"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing."

A study was done by psychologist Dr. Henry H. Goddard, on energy levels in children. He used an instrument he called the 'ergograph.' How he ever got some children to stand still long enough to connect them to the machine is a mystery. But he did, and his findings are fascinating.
"He found that when tired children are given a word of praise or encouragement, the ergograph shows an immediate upward surge of new energy. When the children are criticized and discouraged, the ergograph shows their physical energy take a sudden nosedive."
The same principle applies to teenagers and adults of any age. When we are genuinely thanked, praised, and encouraged, we definitely feel much better and energized. And when we are criticized or just feel bad, our energy level certainly falls and we are de-energized.
We all need to be encouraged daily ... so let's decide that we will first of all be encouragers ourselves especially to those we love the most, to our friends, and also to strangers as opportunities arise.

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Speak words that build up. Not words that tear :) there're enough people out there who's ready to tear people down. Why give in to the trend? Be an encourager :) It's a rare job.

exciting, but stressful.
yesterday i handed in my pl3880a term paper. today we had bio psych test:) usually in the past years, bio psych exams are ALL open book. my sem is closed book. thank God for a merciful lecturer who's not out to tekan all of us:) he tested on relatively basic concepts. got so relieved when i received the paper. i found it quite ok. some pple found it hard. i dunno abt my grades 'cos my grades seem to go the opposite direction from my expectations:) but it's alright. haha.
i find guitaring more stressful than studying for bio psych test.. and bio psych test is the most stressful test le :(
feeling slightly miserable. lol. but it's alright. i will continue to learn and to learn to love the guitar more and more. haha. Gwen told me before that guitaring is a very useful skill to have. being able to guitar and worship or praise at the same time is very important too. especially when you go to church plant:) who's gonna be ur guitarist then? haha. so yes. i'm excited 'cos i'm preparing myself in terms of skills, but feeling a little tight 'cos the news still hasn't sunk in that i'm the guitarist for the cg:)
kept praying when i was practicing for praise and worship. woohoo. wait for my update on breakthroughs! :)
so exhausted. had a long day. 3 lectures, one tutorial, one project group discussion, one tuition session. hahaa. i like the way things are progressing :D

so exciting. this is such an exciting sem. 17 hours of lectures and tutorials, 3 ongoing projects, 2 term papers, 5 tests and a threatre studies practical exam xD
hahaha. that's not the most exciting thing. yet.
first time being the guitarist in cg, first time taking care of a ministry, first time answering questions in the nus open house. keke. come visit me on 11th march! i'll be answering qns for the department of psychology. LOL.
life with Christ and His people is so exciting! hahaa.

Wind Nocturne (The Boat Song)
from the anime 'lunar silver star story'

Wishing on a dream that seems far off
Hoping it will come today.
Into the starlit night,
Foolish dreamers turn their gaze,
Waiting on a shooting star.

But, What if that star is not to come?
Will their dreams fade to nothing?
When the horizon darkens most,
We all need to believe there is hope.

Is an angel watching closely over me?
Can there be a guiding light I've yet to see?
I know my heart should guide me, but,
There's a hole within my soul.
What will fill this emptiness inside of me?
Am I to be satisfied without knowing?
I wish, then, for a chance to see,
Now all I need, (desperately)

Is my star to come . . .

:) this is the song a 2003 January post.. it's the nyj ballroom dance song :) think i just wanna say that i've found what fills up the hole within my soul and the emptiness inside of me:) my star has come. a crimson star.

i'm getting a little tired of having an extra guest in my house at even 1am in the morning. lol. once in a while is okay. having an extra guest in the house for a few times in a week is getting to me O.o
i mean. seriously speaking, i won't mind so much if the extra guest is a girl :) females are welcome. but it so happens that for the 3 times an extra guest is in the house, they're guys. not that i have something against the male gender (sometimes i will. tend to be more easily irritated by males than females. no offense to brothers out there. haha :), it's just that when it's late at night and i wanna wear my pyjamas, i can't because of a certain male extra guest out there.
: (
and it's like when it's at night, u wanna wear comfortable clothings. and because there's an extra guy i can't. bleagh. i mean, if it's only ur dad or brother, it's fine. they've probably seen most parts of u anyway (when you're young). oh well.
i feel so tired now:) haha. studying and studying for biopsych test. ah. so many terms. i can't remember. LOL. mostly new terms somemore. i wonder if i'm taking medicine or psychology:S all the different parts of the brain, all the different tracts, all the different names of the neurons, all the different areas. the visual system. the nervous system. the motor system. the system controlling emotions. every page has at least(on average) 5 new terms. WOOHOO!
i like challenges XD
challenges stress me nicely. i like stress XD i like that certain amount of stress XD
so exciting!

i never realised i have this song.. for those who died during the Columbine shootings a few years ago:

Columbine, flower blue, tenderly I sing to you.
Columbine, roses are red, heartbreak overflows my head.
Columbine, flower blue, Columbine there's hope for you.
Columbine, friend of mine.

Turn our pain to your gain,
Keep our hearts on the mark
Comfort us with your love again
Comfort, Peace and sweet release,
Come from you,
Where it's true,
I hide myself in you.

Can you still hear raging guns
Ending dreams of precious ones?
In God's son, hope will come
His red stain will take our pain

Columbine, friend of mine.
Peace will come to you in time,
Columbine, friend of mine.
Turn our pain, to your gain,
Keep our hearts, on the mark
Comfort us, with your love, love again.

Christ of grace,
Oh turn this place to
Look to you, honor you,
Fix you in our view

Columbine, flower blue, tenderly I sing to you.
Columbine, roses are red, heartbreak overflows my head.
Columbine, friend of mine.
Peace will come to you in time.
Columbine, friend of mine.
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His red stain will take our pain.

yay! i'm severely behind time for my biopsych test (which i don't remember anything after lecture 3) and my issues in dev term paper (supposed to have finished it by tuesday!) . hahaha:D so exciting.
coupled with the fact that i'm pms-ing and i'm constantly in the state of drifting in and out of lala-land, and that this week is preparing lots of teachings week, and that visitations took place for 3 days in a row (poor jiali experienced that too:D) and that i went out with my mum on wednesday for the whole day and that i kinda procrastinated on thursday, i'm now on friday! and friday is celebrating birthday day! =) haha. oh so exciting. tmr we're celebrating hongtao's birthday too! xD
i shall finish preparing teachings by tonight. and finish the issues in dev term paper by tomorrow. and mug for biopsych on sunday and monday:) two days. wahha. faint. then study for stats2 test after that=] thank God it's sim tech ngee and not why yong peng! or else we'll all die xD not that why yong peng is not good. he is! just that he'll set relatively demoralizing questions=] (like those that came out for the exams) but he's a nice lecturer too! haha. sim tech ngee is nice in a gentler way=] keke.
oh yes. nice plan. why am i still typing away when i'm supposed to be preparing my teachings? 'cos wanna blog abt today's meetup=] haha
today me, jiali, seng, jingting, jasmine, jocelyn (so many Js) met up to celebrate jingting's and my birthdays! haha. we wanted to go to sentosa for luge (which i've never tried before. seriously) but the sky is not making pretty (tian1 bu2 zuo4 mei3), so we went to asian kitchen to eat instead:) food is VERY filling. u noe some kinds of food is not filling at all? (e.g. makeshift arts canteen food, taiwan sausages.. chocolates...) but i assure u that the asian kitchen has very filling food types:) sengkim and jingting ate zha jiang mian, jocelyn ate wanton mian, jasmine ate some mian which i can't remember, jiali ate chu1 pa2 mian (i remember 'cos i koped her zhu pa) and i ate dan dan mian (albeit a very peanut-y one. haha). we ordered xiao long bao and mushrooms stir fried with kailan. keke. sounds so chinese. haha. the asian kitchen has good service! haha i think we were rather troublesome customers... but they were very nice xD good impression =)
anyway, after dinner comes the cake! it's strawberry cheese cake! from secret recipe=) haha. love the secret recipe food and love their cakes as well (though due to a dislike for the naturally sweet and coy-ey things of nature, i dun consume cakes very often). sengkim got a rather big cake:S he said it's standard size though:S it's a big enough cake for lots of people. and we only had 6 pple. i couldn't finish my cake. LOL. but it was definitely oishii desu =]
and we went to sentosa after that! hahaa. took the sentosa express... sengkim got us free passes 'cos he can get corporate card to exchange for it. lol. we went through part of the flower festival going on now.. decided that humpty dumpty who fell looks quite disturbing and went to watch the performance of the musical fountain. haha. it's my first time:) relatively enjoyable.. with a silly plot and some boring parts. but the coordination done was well and the combination of fire spurts and water sprays really heightened the element of performance and lifted people's amazement to awe. hahaha. maybe not so kua zhang:) but nice it was :)
yay :) i feel like eating cheese cake. hmm.

oh btw, it's super kowaii (scary) how guys can grow so tall.
last year one of my nephews (cousin's son) was shorter than me. this year he shot up to 176cm. kowaii desu ne!

hehe. happy new year everyone! =]
today is new year's day. first day of the lunar new year calendar. haha. my relatives came to my house today. not much interaction as well:) kokwee (my oldest cousin's son) doesn't even talk to me. lol. or else i don't talk to him. one way or another. he's the same age as me though:) keming (another cousin's son, same age as me as well) came later. glad that he came. talked a bit more to him too=] he's going into ntu comm studies this yr.. hope to intro him to some of the ntu pple!
haha. most of my cousins are like married.. and those that're around my age are one generation behind. haha. i feel so old during chinese new year. by family title, i'm most of their aunts:S
ohoh! my niece gave birth to a daughter:D haha. the baby's so pretty =) only 8 months old.. haha but apparently they went back to indonesia for new year. sadness.
they came fast and went back fast as well. i spent the rest of the day watching bleach and sleeping. LOL. haha:)
looking forward to tmr. haha

i've finished cleaning up my room! haha. it's super last minute. but then, my whole household has always been last minute. LOL. 'cos the night before, we were selling fish! yay.
haha. anyway, i'm so proud of my room now. if there's no new year tmr, i'll throw out the book cabinet thing in my room and rearrange my whole room. as for now, i'm relatively contented with its state=] didn't bother to clean up the book cabinet 'cos it's gonna be thrown out by me after new year anyway :D
happy. shallala. i threw away like 6 big bags of rubbish. and i recovered a thick set of teachings i've got before!=) lots of them. haha. how thick, you may be wondering. lemme see. try stacking two tissue boxes together. my teachings combined are thicker than those! and those are just the printed teachings:) we've yet to include my 7 past sermon notebooks. i'm so excited. hahaha. read through some of the teachings again. think in the 3 months' holiday i shall sort them out according to theme. woohoo!
and i realise i have super a lot of textbooks. 'cos i dun sell them nor throw them away. think i should start selling them next sem. keke xD

-sure feels good to be alive
someday i'll be 18 going on 85
gonna be 18 till i die!-

i'm super exhausted now. haha. been awake since early in the morning 9.55am. okay. not very early. haha.

tomorrow is valentine's day=] today i'm being frustrated. not because i'm not attached and that kinda stuff, but because my mum kept asking me about such funny stuff.
seriously speaking, i really don't feel anything. hahha. how to say? like there was once in secondary 4 when i asked isobel if she's ever liked anyone before, and she said no. and i couldn't comprehend why not. i think i start to comprehend now.
not bothered by it simply means not bothered by it. i'm really not bothered by it. haven't been bothered by it since 3-4 months ago. so don't bother me with it now. i'm not interested in ANYONE romantically at this moment because i feel very comfortable with the brothers and sisters and really quite contented in the various relationships i have around me at this moment.
and please don't joke about it. i'll be pissed off :)

i have limited knowledge of hypnosis. and i have limited knowledge of the bible. but as to what i know about hypnosis, it should never be used to lead the people to do something they don't want to do.
i read something on a website about a christian hypnotist... needless to say, it caused me to frown like crazy. 'cos the website talks about the charm of the hypnotist and how he hypnotises people, then leads them to the Lord. i mean, i was like O.o that's super unorthodox.
i believe in Jesus and i have witnessed His power. and i believe that God gave us a free will, a free will to acknowledge in Him and what He has done on the cross for us, or not to acknowledge. He has already died for us, it's up to us whether we accept it or not. So, knowing His power and love for us, that He gave us a choice, i feel that advertising such a thing is really wrong.
anyway, we don't need hypnosis for this kinda thing. God is real and is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. the Holy Spirit can convict even the hardest of hearts. so why do people do such weird things and package it to make it seem like it's something right? O.o i wonder what God will say to this person if Jesus comes back right now. hmm.

yay. i've slept and awoken:) haha. there was service yesterday:) i always enjoy the time of service 'cos it's when i see so many of the sisters and brothers together, as well as seeing close friends together as well:) haha.

yesterday sengkim gave us a shock (hehe. i should say pleasant surprise right? O.o) by giving us roses. here're pictures of the roses:the flowers look like this when i first got them in the afternoon:) nice and fresh. haha. thanks brother! ruisi was like commenting that he must have spent a lot on the flowers 'cos he gave to a few sisters. hahaa. apparently ruisi likes flowers! so pple, you all can give her flowers on valentine's day or something!:) or her birthday!
Anyway, the flowers started to turn blackish at night... after Hanes' competition... haha. they looked like this:heh. this looks darker partly 'cos i took them at night.. 2am in the morning at the somerset busstop:)those are my fingers for comparison. hahaha.
think it was really sweet of him to give us roses:) brothers. learn to be more chivalrous. haha. the chivalrous thing came about from pastor jeff's sharing. haha. pastor jeff was sharing about the adulterous act between david and bathsheba 'cos it was part 2 of the valentine's special and inevitably we touched on the topic of bgr. hmm. he also talked about how girls can be fashionable but not overexposed. haha. i saw an overexposed female during hanes' competition:

the female on the left of the picture. hahaha. she's the host. i think she's being cleopatra, 'cos the other male host is dressed up as an egyptian pharaoh of sorts. anyway, ziwei, jessie, wenjuan and me went to hanes' competition at fort canning. it's supposed to be some festival of love and youth. quite cliched. hahaha. anyway, the whole trip would have been quite a waste if not for the great company and the fact that hanes' band is superbly brilliant! they're so excellent. hahaha. i was wowed by them. haha. it's like a mix of evanescence with radiohead with jazzzzzzz. you really gotta catch them. they did 'lovefool' and 'can't take my eyes off you' as covers. haha and their originals are so amazing. btw, the female singer you see in the above picture is called michelle (another michelle!) and she's the lead vocalist for the band. the guy behind is the guitarist and i think he also does the mixes... not very sure. haha. more pictures coming up!:)This is Hanes at the keyboard. the lower picture is taken when he's playing. didn't take pictures when he's self indulged into the music. but his keyboard skills are amazing. i love the third track. it's so nicely crafted and so haunting:)

this is michelle the lead vocalist:) she can draw the audience quite well. some of the guys from a former band were like going gaga over her. super hilarious to see. not yet grown up ba:)

the guitarists! hahaa. so amazing. i was so amazing at their skills and ability to turn the guitar into an instrument that doesn't just churn out the normal chords, but to be used to create resonance and that kinda thing as well:) amazing desu!
Here's a picture of the ziwei, jessie, juan and hanes:)

Oh. but the judging criteria was super unfair. and i refuse to talk about it anymore:) the judges were pretty useless except for the first one who gave constructive comments. haha:) quite exhausted now.. haha. shall end off with a photo of my tution kid's younger sister!
haha!

Everything looks okay!:) haha. for the pictures anyway:) let's see.. what else happened on wednesday? :) haha. there was a presentation for issues in development tutorial.. and we all get the chance to roleplay (if we choose to) the role of an autistic child=] haha. and their special classroom and learning method.. it was quite interesting. as tan seok hui said, it's the only time we get to misbehave! =] haha.

first time for cg under jiadai as well:) haha. she brought us to the singapore railway track. that's so omoshirooi (dunno how to spell it). lol. here's a picture of the cg pple at the railway track!:) without me of course.. who else can be taking the photo? hahaa.

yay. and we went to bukit timah plaza to eat and get to know each other more:) daidai shared about colossians 3:12-17 (which was rather familiar to me 'cos of the fact that i used the verse while sharing to weiling in the morning) and we all wrote down one area in our lives we hope to grow in more:) mine was compassion=]

This is getting pretty fun.. writing a short excerpt of what's been happening in my life and putting pictures up on the post. hope the pictures dun disappear within just a few months or so. haha:) yea.. wednesday night i went swimming with michelle=] hahaa. was thinking that angela will be quite delighted to go to the swimming pool. 'hot bods' she'll say. we managed to swim only till 9pm.. 'cos that's when the lifeguard blew his whistle and chased us out of the pool :( anyway, no pictures for this:) hahaa.
I went studying on thursday night at the macs near my house for the stats 2 test on friday. haha. think i study better in macs than at home or anywhere else. actually i do study better alone, in a place with aircon, with other pple around whom i dunno and with some food in front of me:) which fits macs relatively well! but it's gonna be quite expensive to keep studying there though. haha. and not very good for my body... so much junk food around.

As can been seen from the above picture, i got a happy meal! hahaa. the toy was a spin sort of thing which is really cool 'cos it's very stable after it starts to spin:) and it spins by using this simple machinery of some sort which is supposed to imitate a pokemon ball! hahaa. cool right? friday's test turned out to be quite simple. none of the complicated mathematics formulae which i practiced and memorized in macs. haha. so sad:(
Friday night was the night of guan zhen's birthday celebration! haha. it's an interesting time 'cos it's the first time i've gone to guan's birthday party, and it's been a long time since i saw pple like dalena, meizhen, alina, michelle teo and weilin. hehe. weilin brought her gf along too. saw sylvia as well:) and of course pple like isobel, yileng, yingxin (though we're in nus, we seldom meet. quite sad as well) :) haha. and jits too (though i see jits lots of times per week:S hahahaa) yea. some more pictures. i'm so sleepy at this moment:S
cannot cannot. i buay tahan. super tired. goodnight. hahaha. will post about the rest tmr:) or today. hahaha

These few days have been relatively exciting. haha. on tuesday we mini-celebrated jitsy's birthday at munchie monkey's.. more of like we just ate there. haha. i got to know guan zhen a little more during the time at munchie monkey's=] haha. felt quite glad that we got the chance to sit down, eat and talk nonsense for a while. seems like we haven't done it for some time:) some pictures as illustrations... haha. though the pictures keep going into different places. disastrous desu neh!haha. oh yes. and i saw a beautiful moon in the bright early wednesday morning when i went out of house at 7am! :S let me post this post first to see how it goes:)

yay. i've decided to cut my hair short.
haha. was wondering if i should. 'cos long hair can keep my neck warm when i'm cold. LOL.
cut short. then shock everyone=] sounds good.
let's see how it goes. hmm.

-someday, when my life has passed me by
i look around and i wonder why
you were always there for me-

haha. there's a same seduction test on kaili and ruisi's blog. haha. they've got a cool way of asking the questions.. you've gotta click on the pictures and the qns will pop up. really nice:))
anyway, speaking of seduction, there's this upcoming play called 251. it's featured by toyfactory and apparently is inspired by the story of annabel chong. frankly speaking when i saw the play, i don't know whether to feel disturbed or to feel irritated.
for the sake of people who don't know who annabel chong is, she's a singapore girl who became a porn star. i first heard about her in secondary school. apparently she was a gepper as well. that's one of the reasons i don't know whether to feel disturbed or not. she studied law under a scholarship wor. but some things happen.
perhaps she never recovered from what happened to her. but i don't understand why she would choose such a route to express what she wants to say as well.
anyway, back to the play. personally i don't see what's so inspiring about her 251 within 10 hour record. secondly, i don't see why they made it into a play at this moment when she's retired from the pornography scene. thirdly, i think it's not a very healthy play to watch. don't know why i feel insulted when i saw the advertisement. same as how i feel that it's insulting for hossan leong to do a standup comedy on multiple personality disorder. it's an insult to people who actually do have the disorder and it's not helpful for the understanding either. i mean, i quite enjoyed yellow wallpaper even though it's about another disorder as well. it's how they handle it i suppose. making an disorder into a comedy is just not funny.
and by using the number as the title, it's like signifying that the record was what forms her as a person, and not who she is as a person. ultimately she's just like all of us, a human being with an innate sinful nature.
well. perhaps i'm just overreacting. it's a play afterall. it's just a play i wouldn't watch:P

This is gonna be one of my rare bimbotic posts. for the simple reason that i do not usually post about such stuff. LOL.
finally went to buy a tube of lip gloss. the weather's been relatively dry recently. hahaa. actually wanted to buy a tube for myself when i was buying weiling's...but no money yah:) got silkygirl's vintage rose lip gloss. haha. i love the colour. lol. it's not those kinda bimbotic glittery bright coloured gloss... it's warm coloured and it blends with my lips:P like dark pink with a tinge of brown, melded together. haha. i used to have nail polish from body shop of that same colour too. hmm.
felt a bit embarrased buying lip gloss. quite silly hor. had all kinds of stupid makeup in the past - eyeshadow, mascara, foundation, skin toner, blusher, mud mask, lipstick and different kinds of brushes for the different kinds of makeup. terrible waste of money when it's in my hands. used once and never used them again. LOL. i'll buy something, use it once and then leave it in my makeup bag for a long time. then gotta throw it away 'cos they say u've gotta change ur makeup every 3 months. wahaha. faint.
i still think that skinny ties are good XD
anyway, hope i'll utilize it more often than in the past:) if i ever use it at all XD i suspect it's another of those stupid impulsive actions i sometimes have.

there's a lot of change going on in my world now:) the change of caregroup. the change of style of school i'm used to (from having lots of term papers to having lots of project groups. disgusting:D) as well as the change of events finance structure.
change is still kowaii for me. and certainly my body still reacts to change in my life (i lose my appetite whenever things around me change. great time for losing weight. haha) but i think i start to see the change in myself towards the reaction towards change. i mean afterall, God allowed me to go through 2 service changes (which means that i had been in 3 different services before, 6 cl changes and 4 shepherd (michelle's my 5th shepherd. kekekeke.) changes within 4 years.
thank You.

After trying to search for the lyrics of 'I'm Forever Yours' by Planetshakers and being unable to find them, i've decided to type them out myself:)

"I'm Forever Yours" - Planetshakers

I give my all to You
Send me and i will go for You
To the ends of the earth
I'll follow after You
I want the world to know
Your love endures forever

Tell me and i'll obey
This is far greater than sacrifice
Trusting you and not myself
Will always lead to blessing
Lord have Your way in me
Not my will, Yours be done

Chorus:
Here i stand within Your presence longing for Your touch
A thousand days cannot compare to one day in Your courts
Hold me now and never ever let me go
My Jesus, my precious Saviour
I'm forever yours

Bridge:
And I will worship You forever
I will worship You

Think this is really my heart song for now. Especially the bold sections. Firmly believing in the fact that trusting God and not myself will always lead to blessings, firmly believing that obedience to Christ is the key the growth, firmly believing that everything comes with a choice. A choice to obey, a choice not to obey. A choice to acknowledge His power, a choice to acknowledge His sovereignty. A choice to obey even when it hurts, a choice to trust even when things seem shaky.

Here i stand within Your presence longing for Your touch
A thousand days cannot compare to one day in Your courts!

And i'm singing this song not because i'm going through tough times of doubt at this moment, but singing it as a reflection of what i've learnt last year through my incidents with people and with God. how everytime i lay down my pride (including pride in thinking that i have the right to feel certain ways), He blessed me so greatly. A choice to persevere for 2 years of tough moulding and questions. of anger, tears, depression and doubt. When i constantly faced with the question of trusting Him or not.

Trusting You and not myself
Will ALWAYS lead to blessing
Lord have Your way in me
Not my will, YOURS BE DONE

amen:) so sweet is the fruit.

And i will worship You forever
i will worship You

I was just thinking on the bus the other day about the topic of death. it's a weird topic to think about... i was thinking about how it is like to just one day die and not be on this earth anymore. not being able to eat the things i like, to watch the animes, to laugh with my friends, to hug someone or give a person a pat on the shoulder.
one life and soon it'll pass.
that's why i don't want to waste it away! i don't want to spend the time knowing that i should do something and not do it. and even when i fall into the phlegmatism or stubbornness of not doing what i should be doing, i want to realise it, repent and change.
time's too short to always keep holding onto one's pride. to keep thinking that one's right. to keep looking at oneself. to be selfish to think that the world revolves around oneself. to think that no one cares or understands. life's too short to be forever struggling with lies from Satan. look to Jesus. trust in Jesus despite understanding and obey. everybody can do that, if only you choose to. Win the mental battle. and stop thinking that one can't win the mental battle.
and even if sometimes we're blinded and we can't focus on Jesus... we still have the brothers and sisters around. so that we can gambaru together. so that when i'm blinded, you can help to take off my blindfolds (though sometimes it hurts to see the light after not seeing it for some time), and i can help to take off your blindfolds when you're blinded. to help each other remember about character of God. that He is mighty to save IN ALL SITUATIONS.

Unsung Songs
How many songs never sung,
poems never written,
pictures never painted,
risks never taken,
bridges never crossed,
romantic words never spoken...
locked inside a lonely heart
the prison of another's making...
are left unexpressed
because somebody
shamed us, abandoned us,
or perhaps silenced us
with a cruel word,
a thoughtless deed,
and said or just implied
we were not good enough,
and tragically
we believed them?
Let this be the moment
we choose to believe them no more...
and sing, sing, sing.
– Dick Innes