made.good.again

                                in no particular order…

1. ah tat who was our centre rep working hard to accommodate / get people going to camp, plus organized buses and got the campers there!! (and back)!! **proud approving smile** - mum was also impressed!

2. Black and orange lanyards with OCF Victoria printed on!

3. Heaters in dining hall (that you wish you could take with when you go to the showers).

4. Showertime!! Talking to people when you are showering (which you don’t get to do at home). Shower curtains that stick to you when you turn on the water - think Bernoulli’s principle (low air pressure area attracts shower curtains).

5. Getting deserved airtime to share lame jokes - thanks LiWei for continuously believing in me…

6. Girls workshop!! Read previous entry on beautiful woman.. for even more details, read Captivating by Stasi Eldredge.

7. DG!! (which stands for Discovery Group) - their curiosity and interest in Jesus taught me that God is the answer to so many of the situations we have in life - He is a relevant God indeed! Praise God for the many that took a joyful step into a wonderful relationship with Jesus - a decision that is of no regrets!

8. D&G!! (Debs and Gillian from Adelaide) - we meet each other like once a year (thanks to events like OCF convention) but each time we come together, we just connect (in G’s words - kindred spirits) - passionate to live the call of God in our lives, passionate in our pursuit of Him, passionate about OCFers and the mission ahead!

9. VIC OCFers being fantastic hosts to newcomers and friends! Am really proud of my MUOCFers - each time I look, they’re serving others, having a good chat with new friends, getting to know people from other centres - great going, team! I love serving under Lucien, Jolyn and the comm - not just coz of what they’re like upfront but their deep hunger for more of God!!

10. Thai missions team sharing! The team just shared their hearts out and I was inspired again and again - that the trip blessed both the Thai people and the team members - God’s abundant blessings!

11. Taking crazy photos by the Portsea beach!!

12. The other side of EmSeck that you don’t see - when she’s not being good and quiet working diligently on her Archi projects, she’s away practising her kungfu kicks by the beach (on Dong).

and of course, Dong could not withstand her powerful, wongfeihung kicks…

Luke 13:10-17 (NIV)

"Ahh.. the pen! We would be jobless without the pen, all that we do around the hospital is paperwork, that’s all they need us for, fill this in, sign that, write that up…" - semi-sarcastic fellow intern.

"penny, you’re gonna be here till 8 if you’re always doing the other people’s jobs. Just keep to what’s necessary…" - semi-reprimanding senior colleague after I helped another colleague look after a sick patient.

Subtle, but these are things that potentially would shape me day after day, especially in these impressionable early years as a junior dr. I’ve always enjoyed learning from others, being teachable, but more and more the responsibility lies in me to filter what I’d allow into my thoughts and soul.

When Jesus asked Peter "who do people say I am?"… He already knew who He was. He is the Christ, the Son of the Living God - the confidence He had lied in His identity. It wasn’t shaken by His hanging out with unimportant, insignificant people, it wasn’t crushed by His bending down to wash His disciples’ feet.

My identity is in Christ - I am a child of the Living King, who is rich and hence I am able to be generous to offer to others based on what’s in His account (’savings’.. hehe..)! And I want to continue to have the loving, compassionate, gracious mind of Christ, careful not to allow myself to continue to be stifled and restricted by the mindset of "just doing the necessary", of being narrow and small. Because I believe I have more than medical knowledge to offer.

Everyday, words will be spoken. We don’t have control over what people may say…

But…arrest/filter/resist words spoken over you that drive you further away from His destiny for you. And accept/meditate/practice with diligence words that agree with what He says about you in His Word.

Who does He say you are?

“Do not fear; let not your hands be weak. The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17

"I pray that we as Christians never lose our conviction that God does change lives. Change is a gift from God. It is given to the person who finds himself too far removed from what he feels destiny has ordained for him. Unbelief in God’s ability to change causes people to judge others on the basis of their past."

"He created man from dust. He created him in such a way that, if need be, He could pull a woman out of him without ever having to reach back into the dust. Out of one creative act God transformed the man into a marriage. Then He transformed the marriage into a family, the family into a society, etc. God never had to reach into the ground again because the power to transform was intrinsically placed into man. All types of potential were locked into our spirits before birth. For the Christian, transformation at its optimum is the outworking of the internal. God placed certain things in us that must come out."

                        -Can You Stand to Be Blessed? - by TD Jakes.