Redundant

As leaders, sometimes after we rise up, we tend to want to control and call the shots in the things we do and decisions we make due to some form of authority we seem to have. We would also do things based on our feelings, whether we feel its right or wrong, or based on experience where what seem right in the past, is assumed to be right now. Furthermore, we may do things that what seems best in our eyes and practical. Somehow we just forgot who we are living/working/dying for.

For the past week, i have done school,minstry, life mostly without God, as it seems to be the same mundane things that i always do, but at the end of the week, as i reflected, i cant help but just sigh a relief as the week came to an end, for i was really simply tired and crumbling.

This week is even worse, test presentations tests presentations. But 1 thing is definitely different, i have my Lifegroup to go through it with me, i have my friends to go through it with me, i have my spiritual family to go through with me, and ultimately, i have God, as cliche as it sounds, its going to be significantly different, for i will be refreshed with a new sense of spirit.

KELVIN!

MR KELVIN DANIEL CHEAH KIAN PENG!!!HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY!!^^

Just want to wish you a happy birthday! and though i don’t always say it buttttttttttttttttt

YOU ARE LOVED BY ME:):):)

 

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.