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It's been week fully packed with many things... by His grace, I was able to wake up at 5am this morning to make it to the first dawn prayer at 6. Covenant Evangelical Free Church's anchoring this week's 24.365 - the non stop daily prayer chain that goes on for a year with an anchoring church each week praying twenty four hours non stop for a week.

And for all that has happened recently... I am thankful that He's given me that desire once again... just in time. Certain things were transacted dearly over the weekend in the midst of youth service on saturday - for one, it was the first in a long time that I've heard so clearly... that I've forgotten that He's given me an open channel to commune with Him. By I don't mean just prayer alone... it's something that He's given me for me to first and foremost build up my relationship with Him... and yet I had it buried somehow for quite some time.

And now that it's unearthed again... mmm. Liberating. :)

Project FriendMarked has been given some press time both in Friday Weekly and The Sunday Times over the past week - really thankful for the coverage. The Friday Weekly report gave a very human touch to the reasons behind the project - I must say that I really enjoyed the interview with Sujun. :) The Sunday Times one is pretty much a straightforward article that tells others what the project is about. As long as people get to know about it. ;) The only "error" perhaps, is that it should not have been coined a business since I don't profit financially out of it... well. Trusting Him to provide enough to keep the website running each year. :)

Just finished marking the last class of test papers not long ago... four more days and it's adios to this batch of students. Took class photos eventually... shall upload all of them when I'm done with the last class.

One day I'll get to teach from start to finish... I hope that's a desire not of myself, but that which is given to me. Hur hur...

Caught "Love Above All", the musical by Mt Carmel Bible Presbyterian Church above the story of Jim Elliot and his four other friends, all who fell victims to the auca indians as they were trying to make contact with them to bring them the good news of Jesus Christ - a tribe entirely cut off from civilisation. Now the entire tribe's saved... stemming from their actions and subsequent ploughing by Jim's wife Elizabeth, who went to live with them despite the fact that her husband's murdered by them.

Such grace... such love.

When others rode on their paper chase and chose wonderful professions upon their graduation, Jim and the few of his friends decided to enter fulltime into missionary work, plunging themselves into the great unknown, and yet trusting that all is well in His hands.

Is it worth it?

I believe that Jim was just heading God's call... and if God would have called him to be the best doctor or lawyer he can be for Him, I'm sure that he would have gladly obeyed. Cause ultimately... when one desires to have his or her will to be aligned to God's, he or she will have to be prepared to obey, regardless if it seems good or bad in man's eyes... no?

Jim wrote this famous quote in his journal... which I have it here upon the header of this website for the past few years:

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose"

Riches, earthly glory and achivements we cannot keep... an eternal and satisfying relationship with God, treasures stockpiled in heaven... we cannot lose.

What a fool is the man who gains the whole world... yet forfeits his soul.

Teaching / Counselling was an over-my-dead-body option for a full time career.

Now I can't imagine the kind of passion that He's brewing inside of me.

... and that's God. :)