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Blessed New Year As many of us are celebrating the coming of a...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:12:38 -0500

Blessed New Year

As many of us are celebrating the coming of a New Year, I am left wondering is it just me that is feeling a little upset that the year that passed has just became an ‘old year’ one that is left catalouged in our minds.

For me, 2012 has been an exciting year. I had a closure that could not be compared to any. I quarreled on the last day of the year! How exciting was that! :) Can’t disclose details :)

But I definitely was reminded by God with that small bicker that we had. At that moment, everything seemed bleak, nothing seemed to be working out in the last moment.

God still does wonders. With that, God made the truth, truth between one another, truth from him more valuable and more important than any other thing. The past year, I have learned to be truthful to everyone especially brothers and sisters. I have also learned to accept as well as speak the truth in love and if that includes telling off a person harshly.

I was watching Les Miserables and I saw a scene that I was moved. It was the scene where Fantine died. She mentioned in the lyrics that Jean Valjean, was an angel. But I thought again, how many of us when we are helping others, others might see us as a helper, an angel, Godsent. But we know, deep down in that heart of ours, lies our deep dark secrets just as Jean Valjean did. But that doesn’t mean we cannot help others, it doesn’t mean that we are not worthy of God’s love because he sent Jesus to die for every single one of us. We are all worthy and deserving of the love of God. We should never belittle His creation.

That’s me rambling again. I hope that everyone will have a blessed new year! My personal prayer is that God teaches me again how he has taught me over 2012, be it trails or reward, I will take.

Have a Blessed 2013 and for those at another time zone, the last bits of 2012.

Love,
Victor

Forgetting the Reason One of the main reasons why I love taking...

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:53:00 -0500

Forgetting the Reason

One of the main reasons why I love taking photos is because I can try to portray God’s image in that one frame. I try my best to show God’s creation, I know that all that I am doing is merely trying to show the house through a peephole.

I have been guilty of forgetting the reason why I am shooting and this time I was reminded. My camera got stolen recently along with my favourite lens (70-200 f/4 IS) I hope the person that got it is using it better than I am! :D The reason I said why I have been forgetting the reasons, is that I have been taking photos to gain an audience and it was really a fine line crossed or maybe I didn’t cross the line but it was really more for gaining fame.

I think it’s sort of similar in many walks of our lives as well! I don’t know if any of us started out doing things, be it business, working, and even serving (worshiping and serving) in a good way, trying to serving God to the very best we can but in the midst, we might be diverted and the only way to do is to always stop and tell ourselves to redirect and check whether we have gone on another track and if we have, turn around, walk back and go back on the right track!

Many people have asked me this question: “Don’t you feel a pinch that your camera is missing?”

My answer has been: The camera is merely an object. I thought I would have been more affected but it was lost during a Overseas Christian Fellowship Convention and there were more reasons to be joyful like a brother and sister coming to be part of the family that something as small as this didn’t really matter. The camera definitely was expensive and it might have blown a hole in my pocket, but there were more reasons to celebrate and I would just have to work harder to fund another camera.

Also not forgetting, the greatest memories are never captured by a camera but by our God given eyes and mind.

I will not have a camera for some time but I will have time to just enjoy the things God created for us and maybe sort out some of my photos. There might just be a gem in the midst of all that coal stored away in my computer.

P.S. on a side note if you want to help me out with my fundraising, do drop me any amount on paypal or anything :) and I will be uploading older photos :)

Caption for the photo: The reason the sun sets and rises! I found S.S Sunset.

One of my favourite photos yet.

Love,

Victor!

Perth 2012 - Forgiveness Before reading! Think of someone you...

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:55:06 -0400

Perth 2012 - Forgiveness

Before reading! Think of someone you really really hate.

ALRIGHT! It has to be that person, no changing of minds now.

Proceed.

A couple of months back when I took this photo, I remembered that I was discussing with a couple of friends about forgiveness.

A year back, when I was back home, I remembered that I was part of a conference that was about forgiveness.

Forgiveness - to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.);absolve.

I believe that in the bible, forgiveness means more than just a pardon, more than just to cancel indebtedness. I was just wondering about what was the opposite of forgiveness and it was hate or something along that line. Flipping it around again, I think the opposite of hate would be love.

To forgive in the bible I believe is to love. And by loving, it means more than just forgiving and forgetting. It is to embrace the person that inflicted pain on you. It is to take an extra step to care and love for the person that you say you cannot forgive the most. “Even the pagans and the tax collectors love the people they like” what should Christians like us do when we proclaim about God’s mercy and love and we go around holding grudges.

It is not just that! God has forgiven us, the sinners of the world, think of the worst thing you have ever done, stole, committed adultery, lied? He forgave all those and gave you all the blessings that you now have, a home, love, or anything that you can call your own.

To sum up, I have a quote:

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least

-Dorothy Day

Love the person that you thought of at the start NOW! Take action and forgive.

Matthew 18:21-22

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times. (NIV)

Fallen Star - Perth 2012 *doesn’t this look like a star...

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:20:55 -0400

Fallen Star - Perth 2012

*doesn’t this look like a star that fell face flat:)

I saw a post saying I will worship while I am waiting. I want to change that to I will worship while waiting, and falling.

This picture is one my favourite pictures taken this year(at least up till now). It is a simple yet heart felt picture. It was taken after a rain and when I was all in the gutters. I was just exhausted and tired and decided to take the camera out and check out if there is anything that was worth taking.

I was trying to capture some photos but the wind was just too strong and I kinda wanted to go back indoors and I remembered about giving God time so I just took a casual stroll down the street and back home. When I was heading back I saw loads of maple leaves on the floor.

This particular one kinda reminded me of the times that we need God by our side, when we fall face flat and it does seem hard to climb back up but without these situations, we will never grow and fruits will never bear on the tree that we came from. It might hurt while we fall and also when we love those people who seemingly don’t deserve our love, but as this quote says, that IS how love is supposed to feel.

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Let us be vulnerable and love and also dare to step out and be hurt.

Happy Father’s Day - Home To all Dad’s out there,...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:43:07 -0400

Happy Father’s Day - Home

To all Dad’s out there, Happy Fathers’ Day. Even if it’s not celebrated in your country today.

To MY Dad, Happy Father’s Day. Thank you for supporting me, supporting the family and being a guide back to God at many times. Also, thank you for letting us travel and which is why all my posts are here. I thank You and give thanks for You. Here’s a picture for you, to one of the many cities you have brought us to and one of your favourite cities up till today.

“But if any man does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. ” 1 Timothy 5:8

“But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. ” 1 Cor 11:3

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, ” Ephesians 5:25

“Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. ” Col 3:19

Toast to all Dads!

God Bless,

Victor

The Last Lap - Perth 2012 I think I have got this obsession with...

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 03:45:40 -0400

The Last Lap - Perth 2012

I think I have got this obsession with maple trees recently. Maybe because it’s in Autumn and it’s one of the nicest times when the leaves turn bright red and the wonderful thing about it that the leaves shine brighter than the flowers(if there were any)

Hebrews 12:1-3 would be the verse that I would be reminded of when I see this picture. It feels like it is the last lap, the last one standing. And as the Author of Hebrews said, let us run this race for Him and set our eyes just upon him.

Hebrews 12:1-3

12Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, ²fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame,and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ³Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

For those of my friends who still have the last one or two papers, press on! It’s literally the last lap and that goes for anyone anywhere else.

Study, work, live for Christ and never lose sight.

God Bless,

Victor Kuah

Giant Candy Floss - Perth 2012 For those of you who are...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:29:00 -0400

Giant Candy Floss - Perth 2012

For those of you who are snuggling up in a couch or in their beds. In the midst of the storms. A tree that I took on Sunday(which looked like a giant candy floss) with the storm brewing, taking out many trees and electricity in Perth.

Exams aren’t over but wanted to share an experience. I was paranoid and nervous for my first paper on Monday. I ended up going into the exams calm. I was praying the night before because I was all tensed up. I went into the exam kinda muddle headed and not getting much out of it but half way through, I decided to stop and pray. DURING THE EXAM! I stopped, prayed, left the hall for awhile and settled backed in.

It was an unexplainable peace that was within, I didn’t know some of the answer and me being me I would have just freaked out but yeah, I think it went well. Praise to God.

I’ll end this with a bible verse:

Psalms 23:1-3

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
²    He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
³    he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
    for his name’s sake.

~~Shall update this post once my finals are over. Needed to get this out to get some warmth out there! Press on people with finals like me TT.~~

This storm shall not bring us down.

May the peace of the Lord be with you no matter where you are and no matter what you are facing at this point of time.

God Bless,

Victor

Nepal 2012 - Search Far Today while I was running, I saw...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:07:42 -0400

Nepal 2012 - Search Far

Today while I was running, I saw dolphins. It was not the dolphins that made me excited on my way back.

For the past few weeks I have been trying to run at least once a week as compared to last year when I just told myself to run and never ended up going out to do so. Last year, in the few times I ran, I was asking myself and sort of asking God why haven’t I seen dolphins whenever I am out here.

Today when I was running and when I actually saw the dolphins, it suddenly struck me. Last year, in those few rare occasions that I actually went for a run, I expected a miracle or sign when all I did was to try my luck. It reminded me that God’s grace and his gift is similar in a sense that we have to work and to search deep and thorough and sometimes only after a period of time then we will see God’s gift. Just like the dolphins, they were there. But I didn’t search long enough. Also, not forgetting, it was a longer run.

God’s love is always there, it just depends on how you search and how much you want it. Even when things are going wrong, even when you are in the most devastating portion of your life, I pray that you will continue to tread along this rough part and when it is over, I always believe that you will see that God was with you and that his love at the end of the profuse searching was worth the effort, worth the time.

Search deeper.harder.profusely.

This photo induced or rather, reminded me of the joy of learning, the joy of studying and the joy of school. I think we in developed countries take it for granted things that are given to us. School is tough, no one ever said it would be easy. Looking at these students, having to travel miles and miles on roads that aren’t even build properly, in the back of a truck. That was it. When has studying become a chore to most of us? Where was the joy that we had when we first realized how apple was spelled or how A was pronounced? I don’t know about many of you think that we should not study for the exams but for the knowledge.

God Bless,

Victor Kuah!

Busy Bee - Perth 2012 How Great Thou Art Stanza 1: O Lord my...

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:55:00 -0400

Busy Bee - Perth 2012

How Great Thou Art

Stanza 1:

O Lord my God,

When I in awesome wonder

Consider all

The world Thy Hand hath made,

I see the stars,

I hear the rolling thunder,

Thy pow’r throughout

The universe displayed;

Refrain:

Then sings my soul,

My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art!

How great Thou art!

Then sings my soul,

My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art!

How great Thou art!

Stanza 2:

When through the woods

And forest glades I wander

I hear the birds

Sing sweetly in the trees;

When I look down

From lofty mountain grandeur

And hear the brook

And feel the gentle breeze;

Would you give me 2 minutes of your time? Would you give God, 2 minutes of your time? Stop and think before you continue to read on.

I was taking out the trash one night and I passed by this potted plant that I have always thought was pretty with yellow flowers blooming in the day. On a normal day, I will pass it while leaving my home and usually will have a look at it. For the past few weeks, I have been busy with exams and whats not. I kinda forgot to take time off to enjoy God’s creations and the simple wonders of the world.

How long have you not sat down and talked to your children? How long haven’t you took time to look out of the window and enjoy the sunset? How long haven’t you stopped in your footsteps to watch the flowers (lillies) that are better dressed than Solomon in all his splendor?

If you have answered ‘Yes’ to the question above, I urge you to stop reading now and just enjoy something simple you have missed over the busyness of your life.

The Hymn, how great thou art reminds me of how God had created all these for us to enjoy, for us to marvel. Don’t let it go to waste, enjoy that HD + 3D creation that God had created for us and take your eyes of this screen NOW!

God Bless,

Victor Kuah

Happy Easter - Nepal 2012 Happy Easter! It probably is a happy...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:18:13 -0400

Happy Easter - Nepal 2012

Happy Easter! It probably is a happy day for everyone because it’s a public holiday and to those who don’t know, Easter is the day where Christians like myself REJOICE! We celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus.

I know I am a little late for an Easter post, It will definitely be relevant because the resurrection of Christ did not only apply to us but is and will apply to us. I know that my sins are forgiven.

I don’t know how easy is saying “my sins are forgiven” to each and everyone of us. I know it took me a very long while and even now I am still learning. Every single time I sin, I tell myself that I am not worth God’s love and forgiveness, but at the same time I am reminded not to let Satan use guilt to hold us back from loving God and use it to separate us from God. Christ’s blood has been spilled, being the blanket for our sins no matter what it is, where it is and most important when it is. I won’t dare to say that I am sinless but one thing my girlfriend has been telling me is that we can never be sinless but we definitely can sin less.

God knows us, he knows that we are sinners and so for him to link back with us, He had to die for us and thus trying to bring us back to his side.

It was a real blessed Easter because on a side note, RY’s pneumonia is getting a lot better and I really give thanks for every single prayer that and give thanks to God for being the healer and the telephone line that stretches for miles and miles and being the wonderful loving God that is setting the example benchmark/aim for my love.

Happy Easter and God bless

Victor

Smiles - Nepal 2012 The land of smiles. We often say that a...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:52:09 -0400

Smiles - Nepal 2012

The land of smiles. We often say that a problem is a “First World Problem” or a “Third World Problem”. Does it matter whether the problem lies in which part of the world? Problems will arise when and where they want and one problem is all it requires to send the rest of the great things crashing down at your feet. The fact that there is a first world problem like many of us cynically place problems in means that even in our “developed” nations, it is not any different from the rest of the world. We have problems.

We can never be satisfied with the things that we have, be it money and pleasure. There is always more marketing in the world to get the cash out of you. You always have the cash to spend on the these things. I don’t have to say, but you know where I am going from here.

For the past week as mentioned in the previous posts, my girlfriend fell ill and was in so much pain while I am away, miles and miles away from home and I was devastated about the fact that she is sick as well as me not being able to be there for her. I was often driven to a corner and to tears. When that happened, I was stripped down from my prideful self. Stripped by God to remind me of my worthlessness. I always believed that I was capable, but was told once again to be humble. So much for reading the bible, so much for trying to be humble, when things went my way, I went ahead and chucked God aside, slowly pushing him away. But once again, I really thank God for this issue or this challenge because it really strengthened us. You will be put down, you will be in pain but God will never leave you down in pain. Those that prayed for us, I thank you.

I know that smiling is not the exact thing that you would say when a loved one enters a hospital(yes, she is hospitalized due to Pneumonia). However, I really smile and give thanks to God I give thanks because the cause is found out. I give thanks because there is a cure. I give thanks because now she is in the care of professionals. Lastly, I give thanks because there was a lesson that was taught through the pain.

One of the lessons that I think both of us learned is to trust God. It might sound easy to many of you, but I had to hold on to it like dear life. I was at a talk that reminded me to put down my pride and trust God, and I was at service which reminded me. I think this was one of the weeks where God placed more signs in my life and reminded me to trust him. After these talks and sermons, I was reminded to trust and I had a fiery passion to trust, once I reached home and I heard her in difficulty while sleeping and not being able to move around, *Splash* the fire was put out and thus I had to be reminded repeatedly.

All I want to say after this long post is that to put your faith in him, and though it won’t be easy like mentioned in today’s Daily Bread,

I know not, but God knows;
Oh, blessed rest from fear!
All my unfolding days
To Him are plain and clear. —Flint

Lastly, just like love and any other feelings, they don’t come as fuzzy feelings like I always say. They come as opportunities. the opportunity to love, to trust and to hope. They never come easy. The greater the magnitude, the greater the obstacle to apply. Just as mentioned in Romans, Hope is free but it doesn’t come that easily.

Romans 5

Peace and Hope 1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

Thank God and God Bless,

Victor

Loving through Prayer - Nepal 2012 Before my commentary on the...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:20:00 -0400

Loving through Prayer - Nepal 2012

Before my commentary on the photo, I would like to share a few things that I have learnt over the past few months.*on a side note, I have managed to experience a whole new type of love. I recently got attached, not to boast but it has not been comfortable and a bed of roses. There were many bumps to start me off but it has been a good time to trust the Lord and it was a peekhole to God’s unlimited love.

How many of you all have experienced trying to care for someone but am not able to? I have and it’s over the past few days this week. I am in Australia studying while my other half back in Singapore is running a temperature and feeling so bad. It is the same as when you are in the hospital, standing beside your loved one and you feel like “I am the one that always sin, shouldn’t I be the one that bed?” I know that there are many situations like that, not that I have experienced many.

The last time I experienced it was when my granny was lying in ICU and she was telling me how it was hurting so badly. I really wanted to take over her place and help her but I know that that’s impossible so I just put her into God’s healing hands. It was similar this time round.

We were 2500 miles apart and she was sick. Most of you know, when your loved one is feeling unwell/unhappy, you would want to be by his/her side. That was the same for me. I really wanted to be by her side and be with her through this tough time, but due to reasons that doesn’t have to be spelt out I could not. When you want to love someone so badly, it sort of showed me how God wants to love us all the time and sometimes when we are too busy for him or when we reject him, how he would have felt at that point of time.

Also, when you are helpless and you want to love, you have to trust God. Firstly, to trust that God is loving more than you are and he can reach out to any one of us anywhere in the world. Secondly, to trust God that he will take care of you. It deos not mean that he will take away the pain, but he will work to show you his love. For myself, I want to love but I know that there is a greater source of love that is loving her and it makes me worry less and makes me want to trust our Comforter, Our God, Our Lord.

I have a gentle request, I know that it’s just a fever due to infection but would those of you reading this please pray for her(let’s just call her RY) health and that she will be fine.

Back to the picture, it sort of reminded me about how sometimes we are blinded by the trouble in front of us and we feel like it’s going to be rough ahead, but we trust God. Just like the boatman in this case, they were going against the flow of the river and even if that meant that they had to take 2 times the time to get back to the starting point, they did. Maybe it was just their job but I think that they had to have some trust to be able to do it, to believe that there is something out there waiting for them.

Let it be like our trust as well, that through the fog of difficulties, God will be leading us like a compass leading a boat out of danger. The journey might be tough, the destination might not be the place you wanted it to be, but trust God that he has the best for you.

God Bless,

Victor

Calm tough times - Perth 2011 Hi guys, Haven’t been on...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:04:31 -0500

Calm tough times - Perth 2011

Hi guys,

Haven’t been on tumblr that often :) I have loads of photos that I would have loved to post a few months back but exams got the better of me :P The first semester in Perth is over. and the last few days there was more eventful than the few months that I have been there.

There were many things going on and they wewn’t exactly enjoyable but definitely interesting. Sparing you guys the details for now, in short is wasn’t fun nor easy.

But there were a couple of things that I learned over the past few days. One of it being that no matter when and where you should trust God. Things seem really really bleak at the point of time and even though nothing in your mind says “it’s gonna work out”, God has his ways. Seriously. There are too many things to worry about and if that problem is one of them, and it’s taking up too much space in your head, then chuck it out because God wants it. God wants to help you solve the problem! Leave it to him and trust that it’ll always work out. I know it may sound simple but it is. That’s all there is to how to solve troubles.

And once you do it really leave it to run His course, even when things don’t seem like it’s going your way, let it be.

Trust. All that there is and should be.

Do Not Worry - Perth 2011 -Matthew 6:25-34- 25Therefore I tell...

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:49:59 -0400

Do Not Worry - Perth 2011

-Matthew 6:25-34-

²⁵Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[e]?

²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

This is sorta my favourite verse and also the verse that keeps me going at many crossroads of my life and at many junctures where I face issues that seem to big for me to carry.

I think a lot of us are facing problems and troubles, I personally cannot say that I know how you guys are feeling because I am but a kid who hasn’t experienced much yet in my life. However, all that I’ve been through, there was a simple thing that I used to conquer all the humps in this journey which is Trust.

As cliche as it may sound, I think trust and the verse that you just read led me through my struggles in my life. Firstly, it’s because of trust, I can believe that God has his plans for me no matter what happens. Also, I know that God will not give me more than I can bear. Not forgetting that he’ll always be there whenever you are going through the worse you can ever feel and also, every hump is training for you to become stronger so that the same hump won’t be as tough to go over and also that you’ll be stronger in the future. On top of all of that! he’ll love you no matter you fail or pass! and failures defined by people are not failures defined by God.

I have a little personal experience to share. It was when I was in high school, Junior College or whatever you call it in any part of the world. I sorta flunked my exams and I blamed God for a lot of things, almost everything you could think of. Then somehow, I dunno what, when (but I knew who), maybe a sermon or a bible verse, told me to trust in the Lord no matter what happens and I decided to. From then on, I got more involved in His work and tried to sought God before anything(it really works) and things fell in place soon after.

However, that was not the end of the story. During the journey, you will never be able to know that you are on the road that God has planned for you. Now when I looked back, I realized that there are many things that if I hadn’t failed and retained, I would not have been able to do. 2 of the more significant things being joining the cell group that I am in now and also taking part in Missions work (Korat, Thailand) the year I retained and this sort of led me to want to take part in more missions work, and I think it’s God’s calling, though not internationally but we’ll see, we’ll see :)

So yeah! Do not worry because, there will be nothing God cannot do and nothing you cannot Trust God to do! Just like this picture, be like the flowers, not fretting about tomorrow and continue looking at the source who gives you strength!

*on a side note, the next day morning when I went to look for the flowers, they were withered. However, when I was heading home from school, I saw that they were there again facing the sun.

Eternal Faith - Perth 2011 Faith, not on end but on His end. If...

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:25:00 -0400

Eternal Faith - Perth 2011

Faith, not on end but on His end. If you really sit down and think about it, who is having faith and trust? God or yourself? It isn’t that humans has more power than God. The reason why I say that God trusts us is because, how many times have we repeated the same sin over and over again and how many times have we told God, “I promise you that I won’t do it again!” The next minute, day or moment when we see the person we are not comfortable with, thoughts of how to get rid of him comes into our minds. What happened to loving your enemies and what happened to the promise that you made to the alimighty God.

Yesterday, when I turned 22, my pal and I went down to the beach, the next time you want to blame God, look up in the sky, the sun isn’t supposed to shine on you, but it still is. You could have easily be zapped by lightning bolts. However, because of his eternal and unfailing love, we are still here. Also just like this photo, when the sun sets, we know that tomorrow will indefinitely come.

22 years and counting. I wanna see more of God’s love and how unfailing it is and put this heart of mind in God’s hand for him to use.

OCF (Perth) - Perth 2011 Hi guys, sharing this picture today cos...

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:04:46 -0400

OCF (Perth) - Perth 2011

Hi guys, sharing this picture today cos I kinda went for a talk and was really moved.

I went for a talk during Overseas Christian Fellowship(OCF) today :) The topic was about miracles and Ron was talking to us about miracles. He mentioned that when God works a miracle, it doesn’t necessarily mean that something great has to happen in a snap. Working through our lives and changing him from an Atheist to a person who spreads God’s word, now that’s a miracle. Also, we have to differentiate between things that are amazing and a miracle. According to him, AND C.S. Lewis’ Miracles: A miracle is an interference with Nature by supernatural power.

So, an amazing sunrise, a healed patient, a wonderful scene, may be a miracle but, believing in these makes it a miracle.

“Parting a soup is not a miracle, it’s a magic trick. A single mum who is working 2 jobs and still finds the time to take her kid to soccer practice, that’s a miracle. A teenager says no to drug and yes to education, that’s a miracle.”- Bruce Almighty

To see the miracle, you have to BE the miracle.

God Bless lD

Sunrise - Perth 2011 After the moonrise, I was quite determined...

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:32:00 -0400

Sunrise - Perth 2011

After the moonrise, I was quite determined to get the sunrise. Though it was quite a pain having to drag myself out of bed at 5.45am, but with the help of a friend I was able to!

When I reached the bay, Forget about dragging myself, I will definitely go back there in the near future. Just being able to see the sun rise from the horizon is a WONDERFUL evidence that God’s creativeness is boundless! A daily activity can bring so much joy to the person. When I saw the sun peeking from the horizon, I would have leapt for Joy if I weren’t on my rollerblades. :P

I had quite a few ideas on where to get the sunrise as well! From another friend :D Hope that it’ll be up here soon! :D If. Next is the sunet :D

Moonrise - Perth 2011 I was waiting for a few days hoping to get...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:31:18 -0400

Moonrise - Perth 2011

I was waiting for a few days hoping to get a nice picture of the moon. Recently, I have been trying to capture moon scenes and I think that it’s something God is trying to teach me.

I was waiting at a spot for 2 hours reading my textbook and hoping that the clouds will move away somehow. However, the skies never did clear and it even started raining. During that day, I did not get to see the moon at all. I was a little disappointed, that I waited for 2 hours and I didn’t get to see the moon.

The following days, I went to the same spot and for a few days I never got to see the moon, however, on the 3rd day, I saw the moon rising from the skyline. I was happy that I could see it.

Then I realized, sometimes, just like our prayers, God doesn’t necessarily answer our prayers and it isn’t a 1800-INSTANT PRAYER hotline that we dail, but daily meeting and talking to God to understand, just like when I was looking for the moonrise, after a few days, I had a general direction that the moon would rise from the east to south east from the spot I was standing at. The more you peservere, the more you will see what God has for you and most of the things you pray for, God has already provided you with the ability to do it because, He knows you best.

Have a blessed Sunday

God Bless.

Embroidery Of Earth - Perth 2011 Linked to Our Daily Bread....

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:41:38 -0400

Embroidery Of Earth - Perth 2011

Linked to Our Daily Bread. It’s all I have to say.

This is why I take my photos. lD

Blessed Day ahead! :)

The Moon Phase - Perth 2011 Hi guys, remeber how I was telling...

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:55:52 -0400

The Moon Phase - Perth 2011

Hi guys, remeber how I was telling you guys about how different the moon was? Here’s a moon chart that I sort of made myself! Missed out a day though. Was making it for a friend and I think that it was quite fun. Will be trying to continue till I get a whole cycle.

Hope you guys like it. It’s just a gimmick and for fun.

God Bless!

Have a blessed Sunday!