Philip's Dream Team

Many years ago , a dear friend, Claire, while praying for me prophesied and said she saw me spending time doing a lot of writing....pages and pages and it's about my life. When I heard it , I was thinking, “OK” but I didn't give it much thought. At that time , I was really not into writing stuff anyway. I enjoy reading but writing “Nah.. it's a totally different ball game.” Too much effort and too much thinking.

So of course , nothing came of it for a long time. My 1st foray into writing started in 2008 when we came back from Singapore and that was my first effort in writing a blog. My understanding of a blog came from Alie. I had heard the word before but being so unsavvy in my internet skills and language, I had no idea what a blog is , until Alie explained. My first reaction was “ Why would anyone want to read a blog for ?” Anyway, eventually after some time, I myself wrote our first blog. I wrote the blog mainly for my 2 sisters coz they are so faraway and so that we can keep tabs.... but eventually more people got into our blog and I end up writing not only for them but to express myself as well. After writing the blog for sometime , I realised that the words prophesied over me is coming to pass. I thought “Hmmm.... interesting.” And I actually thot ...thats it!!!!

But God has other plans. Many moons ago, hubby told me that I should consider writing short articles regularly for our friends to encourage them in their spiritual journey. Being the not so obedient wife, I didn't obey him. I just conveniently forgot about it. To me writing regularly is too much of a challenge. I just felt it was impossible.....until God spoke. I was at work one morning and He gently reminded me of what hubby had said . He told me in very clear terms to write. That very moment I said “yes”. He wanted me to write about my everyday life and how it can be an encouragement to people. I always feel I live a very ordinary life …. nothing much to write about but God thinks otherwise , I guess. Basically it's about Him not so much about me, really.

My first article was sent out via email on 13 June and since then by God's grace I have been able to write more than 20 articles. I try to write once a week. I am most overwhelmed with the goodness and faithfulness of God. As I write , I feel God's love for His people and how much He wants to encourage them. I feel encouraged and blessed by Him.

There were certain articles which I wrote which I felt would not be so impacting, yet it would be the one that drew a response from people. I remember Steven shared how happy he was to hear that I had a tough week as he was having one too. He felt he wasn't alone. He was so glad I had a tough week and found companionship in that thought!!!!God works in mysterious ways.

I don't know how long this writing is expected to go on. But one thing I do know is that God requires obedience from me....that is to write until He says “STOP”.

I love the word holiday. It's such a wonderful word. Our family just returned from a week of hols ...journeying from KL to Ipoh then to Penang. Taking the long way to Penang meant that the kids had a chance to travel by train and it was also the 1st time Jordan used the ferry.
Last year, we did not go on any holidays due to the house moving so it was great to be able to do so this year. I found it most refreshing to be able to just get away and not have to work or do any house work even if it was for only 1 week.

Our days were filled with eating and more eating
shopping (spending hubby's $$$)
going ooh n aah over the Christmas decos in KL (Penang's Christmas decos are no where near KL's) meeting up with friends (we are very touched by the kindness & generosity of our friends)
doing fun things ( going to Penang Hill on the new train, riding the Sedgway )

discovering sights that were totally unexpected !!!!
Speaking of unexpected , hubby didn't tell his dad that we were coming home for a visit so you can well imagine his surprise when we turned up at the doorstep. He was sooo pleased !!!!

All in all...we had a splendid holiday.