Love, Have Hope & Gratitude

I found this song on the radio (k-love) and heard the lyrics to it and just found it to be so encouraging that I wanted to share this song with you all. So no matter how bad things seem to be - know that there is always hope for better things to come :)

[btw the version I posted is not the original. So here’s the original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qG1ThtgguE]

Before the Morning - Josh Wilson

Do you wonder why you have to 
Feel the things that hurt you 
If there’s a God who loves you where is He now 

Maybe there are things you can’t see 
And all those things are happening 
To bring a better ending 

Someday somehow you’ll see you’ll see 

Would you dare would you dare to believe 
That you still have a reason to sing 
Cause the pain that you’ve been feeling 
It can’t compare to the joy that’s coming 
So hold on you gotta wait for the light 
Press on and just fight the good fight 
Cause the pain that you’ve been feeling 
It’s just the dark before the morning 

My friend you know how this all ends 
You know where you’re going 
You just don’t know how you’ll get there 
So say a prayer 

And hold on cause there’s good for those who love God 
But life is not a snapshot 
It might take a little time but you’ll see the bigger picture 

Would you dare would you dare to believe 
That you still have a reason to sing 
Cause the pain that you’ve been feeling 
It can’t compare to the joy that’s coming 
So hold on you gotta wait for the light 
Press on and just fight the good fight 
Cause the pain that you’ve been feeling 
It’s just the dark before the morning 

Once you feel the weight of glory 
All your pain will fade to memory 
Once you feel the weight of glory 
All your pain will fade to memory, memory, memory 

Would you dare would you dare to believe 
That you still got a reason to sing 
Cause the pain that you’ve been feeling 
It can’t compare to the joy that’s coming 

Would you dare would you dare to believe 
That you still got a reason to sing 
Cause the pain that you’ve been feeling 
It can’t compare to the joy that’s coming 

Come on you’ve gotta wait for the light 
Press on and just fight the good fight 
Cause the pain that you’ve been feeling 
It’s just the hurt before the healing 
Oh the pain that you’ve been feeling 
It’s just the dark before the morning 
Before the morning

God Is Able - Hillsong

God is able
He will never fail
He is almighty God
Greater than all we seek
Greater than all we ask
He has done great things

Lifted up
Defeated the grave
Raised to life
Our God is able
In His name we overcome
For the Lord
Our God is able

God is with us
God is on our side
He will make a way
Far above all we know
Far above all we hope
He has done great things

Lifted up
Defeated the grave
Raised to life
Our God is able
In His name we overcome
For the Lord
Our God is able

God is with us
He will go before
He will never leave us
He will never leave us
God is for us
He has open arms
He will never fail us
He will never fail us

Lifted up
Defeated the grave
Raised to life
Our God is able
In His name we overcome
For the Lord
Our God is able
For the Lord
Our God is able
For the Lord
Our God is able

Today at church [KIBC - in Hong Kong] we went through Nehemiah 5 where we addressed the issue of complaining. Our Pastor mentioned 3 main points: 

1. Consider the peoples concern

2. Choose your response

3. Confront the problem

This is just the outline of his sermon, I won’t expand on each point. What I wanted to share is that our Pastor mentioned that in Philippians 2:14-15 it says 

“Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky” 

And so our Pastor challenged us to get an empty jar and for a week, put a coin in it for every complaint we make so that we may see and hear each and every complain we make. 

I admit that I complain a lot… and so, this would be a good week to see how much I complain and work on this flaw of mine! And I invite you to join in this challenge with me :) 

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Give me your eyes for just one second

Give me your eyes so i can see

Everything that i keep missing

Give me your love for humanity

Give me your arms for the broken hearted

The ones that are far beyond my reach

Give me your heart for the one’s forgotten

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You Are LOVED 

not only by me :) 

But most of all Loved by our amazing Heavenly Father - GOD 

I said that alright 

The LOVE that this God gives is UNFAILING and is GREATER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE and lasts FOREVER

Have you ever had that feeling in your heart where you feel like there’s a hole inside of it? And you’re waiting for the perfect boy or girl to make it whole? Well, the BEST LOVE to receive isn’t romantic love but Gods love which is so great it just fills your heart with this overflowing amount of love that makes you want to share this love with others. Which is what I am doing :)

So don’t let self pity be your best friend today just because you don’t have a valentine to take you out on some cute date and give you chocolate or flowers or attention or love. Don’t drown your sorrows with alcohol or have some burn party. Instead, let today be the day that you recognize how worthy you are as a person and how you are actually LOVED, and that someone is thinking about you, caring for you. This book we call the bible, is a book of stories showing Gods relationship with man and here are some quotes to end this post with:  

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness” (Jeremiah 31:3)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16)

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13)

But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:4-5)

Don’t Ever Doubt How Beautiful You Are

For you created my inmost being; 
   you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 
   your works are wonderful, 
   I know that full well. 

-Psalm 139:13-14

This goes out to all you sisters - Don’t ever buy into the lies of satan that you are not beautiful. That you are not worthy. That just because your body doesn’t fit into size Small you aren’t beautiful. Just because you’re skin complexion isn’t smooth that you are not beautiful. Don’t ever follow what the world and medias standard of beauty is. The number on the scale will never define your worth. The attention boys give you will never give you the sense of worth you are truly looking for. Romance, boys giving you attention will never give you the sense of security you are looking for. Stop trying to look beautiful, stop trying to impress people, stop trying to attract boys, stop trying to be loved and accepted. You already are. You are loved more than you will ever know. You are loved by our Heavenly Father who each times sees you cry because you think you’re not good enough cries with you and wants more than anything for you to know that you are perfect just the way you are because you are His precious child. 

As I am planning a conference for my schools Hospitality Program, one of our keynote speakers, David Batstone, is the co-founder of an organization that helps to abolish human trafficking and its an amazing organization. 

Its amazing how I went from simply doing research on him to edit his speaker bio to googling him and finding all these different things he has founded and is in charge of. Then I read his CNN article about human trafficking in Romania and it just once again shocks me to read all the injustice in this world and how evil people can because of their greed. Pride, greed, lack of knowledge of how to truly live life so often leads people to harm others because of their unethical ways of doing business and more than make ends meet but make a lot of money at the cost of others lives. I don’t see how human lives are worth ruining for money. But if you look at the corporate work office, how we treat others because of our selfish pursuits of our careers is similar to what those evil people are doing. I hope to never work for people like that or to ever become anything like those people. 

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He is Alive

lawitness:

I don’t remember the first time my mom took me to a Buddhist temple. I only remember that I resented it, all of it. I resented my mom for dragging me, month after month. I resented the fact that while other kids were causing merry mayhem at my neighborhood playground, I was burning incense and rolling “Buddhist dice” (fortune sticks). I resented having to reintroduce myself to the Buddhist gods during each visit, before each prayer; if they were gods, shouldn’t they already know who I am, why I’m here? But, most of all, I resented being forced to bow and pray to a god who was apparently on an extended vacation. Why was it that, despite my mom’s fervent devotion and repeated visits, not one of her prayers were answered?

Every month, it was the same exercise. I already knew what my mom would pray for. I was also given an inventory of prayer points and, although I followed my mom’s instructions to the letter, I always managed to slip in one more teeny-tiny request.

“Dear Buddha. Please protect my mom. Please stop my dad from beating her. Please.”

To tell you the truth, I really hated how cold, impersonal, and unresponsive all these Buddhist gods seemed towards my mom. I didn’t care that these Buddhas didn’t answer all my other “automatic” prayers. I didn’t even care if my dad stopped beating me. By the time I was eight, I already mastered the art of mentally and emotionally shutting down, morphing into a machine whenever the fists and the sticks would come out to play. Sticks and stones may break someone else’s bones but, they sure as hell wouldn’t break mine or my spirit. But what about my mom? My mom had sacrificed her youth, her freedom, and her dignity in a failed attempt to create a semblance of a family. She had ample opportunity to leave or divorce my dad, but she refused to abandon us. There had to be some unofficial rule in the Game of Life that guaranteed peace from all this pain after a certain quota of suffering had been met. Didn’t my mom’s loyalty and devotion count for something?

Hello? Was anybody up there? Anybody?

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