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YYYMonday, January 01, 2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Here is my New Year's wish for everyone:
May the Lord bless you and keep you;
May the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you;
And may the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.
(Numbers 6:24-26)

We set New Year's Resolutions at our Cornerstone retreat. I've got a lot! I shall type them all out here to remind myself of them:

1. I resolve to be more at peace with myself, to relax and be comfortable with myself . If I am able to trust fully in God's holy plan and just commit myself and my life to Him I will be find myself worrying less.

2. I resolve to be more humble, to think less of myself and more of others. Also, not to judge/ envy other people and instead be content in God's love. I want to do everything in love and with the intention of glorifying God. In everything I do I should always consider first: why am I doing this? For what reason? Am I wanting to show off? Am I wanting to put someone else down? etc.

3. I resolve to think about God always! Every moment of the day, whatever I do, even when it seems so unrelated to God. Everyday I will wake up and remind myself: GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD.

4. I resolve to be an ambassador of God and bring people to the faith/ a deeper understanding of Him. I want to become more sensitive to God's calling and prompting, so that I may be His instrument and He might work through me if and when He wants to.

5. I resolve to find a way to revive my family prayers and keep them going for the whole of next year. It is very important for the family to pray together!

6. I resolve to read the bible very often. It is going to be my favorite book, yes!

7. I resolve to find meaning in mass and concentrate more in mass too. I want to attend weekday masses more often too, and go for Confession regularly.

I look at my 2006 New Year resolutions and I am quite happy. I think I have achieved my resolutions to a certain extent, some more so than others.

It has been a good year. I must say, it was probably the best year of my sec school life. Relationship with God-wise, I think I have made many breakthroughs. I have realised a lot of things, and definitely grown closer to God.

Guides has been another major thing this year. Yijun blogged about it also. I learnt many lessons from Guides that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. It changed some things about my character too. Guides truly is a wonderful CCA. I am so glad I joined it, despite my dislike for it in sec 1.

I think, what I most wish at the end of my whole journey in Guides is that the 3 CLs, the sec 4 batch, we have left Guides as a better CCA, that we have made some changes or left some things, no matter how small, to make the Guiding journey of our juniors better.

CmPS was truly God's grace. I think our whole SPLASH! team agrees. Thank you God for all Your blessings!

This year I strengthened a lot of relationships. Friendships with 414, with SPLASH, with Guides, with Cornerstone and also my relationship with my family. I am really thankful for all of these!

Yep so I shall end off with a very nice song we sung today in church. Today's mass was nice (:

In His Time
In His time, in His time,
He makes all things beautiful, in His time,
Lord, please show me everyday,
As You're teaching me Your way,
That You do just what You say, In Your time.

In Your time, in Your time,
You make all things beautiful, in Your time,
Lord, my life to You I bring,
May each song I have to sing,
Be to You a lovely thing, in Your time.

Dear Lord, I pray that I will find confidence in the knowledge that everything happens in Your time, that there is a season for everything. I pray that this will give me courage to do the things I feel that You are calling me to do, and commit the outcome to You. Let me not worry or doubt. Rather, let me just say, "Father, Your will be done". Let me see myself as Your instrument. Thus I need not worry because Your hands are guiding me to carry our Your plans.

AMEN.

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