Thank You, Father, for the enthusiasm of 4Madness.
Thank You for the fun-ness of 4I.
Thank You for the self-sacrificial love of Joanne.
Thank You for the purity of Josiah’s smiles.
Thank You for old friends.
Thank You for lifting me out of the Slough of Despond.
Archive for January, 2009
My Thanks
Posted in Musings on January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My Broken Offering
Posted in Musings on January 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
There are days when you wonder what’s the point of it all.
What is the point of teaching others how to use language accurately, to communicate effectively, to think critically?
What is the point of teaching a play some dead guy wrote four hundred years ago?
What is the point of teaching someone how to analyse a poem [...]
My Unworthy Self
Posted in Musings on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Father, thank You for the privilege of speaking to Your people about spiritual friendship and accountability.
Thank You for helping me to speak Your truth and Your heart through my unclean and unworthy lips and tongue.
Thank You for choosing time and again to work in, with and through us, broken jars of clay that we [...]
My Remembrance
Posted in Musings on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thank You, Abba, for Your still, small voice.
Thank You for deigning to speak to and through me, wretched man that i am.
Thank You for Your inexorable grace and love.
Thank You for the mighty Cross.
My Humbled Heart
Posted in Musings on January 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Father, thank You for all that you bless us so richly with.
There is no cause for us to boast in ourselves.
For what talent, what intelligence, what ability do we possess that we did not receive from You before our conception?
For what effort, what discipline, what diligence did we exert that came not from Your hand, [...]
My Wow
Posted in Musings on January 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Father, I give thanks to You for 4I; for their excellent attitude in completing the blog assignment.
Thank You for Josiah’s pure and exuberant smiles.
Thank You for the way he nestles so comfortably and securely in my arms.
Thank You for Joanne who is a fantastic mother and a model helpmeet.
Thank you for many, many blessings.
My heart [...]
My Thank You
Posted in Musings on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thank You, Father, for the gift of fellowship and for how Your presence is mediated through fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.
Thank You for the encouraging attitude that 4M displayed today.
Thank You for the time to have lunch with Joanne and Josiah today.
Thank You for Your grace, which is sufficient for me. Thank You that [...]
rescue
Posted in Poetry on January 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
the shuddering tremor of life
reverberates, aches to the marrow,
prompting a frantic retreat
into numbing distraction, into
the abyss.
but yours is an invincible grip.
an unbreakable three-fold cord which
secures me for eternity
to you.
i can but only sink
to my knees.
My Thanksgiving
Posted in Musings on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thank You, Father, for your steadfast love which endures forever!
Thank You for being the foundation to our lives.
Thank You for the revelation of Your self through Your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ and through the Scriptures.
Thank You for the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, who illumines our minds to know Your truth.
Thank You for [...]
My Small Talk
Posted in Musings on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
i attended another wedding today.
It was the wedding of a dear brother whom i got to know in the Varsity Christian Fellowship (VCF) back in my uni days.
It was heartening to see him give his life and receive another’s in promise, having known of some of the struggles he has been wrestling with in his [...]
