My fav photo in the month of Sep!!

Is the photo of my Melissa and me :)

Her laughter was captured here..

..and it reminded me of

why I should stay home and take good care of her and her brother..

Melissa, your smile n laughter made mommy's day.. I love you~~

It takes pain to produce greatness by Seth

Does God trust you? Do you handle his flawed servants with grace or are you judgmental? Are you trustworthy?

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Unless you've experienced great pain, I honestly don't know if the Lord can trust you. When you've gone through a time of pain, it humbles you. You recognize how much you need God and how precarious life can be.

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It's tempting to be impressed with people whose gifts are great, but the ones I really admire are humble, the ones who have struggled with pain and emerged grace-filled. They understand their own frailty. They have time for "little people." Their humanity is inviting.

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Nathan Salley is a racer who God has trusted with pain - this most precious and least prized of gifts. And you can see the humility of spirit it has produced in him. In contrast, so many young people, not knowing pain, struggle with a numbness of spirit. Hear him share his story:

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I have been complaining for many years of my life that I don't hear from the Lord and I feel like its almost a joke right now for Him to pour out every possible way that I hear all at once in the last week to overwhelm my senses. I am not tired physically, but emotionally overwhelmed. I sat in on 7 different team debriefs, with 7 new teams. I swear I teared up in almost every single one because they could have not come together in any better way than how the Lord planned it.

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I talked to my mom earlier in the day on Skype. I told her all the things the Lord had been revealing to our squad. The encounters and visions the team was having. She reminded me of the one and only vision I had when I was eleven.

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This isn't a story I tell often.

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It was my second night in the hospital after being diagnosed with AML leukemia. They needed to do a spinal tap on me to check my bone marrow to see how far I had progressed. In 1997, Children's Hospital was not accustomed to giving kids pain meds during spinal tap procedures. All that was used was some emla cream to numb the skin. The pain was pretty bad, but mostly scary being only eleven years old and not knowing fully what the next years of my life would look like. I remember crying out and yelling in pain. Then I remember my mom whispering in my ear to call out to Jesus and he will hear me.

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This was the first time I really learned what suffering meant and where God was in pain. See sometimes we are so concentrated on our pain that we forget Jesus is in the room suffering along with us.

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I remember closing my eyes and seeing what I believed to be an angel or a figure of Jesus. It could have been my imagination,and I could have rationalized it away. But I chose to see Jesus in that moment. I don't remember the pain subsiding, but I do remember feeling comforted that Jesus was in the room with me.

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If you've had to go through pain that you thought would never end or couldn't make sense of, consider Nathan's example. Now, he's a leader on the World Race and a source of encouragement and joy for his teammates. Maybe your own story feels no less horrific. You may feel overwhelmed by its intensity and you may be waiting to understand it redemptive purpose. I hope you'll be encouraged by this principle and this verse:

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"God is educating you; that's why you must never drop out. He's treating you as dear children. This trouble you're in isn't punishment; it's training,the normal experience of children." (Heb 12:7-8)

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by Seth

Here's looking at cha!!!

Peek-ka-boo... I see you~~~

I wonder how can a lady bird flew up to my house? I live in a box up in the sky wor... ahehehe.. ah.. God's creation always amazes me.. always...

Such beautiful dress you have ladybird.. God had cloth you well :)

Just love..

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"Love came down and everything change.." is the vision for our church this year (2010) and truly God's love have shown us how to live our lives more effectively and more powerfully..

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We struggle with our lives everyday, with work, with family, with friends, with issues, with our country etc.. and sometimes we don't see that there is Hope.. we do not see God in all our struggles.. we don't dare to even face the truth.. we just continue to live in denial.. take the easy way out, just be natural and do what ever that seems easier.. Even though it is easier, we still struggle and worst, we suffer becuase of what we have done...

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Love is not something easy to do.. Love means forgiveness, acceptance, endurance, sacrifice, hope etc.. it's hard work and takes a lot of effort and commitment.. Love is the greatest lesson we can learn from Jesus.. yet His love is hard for us to understand nor comprehend.. becuase He is perfect and we are not.. but we need to try.. we need to give it our best and Love.. There is no way around it to see God's face but to Love.. and love like how Jesus have loved..

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Someone loves you, really really loves you.. would you love back?

Eating healthy..

To live a healthy life.. we must feed our body healthy food, like the above vegetables :) filled with nutrition's and goodness.. not everyone likes fruits and veggies.. it takes some effort and committed to eat healthy.. (don't forget to exercises too) I thank God that I naturally likes these food..

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so wht is the healthy food for our soul and spirit?

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For my soul, need time to be quite.. a time to reflect and give thanks.. need time to stop and smell the flowers..time to meditate..to read a good book.. to learn and obtain knowledge.. to help a friend and family in need.. to spent time with my children and seeing them grow..

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For my Spirit, to Pray.. listen to what He has to say.. must observe my surroundings so I will not miss what He wants to show me.. learn to love and be loved.. must allow Him to change me.. must learn to submit to Him and be humble.. need to be in His presence and His grace.. most of all.. All I need.. is Jesus..

The funny things my hubby do...

When I got back from delivering Melissa in May 2010.. I went to bed in my room and found this on my wall.

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It was really funny... seeing this potrait on the wall.. ahahaha.. my hubby really got a sense of humour.. something that he rarely show to others..

The potrait is no more on my wall... but this picture makes me smile, reminds me that my hubby always wants to make me smile.. I thank God for hubby...

Baby Melissa...

She is now 5 months old :) Sweet as ever.. She got more hair now ahahaha.. and more awake too!

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She smiles easily, especially when you talk to her.. she loves to talk and to be talked to.. sometimes she gets so excited that she talks very loudly as if she was shouting! lol.. She have one of the sweetest smiles that will melt anyone's heart... Even the passer by will notice her and smile at her.. She is fair and blurr looking, thus making her look very adorable..

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I know i know.. i'm praising my own child LOL.. I can't help it! She's mine! She is my little princess!! I'm not comparing her to anyone's child.. so she is sweet and adorable in her own right :) nothing wrong with loving and praising her, right? of course others can judge her... but to me, she'll always be my little princess..