Of The Past Few Months

So much time has passed since my last post here. Sometimes I come back here because I want to write the posts I used to write, the posts that are more pensive, less secretive, more descriptive, more talkative, more relevant...to my life.

The last few days have been really nice, and although I am strangely tired tonight, I feel like writing like I used to write again.

Not that I really remember how I used to write. I do remember being rather long winded and rambling, so that must be it.

This morning, I woke up rather later than usual (845am, to be exact) because the night before was spent with my open studio mates whom I have hardly met since I started work.

Anyway, so this morning I woke up at 845am and sort of mooned until i heard the Sunday Church bells ringing from my current church. Yup, I live that close. That allows me to wake up at 845am and still be at church vaguely on time. I kind of like those bells actually. Rather friendly.

I grabbed something from the fridge for breakfast, dressed quickly and dashed downstairs. Walked in just after the opening hymn...living nearby doesn't really make one early haha.

This church is rather different from the two churches I attended before. My church in KL was charismatic, and there was drums in church, and the youths got all jumpy during youth service. We sung Hillsong and Planet Shakers. GLCC was a very quiet church for me, when I first came.

Now Galilee is even quieter...

And they only play hymns. The band is kinda nice though. There is a grand piano and an organ, and violinists and the trumpet and the flute and the saxophone. No cello though. Lol.

I quite like hymns these days. Sometimes though, I find some hymns kinda weird...while people all say hymns are really biblical and modern Christian songs are all really bad, sometimes I find that some hymns are a little...strange.

but maybe I'm strange. Or I need to understand the lyrics better. Haha.

There are times when I don't quite agree with the sermons. GLCC sermons were slightly more aligned to my thinking. Not totally, but perhaps a little closer. However, I am glad for Sunday morning sermons because occasionally they guide my personal devotions (if devotions in a squashed train count).

still, it's ambiguous. I keep finding out more and more how wrong i am in my personal ideas of God, so I can't say I'm the best person to ask if a sermon is sound or not. I think most of the sermons are sound, and they aren't preaching nonsense or prosperity gospels or anything. God is God and He died for our sins. We are here on earth to glorify Him.

I guess we can't go far wrong there. Can we...if God is the centre one can't go wrong. Right.

I wonder often why I still attend Galilee...I dropped in after a disastrous trip to Grand Corpthorne which I have never told anyone about but I do think it was rather disastrous, which sort of encouraged my about turn into Galilee church the following week. Which was alright...which I find rather amazing because Galilee turned out to be precisely the church my mummy attended back when she was in Singapore. The senior pastor saw me one day and asked me: DO I KNOW YOU...then I said: Hmm, my mom used to attend this church...her name was dotdotdot...and then he said: OH YOU MEAN...??? then yeah...well I guess I resemble my mom alot.

Talk about fate.

Anyway, speaking about fate, I bumped into stacey on friday evening. I was going back from work, and for some strange reason I decided to go to artfriend to pick something up (I never get off at this station. I always take the green line and go back to jurong east). and walked into stacey who was talking on the phone down the staircase.

now if i hadn't gotten off at that time and stacey wasn't on the phone we could have just slipped past each other somehow. it was absolutely the strangest thing that ever happened.

and there was one seat left in simon's car (which he loaned to justin, apparently) which felt like the exact place i ought to be when i hopped up the car.

so. fate for you.

i don't know if there is such thing as fate, but i do think everything happens for a reason.

maybe when i'm 80 i will look back and know why God made all these things happen.

In the meantime, I think it's about time I stopped crapping (wah i haven't crapped like this on a blog in a while)

I was going to write about Luke something something today which the pastor spoke on but I sort of forget what to write.

oh ya I was also going to say that it's rather nice to be able to do craft work in church again! I never got the chance in GLCC because GLCC was so big and there were so many talented people that I wasn't needed and anyway there was no place to do any craft work because there was no building...

so i'm sorta glad to be in galilee cos I feel useful.

I don't know. GLCC, Galilee...all the body of Christ. Who cares which church you're from?

I used to think church hopping wasn't the best of things...now I think I was a bit legalistic.

Oh the video we watched at stacey's place was really good!

Ah. I better end here or I won't get to sleep early like I planned to.

Goodnight! :D