Yesterday, I received a call from Jordan asking me to take over leading of Worship for Prayer Meeting as Pauline was down with fever. After being told, I went down church early to memorise the lyrics. Everything was fine until, I said the verse before singing the first worship song. I was saying Joshua 1:9. After saying the first sentence I was already in tears. I really don't know why. It was just so suddenly. And I ended the verse with an unstable voice, with tears welled up in my eyes. Singing the first verse of the first worship song, Through It All, was the greatest challenge last night. With tears rolling down my sunken cheeks like tap water and sniffing in the mucus is my nose, it was even harder for me to sing. And it ended up the concregation were singing the verse for me. I only came in the pre-chorus. Just wanna apologise to all, if I have in any way affected the atmosphere of the Prayer Meeting.


Keeping strong, I continued to sing throughout. And my tears kept rolling and rolling. Basically I was tearing throughout the whole session. There was a part where Pastor told us to find a partner to pray for, and we will required to share through the mic what insights or words or sentence God want us to tell our partner. And of cos, Pastor always starts the ball rolling with me. After what I have said, it was Edmund turn to said. And he just simply hit the jackpot, what he shared is simply the answer that I needed to bring myself out of the dark valley. At that point of time, Tears were rolling at the speed of light! AHha. exxgerating. Well, so the turn goes on and on, until it was Jordan's turn, he was suppose to share with regards to Pauline, but he started off sharing something about me too! And then, I know God was really in HarvestLife Church. And of cos, the the prayer meeting continues...


Prayer Meeting is always a Church Event which never fails to give me a Faith Booster. Last Night, I felt a great sense of relief and felt God really speaking to me.


Just wanna share a story of a...

PENCIL

A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter.
At one point, he asked:


‘Are you writing a story about what we’ve done? Is it a story about me?’


His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to his grandson:


‘I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil I’m using. I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.’


Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil. It didn’t seem very special. ‘But, it’s just like any other pencil I’ve ever seen!’


‘That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which, if you manage to hang on to them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.


First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.


Second quality: now and then, I have to stop writing and use sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he’s much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrow, because the will make you a better person.


Third quality: the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.


Fourth quality: what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.


Finally, the pencil s fifth quality: it always leaves a mark. In just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action.


-Paulo Coelho’s Like The Flowing River-


Always try to live your life, like a PENCIL.

With Love,

Freda