A great day

Today I got two emails from my leaders to approve my proposal on our corporate video... There has been so many delays... hmm all the needless worrying. What a difference it makes to put it all back in Father's hands. I know it was he who moved them.

The book I am writing has also had so many delays. Today I finally sat down and looked at the editing work I have to do. Again Father gave me ideas on how to move on to the next stage. As Aunty says, it will all be done in Father's time.

Today, I also managed to get over the hardest part of putting together a training package. Again Father gave my team unity of heart and mind in what we did.

This has been a great day with Father.

My Shepherd's hand in the everyday

Yesterday, I got a new hot water heater installed. It had the imprints of my Father's hand in my life.

Last weekend, my mother complained that the knob on her hot water heater was too tight for her to turn. She decided to get a new one and give me hers. When the technician went to install her new one however, the pipe didn't fit. She was so kind of arrange for him to fix the new heater at my place instead.

My old heater which I've had for eight years had been giving me problems months ago. I was too busy and reluctant to spend any money on getting a new one. It finally died on me exactly one day before the new heater arrived.

My Father really looks into little matters like this.

Last week, I was in KL for a conference. The speaker shared how he was challenged by Ephesians 3:20,

Now to him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
according to his power that is at work within us...

He said that God spoke to him about being bold in asking God for great things. But after God had answered his request, God told him, "I can do even more that that."

My Father is deeply interested in every part of my life. And he can do far more than I ask or imagine. Another version of that verse says, "God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us."

I have also been reflecting on Psalm 23 since my father passed away. It was his favourite psalm. It's been very refreshing to read Phillip Keller's out-of-print book, A Shephard Looks at Psalm 23.

The heater was something I didn't even ask my heavenly Father to do for me. :-)

I can't fix it

I meant to make this year a less busy and more focused year. I wanted to catch up with all my past utangs. I said I would say NO till I get those done... but hmmm...

What do you do when the powers that be change their minds about some decisions that have been agreed upon and you are left to fix it? It's not like I mind reworking things, but I just don't have the luxury of time.

I just got back from a conference. And one of the key things that struck me is the fact that I am just too busy. This isn't how I want to live my life.

Someone who was not yet a believer in Jesus said that he would come to God when he had got his life fixed up. He was told that he should go to Jesus as he is because only Jesus could help him get it right.

I should go to Jesus and let him get my schedules straightened out. I've been trying for the longest time to fix it. It hasn't worked.