Working life?

I'm on my 3 week block prac now and I feel like I'm working really. Wakie early, head to childcare, come home bout 6, cook, then that's about all the energy available for the day. Wats interesting is SWEET stuff seems to find its way to the top of the most appetizing chart and a few more pounds dim in significance :)

Lols, lots of cute stories to share and yet a learning process for me. What other course allows you to sit in the sandpit and play with the kids all afternoon :)

Signin off: Tired~

Home...

The weather today reminded me of home.

Blazing hot in the afternoon

Humid + sticky night

Driving home @ midnight, seeing lightning cover the night sky with an occasional thunder or two and a drizzle of rain.

Makes me miss home but seems like I'll miss Perth when I go too.

Signin off: Wish i cud just put my bed outside, spend a night under the stars and sleeping. Wayyy too hot in the room

Thingz...

Little things. Big things. I realize the lil ones tend to make my day more :)

• Having stickers stuck on my marking sheet for my assignment
• Receiving a hairband from a buddy
• Having a kid come by, point at ya and say "ur my friend"

Sometimes its the smallest things that seem to capture my heart most.

Signin off : Prayer is my strength

Whose favour?

Ever been a driver behind the wheels picking up your passengers along the way? Imagine you have four passengers and you pull up at the first one and waited for five minutes. You continued driving and picked up the second one, taking five minutes as well. The third one took a while more to get ready with 10 minutes and the fourth one took up another 5 minutes. Before you know it, you end up spending a good 25 minutes waiting.

Thing is, as passengers, you might not even see or know that unless you are placed in the drivers shoes. What difference can a few minutes make rite?

The unseen side of things - many a times we forget that drivers have taken the initiative to come to your doorstep and pick ya up. It's not like they have to, but they chose to. On their own expense with their petrol meter decreasing along the way, they are the ones doing you a favour even if it doesn't feel like it. Knowing how much they've done, it wouldn't be at all too much for you to put in the lil effort to be ready on time rite?

Now why in the world did I write this here?

Cos it reflects our Christian life.

Whoaa?!?

Yes it does.

Many a times. We do things in a perspective that "God, I'm doing this, this, this and this for you." So much so that it almost seems like we are doing God a favour by doing so.

It is however, the complete opposite. Just like the driver, God has done us a favour by dying for our sins whether or not that we as passengers acknowledge it or not. It's not like He had to, He chose to.

Therefore, being a follower of Christ, we need to begin at this place of humilty, where we realize that we are not the ones doing God a favour. He has done us a favour and it is in turn our joy and privilege to serve Him.

"And whatever you do, whether in word or deed,
do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father through him."
Colossians 3:17

Signin off: Thank U for showing me and putting things into perspective, teach me more!

Drenched in the rain...

in the coldness of Perth's wintery days while walking home from the bus stand today. Complacent is what you become when you're so used to being sheltered by your car and can't be bothered to chuck the umbrella in your bag. :)

But was reminded again how contented I should be. So what if i was in the rain for a couple of minutes on the way home? Some people have a whole lot of unsolveable things waiting for them at home. So what if it cost me a few extra cents to catch a bus? Some people can't even use all the money they have in exchange of what was there yesterday.

Signin off: Listening turns into empathy with expressless words