MBP 2011

Computing’s sweetest piece of engineering.

No doubt.

Lancia Stratos

Wonder if I’ll ever see one live. #fb

torn shirts

This morning, as I was ironing one of my favourite work shirts I noticed a tear at the trail end, back of the shirt. Just a 2 cm vertical split slightly off-center, and after ironing it I put it on. Buttoned it top down, I proceeded to tuck my shirt in only to hear the sound of ripping thread.

Aren’t we like that sometimes? We know that certain attitudes of ours gets us no where, still we carry it around. Attitudes like being indifferent, egoistic, self-promotion, are so subtle that they may as well be to ourselves should we fail to look in the mirror.

The weekend’s sermon titled “Humility before honour” brought a mirror to me, causing me to see my weaknesses reflecting on it. My immediate responses,”I’m not that proud. I think I’m pretty humble.” caused me to think deeper, cause those are the exact symptoms of pride and egoistic attitude. It may not show in my ministry as a cell leader, or worship team member but if I were to be honest with myself, I do project myself to high standards (possibly higher than I should) in the working world.

I’m thinking at this moment, how is this wrong? I have not been in situations of which I have failed my own high standards, then again, I can’t remember any such obvious circumstances in the the daily routine past 9 months. However, the interviews I have attended stand out as moments where I have “sold” myself to potential employers. Are the results of those interviews telltale signs of my pride? What then should the attitude be when approaching prospective jobs that require a higher function than you may provide?

Striking the balance seems like a hard thing to do, but thinking deeper, it’s not really about balance. It’s about the order. The order of which humility precedes honour and attitude precedes actions. The former would prolly be a little harder to accept, but I suppose that’s what makes us different. Bad attitudes definitely has to go, but good attitudes also needs to be cultivated.

So old torn shirts need to be thrown away, and new shirts need to be bought.

Sri Lanka Missions Trip May 2011

The last trip I had was back in July, 2008 to India. Liz went last year in October, and this year we were able to go on a trip together as a married couple.

They say that when we choose to serve God despite the difficulties you face in life, He honours that commitment and obedience. No matter how absurd things turn out in life, there’s always that reminder that God has the best plans for us and His ways are higher than our ways, His thoughts far greater that ours.

And I’m trusting Him for that breakthrough.