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Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried:
Quietly, patiently, lovingly God replied.
I plead and I wept for a clue to my fate,
And the Master so gently said, "Child, you must wait."
"Wait? You say, wait!" my indignant reply.
"Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!
Is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard?
By Faith, I have asked, and am claiming your Word.
My future and all to which I can relate
hangs in the balance, and YOU tell me to WAIT?
I'm needing a 'yes', a go-ahead sign,
or even a 'no' to which I can resign.
And Lord, You promised that if we believe
we need but to ask, and we shall receive.
And Lord, I've been asking, and this is my cry:
I'm weary of asking! I need a reply!
Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate
As my Master replied once again, "You must wait".
So, I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut
and grumbled to God, "So, I'm waiting...for what?"
He seemed, then, to kneel, and His eyes wept with mine,
And he tenderly said, "I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens, and darken the Sun.
I could raise the dead, and cause mountains to run.
All you seek, I could give, and pleased you would be.
You would have what you want
But, you wouldn't know Me.
You'd not know the depth of My love for each saint;
You'd not know the power that I give to the faint;
You'd not learn to see through the clouds of despair;
You'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there;
You'd not know the joy of resting in Me;
When darkness and silence were all you could see.
You'd never experience that fullness of love
As the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove;
You'd know that I give and I save...(for a start),
But you'd not know the depth of the beat of My heart.
The glow of My comfort late into the night,
The faith that I gave when you walk without sight,
The depth that's beyond getting just what you asked
Of an infinite God, who makes what you have LAST.
You'd never know, should your pain quickly flee,
What it means that "My grace is sufficient for Thee."
Yes, your dreams for your loved one overnight would come true,
But, Oh, the Loss! If I lost what I'm doing in you!
So, be silent, My Child, and in time you will see
That the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me.
And though oft' may My answers seem terribly late,
My most precious answer of all is still, "WAIT".
And so i am now praying and waiting... | | |
| minutes till boring foundations lecture
rushing seminar presentation
no printing quota
mazed thoughts
stressed mind
university
country
no time
degree
sleepy
exams
future
now
fun
job
die | | |
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CANBERRA
Okay!! As an act of procrastiantion i have decided to put up a quick photo summary of my life in Canberra... enjoy!
 Probably the first group photo in Canberra! (Ben, Willy, Samuel, Tims, Jono, Gay, Me, Jeff)  Me and the guys (in suits!) woot~  US at Commencement dinner, basically a formal dinner at the start of the year which was just an excuse to get drunk and do stupid things  Yes, well on our way ...  Funny photo! Fan and I  After commencement after we got changed, everyone kinda not sober  People and shopping trolley. Who knew that trolleys could be that fun.  Fireworks in Canberra  Bday girl in teh center (light blue) and i dun remember why she's threatening to punch me  I love knives  My room  My room: The sequel  We made dumplings! and they were sooooooo good!  Yep, THAT good.  I dont remember where we were, but like you guys know, i rarely go anywhere without my camera.  Our hot pot dinner! Food glorious food!  Picnic at Lake Pauline Griffin: donuts, cakes, softdrinks, sandwiches...  War of the Worlds: Popo vs. Ducks + Swans  Yeah! Tree climbing is sooo much fun, miss it so much, reminds me of Victoria Park  The girls - clockwise from top left: Vicky, Adelaide, Annabelle, She Yin 
Funny photo with chips
Funny photo with drinks
Paddleboating! Getting wet has never been so much fun. Hahaha
Me sleeping with a goat and a cat (and a flower planted strategically) - apparantly
The main focus is the tree
Adelaide shoving a chopstick at me
Me with a cookie in my mouth, a chopstick pointed at my head (that happens pretty often) and popo posing with a wooden spoon
Once again, pointed at with chopsticks, hence my expression
Hmmmm...
Annabelle's party: the sequel. Outside in 5 degee weather
Playing with sparkles!! wooot~
Oh, did i mention that Jono and I MADE the cheesecake from scratch? thats right! us! Cheesecake!
Candles and a Koala, how arty farty, but i like it!
Okay, if you can see this properly its even MORE arty farty
I shall call this photo: "Thinkers"
The EYE! how freaky. its amazing how big her eye is
I think by this time we were all high on cheesecake and ran out of sparkles
Hahahhahahaha ... the kick
Thousand hand ummm .. cant think of the name right now
Me = corpse (pretty real eh?)
Cookies supplied by Annabelle - and it was a Saturday
Miss universe - Ummm... okay. hahahha
Group photo at the Botanical Gardens
I don't understand girls... "L" ? huh ? me lost.
"Ooooo Daisies!"
It looks like corn, no? I was hungry...
After eating... we sleep!
Rock and us
Oh i love this photo. Annabelle: stupid.. no! Huh. okay. i'm immortalized
I dyed my hair red. ITs still low profile, black in the shade and red in the light!
PAINTBALL!
PAINTBALL MASK!
Giant chessboard at the Canberra Pancake Parlour
Family in front of Fenner. Ooo... the trees are so red
Hahhahaha.. i love this photo aswell. Parents, sis and I at ANU. So asian.
And thats it! My photo summary of Canberra. So like it? What do you think?
The last few months have been a bomb and so much fun, as you can see, there are not that many photos of books or studying or anything related to study, so you can just put one and one together. But i think the one of me sleeping was becoz of studying.
Hahahhahahahaha.
Leave your thoughts! Comments? Perks?
PS. A beaver ate my thumb... A beaver ate my thumb... ! (it s a song) | | |
| Okay...
Let me update you ALL on whats happening.
Yes, i have finally found the time to type it all out. Kinda. I'm actaully in the Computer lab waiting for my constitution to print and although it is a laser printer, its printing double sided and so its taking a while.
Its now the NINTH week of my first semester at the Australian National University doing a combined degree of Actuarial Studies and Law.
Yes, its all true. Canberra is small and rural and has more trees than a city should but its ALL GOOD! Man, im actaully enjoying it alot more tahn people think. The uni itself is pretty big (due to the excess of land that Canberra has) and is pretty scenic comparitively to all teh other unis ive seen and been to.
Uni life is, ummm, busy to say the least. there is so much work to be done yet no one ever does it. For law ive got to read a stack of cases per week just to understand whats going on in lectures and i cant stress enoguh how much i have fallen behind in maths where i just usually sit there and listen to how Steve, our lecturer, goes on and on about how this number relates to this number. Of course, the work is manageable. It's just that i live at college and alot of things just seem to get in the way of me and my books.
College life. Hahahaha. what can i say. Its like te boarding house without the tutors, the curfews, the restrictions. The colllege im at is called Fenner Hall and is self catered, in other words, we have to cook for ourselves. For those who didn't know that i already started cooking by myself in Cranbrook might think that this is some what a chore, but seriosuly, it is soooo much fun. I made chinese soup the other day, like with chicken bones, chinese veggies, corn...etc and then we also made pancakes and pineapple fritters topped off by 4 litres of vanilla icecream as our midnight snack desssert thing. Hahhaa.
When i say 'we' i refer to the group of friend that i have grown kinda close to over here. And they are all international students! Lets see... a couple come from HK, 1.5 come from singapore, 1.5 come from malaysia (the halves refer to a person born in malaysia but then grew up in singapore), couple comes from china, and also an Aussie girl who studies chinese and can read characters better than i can!
Fun fun fun fun fun fun. Hahahha. Lots of fun. We've been on picnics, paddleboating, shopping, mahjong, steamboat, late night movies, chat sessions, counselling sessions, and of course cooook.
Life for now is definately full of action and fun. And since now that my constitution and my economics notes have finished printing. I'm going back to my friends room. Hahaha, i probably spend more time there than my own room.
Catch ya all laters!!!!!! | | |
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