exam time!

Wow.

It has been a loong time since I blogged, apparently!

In exam mode at the moment, and struggling to study... and yes it's a problem, because it makes me not want to study at all! (so I don't!)
but got an exam boost today! :) love you so much Nicole, haha! :)


and many many many thanks to all the encouragement sms's, messages, FB messages + prayers + words of encouragement I've gotten from everyone.. I feel really loved :D and thanks for reminding me that the result doesn't matter & to trust God because I've been saved into His wonderful family! :D & to Mum for always reassuring me that it's okay if I need to repeat the subject.. hehe. :)

congrats to Joel + Caleb for their baptism today! all these babies at church, so cute!

What I learnt about today..

Exodus 34: what Jesus would say to us if we were in a room with him; face to face, toe to toe, knee to knee.. and Andrew used a wonderful example a mother who has twins who have down syndrome. One of the kids sorta.. didn't do so well at toilet training and he came in crying at a family dinner because he couldn't control himself and stuff.. and he was just so helpless and he was just in tears. The first thing his mum does when she runs over is give him a hug.

Just like we are sinful creatures who are just shamefully.. in sin.. God loves us; and the glory of God that moses was overwhelmed to only see a glimpse of we see in his son, Jesus.

When Jesus was alive, people were so close as to touch him, punch him, spit at him.. and kill him
even though he's God's glory in person and so if we were to see Jesus face to face and looking him in the eye.. he'd tell us non stop that he loves us; even if we are sinful, he loves us + despite everything he loves us.

This morning @ Extreme, Dan gave us a great talk on Revelations 19-20, and about how Kesus is going to defeat his enemies when he comes back and he'll judge everyone, because God records everything we do in his books, showing that he doesn't take sin lightly and that he's a just judge
but at the same time, he's merciful + he records those who have faith in his son in the book of life, which you can do nothing to get into apart from have faith


things I'm thinking about now..
changing courses... :( but there's much to think about and consider; should think about this after exams!!


and this is us, haha, Nicole, me + Nat! :) today we were colour coordinated again, and in height order + age order, all wearing navy + wearing glasses during service (I took mine off afterwards :( ) !! :D thanks Karel for taking the pic :)

PS. am so full of praise + thanks to God for Extreme. :) I love you girls! (and guys!) please continue to pray for our mission to Southside in 2 weeks!!