happy new year to me|12.01.04|9:00 am
"...God has a plan beyond anything that we have ever known. He has a plan for every individual life, and if we have any other plan in view, we miss the grandest plan of all. ...God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realising the glory of the Cross that foreshadows the crown. ...Many things may happen in our lives, but when the veil is lifted and we see the glory of God, His tender compassion covers us all the time. How wonderful to be where God is. ...In our human planning, we may expeirence blessings of a kind, but we also undergo trials, hardships, and barrenness that God would have kept from us if we had followed His way. I realise through the anointing of the Holy Spirit that there is a freshness, a glow, a security in God where you can know that God is with you all the time."

--Smith Wigglesworth

There is a good; there is a better; but God has a best, a higher standard for us than we have yet attained. It is a better thing if it is God's plan and not ours.

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happy new year to me. :) today i will finally start getting my life in order, so my new year begins today. new look for this place, and new resolve for my life. there are many many things i need to do, need to start doing. and every time i start thinking about it i get all messed up and give up. but i shall start with baby steps today. i have come to the conclusion (this is going to sound extremely stupid) that the key to a good day is sufficient sleep. so the first thing i'm going to change in my new year is my sleeping habits. things are going well so far today, and i need to go eat something before my next set of classes so i'll update again later. :)

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12.30pm: whoosh. it's amazing how god can totally transform things. today's been a great day! i just came back from playing the polar bear game with a p6 class..they loved it! thank god. i had great fun and i'm sure that they did too.. :) i have 2 more music classes coming up and i'm sure that by god's grace they'll go well too! then i'll go meet amanda later, we'll visit pakwing, and then i'm meeting yuying for dinner and our first singing lesson. veryvery exciting stuff :) and i'll sleep EARLY tonight! yessirree. bit by bit, my life is getting back on the right track.

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