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Full time music teacher
Loves God's creation, Loves travels, Loves beaches........
+ 04 Jan
+ elenatan@gmail.com
Full time music teacher
Loves God's creation, Loves travels, Loves beaches........
Monday, October 16, 2006
Ladies Retreat 2006 - "U are Uniquely Precious"
Yes! I'm back...thank you for missing me! Hahahaa.
Ladies Retreat was gd..though tiring, but i guess i gained more than i lost. I really went for the retreat with ZERO expectation. First of all i was blessed with a fantastic bus captain that really made my day. Though i'm her asst captain, she did most of the things, but what really touched my heart was really that joyful and cheerful spirit in her. She really made my friday morning when she greeted me. Even giving out THOSE bags didn't seem silly anymore.
i'm really glad to have Esther on this journey with me. It really seemed more bearable to travel with someone close to u. The 5 hr journey to-and-fro only felt like 3 hrs. Over the last few days, God really taught me many many many lessons. Lessons that i probably wouldn't have been able to learn anywhere else. I believe that many things were divinely planned.
1) Thank God for a fantastic bus captain. Thank God for opportunities to speak to some of the aunties on our way there and back. I never had so much fun talking to aunties, they are really funnier and more humorous than any clowns. Some of the ladies are old enough to be my mother, but their conversations are really funny! Unfortunately not all the ladies are from COR, so it looks like i can only see them again one year from now!
2) Thank God for the comfortable room, it has really been our sacred nest for the past 3 days - a place of worship, meditation and rest.
3) Thank God for Angeline and Fay who were there to support me in whatever way they did. i believe they were God-sent.
4) Thank God for the very very very annointed speakers! Margaret and Pam Stewart. My faith and my spiritual walk was challenged and has since been taken to the next level. God really spoke, His word was like a double-edged sword that pierced right thru and got me actively thinking. On the 2nd night, i just decided to go by faith and allow God to search my heart, in a very deep way, that only He knows how to. i felt every bit of His Spirit. i know God is not done with me yet. But i know that He is definitely faithful to His promise that he will Rebuild what He has shaken and torn down.
5) On Saturday, everything that could go wrong went wrong. Basically i spent the whole day in deep thoughts. That's why i prob appeared quite "gong" when i'm doing something else. i ended my Saturday night with a visit to the swimming pool. It was quite a cool experience. i went there wanting to just sort out my thoughts and also allow God to put my tots back into perspective again. i was just singing and singing non stop. Caused some bystanders to look really worried, but c'mon, if i wanted to die, i would have tried a more surefire way. HAHA! God was faithful, He really spoke and helped me rise beyond that whole feeling of confusion and the state of heaviness to come back in humility, submit and respond in repentance.
Thank You Lord, for whatever You have started there. Father we open our hearts to You, for You to continue give as we learn to receive =)
God, grant us strength for the coming new wk. You know we are tired and overwhelmed by many thoughts and burdens, but because we have You, we know that we can also look beyond just normal physical rest/sleep but also learn to be still and rest in You peacefully in everything that we do. Father i pray, help us to live a life that has a quiet spirit, because we yearn for one of those fruits of the Spirit - "Gentleness".
Ok, i'm looking forward to my meditations and reflections in this coming wk.
Even my horizontal "meditation'"..right now...=)
Ladies Retreat was gd..though tiring, but i guess i gained more than i lost. I really went for the retreat with ZERO expectation. First of all i was blessed with a fantastic bus captain that really made my day. Though i'm her asst captain, she did most of the things, but what really touched my heart was really that joyful and cheerful spirit in her. She really made my friday morning when she greeted me. Even giving out THOSE bags didn't seem silly anymore.
i'm really glad to have Esther on this journey with me. It really seemed more bearable to travel with someone close to u. The 5 hr journey to-and-fro only felt like 3 hrs. Over the last few days, God really taught me many many many lessons. Lessons that i probably wouldn't have been able to learn anywhere else. I believe that many things were divinely planned.
1) Thank God for a fantastic bus captain. Thank God for opportunities to speak to some of the aunties on our way there and back. I never had so much fun talking to aunties, they are really funnier and more humorous than any clowns. Some of the ladies are old enough to be my mother, but their conversations are really funny! Unfortunately not all the ladies are from COR, so it looks like i can only see them again one year from now!
2) Thank God for the comfortable room, it has really been our sacred nest for the past 3 days - a place of worship, meditation and rest.
3) Thank God for Angeline and Fay who were there to support me in whatever way they did. i believe they were God-sent.
4) Thank God for the very very very annointed speakers! Margaret and Pam Stewart. My faith and my spiritual walk was challenged and has since been taken to the next level. God really spoke, His word was like a double-edged sword that pierced right thru and got me actively thinking. On the 2nd night, i just decided to go by faith and allow God to search my heart, in a very deep way, that only He knows how to. i felt every bit of His Spirit. i know God is not done with me yet. But i know that He is definitely faithful to His promise that he will Rebuild what He has shaken and torn down.
5) On Saturday, everything that could go wrong went wrong. Basically i spent the whole day in deep thoughts. That's why i prob appeared quite "gong" when i'm doing something else. i ended my Saturday night with a visit to the swimming pool. It was quite a cool experience. i went there wanting to just sort out my thoughts and also allow God to put my tots back into perspective again. i was just singing and singing non stop. Caused some bystanders to look really worried, but c'mon, if i wanted to die, i would have tried a more surefire way. HAHA! God was faithful, He really spoke and helped me rise beyond that whole feeling of confusion and the state of heaviness to come back in humility, submit and respond in repentance.
Thank You Lord, for whatever You have started there. Father we open our hearts to You, for You to continue give as we learn to receive =)
God, grant us strength for the coming new wk. You know we are tired and overwhelmed by many thoughts and burdens, but because we have You, we know that we can also look beyond just normal physical rest/sleep but also learn to be still and rest in You peacefully in everything that we do. Father i pray, help us to live a life that has a quiet spirit, because we yearn for one of those fruits of the Spirit - "Gentleness".
Ok, i'm looking forward to my meditations and reflections in this coming wk.
Even my horizontal "meditation'"..right now...=)
at 12:00 AM
Arabesque
Elmo-nette
BI-eliza
PIC
The 4th Haven
Bobochacha
Chrisnana
Cheongster
Chefs Affair
The Oxymoron
Pirouette
Elmo-nette
BI-eliza
PIC
The 4th Haven
Bobochacha
Chrisnana
Cheongster
Chefs Affair
The Oxymoron
Pirouette