Thought i'll share this christian song which I used to sing when little. The tune can be 'koped' from this guy though he admits that his voice isn't the best soloist one on earth:
topsy turvy-ed @ 10:45 PM
Friday, November 19, 2010
Looking out into the night sky last evening before bed singing How Great Thou Art, I reflected on why I was recently confused by the death penalty debate that had been going around in school, talked about in my human rights and law & justice modules and sparked off by the slashings that have happened in Singapore. Do I support capital punishment for those youths who recently chopped a guy to death? If I were the judge, would I choose to grant them a one-in-a-millionth (in Singapore's case, one-in-a-gazillionth) chance to do reformation and rehabilitation instead of sending them to the gallows? While I was looking out of the window, I realized that perhaps it is God's way of telling me to get out and above this debate. Isn't this why God placed governments over us? (Romans 13:1-5 and 1 Peter 2:13-17 - to submit myself to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, including my governor). Instead, I should be more concerned for those who have not yet known Christ who are debating about earthly death penalty when all of us as sinners, have already been sentenced to an eternal death penalty when we leave this earth if we have not received Christ as our personal Savior. Doesn't the latter sound more important and weighty when you juxtapose earthly and eternal spiritual death penalty? What a good reminder for me to focus only on glorifying God in my testimony for Him.
It's Death speaking to you and asking you to have your last say (with no regrets before dying), suggestions of death flicks??!!, design your own 'happy coffin' and have your last playlist. They even have a page to teach you how to write your obituary... sounds like writing your resume, just that this time it's something you won't see as an end product in the newspaper. Well, this website does break the taboo of the death topic and is an initiative by Lien foundation, a centre dedicated in research and training in palliative care in Singapore. Here are my thoughts:
This website tells me that Death is a metaphor and is going to come get me when I die and fullstop. There's no life after death talk. It's just life before death and tells me that I can make the best out of it and take control of my death. Hooray. But wait a minute... that voice coming out of the speaker is not Death talking to me... it's just a man's voice. And hey... I really don't know when I'm going to die. But, a few things are certain based on the Bible:
(1) Everyone dies once in their lifetime (Hebrews 9:27)
(2) Man's life is but a vapor (James 4:14)
(3) There is life after death, where man either goes to hell or heaven (Matthew 7:13-14, Revelations 20:15)
(4) While on this earth, my chief end is to glorify God and share Christ with those who do not yet know Him (Matthew 28:19-20)
topsy turvy-ed @ 12:51 AM
Monday, November 08, 2010
A peek into Lois' diary:
Ok. I have not typed out anything that has been written in my physical wire-bound diary before but it's something not exactly personal and is something more like a book review cum reflection. So I'll just place it here for some sharing:
8/11/2010 at 1.25am
Not many books nowadays draw my attention like real-life stories (aka autobiographies). I appreciate the styles of writing that 'the Time Traveller's Wife' bring about but nothing beats real life accounts, especially those containing the testimonies of those who have been saved by the blood of Christ. One of those books is called 'Son of Hamas' (which i just finished reading in 3 consecutive days.. man my eyes are tired). I never knew what exactly was this Palestinian/Israeli conflict all about. I thought of Palestinians as encroaching on the land that God gave to Israel as the Promised Land quite some time ago in the Bible and never gave second thought to understand that such a conflict cannot be solved at all (by human means), not only because it is a multi-layered and corrupted one but because the source of all this conflict and any other conflict (for that matter), is not the organizations or the armies per se. It is the sinfulness of man's hearts. And Mosab Hassan Yousef drives this home through his story. It was so poignant at the part where God saved him. Mosab's salvation, like my salvation, is as unthinkable an act of man as it is every inch possible as an act of God.
Now, I pity those students all the more in UCIrvine, protesting for their brothers and sisters in Palestine because half or many even 3/4 or more of them do not know what is the root cause of all the conflict happening half a world away. It is sin at work and it is working in the hearts of the protesters in Irvine, people in the Middle East and even in mine. Only Christ is the potion. To know more about Mosab's book, click here
Who Am I
I'm Lois, a human being saved and currently alive by God's grace.
[I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.
Galations 2:20]
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.”
“Arbeit macht das Leben süß” - "Work makes life sweet" :D
Loves
God
Studying (studying is good for your health) - Arbeit macht das Leben süß
Reading the Bible
Having fellowship my family in Christ
Rock Climbing
Cycling
Tennis
Blading
Badminton