Call it occupational hazard or 'trying to be difficult', even during my catch up dinner with you last night, I could not help but ask these leading questions:
* How do you think you have grown in the past year?
* What do you hope to work on in your personal life that will make this year better than the last?
The truth is, i wasn't trying to be difficult. I believe in the power of speaking out your growth journey and personal goals. It is always different when we hear our own selves articulate these, especially the affirmation of our growth.
Were you gals encouraged to hear from one another and yourself? =)
I guess the best answer that i had gotten to my first question above was: moustache. (Guess who?)
So here i was trying to 'poke' into your lives though our official life coaching journey ended more than a year back. But it definitely paid off to be meddlesome in this case. My heart leapt with unspeakable joy as i heard each of you share, especially when some of you expressed that you had overcome certain issues that i remembered from our coaching journey!
Life may not always be favourable to our side, but it is the attitude that we choose that determines our joy or lack of joy in life - we can either sulk our way through, blaming others and ourselves, or know that through even storms, there can be a Rock which we can stand securely upon and not a wave can hit us.
Shereen and Asyiqin, you were missed!
Thanks Ber again for organising this! =)
Before departure. What a tired and dull looking me! (My spirit was a little down in the week before the trip)
Arrival back to Singapore. God works in amazing ways. After two nights of intense lack of sleep due to rushing to airport and travelling on plane, i actually looked more refreshed and joyful this night.* * *
The whole west coast of Israel is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea (above), ever so exotically blue.Eunice, Stephanie and I spent the time after Pastor's message singing as we swung our legs over the Galilee waters to the beat of the songs of worship to the Lord.
I discovered that.... I might have been a MacDonald's kid! (Below: MacDonald's sign in Hebrew)
To our delight we had a Chinese lunch! The fare was simple but it caused our taste buds to rejoice and leap.
The restaurant is opened by a pair of Christian Chinese. Their words on the wall definitely lifted me a lot - that I can always depend on God to start afresh (picture on the left), and God's joy is truly the best medicine (picture on the right) - exactly what God had given for me in the first 3 days of Israel!
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Tadaaa..... this is the end of Part 1. Stay tuned for more! Ha.
Want to end here by giving thanks for one of my best travelmates Angela (see below!). We had a wonderful time together the whole of our 4th day, and wow how mightily did we bless each other.
ONE OF THE MOST MINDBLOWING MOMENTS:
Me: 'Angela!! Do you know my greatest passion is dance!' (I had NEVER mentioned this to Angela ever)
Angela: 'So scary. Just a few seconds before you told me this, i had a vision of you dancing with a tambourine! Out of nowhere!'
Both of us: 'Oh GOD.... You are with us!'
Me in my mind: 'Wow God, thank YOu for remembering and affirming this God-given passion!' (Nearly really to tears)
