challenges ahead

it's been a pretty busy weekend, meeting people, church and family stuff.

i am thankful for the chance to speak truth and love into a young friend's life. and encouraged by her faith and her desire to seek God. to me, it affirms my decision to become a sunday school teacher - their lives have so much potential, and it's exciting to see God leading them and growing them where they are. i am blessed to be a part of the process =)

it's also a challenge, as i realise that the words that i say now weigh a lot more. it's a healthy fear to have, because i find that i am watching my tongue more carefully, because i want to build up, not break down, edify, not condemn, and speak God's truth, not my own.

and another more immediate challenge is that i'll be teaching the next lesson (this coming sunday) on "Fear". it's scary because i'm preparing from scratch, and i need God to guide me in selecting passage(s) to read, and in how i will structure the time, so that they will be free to share, and to apply truth, and to really understand "fear". as my co-teacher so wisely reminded me, i need to see all sides of the situation, and not think simplistically of fear as either purely good or purely bad.

please do pray for me as i prepare for this lesson. =)

the week ahead is special, cos Vday is here! it's not gonna be some big fanfare for mel and me, because we think it's kinda commercialised and everything everywhere will be overpriced and overcrowded. but we are going to have dinner somewhere simple, not to celebrate Vday, but because this is the day last year that he told me he liked me. so, for that reason, it's a special day for us =)

looking forward to that, and having grace back in the office! may you have a blessed week too.