Tired from all the activities, but feeling rested in mind with the activities giving my heart and mind a break from all the things within.
Ended the busy tiring week with a cool friday spent with my colleagues. Somehow after lunch, they were in the mood to take a walk at the nearby mini park around the work area. Been wanting to check out the place ever since I started work there...nice cool little quiet place.
Also had the chance to just chill out at the company's recreational lounge before knocking off, over some cuppacino. Nice...certainly breaks the monotony of company routines.
Simple moments cherished. =)
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Mann....I woke up this sunday morning to an aching calf, abdomen, back and arms. Groannn.
Thanks to this brilliant brain of mine that suggested having a run at the reservoir with yanquan. (Note to self: filter and consider seriously any future random thoughts and ideas that could be potentially dangerous, destructive, degrading, detrimental....or at least anything that doesn't feel so good.)
Wanted sooo much to just sleep in, and say "no one is at home!" when yanquan came over to my house. But oh well...managed to pull myself up and go for the run.
Woah...it's been like roughy 5 months since I last ran...ever since yanquan enlisted into army. Really felt like dying around 3/4 of the run around the reservoir. Guess the pace was too fast for someone who hasn't been running. And at the end of the workout after the run, I realised my folly all along...
..back in my army days, my friends and I used to laugh at those working uncles (reservist ns men) who came over our camp for their Remedial Training(RT) for failing their IPPT (physical fitness test). It was certainly a sight to see them huffing and puffing, struggling to just meet the passing mark for IPPT. But I realised that it's really not easy maintaining the fitness after army in a working life. Lots of discipline man. (So to all those uncles out there, I'm sorry for having laughed at you. Please forgive me, and I hope we won't get the chance to meet in any RT session.)
But it felt great after the workout. Ended the session with prata breakfast, and a visit to the reservoir which was having an international wakeboarding competition.
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Had a simple youth session after service. Basically a time of praying for one another (should have more of it man), and kinda of a..."benediction"/corporate prayer of a song for the youths in their week ahead...by our very own younger youth band! Wayy cool.
Really an encouragement to see them playing tighter as a band after these few months of training...they sounded great. I gotta admit, at times I do struggle with the issue of control, and doing too much and over stepping my boundry? I wonder if there was any a time that someone did not stand up to voice out or do what they can because of me. I don't know...at times it seems that when I want to be in the background, and just support, situations just push me forward infront, while there would be times that I unconciously move too upfront by myself. Gotta remind myself, I'm not indispensible, nor am I everything. It's Him alone. Let me be what I'm made to be...a tool in His hands accordingly.
Let's see where He leads them then, and as they grow in service, may He put within them the very thing that would undoubtedly flourish their skills and capabilities...the unceasing desire within to express their love and adoration unto the King.
Beautiful isn't it...the image of our fingers and hands moving and working out of the overflow of our hearts' desire, creating tunes and beats that melodies our worship and thanksgiving unto Him.
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Speaking of thanksgiving, Steven's message on Sunday brought a nudging reminder on it...
In my role as a servant(called to preach the gospel) and a saint(called to spiritual growth), have I lost the joy of it all?
Have I personally, and we as a church, stereotyped and proclaimed to reality as constantly down and trodden?
Has God been out of the picture in my process of sanctification, resulting in a constant self burdening disappointment, in my failures?
My happiness is secondary and derivative from Him being pleased, that is why we can continue serving in joy despite the hardships and trials, and not be burnt out in weariness and disappointment.
That if we would consider....there is indeed joy to be had in the journey...there is something to be glad and joyful about...of which have I lost sight of?
Funny how some things that you treasure and hold on to, have the ability to rob you of what's really important. Sad, but true.
And so ends another weekend.
Tired from the activities, but rested from the process somehow.
[my calf and arms are still hurting and sore though =( ]