Think Together!

1) what challenges do youth/young adults face today in their relationships with their family members/guardians/mentors?

 

2) How would we react in the different situations or challenges if it happens to us?

 

 

Please feel free to comment:):)

Alternatives

^{Ephesians 4:29-}Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

simply, the alternative word for gossiping when you type a sms, is actually inspiring.

(Try it^^)

You’re beautiful.

Sometimes when we try so hard to find certain things in our lives that we misplaced, we just simply cannot find it no matter how much effort we put in, no matter how  high we climb or how low we dig. But somehow when we actually don’t need it, its like a haunting ghost which just keeps floating in front of my eyes but i choose to do nothing about it.

Similarly, sometimes we try so hard to force our way through with our sheep, with our shepherd, with our leaders with our own timing and our wants that it backfires on us. What i’m not saying is that we should not even try, but sometimes we should let nature takes its course and let God, be God.

Frustrations of Xavier

Xavier is sincerely, utterly, irrefutably, indisputable, incontrovertible, undeniable the most forgetful/careless person ever alive. He has lost countless things within days? and the things are definitely not minor things and when he needs it, it just magically disappears and when he doesn’t need it, *poof* it appears, and keeps appearing in front of his very eyes, but he does not bother to keep it properly or whatsoever cause he believes where it will be and it will stay there.

Apparently, i have spent a few hours looking for the few things which matters to me, but to no avail………

Oh i am called Xavier?

LEGO

One brick don’t  make a house, much less a floor or foundation and only when many bricks come together, it builds a structure. Each life is a representation of a brick and its normal for people to just want to build on other people’s successes(building on the brick of others) and its necessary if not no one will build the house higher and higher to complete it.

However, on the contrary, if everyone only wants to leech off the success of others carrying the same mentality of someone who wants to achieve success without much work, then who would lay the foundations? Furthermore, the foundation would be the hardest to build as it has to sustain the weight of other bricks thus needing to be the strongest and most lasting brick of all. Even more so, we are all diverse, different bricks with different shape, sizes, colour to for different purposes, and it makes all things much more complicated it already is.

Well, i would, for not because i have to, but because i want to.

On a lighter note,

Dear CD3,

Thanks for being part of my life, for you have brought me through some of my most boring moments, sad moments, discouraged moments whereby i sincerely felt like giving up. I don’t know how many of you will see this but i sincerely thank God for every single one of you, for the immense joy you have brought to me and its just so fun that i just want to spend more and more time with you guys. Nonetheless you guys have also stuck with me through my happy moments!(my birthday) and many more.SOOOO MIGHTY MENS lets go all out TOGETHER and push each other on:)

Yours sincerely,

Xavier.

:)

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The heart which is disciplined to labour, to reach out, and to see life’s relationships full of divine potential,is above all, a dangerously enlarged heart.Its high ideals and expanded sympathies make it susceptible to a list of sorrows unknown to a small heart,but it is also open to a catalogue of joys the shriveled heart will never know.’

Personal

Hectic life basically means busy lifestyle, and it means more of God and not less of God; it makes a whole deal of difference. As school restarts for 4 weeks and camp/GC/ministry all piles up and the crazy me aiming a 4.0 gpa for my studies, makes choices really really difficult.

Shepherding VS project/work- project/work seems to be the more logical choice

Slack VS planning meetings- slacking sounds more appealing

Making decisions all the time for the sake of the Kingdom sounds like a sacrifice, a chore and something where a logical human wouldn do.

BUT as i was typing my birthday card for daniel liang, it all comes back again. Why we do what we do, and who we are doing it for, and with this 2 reminder and purpose back in line, a sacrifice/chore seems to be something that we ought to, or rather some thing i want to do and choose.

I only want One

How much?

Perfection has its price

As we live life, we will come to realise that perfection truly has its price, and we will not know how much we will be willing to invest into our lives, the lives uni-lateral and those under and above us, till we see, understand and agree with the values of it. Its sincerely time we as builders of the kingdom, we set our priorities right and be putting first things first.

Furthermore, as i was talking to daniel, who brought me right back on track and all fired up again, what does the ring truly mean to us?-a monument, an item, or a covenant? To me, its a covenant that lasts forever, and its time i did something about this covenant and make sure that all brotherhood in this fulfills it, as one.

We build lives that last,

and not boys who come and go,unchanged.

3 words!

Have been reflecting about what Shirley taught a few weeks ago about 3 words- USE ME MORE. As i was thinking, though it is not wrong to ask God to use me more, i would prefer to ask God to USE US MORE. It has never ever, and never ever will and must be about  me.

We must be the light to the nation, the mirror that reflects christ and the direction panel that directs people to God.

People must never be grown towards us, but God only

FURTHER CONVICTIONS

Well, i haven’t been updating and here is worth what i felt for the past 2 weeks.Its not about the school, but its about lives.

Hope AC

Firstly, just want to thank all the birthday wishes and celebrations:):). But something truly touched my heart this birthday and it is a birthday present that impacted me greatly.This means more than a present to me and this present not only further convicts me of what our vision of Principled World Saving Generation and from Generations to Generations, but has spurred me on to do more than just being convicted about it. This present is not the most expensive, not the most impressive, but its definitely the closest to heart, definitely something i would appreciate most:)

I firmly remember Daniel had a vision night where he  casted the vision of Principled World Saving Generation with a group of young, but yet committed and faithful to what they believed in-God.These 7 ACS boys(zachary young, yunkai,raphael), now the leaders in our church, impacting lives not only locally, but globally. Without these people, we may or may not be here, but they definitely have influenced the church greatly.

This is not just about us, but its about the generations and generations after that will come because we have been built up right, because our lives were invested by people who believed in this vision, and we, as the people with the baton in our hands now, have to impart this vision to the younger generation with more impact, with more insights and with more conviction to allow this vision to come to past.

Secondly, we can have many convictions in our lives, but there are some that we carry for life, and these convictions that we carry for life shapes partially our doings and our beliefs, and today, i do not just want to carry these convictions, but i want to pass it on, from generations to generations!

How about you?