Tears once again flowed freely down both of my cheeks as all the Mission Team members bade farewell to the Penan people in Long Lamai….In a short span of one week, I have lived among the community of Long Lamai, and I can only exclaim one thing: Indeed, how great Thou art, meskipun bagai silih berganti dalam hidupku, ku mahu cinta Yesus selamanya.

The lifestyles of the people there challenged my concept of contentment and questioned my idea of needs. They had so little, living in simplicity and scarcity, without the modern and advanced luxuries like clean pipe water and decent electricity……Yet they were rich in so many other ways. It’s amazing how these jungle people who had so little to give gave us so much more, how this humility knitted community humbled city dwellers like us…...Freely giving of themselves, their kindness, rendering their services in whatever way they could….of those little things they had…taught me to see how God had blessed me…not everything I want, but in what I need…

During the trip, stories on how God showed Himself to them through their perseverance and patience in prayer leaves me marveling at God’s sovereignty…The people there had prayed for funds to rebuilt their church. They waited, and they prayed. Waited and prayed for SIX long years!!!! In the meantime, they did not give up although they still could not manage to gather the funds to rebuilt their church....They could chose so easily to give up praying, after so long, but instead, those loyal people held on, never failing to believe that God works wonders…God rewards those who remain faithful to Him….God touched a lady’s heart to offer a sum of money to enable them to built their church!!! The timing and ways of God is indeed unfathomable and amazing…

I am grateful and thankful to God for giving me this opportunity to be twice part of the history of these wonderful people…Words could not truly express what I experienced during the mission trip ….I have gone to help, but much I have learned and being helped by these Children of God, who, I believe has a special place in God’s heart…They too, hold a special place in my heart… All glory and honor be unto the one Most High.

zhen de,

yi jing bu zhong yao le..

bu bi zai hu, bu bi zai pan wang.

wu shuo wei, shi jian hui shi hao yi sheng.

zhen de,

liu xia de shang kou

ru jin bu zai dai lai zhi jue

xu ruo de zai meng yi hui yi zhong pai huai...

zhen de,

lei bu zai liu le

ye wang le shen me shi ai chou.

dan, jian qiang, kuai le shi he wu ne?

zhen de,

wei you ban ke hong dou,

nong qiing, qing shen you nan pao.

xin shi shuang shi jie, zhong you qian qian jie!!

bi wan: 12/07/2006

             ling cheng 0135 shi.

hey frens!! long time no update.... lots of things have happened since the last time i blogged....will try to remember whatever that has happened....hopefully i wont forget...here whats happened...

1. Started form 6 and a bunch of what ifs...

    - what if i chose to go out to college instead of f6?

    - what if i chose to study physics instead of biology?

    - what if i chose arts instead of science???

     what if....what if....what if.....lots of what ifs...life's full of that....actually it makes me wonder if life would be different if i chose the other option that was offered....maybe i would lead a more relaxed life....or maybe not, instead a more stressful life??? hmm.....i guess in life only God knows the answers to our what ifs......???hmmm....sometimes i do hope if time could be turned back....then we would have the chance to see what both options has to offer......hope still's a hope.....dreams still dreams and i am still stuck with what i have chosen jus praying that i would be able to make the right choices in the future....

2. Went for js reunion in pangkor...man, that was a great blast....it was great meeting new ppl from js 1 and js 2....tho it was a lil sad not meeting everybody from my batch.....hopefully one day we will have a reunion that everybody will be present...but thats a lil too hopeful considering we ppl are a bit busy with school and uni....but i am still hoping........about the js reunion, i will spare you the details...but if you wanna know in detail, care to ask me...!hahahah!!!i dont mind telling if u dont mind listening....

3.school-----was elected secretary of the interact club....thats a busy job if you ask me. hopefully i will be able to juggle it without spoiling my results.......thats the bad side of it but the good side of it was i got to meet a new bunch of great, lovel and crazy friends....for example, my president miss evelyn tan, who sits next to me at school..she is such a mixture of a friend to be with, fun but responsible. she sits next to me in school and we had quite a fun time cracking jokes while absorbing our lessons with gusto.........there are a few "crazy" ppl i have met during the year in school like...yip song, vee ee, wan xin, shu hui....and lots....ppl, my great apologies if u dont see your name here...u r still very dear to me.......exams were horrors tho....thank God its over...will spare you those gory details....=)(...

4. holidays----wast a blast...started of with imfy camp where i was a helper in games and led morning devotions for a bunch of form two girls...you girls were great but man you were all so quiet!!! overall, you guys were great....jus make sure your fire for the Lord is still burning very brightly ya??!! then came kl. was in kl for a few days in my aunts place...had great time playing with my cousins while paying to get to scream our hearts out in sunway lagoon...missing my youngest cousin tho...he's so sweet....jus only one year plus....then went to PD for YLDP...had an excellent time meeting up with friends and also new people....the sessions, workshop were marvellous...games..quite ok....dont know why, the older you grow the less i look forward to games. is it me or...??? then camp MYF camp...was afraid to go at first, scared of jus another camp.....but thru an encouragement from someone, who quoted that God will grant our hearts desire if we seek Him, i decided to go...led quiet time and vesper groups.....was quite ok tho scarry.....cant seem to get the hang of it yet altho i have been leading for quite sometime...was the group leader os Iacobus.....awesome......altho my group didnt finish 1st place, but you guys were awesome. i salute you, wen yao(my assistant), jyh min, dexter, jae ric, yvonne, pick siu, june and kristy.....thanks for your cooperation and ideas....got to know you people much better and hope we will still continue to be friends....saving the best for the last: This camp was not ANOTHER camp. God spoke to me through and true.....and i love Him so much for that. In a way it made me very aware that He is with me. God, thank you sooooo much....will not go into details but as usual, ask me if you wanna know.....i am just bursting with joy for what He has done for me....thank you God.

Basically that is what i could remember for the rest of my 17 years old life....will be turning 18 in two days time...cant wait...dont know why tho....hopefully i will be more mature....hahhahahhahha....not celebrating it with friends in a big scale but most probly with family.......hahahhahehehe....and then 2006 comes....new year, new hope, new joy...........new stuff.......

Thank you O Gracious Lord,

For your love and grace.

You gave to us so freely ,

Even when we don't deserve it.

Thank you for Your wonderous works,

So wonderful and marvelous indeed!

So unpredictable, so unique, so beautiful!

Amazing grace, how can this be??!!

God is indeed gracious!!!!!!

Remember the place I went for mission trip months ago???

I received a news that amazes my being and made me marvel in God's uniqueness.

In case i didn't tell you all before, the village hade a Holy Place set up. This Holy Place was built through a vision through one of the villagers few years ago. As you can guess, the took us up to this place when the mission trippers went there.

Alas, through many days under the rain, sunshine, wind and so on, the place which was built usong wood was sadly crumbling to bits...To rebuilt it, they need someting like +/- RM 1000...RM 1000 may sound like no big deal to us people but to them, it is luxury. They couldn't even afford simple things like toothbrushes! ( Imagine that!)

Well, as I said, God is indeed gracious. He just loves His children ha..! I received a news that someone sent in a cheque of RM 1000 for the village!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Think about that!!!!!! Its just wonderful, isn't it???

-AmazingGrace-

Matek ja’au penika ko’

Éh pepurip akeu’

Lepoh ku’ tawang Tuhan Allah

Peseu’ hun iteu na’at

Matek ja’au penika ko’

Éh na’ pengepawah

Poléng mu’un lem kenin ké’

Tovoo’ ké’ pun ngelan

Lem penusah ngan penupat

Kenin ké’ pun seruh….

Neu’ penika ko’ ku murip

Ngan ké pu’un murung

Tuhan pejaji éh jian

Rekem pengelan ké’….

Tuhan omok kelevit ké

Kelebéé’ ke’ murip

Oo… Tuhan hun mah jaji ké’

Moléé’ pemung ngan ko’…

Neu’ penika ko’, ke’ mena’

Pengepawah mu’un.

Na’ péh kuraa’-kuraa’ ta’un

Urip lu’ lem seruga…

Akam lu’ mareng awoh éh

Mejing ké Oo… Tuhan

This is the song Amazing Grace in Penan....enjoy.....

-eyl.87d21-