Announcements and updates!

Helloooo!! Sorry I haven't updated this space in a while! I'm apologising because I realised I have a follower on my blog!! HELLO THERE!! You know who you are! Haha =D Okay so here are the announcements that I wanna make in this post!! =D

• I HAVE TUMBLR!! =D equaldecember.tumblr.com YAY haha enjoy browsing through it!! =D
• I WILL START TEACHING AT SPS COME 30 JULY! YAYAYAY!! =D Can't wait!! Haha I pray I'll remember all the classroom management stuff I've learnt from SCM and won't feel nervous on my first day!! =D
• I've been learning swimming!! =D Haha yayyy!! (better late than never right! Haha anyway recently I've been doing a lot of things that I didn't expect myself to! More on that on the next point!) Think I conquered half my phobia already!! =D can't wait till I master the sport so that I'll be able to scuba-dive and swim with the dolphins one day!! =D
• Ate lunch with Papa at the Quiznos outlet near my workplace!! So glad God is restoring our father-daughter relationship!! =D I can't remember when was the last time I ate with him so comfortably and peacefully..for the first time I took off my judgemental eyes and tried to understand him as I would understand a friend..so yea..it's a really momentous event in my life! =D I thank God for His grace over these years when I didn't treat him as I should (with all the lingering animosity and whatnot), for leading me slowly and patiently to the point where He opened my eyes to see that my papa's human too and that God loves him too and that I should extend love and grace to him! =D

So yea all these and a lot more has been going on in my life for the month of July so far!! It's been an amazing ride! I've learnt about submission (doesn't mean being meek!), about the forms pride manifests itself in (guilty of it myself), about legalism and a lot of other stuff that I can't remember now! Haha will probably post some of the stuff I wrote on some of the nights (or days) to share in this blog! =D Oh and I finished reading Dug Deep Down by Joshua Harris! Haha here's an introductory video on the book! I thought the concept of the video was really cool!! =D

Also, I discovered a blog today! Here's the link: http://aminiatureclaypot.wordpress.com/ Saw it on my tumblr dashboard! The post that was linked is her response to people who asked her "So you STILL think God is a merciful God?!" after she survived the shooting at the midnight screening of Batman! So yup it's so cool how and where God leads me online! =D I learnt quite a lot of new things from her blog while scrolling through the other posts! =D

For example:

My friends, contrary to what many would have you believe, emotions - negative emotions – are NOT your enemy. As I have mentioned before, we are not called to LIVE according to our feelings, but emotions are an indicator of what we are really thinking and believing. It often isn’t the incident of the moment that is causing the emotion, but a belief associated with it. I had to go before the Lord and ask “What on earth is going on here?” and have Him reveal to me what exactly I was believing and why I was responding the way I was. Then I invited Him to replace any false beliefs with truth. Amazing freedom.

Let me quote Ed Smith, since I’m having a difficult time explaining: Lie based pain (emotions that stem from false beliefs) can only be removed as the lies causing the pain are replaced with Truth. (Ed Smith, Healing Life’s Hurts)

Unexpected emotions stem from what we are believing and not necessarily the event or circumstance. The only way to be set free from emotions that are triggered by events (or people) is to get at the root of the emotion: the belief that brings it about. To do that, own the emotion, bring it before God and ask the Holy Spirit to show you what you are believing. Then ask Him to replace any lies with His truth.

I assure you, it is the most liberating, permanent thing, apart from salvation, you will ever experience!

Awesome stuff right?? Haha oh and yes I got my teeth tightened on the 16th last month and thank God the uneasiness and tightness only lasted for a day!! Couldn't really sleep well on that night cause my teeth was feeling the pressure and I think they were moving so yea I pray that God will take away whatever discomfort I'll feel after the next dental appointment (next Wednesday!) so that I'll be able to sleep well! Haha yup okay that's all! Till next time, God bless, take care & byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! =D