Thursday, April 24, 2008
4:13 PM
good day to you there!
i'm feeling very happy and at peace to be at home now, at this time. from mondays to wednesdays i end at 515 515 615 respectively. almost all my classes are in the afternoon you see, except for one morning lecture on thursdays (including today).
wow i've been here in melbourne for more than 2 months now- just over 9 weeks. i'm getting more accustomed to life here (: God is so good.
the time i've been here is also equal to the time i've not touched a piano! :( it's not easy to abstain from playing piano for so long, but i know God is teaching me something through this!
the second tests + assignments season is coming up! there'll be 2 tests next week, one assignment due the week after, and another assignment due the following week.
i daresay the uni workload is heavier than what we had in jc on a normal basis. but compared to the prelim crunchtime last year, uni is of course still not as bad as that... well not yet at least! and hopefully it never will be (pretty please?).
but so far so good- God's been blessing me in my studies, and i'm so thankful for that. i want to glorify Him not just with the good results He gives, but through the whole process of consistent work etc. i recall telling some people during the exam fever last year, that excellence is making the most of what God has given you, and i really believe in that (: and remember that is one of the three aspects of the mg vision (:
speaking of mg brings me to my next point, about our upbringing and the environment we grow up in. every single experience i have been through isn't by chance. i am very blessed to have the parents that i have, and much of who i am today i have to thank them for teaching me well. and i am immensely privileged to have gone through both an mg and ac education. i think people are very impressionable in their youth (and yes i think we still are at that stage), and a lot of my ways of thinking, personality and character, i believe God has shaped in my time in mg and ac. not being in a mission school anymore, i can all the more see how critical it is to be do things with a higher purpose in mind. if not it's so meaningless...
'11 God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
12 So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. 13 And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.
14 And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God’s purpose is that people should [reverently] fear Him [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is].'
-Ecclesiastes 3:11-14 (New Living Translation, parentheses from Amplified Bible)
