Few Days

Phew I'm really glad with the response for the Creatives workshop yesterday. Hope that the Decor peeps have learned much and not been overwhelmed! One lesson learned: giving a standard set of shapes/elements to work with in a workshop is a good approach.

Have decided not to go Hillsong Conference next year, due to alot of financial-related things. One consideration was about priority. I've decided to give more for CBF than to spend for the Conference. I know they're very inspirational and all, but I'm already much inspired by looking at their stuff online, and the amount of money spent on the trip is not worth the effort put in to get the amount. I'd rather give that amount (if I can ever achieve it) to CBF.

And by faith and God's grace, I'll pull it through next year victoriously!

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A few more days and I'll be back in my hometown!
3 Main objectives by the time I come back Sg:

.1. Get refreshed & Focus my life on Jesus
.2. Examine my life this year & Get rid of filthiness in my heart
.3. Catch up with family, relatives, old friends

plus other subobjectives, but not as high priority, haha..
I'll constantly remind myself that one month is a VERY SHORT period of time.
I will not waste every second of it.
I will make full use of every opportunity.
Not by my strength, but by God's Spirit within me.

Let's make this holiday a meaningful one!

The Spirit is Willing

If you are not living in the life of Jesus Christ,
If you are not abiding in the light of holiness,
Then you are living a FALSE EXISTENCE under the banner of all these things that are true.

We are so used to hearing the futility,
We are so used to hearing about failure,
and we know the failure in our own life,
we don't believe in VICTORY anymore.

Why are we so hesitant?
Everything we've done is absolutely EMPTY if it DOESN'T CAPTURE YOUR SOUL AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

" I'm willing.
I have everything you need in your weakness to carry you into the full frontier, the endless frontier of My grace. "

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant, all compulsion is gone. 

When we choose deliberately to obey Him, 

then He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with all His almighty power.

~ Oswald Chamber

Do Your work in me, Lord.

Have Your way in me.

Stir it up in my heart, the passion for You.

Down the Road

5 years down the road, will I be proud of what I am doing now?

Time for reconciliation...

Wisdom

Seriously, when will people ever learn to be contented with what they have
and start doing stuff that can contribute to a greater good?

Pushing the definition of "Art"
Pushing the idea of "Freedom", Rights, or whatever

What good comes out from pushing the definition of "Art", moral boundaries, and ethics, just to get a message across? It's powerful, yes, but does the mean always justify the end?
When will we ever learn that freedom is not found through abolishing rules and law? Trying to account for defiant deeds, acting as if we have the answer to everything.
(I can't afford to put in my entire thoughts here, will post more indepth one when I have the time)


Chasing after the wind...

When I determined to load up on wisdom and examine everything taking place on earth, I realized that if you keep your eyes open day and night without even blinking, you'll still never figure out the meaning of what God is doing on this earth. Search as hard as you like, you're not going to make sense of it. No matter how smart you are, you won't get to the bottom of it.

[ Ecclesiastes 8:16-17 ]

Some thoughts from studying Contemporary Southeast Asian Art and Survey of New Media...

“True source of art is not in subjective feeling and the creative process, but in the everyday presence of events happening in an environment.”

~ John Cage

Everything Falls

You said You'd never leave or forsake me

When You said, this life is gonna shake me

 You said

This world is gonna bring trouble on my soul

This i know

When everything falls apart

Your arms hold me together

When everything falls apart

You're the only hope for this heart

When everything falls apart

And my strength is gone

I find You mighty and strong

You keep holding on

You keep holding on

When i see the darkness all around me

When i see that tragedy has found me

I still believe

Your faithful arms will never let me go

And still I know

Sorrow may last for the night

But hope is rising with the sun

Its rising with the sun

There will be storms in this life

But i know You will overcome

You will overcome

Carry Me

You lead me in to Your courts
Surround me with Your love
I walk with You
I do not fear

 

You carry me, You are my strength
I've learnt to trust in You
And once again
I'm reaching out

In this place
Dreams are made
In this place
Where You are

Carry me here
In Your arms of love
Draw me close to You
I want to be where You are

Small

Here I am, fighting with all my might,
busy juggling studies, CCA, work and ministry.
While the rest of the world does not stop one moment,
I'm focusing all my energy on things that is so minute
compared to the vast world out there.
Going thru week by week, to get things done,
just so that my lecturers "pass" me to proceed on with projects,
just so that I can get the grades,
just so that I can get the degree
at the end of the Uni years.

“I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful”

~ Albert Einstein

 

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
[ Colossians 3:1-2 ]