV.Hope.TB?
How do they relate to each other?
HIV and TB, ya, they both relate to depressing diseases;
nothing wrong to put these words together.


But how could Hope come between them?
Or rather how could Hope arise from them?


Served a HIV cum TB patient last month.
He has been in the TB ward for months.
I haven't seen anyone visited him throughout the week that I ministered to him.
Loneliness and solitude were what I saw in him.


A few thoughts came into my mind whenever I saw him.
Perhaps his family and friends have given up on him.
Perhaps he has hurt his loved ones in a deep way that we couldn't comprehend.
Perhaps deep down in his heart, he wished he could be given a brand new chance in his life and this time round he would make different major decisions in his life.
Perhaps like everyone else, he has also given up himself because he just couldn't see hope in his life anymore. 


Have you ever felt so ashamed that you wished you could just turn back time and erase those destructive actions of yours unto others?


Have you ever been in a situation where guilt and remorse were so overwhelming and you wished you could be given one more chance to reverse the entire scenario?


Have you ever felt so desperate and hopeless to an extent where you see death as the only solution for all your problems?


John 10:10 (NKJV; emphasis added)


"The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
I (Jesus) have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." 


Matthew 9:10-13 (NKJV; emphasis added)


"Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, 
that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and his disciples.


And when the Pharisees saw it,
they said to His disciples,
"Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"


When Jesus heard that, He said to them,
"Those who are well have no need of a physician, 
but those who are sick.
But go and learn what this means:
'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.'
For I did not come to call the righteous, 
but sinners, to repentance."


Luke 4:18 (NKJV)


"The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me 
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set liberty to those who are oppressed..."


So now, what do you see from the above verses?

I see a loving God wanted so much to give His creations abundant life.
I see a merciful God wanted so much to restore our broken lives; whether we have messed it up ourselves or broken by others.
Above all, I see Hope in the midst of sins, sickness and shame.


It's never your Creator's desire for you to bear the guilt and shame.
It's never His intention to see you drown in your regrets and self-condemnation.
But it's always His desire to give you a brand new start in your life; 
no matter what you've done; 
and right where you are;
HE WANTS TO SET YOU FREE.


All we need to do is just a humble confession,
and He will do the rest. = )


HIV.HOPE.TB
Can you relate them now? = )


May you be Blessed by this entry.
God bless you. = )


*HIV- Human immunodeficiency virus
 TB- Tuberculosis

The Real You

Long time no see yooo!!~lol..Please say you miss me..:p

I am good, spending my last three months here in uk and all I can say is TIME FLIES.

What I’ve been doing since my last blog??

Yeah..here you go!~

***

Never in my life I can actually sit down and study for hours, for both lecturers’ note and books. Did I mention BOOKS?? Because I realized that lecturers’ note was not enough to cover the details of what could possibly turn out in exam. It was just a few days before exam. I had the worst burning mid night oil revision ever.  Basically I’d cried badly the day before each paper; that’s how I release tension. I prayed hard, before and after each paper, before revision and before I go to bed. And I promised to write about this if I pass all the subjects. And yes, I did pass all the subjects.

But what I really want to share is, do I pray as hard after that?? The answer is…NOT REALLY.

***

It seems like wherever I stay, there will be a noisy neighbour. Be it loud music or partying, those were the very LAST thing I would like to deal with after a long tiring day. It did not turn out the way I wanted even though I tried to communicate politely. But, I’ll still fight for it for the sake of my “little peaceful moment”.Hm.. .What did I do to get that? LOL~ By banging the door, shouting out loud, throwing stuff against the wall. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. So, can you imagine I have to bang the door everyday?? You’ll just laugh off nicely…But to be honest, I don’t bang it everyday, just occasionally.

Next, what if I meet my neighbour face to face? It depends, if I am in the good mood, I’ll be nice, otherwise (or the music is too loud), I’ll just walk pass them. Mind you, they have no obligations to take care of me, neither do they have the responsibility on my happiness or well-being. In other words, I can freely express my concern but they can choose not to listen. This is one thing I learn from them.

Now I have two choices; complain or deal with it. That’s the hardest thing for me. It’s just a repeating cycle; I get so angry at first, complain later, feeling nothing after that. I have no strength to pray for more patience and love, sadly. I just complain, releasing my anger to God…Only God knows.

***

I am currently working on my thesis. This is the first time I am designing my own experiment and testing it as to whether it answers my questions. Going into laboratory without knowing whether or not my experiment is going to work out, that’s adventurous and boring at the same time, because I am so used to “Prepared Model Answers”. I am a bit lost at first, I don’t know where am I heading to, what if I couldn’t get it? What is the right way? What am I doing? How I hope there’ll be one book that telling me the right way to do it and the model answers to all my questions.

***

Well, to be exact, I want God to fix all my problems while I can carry on with my way of enjoying life. I fast-forward the worst part and go on with the good part, putting Him away when I am in good shape. This is the real side of me. And, I don’t embrace all these, so don’t copy me please (especially the banging door part!). This is the part where God has to deal with me, in order to change my way of thinking and living. I need to hand over myself to Him, good or bad, He is in control. I can be a good Christian, but not a good disciple. Last week during church service, a sister shared about discipleship, now that hits me a lot because I don’t have what she said as a disciple of God. I am just plainly an easy, convenient Christian.

But God is yet to give up on me, this sister is sending His message to me,

“Then he said to them all, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”  - Luke 9:23

It can be your addictions, bad habits, money…anything that draws you away from Him, He is there helping you to overcome these obstacles. . He is interested in bringing you back into His arms and He is there to put away any stumbling blocks that draw you away from Him.

“…because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” – Romans 5:3-5

The power of weakness is the strongest if you allow God to work on them, because He can turn bad into good, impossible to possible.  

Are you ready to give God the real you today? 

- To be continued - 

By,

Word n Music 

YOU! YES, YOU!! CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Saw the date of our last post, it was 24th Dec 2011.
Supposed to update our blog last month,
but I have to admit that my work has exhausted me over the past 3 months.
So ya, finally, here I am, managed to squeeze out some energy to come out with this new entry.

Just wanna share about what I have observed and felt during these 3 months.
All these while, I'm always convinced that each one of us,
though we are seemingly an insignificant individual among the 7 billion population on earth,
but we are able to make a difference in someone's life in everything we do.

Today, being in a profession where we couldn't afford to make a single mistake,
I couldn't agree more if someone is to tell me that 'You can make a difference through a simple act in your daily life.'

For instance, let's try to picture this.

Setting: Hospital Pharmacy

Workflow:

Individual A:
The 1st person to screen the prescription to make sure the medications and doses are written correctly. If everything is fine, he/she will take the medicines and put in a basket, and will pass to Individual B.

Individual B:
The 2nd person that screens the prescription again to detect any error and he/she will check whether Individual A has got the correct medicines. If everything is fine, Individual B will label the medicine with instructions of taking it and pass to Individual C.

Individual C: 
The 3rd and also the last person to screen the prescription to detect medication errors and he/she will check whether the medicines are being filled and labeled correctly. If everything is fine, Individual C shall dispense the medicines to the patient whom is the end user of the medicines.

Alright, now, what if, there's a medicine that is meant for a kid but an adult dose was prescribed,
But no one discovers it. Why? Because...

Individual A thinks that I will just fill the medicine in the basket without screening through the prescription,
afterall Individual B and C will surely check for me later.

And Individual B thinks that Individual A must have screened through the prescription and Individual C will surely screen again before he/she dispense out the medicine,
so I shall just label accordingly without thinking it much.

Individual C thinks that definitely Individual A & B have checked through everything before they passed the medicines to me, so I shall just dispense the medicines to the patient.

In the end, patient suffers due to medication error.
The consequences could be fatal at times.

If each individual above plays their part well,
human life would not be sacrificed.
Lives would be saved.

So now, can you see the impact of a simple act of a single individual? = )

This does not just apply to healthcare profession but every single person.

If you are part of the service crew in a restaurant,
you decide the reputation of the restaurant,
whether this restaurant offers friendly and warm service.

If you are a teacher,
you decide the reputation of the school,
whether the school able to provide education of quality and integrity.

If you are a sales representative,
you decide the reputation of your company,
whether the customers are getting goods supply from a reliable company.

If you are a hairstylist,
you decide the image of your client,
whether he and she could walk out from the hair saloon confidently.

If you are a car mechanic,
you decide the safety of the vehicle,
whether the driver and the passengers can reach their destination safely.

And if you are a friend of someone,
a harsh word of yours breaks your friend;
but a word of encouragement makes your friend's day.

We never know how great the impact of our little act of kindness would bring,
but let's decide to make a positive difference in someone's life today.
You might be able to save a life directly or indirectly.
You never know = )

Galatians 6:9-10

"And let us not grow weary while doing good,
for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart."

"Therefore, as we have opportunity,
let us do good to all,
especially to those who are of the household of faith."

God bless you. = )


By His facilitator