surprised by joy

For the sake of giving this blog some history to hold in future, I decided to type a few lines. (:

Somehow since coming home, I haven't had time to sit down and type, although I've had plenty to sit down and write. It could also be because I simply spend less time in all in front of a computer (with internet access I should add).

BUT there are so many things I want to share with the world, about how amazing God has been this past month, I don't know where to begin. I want to praise Him for being so real, for making his infinite grace, mercy and love so so real in my life, and in the people around me too. I have been, once again, surprised by joy.

Most beautiful had to be the chance meeting with an rgspb junior (who's actually older than I) and whom I hadn't seen or spoken to in about three long years and whom I was never close to, but who poured out a story of her three years that was so breathtaking I wanted to sob and sing for joy all at once.

But there remains much sadness and tragedy and hurt. "Vanity, all is vanity."

Taking the hotline calls today, I listened to one person after the next pour out woes about not having a handphone and "don't cheat me ok, if I give you a story you MUST give me a handphone". I scarce knew whether to weep for the lack of faith in people, or the plight that drove them to such desperation. And in the first place was it poverty or greed? I couldn't tell. I do know that it was extremely draining. News these days can only bad, and if it's hotline calls they mostly have to be bad enough, show up a hidden dirty-enough secret of society to be newsworthy anyway. It can really drive you to such despair sometimes!

What's been in the news these days: murders, bombings, train crashes, typhoons, disillusion with charity, what else?

There is so much else, that cannot be reported in the papers. There is so much else that cannot be captured in pictures, captions, and short snappy sentences (or long ones for that matter). I wish I could do so much more all the time, and I'm asking how how how?


"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me." Can I truly say that yet? But I know that, "The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Galatians 2:20 And that is blessed assurance.

posted by Shi Ning @ 16:09