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June 1st, 2008
10:39 pm - radical conference 08
so you wanna change the world, what are you waiting for?
say you're gonna start right now, what are you waiting for?
it only takes one voice, so come on now and shout it out,
give a little more, what are you waiting for?
i just finished watching Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen on vcd.
i know, this is like my last year, or few months, being a teenager, cause when you're 18, its supposedly your first year of "young adulthood", when you take responsibilities and all.
but i'm not sure whether it applies to singapore, since we uh, don't run like that.
anyway, it was none of those whatever boy meets girl and stuff like that, but i still loved it loads.
for a two hour video on how far you would go to chase your dreams, i actually think its not crap from Lindsay Lohan for once.
hmmm, disney isn't so bad.
friday and saturday, what a blast.
radical conference 2008 (:
this year was totally fabulous, isn't it? like everytime.
pastor preston is good. i mean seriously, really, good.
in only a matter of preaching less than 30mins (after lots of jokes and even some mass dancing stuff with all the youth), he hit the very root which cause every problem in this world today.
my sermon book surprisingly, wasn't full of a page after page blow of every single thing the pastor said, but it was filled with pictures and drawings, lots of reminders to myself.
one of the sessions i remember, was on your relationship w God.
and duh, he was totally right on sitting on borrowed relationships.
its like, i was born in a christian family, blah, i'm even a 4th generation christian.
but guess what? my great-granddad's relationship with God, my grandparents, and even my parents' relationship with God will not get me anywhere.
thats true now.
i realised i used to pray only when i had a problem, i went to church because everyone in my family did.
talk about tradition, gees.
and now i realise how grateful i am to truly have my OWN relationship with God.
i mean, for anyone, God isn't going to let you into heaven because your dad was the greatest pastor in the history of whatever-ness, or because your grandmother saved 1000000 lives in some ulu country.
hm, the past 16 years before i got serious was just an empty hole.
i'm glad i got back on track (:
another one of the few sessions, mentioned, NO MORE.
funny how the bible says the most important thing is to love, and yet we go around and slander each other, when the very thing the bible says is that our mouth is like a sword, it contains death and life.
even for me, there are times when i didn't like this person, or someone spreaded this or that rumor, and i might just speak badly of that person, or just even worse, join in the gossip.
i thought for a while.
isn't it plain disgusting how the very mouth you use to tell someone that "i care for you" is the very mouth that went to someone and said "that person did a bad thing".
it doesn't even have to be the same person.
i guess its all about choices.
face it, whatever choices you make, there's a consequence.
so you just have to face it, whether its good or bad.
like for example, you did something really bad to your friend, something which caused division.
all you have got to do is to go up, and really apologise.
and please, which freaking teenager does not have a problem with "DONT DARE LAH!" and pride?
i have that problem sometimes too!
like when i say sorry to my friend or my parents, it can take me a few days even.
but coming from me, the longer you drag, the worse you feel, the guiltier you get.
the bible didn't say fight with the friend to make things better.
it sure didn't say spread bad things to make it better, or even think bad things.
but it did say to us to meet up with the friend to settle it out.
but really, most of the time, even i, just choose to not voice it out, and keep it to yourself, then tell another friend, and another, and another...
and guess what? you just made an enemy.
soon whenever you look at the person, or walk past him/her, these thoughts will fly through your mind.
funny hor.
that people can actually get angry with each other, say person A is angry with person B, and person A just chooses to tell a friend and get angry or whatever, and person B is still having the time of his life because he doesn't know a thing.
...
happy suffering alone, person A.
so at the end of this session, the whole bunch of us were told by pastor preston that if we had anybody whom we had spoken badly of, said bad things behind that person's back, or we wanted to seek for forgiveness, to go up to the person and do it.
and it was good to see us, youths, just going around telling people we were sorry for this and that and we wanted forgiveness.
you know what?
it doesn't mean that both of you have to feel sorry and become best friends and things go back to where it was all of a sudden to mean forgiveness.
all you have to do is just tell the person you'r sorry, and what you have done.
and you've done your part.
whether the person chooses to restore the relationship with you, thats on his/her part.
for now, you know you've done the best you can.
i want a hero.
i want to be a hero.
and a hero isn't just someone like superman or batman was superpowers.
a hero is someone who steps into your life even when your life is breaking down, and that hero chooses to stay there to help.
one thing was emphasized a lot during this 2 day conference.
that we aren't people who are losers, but we are choosers.
that though we cant change the way we were born and how our life was, but we can choose how it ends.
that everyone will hurt at some point of time, but not everyone will quit.
we absorb so much during conferences,
we absorb so much in church.
but how much do we go forth and apply and do?
i mean, i can tell you the bible says to love your enemies, but did i do it?
now there's a difference, between a living christian, and a dying one.
(:
okay, i dont want to be a dying christian :D
haha :DD
alright, kidding, that was a picture of like, half of our cellgroup when playing games today.
so they had to spell names.
loved the videos they took as part of the "task" :D
really saw a wild side of even the quietest person in cellgroup, LOL
oh yes!
its the first of june now (:
HAPPY JUNE HOLIDAYS!
going to have a blast this month, lots of things to do (:
and my list of "things to do before i'm 18!"
haha :D
I CAN'T WAIT TO HIT MY BIG 18 IN DECEMBER :D
oh yeah.
should be going to the zoo with alice, becky tan, some of them
anyone wants to come, DO TELL ME ASAP OK?
don't say i didn't invite you, cause i DID!
i just can't sms everyone, so i just tell people to spread the message (:
NIGHT. :D
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