Another ditch in the road, you keep moving...

Don't know why, felt compelled to write that as the title for this post. 1st line of the chorus of "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine", by Savage Garden. Really really sad and innocent song played on a piano. Hmm, been a long 3 days since my last post. Church on sunday, followed by two evenings of guitar rehearsals. Aching fingers to say the least.

Service on sunday was good. Testimony from a brother who was given the 'death sentence' by his doctor 7 years ago. Told he had 6 months at the most to live. His condition? 80% of heart nerves are dead, one heart valve blocked, heart was enlarged 20% cos of that. Surgery was more or less a 0% chance of success. Doctor suggested using the heart valve of a pig to replace the blocked one. Once stablised, would remove it and let the old one work. He was just 55 years old. Just withdrawn half his cpf. A roman catholic, who only went to church once a year, during christmas. As time passed, his colleague at work brought him to Lighthouse's miracle service, held at tampines. Back then, it was held once a month only. He got healed of a 40 year old gastric problem, and he didn't even know till a church friend bought him something that he normally couldn't take. Progressively, he got healed of several other conditions that surfaced further down the road: liver, kidney problems, and so on, and also accepted the Lord into his life. Really encouraging to hear that he's been praying for the healing of others while he was still gravely sick. Now, he's completely cured of all his conditions. Praise the Lord!

Lunch with Emily, Weiqiang and Terence followed. Talked about democracy after the meal, what sort of identity we have as Singaporeans. Quite a long discussion, with the sun's rays drawing closer to us throughout (we were sitting at the edge of the pavillion), and the heat starting to be unbearable. Hung around tampines mall after that to kill time while waiting to meet up at the airport with Eliz and Steff to pick up Joyce from her mission trip to China. Met up with some Cornerstone members who were there to receive the team as well. After they landed and came out into the arrival hall, sharings started to flow. We all prayed, that they managed to accomplish what they had set out to do during their trip, and for them to arrive back home safely. Though Joyce and another of her team members suffered from an unsettled stomach/food poisoning for the last couple of days. Asked her to go see a doc when she gets home. Dinner at BK followed after Joyce and co left. Me, Eliz, Steff, Finna, Shirlyn (did I spell correctly?), and Timothy tucked in and chit chatted for quite a while. Think it was like 7+ before we left to take the train. Discussed some guitar matters with Eliz on board the train ride. My two cents on the instructor issue. Online meeting was held later that night to confirm stuff. More or less, things got settled, and a group meeting was to be held on wednesday to go through other issues.

Monday and Tuesday were sleepy days. Elected to stay in bed till late morning, or in the case of tuesday, till after lunch. Weariness getting to me. Rehearsals as usual in the evenings. This time round, I recorded the songs as we went along. Not too good, but not that bad either. Still need to work on the techniques. Team, if you are reading this, use this 6 days to work on whatever you need to work on. I'll do the same. Hope come monday, everything will be better and we can have good recordings to motivate us further. I'll post up the recordings that were done so far online later. My mp3 player is still charging. Had a haircut done earlier in the day. Finally had it cut after letting it grow for like 1½ months. So if anyone sees me, don't be surprised :Þ EDIT: Performance team, please go to and download the recordings and review and fine tune: http://sg.geocities.com/simgc_team/index.html. Hope to able to have better arrangements on monday. 10 songs to record in total. Besides the ones listed on the site, there's still Better Man, Closing Time and Virginia Moon to record.

Been a long few weeks. Comex finally beckons from thursday right through to sunday. Which means I'll miss cell group, miracle service, church service. 48 hours of work out of the 96 that comprises of that period of time. Is it worth it? Sure, the money's good. But at what cost? Exhaustion, missed sermon/fellowship/worship. Guess I'll have to sit down and rethink my priorities. Joyce threw me some interestings thoughts to ponder and reflect. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom". She felt that The Lord wants her to tell me that. Do I need wisdom? I'm sure I do. Wisdom is something everyone needs. But for me, feel it's something that can be sometimes lacking in my life. A lot of wrong decisions in my life, which turned out to be regrets later on. Don't think I should dwell in the past, should focus on what's ahead in life. Especially on what the Lord has in store for me. And to know Him better in every way. Have to read more of the Word to understand His character and personality in a deeper way. Still continuing to pray to receive the gift of tongues. Yet there's so much more that The Lord can give me. Will strive harder towards that. Wisdom starts with fear of the Lord. Have to keep this in mind.

"My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you search for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding." Proverbs 2:1-6