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Every time I look at this picture, I can hear my Criminal Law Lecturer going “can anyone tell me what the physical elements for this offence is?”
Poor Gummi Bear.
I remember this little excerpt when the Ablaze leaders and champs had just finished a leadership session with the Hope Singapore leaders. Rapheal was showing LIz and I a cool collage of a photo of several Hope Singapore people which look not dissimilar to this:
It led to this exchange:
Raphael: He is being hungry, she is [...]
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C.S Lewis
Ablaze Camp 2008: Desperation was quite different for me this year than previous camps. There wasn’t a ‘God-was-so-real-that-I-cried….a lot’ moment. Yet at the same time, there was a lot of stuff at the camp that convicted me, spurred me on and gave me a lot of food for thought.
‘The key to God’s presence is to [...]
Two days after Ablaze Camp and I still can’t get over Pastor Shirley’s prophecy for Powerhouse:
You are more ready than you think you are. You are more ready than you think you are. Don’t gauge your readiness according to how the world sees abilities and capabilities and experience. But God shall top up what you [...]
As Ablaze Camp is now literally than 24 hours away, it has been a time of reflection and goal-setting before Desperation is finally here.
I guess the major goals I have in my life so far are:
- To go beyond just knowing the Word of God, but living it out in every facet of our my [...]
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred;
Forgive them anyway!
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
…Be kind anyway!
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
…Succeed anyway!
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
…Be honest and frank anyway!
What you spend years [...]
I am the only one to blame for this
Somehow it all ends up the same
Soaring on the wings of selfish pride
I flew too high and like Icarus I collide
With a world I try so hard to leave behind
To rid myself of all but love
to give and die
To turn away and not [...]
