Pam's Blog (Life, Marriage & Parenting)

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the  Lord , plans for welfare   and not for evil,  to give you a future and a hope. - Jeremiah 29:11 (ESVUK) I have been job searching for about 1 month now and have been feeling down.  Volunteered at GoForth Conference on last Friday and met J there.  I have to say that his presence brought about some comfort.  He shared with me about how God brought him to his current employment and I was quietly happy for him.  He said that while he was overseas with his church mission team, a man came up to him and told him the bible verse, Jeremiah 29:11.  That had stick to my mind because from his sharing, I knew God was/is with him.  It has been tough for me emotionally as I seek for a new job.  My emotions are fluctuating.  I can be excited 1 minute when I received an interview invitation and down when I receive a phone screening that I deemed a poor performance on my part. However, I kn...

Ever since I returned to church this year, sometime in February, the Lord has been good to me, surpassing human expectations.  I have decided never ever to leave His church ever again and realised how blessed I am even though I have been away from home for so long.  A lot of things had happened  and in all these, it showed the evidence of God in my life.  As a mortal, it is so easy to forget God's grace, mercy and blessing and in order to help myself remember, I bought a physical diary to record some of God's blessings.   I believe it was Pastor Rodney who spoke about doing God's Will last year.  If I wasn't wrong, he said that some people would rather not know God's Will for their lives because if they do know, they'll have to do it.  The message spoke to me and it spurred me to want to seek God's Will for my life.  For the past decade, on hindsight, to me it sometimes seemed that I have not used my time wisely -- I have not been serving God...

Listened to my favourite radio station and had a short time of devotion through the website. Read the full article  here.   It totally spoke to me, since I am currently in the season of planning to start a family. Literally weeping while reading this. "I realized that though I hadn’t yet seen into this baby’s eyes God already had, long ago when He first conceived to create the world, He had already looked into this baby’s eyes and known him. I decided as hard as it would be I’d try to take joy in every minute I had with the baby in my belly, to marvel at his movement and smile at my own physical discomfort because it was all time I got to spend with the wonderful, miraculous gift inside of me. And in a very real way I connected with this baby long before I ever looked into his eyes and knew him that way." God may I bring you honour in everything that I do.  Thank you God for being so real to me.  I know You are here and You absolutely understand how I fe...

Heard this on Christian Life Radio and felt that it is worth sharing:-   African Parable   Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you had better be running. *Source: http://aboutaddisababa.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/african-parable-the-race-at-sunrise/     Lead a purpose-driven life. Don't waste your time away.   Love, Pam

As I sit here anxiously trying to study, my thoughts wandered as I thought of the video clip that my friend posted on Facebook.  It is a clip off the movie, “ Up in the air ” where a corporate “downsizer”, played by George Clooney fires people for a living.  I have actually watched the movie and remember enjoying it but have no recollection of the gist of the plot.  In the clip his character asked a bald-headed man, “how much did they first pay you to give up on your dream?” Everyone of us has a dream as a child of what we want to be when we grow up.  My first ambition was to be a singer for many years until I grew up a little and I wanted to be a psychologist, and I grew up a little more and I wanted to be a veterinarian.  As I age up, I don't know what I want to be anymore.  That's why I really admire people who knew what they want early in their lives and are able to pursue their dreams, because they knew what are their strengths and weaknesses an...

For the past few months, I have been making changes to my life, little by little.  The logical reasoning is that I am preparing for my soon married life.  But the bigger reason is that I want to become a better person for God and the people around me.  As I am sitting now at Starbucks and typing this blog entry using my tablet, I thought about what to do for the rest of the day.  I thought of going for a jog, study, purchase new reading materials and arranging stuff at home.  I'll say that life is still pretty much carefree as a single.  As an only child, I never had to worry much about performing certain tasks in my household.  There are pros and cons about growing in a family with no siblings.  However, I believe things will begin to change when I am a married woman.  For the past few months, I have disciplined myself to have devotion time, jog and eat responsibly.  Also, thanks to my job, I get to create simple artwork and cook dish...

Yesterday during my sharing session at work, I talked about a TED Talk, The museum of you that I watched before I arrived at work.  I wanted to say something about September 11 but didn't know which aspect.  After watching the video, I was reminded about the topic of my colleague's sharing a week ago on "Memories".  He talked about how important it was for him to be reminded of God's goodness on a daily basis.  He wanted to bequeath a legacy of journal writings about how God worked in his life.  The sharing also included other mementoes he kept as reminders.  I think it will be great for every person to have short videos on significant moments of their lives.  The videos may include interviews with people involved in the event.  After all, Alzheimer's disease may occur to anyone, at anytime. The second part of my sharing was what I had prepared.  It was about discipline and self-control.  I talked about the differences between the ...