Like and Love, so alike yet so different!

Like

I see the flower and I like it so much, so I plug it and have it!

Love

I see the flower and fell in love with it. Noted that the wind is strong and it is raining heavily, I build it a shelter to further protect it so it can grow heathily! 

Life ain't always beautiful, full with thorns.

As we allow ourselves to be immersed in the movie that goes through happiness, bitterness, madness etc within the time limit of two hours, somehow it is like the our life, in longer time limit.

As I recalled most of the movies that I watched, most of the time the happiness only occurred during the beginning & the ending part. When we are still infant and kids, there is no need to worry/ sad about something for long time. Argument between kids, scolded by parents, ... will mostly take short time to be forgotten and there we go, enjoying fun time again.

As we grow into adult, more things seem to heat and hit up on us. Feeling like life is lonely, tough and hard are no longer strange to many of the working adults. We still can allow tears to flow the unhappiness things away when we are teenagers. It totally sounds different when we are adults. Shredding tears can only provide comfort for a while and we still have to face the challenges within time limit. 

"Hang in there bro/sis, you can do it" is one of the encouragement words that we can provide to friends sometimes. When we are kids, what we want are mostly toy which we can share with each other. Growing into adults "require" us to have different types of "toy" (example: travelling, property, savings, time) which we can't share among each others. 

Please don't find this passage offensive/discouraging. It is just an "I" to share what I'm feeling now. I feel so vulnerable and many things can seem to be able to take my gut away. Am learning to grow stronger and allow God to heal me, teach & guide me so I will not always this lost. 

Back to You

In life,
life's hopeless, helpless.
What hath happen to this world.
Selfishness, pride took over,
ruling among us,
yelling us to work,
just for a paycheck.

In life,
God brought you and me Jesus.
Crucified on the Cross,
Why? Why?
When we are doing everything that He once hates,
wait, not once, still hate.

The unique of love,
not because we are good,
because want to save us from the worst judgement,
that no one can stand against it firmly.

Oh Lord,
You are the one we seek for.
You are the one we want to live for.
Let it not be only a word from our mouth,
may it be the vow that we want to make it now.
Dwell in us, use us, for we are weak,
You are strong.

We can't understand Your will, so Lord,
take our body, our soul.
Use us as You wish,
ignore our pain, let Your pain is the pain we feel,
break us for what break your heart, Lord.

We uphold this moment onto You, Lord,
teach us how to seek for You forever,
for Your love is the only hope in this world.

How To Talk To God

This is a praying guide written by Ren Xi and edited by Jerome. Feel free to ask any question if you have one:

Why Pray To Who-He-Knows-Everything
Personally, praying is talking to God, telling Him what you want to tell Him. Though God knows everything about us but He wants us to talk to Him. This is because He wants us to realise that we need Him in our life. It is just like your love one know that you love him/her, yet it is important to say "i love you" out orally.

Matthew 7:7 
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

A Guideline To Pray

Beginning: We can start our prayer with Our Father in heaven, our heavenly Father, dear Jesus, Abba Father. It is like we want to call out for someone before we start praying. Just like we will call "Mum" or "Dad" before we want to speak up.

Middle:

1. Thanksgiving - Give thanks to God, thank You for bringing me here or thank You for gathering us here or thank You for today.
2. Confession - Confess my sin. Sometimes we sin without our realisation. Ask for forgiveness and also forgive people who sin against us as He command.
3. Praise - Praise the God: God You are great, everything is in Your control (Optional, you may praise God with your prayer request).
4. Chatting - Telling God how is your day, what are the things you have gone through and how you feel, chatting with God. He is like a father, best friend, listener to us besides God.
5. Surrender - Talk to God about the thing you concern. You may pray for others, family and friends. Must learn to surrender everything onto God after pray. We do what we can do and let God does the rest.

Ending: You can end with "in Jesus' name we pray, Amen".

What Should i Do To Accept Christ

For those who are not christian and wish to accept Christ but don't know how, you may read this Sinner's prayer once and approach us or any christian to know more about christian:

Sinner Prayer (taken from http://www.sinner-prayer.com/)

"Father, i know that i have broken Your laws and my sins have separated me from You. i am truly sorry, and now i want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. i believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive and hears my prayer. i invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. In Jesus' name i pray, Amen."

Examples of prayers

Prayer For Food
"Dear heavenly Father, thank You for today, thank You for gather us here today for this time (if there are others). God, i want to pray for the food, thank You for the food that You had prepared for us. Bless the hands that prepared this meal and blessed this food into our body, will help us to stay healthy and strong. In Jesus's name i pray, Amen."

Prayer For Family
"Dear Lord, i thank You for Your grace that had saved me and cleanse all my sin. i want to uphold all my family especially those who hasn't heard about You or heard about You but ignore You. Lord, please use me as Your living testimony in my family so that they may see the changes in me and see You in me. Use me as a tool in my family. Give me the wisdom and courage to share Your gospel with them. Lord, please soften their heart to listen and to come to know You and Lord, i pray that one day they will come to acknowledge You as their personal saviour. Lord, i also want to pray for myself. Please strengthen me and comfort my heart. Help me to forgive them. i know sometimes what they say will hurt and make me doubt with my own faith. Lord, please help me to stand firm in You and help me to go through all the difficulties and persecution that i will faced. Please send Your Holy Spirit to guide me. Lord, i pray that You will send Your Angel to protect my family. Pray that they will live healthily In Jesus' name i pray, Amen." 

Pray For Own Self
"Dear Abba Father, i know i am not a good person and always sin. But Lord, Your mercy is always shown to me and love me even i have sin against You. i pray for my study. please help me, give me wisdom and knowledge in my study, help me to concentrate in class and help me to have a good communication with my lecturers. Lord, please help me to love others as You had loved me. i know i can't love everyone like You do. Sometimes it is hard for me to love someone but Lord, please help me to love those i find hard to love. Lord, please help me to seek Your will in my life. Help me to be able to listen to You and obey to Your words. Help me to humble myself and serve others. In Jesus' name i pray, Amen."


Another really good example of prayer is the Lord's Prayer.

The New Look Of Kuala Terengganu

For those who hasn't know (especially my ex-university's mates), the local government has actually "changed" the view of China Town. It is located right behind our KT China Town. One of my friend named it as "Ice-cream world" since the "light trees" look exactly like ice-cream from a distance!

"Ice-Cream World" from across the river.

Bridge that links to "Ice-cream World".

Our friend - Shawn with the "Ice-cream".

The view of the river with our friend inside - Da Da.

I think it is nice that least there are some works that have been done to make Kt to have a new look! Feel free to go have an experience there by yourself. It is really romantic as there are old couples walking around there and chatting around =)

Visitation to Rumah Damai

CF has organized a visitation to Rumah Damai (KT) to express our love towards the elders and to share God's love with them. More than 30 CF members attend the trip. Together we sang song, danced, played games and made Tang Yuan with the elders.

Group Photo of our CF Members and Most-Respect-Elders.

 Together Making Tang Yuan with the old folks.

Serving lunch to the old folks.

One of the grandma nearly cried when we were wishing her and talking to her. It is a very touching scene.

Just wondering what will i feel if i was the one got "placed" in an old folk's home. May God hears our prayers and reminds these "kids" about their parents.

More info: 

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/12/7/nation/5253191&sec=nation 

Gossip Kitchen (KT)

The first time i really stepped in Gossip Kitchen (Kuala Terengganu) is in 2012! Unbelievable! i should have attend this very nice restaurant like 2 years ago. i should have try out myself rather than listen to others' comment.

Let me introduced the food first. The main food set available here included :

a) Spaghetti - Decorated in a simple manner, tastes really nice, available in vege-only also.
b) Fried Rice - Various types, strongly recommend - Gong Bao fried rice. Thai & Gossip Signature fried rice is nice also (i dislike due to the chili).
c) Western Food (Chop) - Many friends like it as in quantity & quality. i love the fries a lot!

 (a) Grilled Chicken Chop

(b) Fried Chicken Chop

                                 

(c) Fish & Chips

 i would rate this restaurant a 7.5/10 for the overall food and environment :)

f/b link : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gossip-Kitchen/270652121573