| A b o u t .me. 2.0.0.3. |
| My favourite sayings this year: I enjoy life. Life is so much fun! Life is so rich. It is! I like it. That's how I have been feeling since the start of this new year. I've just discovered it lately. |
| New Hobbies (I actually have a hobby!): "Photo-ing" (i.e. capturing the moments) It's not exactly photography though. Sometimes, I just like spontaneously walking around to take shots, especially when I am relaxed. I like capturing the "moments", and there is always, I know, some reason, whether big or small, behind my shots. But I usually don't know how to say them clearly in words until a bit later when I actually write them down. They help me to think too sometimes. I can sort them into different types, surrounding various themes to tell a story, to show a point from my perspective, or sometimes, to embrace people's relationships. Web-Journaling I have maintained my website for a year and half by now. Not until lately, have I realize how a website of my own helps me to relax and relieve from a cold and weary day. On it, I get to talk about the things sometimes too trivial to be brought up in a conversation, yet meaningful enough for myself to want to let out or tell others know about. I've done it before. I am doing it still, but now, i see it as a hobby -- something good to do, something fun and healthy to enjoy. |
| Intellectual Development I've already shared with several friends that my thinking has been shifting ... From PSYCHOLOGY to SOCIOLOGY From Little Details to the Bigger Picture From my own world to relationships with others. What hasn't change is that I still question things a lot. What's changed, however, is that I just realized that. I think I am a very conscious and conscientious person. I strive so hard to be aware of the hidden things around me, perhaps the potential pitfalls. I often try so hard to explain what's going wrong. I even want to dig out my own blindspots so they no longer will be my blindspots. Yet, perhaps I don't realize this constant strive to understand and predict everything is in itself a blindspot in life. I can think too hard, and therefore, fear too much, worry too much. (I don't even know), but perhaps, I do not need to know so much to live a joyful life on earth. |
| God has blessed me tremendously at the start of this year. After all the thinking and trying to figure out what my life is for, my eyes and my heart were opened by Him to see the Truth even more clearly. 7 years ago when I was 14, I heard about the Truth. 4 years ago when I was 17, I committed to a life with Christ. 2 years ago, I have started to experience God's love. 1.5 year ago, I reconfirmed my faith in Jesus. This Sunday January 5, 2003, I have found the Truth confirmed! I have rededicated my life to God, Christ Himself, in a very specific way. I am finally so strongly convinced by God's very own words, not others', the reason WHY I believe in Him, the almighty Creator, powerful Maker and Lord of ALL: Romans 1:19-20 "For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made," God has always been there. He's been there since the beginning. He's been powerful and creating everything since the beginning. He's the most powerful one. He's the most important. And therefore, he is the LORD of ALL. I am convicted, and I confess the guilt of all sin is idolatry: Romans 1:22-34 "Claiming to be wise, they became fools; and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles." It is the failure to worship God, to make Him the centre of all, to revere Him, to recognize His magnificence, to see Him as LORD, to call Him Lord, to praise Him and call Him the Most High; instead, we see any thing other than the Creator as the lord; we make other things the centre of all, and we uphold other things as magnificent in our lives. I believe God has shown me, and therefore, I have discovered the Ultimate Purpose in my life. It is written here: Exodus 20:1-6 "Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall bow down to them or worship them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments." In my life I am to worship God. That is, to revere Him, to see His magnificence, to reflect it, to make Him the centre of ALL, to call Him LORD, to praise Him and call Him the Most High. And the way I am going to live my life is written here: Philippians 1:27 "Only, live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ". I am to live my life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. A Life Rededicated to Christ On Sunday morning, January 5, 2003, I was so convicted of my sin yet so compelled by God's assurance that I have rededicated my life to God, the Creator of ALL and Christ Himself, very specifically: that the ultimate purpose in my life and my everyday life is to worship Him, and the way I am going to live my life is in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. After worship, I talked to Sylvia Dresser an elder sister at my church (Knox Presbyterian Church) about my convictions, and asked her to say a prayer of dedication with me. I prayed first for myself, and then she prayed for me. It was exciting to discover the reason WHY I believe in God. I just could not keep smiling for that whole day. And it is still exciting to know very surely that in my life, I have an ultimate purpose (Exodus 20:1-6), and there is a way to live it (Phil. 1:27). Especially when absurd things in life really bother me, I can always fall back on God, and know what I am really living for right now. Praise God! Amen. Catherine Tin, Thursday, Jan 23, 2003. |
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