Every new day is a blessing from God

Happie New Year to everybody :)

Thank you for all your encouraging comments over the past 2+ years...


The sermon during Watchnite service last nite was titled "Let's Go and Press On", from Philippians 3. I think it can also be "Let Go and Press On" (so clever hor)

Veri apt, i felt. 2008 has been a tough year for most. Beyond the past year, i'm sure most of us also have regrets, guilt, sorrow hidden in our hearts (like me :P) Even past glory can cause us to live in the past and feel low about the present.

Many a times i catch myself dwelling in the past... when things look bleak, my mind flashes back to happy times in the past with Bernard... and a mixture of bittersweet happiness n sorrow washes over me. sort of like a.. "at least i experienced such happiness n love so i can draw upon them and then do without them for the rest of my life"

However, clinging on to the past is effectively shutting off what God wants for us in the present and future. What we need to do is to trust in Him, so that we can move on, press on now and into the future.

I was at the new National Geographic store at Vivo today; intrigued by all the photographs on display... and came across a book abt lost boys of Sudan. A phrase on the blurb caught my eye - Every new day is a gift from God.

I have been thinking... oh 2009 does feel slightly scary, what with all those gloom n doom images painted by the news... what is there to look forward to? And then it struck me - no matter how common/cliche this phrase is, how true it is! If we focus on this fact, we will then be able to shift our focus from how life can seem unfair, tiring, etc, and instead give thanks for the blessings in our lives.

Thank God for all the frens and the body of Christ that He has surrounded me with... I hope and pray that i can continue to journey closely with God, and serve Him in little ways.