Very Blessed...

Personally, female fellowship is something that is very precious. Our ability to love, to care, to listen, to feel.. no matter how different we are, the sensitivity level of ours are always there. That comparing us with a guy, the difference would be so obviously that.

Lao Dou, let me never forget this precious gift of female fellowship, friendship, love for each other. Coz there will be time we hurt each other, and cause each other pain.. maybe even to a stage that will have us want to hide away, and stay away from each other, or even perhaps seek other forms of fellowship alternatives, isolation maybe. My hope is that in you, i will always find healing, and come back up to love, to care, to help.. Especially the girl-frens that i love so much, let the hurt btw us never be too deep to heal, let the tear never be too bad that it wouldn't heal.

=)

Today's Truth

“Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up…A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart” (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 NIV).

Friend to Friend

Looking out my den window, I noticed two of my neighbors puttering slowly down the street. Ernestine, with her bald head snuggled in a woolen cap, held tightly to Patti’s supporting arm. Patti’s chestnut hair, just two inches long, shone like a victor’s crown – the crown of a cancer survivor.



In May of 1998, Patti felt a lump and feared the worst. A doctor’s visit confirmed that she had cancer. For three months, she endured chemotherapy followed by seven weeks of radiation, five days a week. As God would have it, her final treatment fell on Thanksgiving Day. Yes, she had much to be thankful for – a full life, a loving husband, and Ernestine Nevils, her new next door neighbor who had moved in two years before.



When Ernestine moved into the neighborhood, she and Patti connected as if they had known each other all their lives. Patti said, “Even though Ernestine is too young to be my mother, only fifteen years my senior, I feel as if God has given me just that, the gift of another mother.”


During Patti’s cancer treatment, Ernestine was right by her side, an extension of Jesus’ hands and feet providing love, encouragement, and support. By July of that year, Patti had lost all her hair, and Ernestine was the one person, besides Patti’s husband, with whom she felt comfortable not wearing her wig.



One year after her final radiation treatment, Patti was given the opportunity to return the kindness to Ernestine. In November of 1999, a trip to the doctor revealed that Ernestine had lymphoma, cancer of the lymph nodes. Now Patti was the nurturer. She took Ernestine to her first chemotherapy and explained what to expect. She told Ernestine what to eat, where to go to have a wig made, and how to deal with depression.



“I never had to tell Patti what I needed,” Ernestine remembered, “because she already knew, sometimes when I didn’t even know myself. She’d say, ‘Ernestine, I think you need to take a little walk. It’ll make you feel better.’ Now, if someone else had told me that, I might nave said, ‘Leave me alone. You don’t know how I feel.’ Put Patti did know how I felt. She’d traveled the road just a few months before. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God moved me here, right next door to Patti. He is good.”


As I watched the twosome make their way down the street that chilly November day, I whispered a prayer, thanking God for girlfriends in God… friends with whom we can be His hands and feet when one is too weak to walk unassisted, His strong arm when a burden is too heavy to bear alone, and His voice when a friend has forgotten the words to the song in her heart.

Let's Pray

Dear Lord, I thank you that You designed women to live in relationship with each other. I thank you that just as you sent Ruth to Naomi and Elizabeth to Mary, You still send women to each other for mutual encouragement and support. Open my eyes to see someone who needs a dose Your love today and give me the wisdom to know how to be an extension of Your grace.



Now it's Your Turn

When reading about Patti and Ernestine’s friendship, did you feel a sense of warmth because you remembered a time when a friend stood along side you during a difficult season, or did you feel a sense of emptiness because you lack similar relationships in your own life?
The best way to have a friend is to be a friend. Is there someone you know who is struggling with life that God is nudging you to help?
Think of two women who have walked along side you during a difficult time and write them a note telling them just how much their encouragement meant to you.

-------Crosswalk.com

ooo Random Thought Bubbles ooo

I ponder...Often i see alot of contradictions in life~


In poverty, we cherish the things of great significance no matter how little they seem. But in wealth, we forget what these essentials are, and lose even our souls just for the pursuit of the insignificant.


In happiness, we see small the things that matters, yet in sorrow, even the smallest issue is amplified.

In society, everyone is working for someone but never themselves.. but think about it, in our mentality that we are often exploited and mistreated, actually we are all working for each other's benefit.. therefore, we all matter, because the other person is actually working for us. =D

In life, alot of pieces make up one lifetime of collage.. some may seem small, some may seem big, some people think life as a whole, and pay little attention to the little things like smiling more, loving more, listening more, caring more.. some people think life as each step is needed to be carefully calculated, therefore worry more, bothered more, getting upset more...

Rick Warren in Purpose-Driven life says "its not abt us.". God assures that too.. so why do we worry abt what is not ours? The sovereignty of our creator makes right all these contradictions actually..

On my part, what is my balance this day? That i won't lose myself to the currents of life, of emotions, of thinking, of situations? ;)

The Greatest Pains

"As many as I love I rebuke and chasten" (Rev. 3:19).

God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly. --Joseph Caryl

If all my days were sunny, could I say,
"In His fair land He wipes all tears away"?

If I were never weary, could I keep
Close to my heart, "He gives His loved ones sleep"?

Were no graves mine, might I not come to deem
The Life Eternal but a baseless dream?

My winter, and my tears, and weariness,
Even my graves, may be His way to bless.

I call them ills; yet that can surely be
Nothing but love that shows my Lord to me!
--Selected

"The most deeply taught Christians are generally those who have been brought into the searching fires of deep soul-anguish. If you have been praying to know more of Christ, do not be surprised if He takes you aside into a desert place, or leads you into a furnace of pain."

Do not punish me, Lord, by taking my cross from me, but comfort me by submitting me to Thy will, and by making me to love the cross. Give me that by which Thou shalt be best served... and let me hold it for the greatest of all Thy mercies, that Thou shouldst glorify Thy name in me, according to Thy will. --A Captive's Prayer