YYYFriday, February 23, 2007
Yesterday was Thinking Day! Happy Thinking Day to all Guides and ex-Guides!
One year really passes really quickly! It was just last year when we were singing HEY HEY HEY, IT'S THINKING DAY all the time, and when we were doing Thinking Day footdrill and we went for the Thinking Day Rally, and we thought of the decorate cake thing to celebrate Thinking Day during Guides. At that time of the year it felt like Guides was my whole life, and that it would never end, but it did.
We should have a Guides batch outing/gathering soon! Maybe during March hols or something, then we can go back for the March camp campfire!! Hooray!
Our batch rocks! We're so efficient. We're in the process of settling our AA guest item already, when AA is far off in April! :D
Okay on to today. It was a great day! Lessons weren't too bad. Then before the RAP talk our class went to Pastamania for lunch. We ended up playing cards and making a lot of noise, and we were chased out in the end haha. After the RAP talk, which was quite interesting, there was training. It was our first time training on a really muddy field! It was raining really heavily before that, and our coach was so mean, the first thing we did was to do crunches on the field! So we got really really really wet and dirty. I am very glad I joined touch rug! It's fun, and my batchmates are nice. Thank you God for the way You make everything in my life turn out so well! I COULD SING OF YOUR LOVE FOREVER!
Today during prayer meeting we were talking about Lent. Mr Lee explained to us that since Easter is about new life, Lent is meant to be a period of preparation for this new life. Thus, what we should be focusing on during Lent is this- What is holding me back from knowing God and fully experiencing this new life that comes to me through Christ? I think it makes a lot of sense and puts the essence of Lent across really nicely! I shall make use of this period of Lent to make changes in my life, to become a person more in the likeness of Christ. I want to remove the feelings of self-doubt and diffidence and self-consciousness I always have. I should be confident in God's love!
I realised a long time back that I don't always think a lot about other people. I always felt, however, that I first needed to get my relationship with God right before I could move on to settle other areas of my life. But I was very wrong. Periods of spiritual dryness or times when I seemed to lose my connection with God were the very result of this lack of love for other people. Living a godly life and our relationship with God comes hand in hand.
Nowadays my prayers seem to be very short. While I used to spend a long time explaining my problems to God, now I just say "Lord I leave everything to You". I guess this is good and bad. I do hope this is a sort of improvement in my relationship with Him! Ah we shall see.
I shall end with some of my fave verses, which we really do need to remind ourselves of once in awhile:
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Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."-- Isaiah 40: 30-31
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and he will make your paths straight"- Proverbs 3:5-6
Happy weekend everyone!
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