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Today is Christmas! Yay! Happy birthday to Jesus. :)

Just had an awesome celebration with my church family yesterday on Christmas eve! It was truly a blessed night. We started off with a great meal of steamboat!! Really gotta give all applauses to those who prepared for this great meal.

Then we went for a spontaneous caroling session in ss2 mall. It was 9.40 pm. The mall was closing. It was near to being empty. Indeed, it was a crazy idea to begin with, BUT, with God's favour, we managed to bless THREE outlets with our Christmas songs and candy canes. The experience was so phenomenal.

I just can't express how great it feels to be able to spread the joy of the Lord. Singing while smiling, and while giving out candy canes to strangers. Having them responding with a big smile, "Merry Christmas to you too", really blew me away. I was over the top. Thank you so much God for making this experience an awesome one.

And thank you to Xin Yi (one of our awesome church member, also an extremely pretty sister inside and out) for persisting to having this caroling session. Every time she organizes something, the plan really goes on. Her persistence in every thing she does really inspires me. I feel so young when I hang out with her!!!

I just want to mention THREE things that hit me tonight. Some things are faithful reminders, while some are just pure inspiring.

1. God is always with us.

Indeed a reminder many Christians miss out on. God is always here with us. Having a Christmas celebration with the right reason in mind, that is to celebrate Jesus' birth, really makes us appreciate our God a whole lot more. And it really reminds me tonight that no one or thing is greater than Him. He is always here; yesterday, today and forever. :')

2. We can make a difference with God.

We can really make a difference in our everyday lives. Each and every experience we had with God can bless others. Each and every action we do can reflect God within us, just like today's caroling. I could see faces whom are genuinely happy to hear us sing. And I could hear claps for us as we finish our songs. It may be a small gesture, but in these every little small gestures, God's love is made known. :)

3. God shows us new things.

HE REALLY DOES. Tonight has been such a great testimony to His name. Not just the caroling, but also through the presence of a few particular people. A young lad brought his two friends who had some complications in communication. This young lad's constant effort to use sign language to tell his friends on what is going on really really inspires me. I never knew this young lad had so much in him. :) Not until today. God showed me this new thing tonight.

Lovely start to a beautiful day. :)

Thank you, Jesus. 

We just never bothered

It was all there. I recently saw a friend's blog. It was so detailed. When I read it, my tears fell. I never knew she had come such a long way from her past, from her experiences in life. When I met her in person, she would always smile at me. She would always be the first one to encourage me in the sea of people.

Never would I have guessed this positive person had such a dark past. A past which I would have never been able to let go, but she did.

Her stories are all there. But, we just never bothered. We never bothered to read it, to feel it or to understand her.

Today, I got curious about her. I wondered if she had anything in her life now that is disrupting her. Recently, she felt different. Perhaps something was bothering her. Being me, I dug deeper. And there I was, stumbling myself upon her blog.


And as I read every word, I cringe at how much she has been through. Thank God she has Jesus. Else, I wouldn't know anything which could've helped her go through this mess.

But being human, we get weak over and over. Troubles will come and hit over and over. It won't stop. But when we believe in Jesus, it will. When we believe that Jesus got our back, He really does carry us through our burdens. No one can be a bigger testimony than this friend of mine.

I have met a lot of different people in my 22 years of living. I know, I know, that might not be a very big number to speak for experiences, BUT yes, I believe even the littlest experiences count. Most of the people I've met fret over love problems. They fret over one-sided feelings. They fret over not having enough money. They fret over not having enough skills to become a famous TV star.

But this friend, I never saw her fret about romantic feelings. I never saw her fret about her skills and thinking she's not good enough. I began to wonder, "is she normal at all?" 

When I read her blog, I found out that she was indeed normal, just that her problems are not petty, not like the most of ours. Reading about her problems made me feel like I had nothing to worry about at all as far as my life goes. It made me appreciate what I had. It made me thank God I didn't have to go through what she went through.

Honestly, I wouldn't be as strong as her. I would've ended my life far back. But she stood till today. Because Jesus was and still is her pillar of strength. 

It amazes me how God can give such tremendous courage to a girl who almost lost everything in her life. It amazes me how His love is enough for us to receive and to give. It really amazes me how God made her a wonderful living testimony in our eyes.

God is always so good.

Now, as I look at this girl the next time I see her, I will look at her with different eyes. My eyes will be filled with joy and hope because I know that this girl has God working in her. And nothing can be more beautiful than that.

Thank you Father as you love us so much. You are worthy. :)

Finally

She let down her hair. Heaved a heavy sigh of relief.

"So this is how it feels like after a long time."

:')

She closed her eyes. A single tear fell. No, it was not sadness. It was relief. Times have been pretty rough. The stress, emotionally and physically. She could finally swim up for air. 

It was normal to smile again. 

My God brought me through my obstacles.

He is the same yesterday, today and forever. 

:')