Dear, dear Corinthians, I can’t tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn’t fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren’t small, but you’re living them in a small way. I’m speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!

goodness, look at this picture on the left.. time for an update? or perhaps I’ll just leave it there to remind me!

just need a place to write stuff online, something that no one will follow. facebook is sociable, twitter is followable, hopefully this place no one knows or remembers!

so anyway. the theology course is like flu medication: not fun, but badly needed, and a proper cure.

I’m so grateful for xanga. It’s still here and hopefully it will always be. Journalling is a good thing

Love is… action.

I can do any amount of boring work when there is someone sitting with me in the sofa. I’ve always been like this.

Kookiang is coming to stay with me for a while. omg. I need to clear out things. So tired.

The english founder of oasis hk airlines came to speak to church today. It was quite interesting. He’s had quite a few ups and downs in life and it was quite a shock to hear him describe them in close detail :p

On a different note, yesterday I spent the whole day trying on dresses with Lily and finally bought the one for Tammy’s wedding. Now I just have to eat nothing and do sit ups until May 12th.

Friends…good friends are a blessing, not so much for the fact that *you* can pick up the phone and ask to be listened to, but more importantly for the fact that *they* will give you very honest feedback, often when you least want to hear it.

It takes a minimum amount of time to build honesty and that’s one of the problems that people who move around a lot face; as soon as they build relationships based on honesty, they have to move away from them. I wish that dip kid hadn’ t left the UK, I was just starting to get ‘honest’ with him

Anyway, one of my best friends is getting married next month and easter weekend was probably the last weekend of me sleeping over at hers. Of course, she will probably still come down and sleep over at mine..life is unfair She’s the one person I have listened to the most, even when I think she is talking without experience. She’s the one who has stopped me doing very radical things like moving places, changing careers, falling for certain people, urging me to finish part 3 and get more disciplined first. It’s not that I will always follow her advice, but I will always consider it. That’s quite a rare find I guess. I trust that as we grow older the truthfulness and closeness will grow too.

i’m back my nose is so red there was sun and excellent snow

edinburgh in 2 weeks

I got this from a friend, it’s quite nice

Malachi 3:3 says: “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.”

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.

One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.

That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn’t mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver.

As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: “He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.” She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined.

The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.

The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, “How do you know when the silver is fully refined?”

He smiled at her and answered, “Oh, that’s easy — when I see my image in it.” If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.

Pass this on right now. This very moment, someone needs to know that God is watching over them. And, whatever they’re going through, they’ll be a better person in the end.