sugar musk & grenadine: November 2007

so tell me

Why did i have such a priviledge to be a part of that beautiful story?

He is the I.Am

Love is patient.

what's in a name?

i was having a conversation with dad, mikey & jol over lunch one sunday and dad was sharing with us about the power of calling people's names when you greet & talk to them. so, people come and people go in your life and i (for one..) do not have the discipline of remembering names!! argh! yeah..so there i was talking to this 'friend' for goodness knows how long as i bumped into him at a cafe one night...and you know when the lag of asking that person's name again is way overdue that it would be just way too sinful to ask what their name was half an hour later. i swear he probably had an inkling that that was the case but i reckon he was probably in the same boat as me.

argh! and i went home to scroll in my mobile..but i still couldn't find his name.

oh dear. its a week now and i'm still wrecking my brain. my goal 2008 is to learn to discipline myself in remembering people's names somehow.

chee-zu

the late (but first to arrive) guests

charlieboy & jen

my 2 little new friends abigail & hannah

sunday viet rolls by the river before the meeting

you dare come near me and i'll chop it off

miss.breakfast

waiting..

"They all met together continually for prayer." Mark uses the same Greek word here translated "continually" to describe a boat floating in the water, waiting on Jesus. The Master, speaking on the beach of Galilee, told the disciples to have a boat ready and waiting (Mark 3:9). The boat was "continually" in the presence of Christ. So are the Upper Room disciples. One day passes. Then two. Then a week. For all they know a hundred more will come and go. But they aren’t leaving. They persist in the presence of Christ.

The followers were willing to do one thing: wait in the right place for power.

We’re so reluctant to do what they did. Who has time to wait? We groan at such a thought. But waiting doesn’t mean inactivity—rather inHIMactivity. Waiting means watching for him. If you are waiting on a bus, you are watching for the bus. If you are waiting on God, you are watching for God, searching for God, hoping in God. Great promises come to those who do. "But those who wait on the LORD will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint" (Isa. 40:31).

To those who still struggle, God says, "Wait on me." And wait in the right place. Jesus doesn’t tell us to stay in Jerusalem, but he does tell us to stay honest, stay faithful, stay true.

Desire power for your life? It will come as you pray. For ten days the disciples prayed. Ten days of prayer plus a few minutes of preaching led to three thousand saved souls. Perhaps we invert the numbers. We’re prone to pray for a few minutes and preach for ten days. Not the apostles. Like the boat waiting for Christ, they lingered in his presence.

They never left the place of prayer.

-max lucado-