I've been missing for a long while. I've been lazy to blog. This new habit is finding some struggle to leech on. Maybe because it's much easier to talk to real friends and people whom you can see and relate to. Of course, my virtual friends have thus far been really great. Still, it is different from blood and flesh. 

I've been busy though. Decided to take on a correspondance business and management study program to improve myself. So far, it's been....intensive. It takes a while to get back into the momentum of studying. But I've had good friends to help me. 

I'm still praying...still leaning..still living. 

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Very few people get to declare a public holiday for their birthdays.
Nations do.
Queens and Kings do. (Last monday was a "queen's birthday" holiday)
So does Jesus. (Christmas is just round the corner....it's a huge corner though....)

Winter should be over in a while. I hope I'll be able to head down to the beach for some good old sunny day fun!

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Two things I ask of You, O Lord;
do not refuse me before I die:
Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
~ Proverbs 30:7-8 ~

The lips of the righteous nourish many,
but fools die for lack of judgement.
~ Proverbs 10:21 ~

The blessing of the Lord brings wealth,
and he adds no trouble to it.
~ Proverbs 10:22 ~

A man's own folly ruins his life,
yet his heart rages against the Lord.
~ Proverbs 19:3 ~

A man who strays from the path of understanding
Comes to rest in the company of the dead.
~ Proverbs 21:16 ~

Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man,
Do not associate with one easily angered,
or you may learn his ways
and get yourself ensnared.
~ Proverbs 22:24 ~

Do not envy wicked men,
Do not desire their company;
for their hearts plot violence,
and their lips talk about making trouble.
~ Proverbs 24:1-2 ~

A malicious man disguises himself with his lips,
but in his heart he harbors deceit.
Though his speech is charming, do not believe him,
for seven abominations fill his heart.
His malice may be concealed by deception,
but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
~ Proverbs 26:24-26 ~

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Is this cool or what?

All ye aucklanders, do come!

The Prayer event of the year!

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And I don't mean with envy. =)

I've been reading the papers! (surprise surprise!)

There seems to be news around the world on the environment. Then I remembered a friend from Aussie sent me this:


Oh I love this frog friend! Ain't he cute?

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NZ has 11 public holidays...
....and not one of them falls in May...

A complete count down to winter....

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I was feeling a little apologetic that my previous post was less than rejoicing, and was contemplating if I should remove it.

But....i guess it'll stay, 'cause that's the real me. I'm not gonna pretend that I'm all alright and perfect. I have moments of melancholy and I have my regrets. I'm just going to be the real me.

ANZAC day was great. We didn't go out and do a lot. But it was good time together. But life's pretty much back to normal now, with work and everything else.

I miss singing...I think I'm going to put on a CD and worship...

*Ciaos!*

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I don't know what got over me today. I broke down and cried as I was in my room after church. All the years that have escaped my mind came flood back to me. I felt such a sense of loss, and a thousand "what ifs" swept through my soul. The time that was lost, all that could have been but never was. The time when I left home thinking I was going to "get a life". The garbage I got myself into and how my parents had to bail me out. It hurts. It hurts so much to see these moments so clearly now.

I was in a good land then. I just couldn't see. Today, I remain in the same home and family and I am feasting on the good of the land. But for so many years, I was there, but I was hungry. I saw no good thing in this place. Those years that came and gone, years that I could have hold on with gratitude, but passed me by. Today, I saw in the scriptures: "If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land." And it is true. I am in the same place I was at, with the same people I have been with. But then, I was not willing. And I was certainly not obedient. My heart was marred and hardened. I had missed the good of the land that was there for me to eat of.

I have learnt now. Things are often not what they seem. Often our eyes are clouded by our heart. When my heart was bitter and sore, everything I saw was bitter and sore. It was bitterness to my soul and soreness to my being. But now my heart has been cleansed and restored. The same things I see then now become blessings and pure. It is this way for a family, I'm sure it's the same for God's church. If you are willing and obedient to the Lord, and let your heart be pure, you will see his heart and you too will eat the good of the land. Because God has never placed His children in a futile land. He who has made rivers in the desert and granted Abraham the blessing of the land (even though he chose the weaker plot) has also given us the same blessing. There is much good in YOUR land, ever that land is.

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After mum's successful Pecan Project, we're going to try this today!!

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Mum made pecan pie today!! It was rummy yummy....because she added rum! Ain't that cool?

photo for illustration only...we finished the pie before I actually remembered to dish out my camera...but this was a pretty close resemblance!

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