my schedule, and subsequently my thoughts and emotions, were a little thrown off in the last two weeks. haha. realized that i do really need a period of time in the week to be able to spend extended solitude time with God :) i guess being really sick doesn't really help. so thank God for doctors and medicine and for a body that's steadily recovering (other than the persistent cough and the continually gurgling stomach -it's still making funny noises! and occasional visits to the loo). haha.
i'm glad how things are coming in at proper timings though. had a break from counselling ministry cos i've finished the cases, and there were no new referrals throughout these months, whereby i can focus on other things (e.g. work and script writing). but now as these take a backseat soon, a new referral has just come in (in my niche area somemore. hoho. even as this area was brought to mind recently once again). and i'd soon be heading into more intensive revision for Japanese in preparation for N3. i guess i really want to be able to do revision at this point in time as I haven't been able to spend time in doing homework (much less revision) for Japanese for the entire year. hahaha. so before i move on to advanced japanese (woohoo!), i wanna ensure that my basics can be more or less grounded.

as a gentle reminder:
happiness is really not the end goal of living. sanctification is.
the world doesn't quite make sense if we keep viewing happiness as the end goal of living. biblical principles won't quite make sense in the midst of moral decisions either.
but if we view sanctification as the end goal, then the perspectives change, and everything falls nicely into place.
not to say that sanctification will make people unhappy, unhappiness may occur during sanctification because pruning is not necessarily a pleasant process, right? :) haha