a new year beckons
I thought I was going to write a lengthy moody post but in the end here it is.
If I were to sum up everything which has happened this year it would be like a layer on the kueh lapis of my life. Not the best, most elegant analogy but that is kind of what my life is like - alternating shades of yellow and brown, crumbly at the edges, very eggy and producing an acquired taste. I'm not going to explain what I mean by that but you would understand if you know me well enough, that life is like a dessert you pick off the buffet table. Sometimes it looks beautiful but has an awfully hollow, saccharine taste and you push it to the edge of your plate or demolish it with a fork. Sometimes it could be the plainest, ugliest tart and yet you pick it for some inane reason like it has a blueberry on it or it seems to be smiling at you. Sometimes you get exactly what you think you will, but rarely can you predict how the mash of ingredients will turn out. In the end, the only hard and fast rule seems to be that you must choose to experience it for yourself.
In less than an hour fireworks are going to explode over the Saigon River, and this year will evaporate in a kaleidoscope of brilliance outside my hotel window.
I want to end by remembering His faithfulness to me this whole year. I struggled a lot many times with different things, because I was far behind and I had much to submit and learn. But God is no man's debtor, and when I told Him that I would surrender x to him this year, He repaid me back in ways I could never have imagined. Besides x, there was university. 2010 was a season of change in my life, external circumstances and I hope, internal character. I do not know what will happen in the next year. But I do know that I have a great God who will carry me through, who promises to be with me no matter what, who "is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us." (Ephesians 3:20)
I will listen to what God the LORD will say;
he promises peace to his people, his saints-
but let them not return to folly.
Psalm 85:8
Hello 2011.
If I were to sum up everything which has happened this year it would be like a layer on the kueh lapis of my life. Not the best, most elegant analogy but that is kind of what my life is like - alternating shades of yellow and brown, crumbly at the edges, very eggy and producing an acquired taste. I'm not going to explain what I mean by that but you would understand if you know me well enough, that life is like a dessert you pick off the buffet table. Sometimes it looks beautiful but has an awfully hollow, saccharine taste and you push it to the edge of your plate or demolish it with a fork. Sometimes it could be the plainest, ugliest tart and yet you pick it for some inane reason like it has a blueberry on it or it seems to be smiling at you. Sometimes you get exactly what you think you will, but rarely can you predict how the mash of ingredients will turn out. In the end, the only hard and fast rule seems to be that you must choose to experience it for yourself.
In less than an hour fireworks are going to explode over the Saigon River, and this year will evaporate in a kaleidoscope of brilliance outside my hotel window.
I want to end by remembering His faithfulness to me this whole year. I struggled a lot many times with different things, because I was far behind and I had much to submit and learn. But God is no man's debtor, and when I told Him that I would surrender x to him this year, He repaid me back in ways I could never have imagined. Besides x, there was university. 2010 was a season of change in my life, external circumstances and I hope, internal character. I do not know what will happen in the next year. But I do know that I have a great God who will carry me through, who promises to be with me no matter what, who "is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us." (Ephesians 3:20)
I will listen to what God the LORD will say;
he promises peace to his people, his saints-
but let them not return to folly.
Psalm 85:8
Hello 2011.