Updates about K

My co-worker just shared some rather distressing news about a mutual friend K. She is an alumna at EAST and had recently gotten married. Quite a number of us from EAST had attended her wedding and were really happy for her. Weddings are joyous occasions to mark the beginnings of a new chapter of one's life after all. Somehow, after having attended so many weddings in my short 44 years, I am beginning to wonder why it is so that weddings are often the height of happiness of one's life as a new chapter begins, and then life kinda goes downhill from there in most cases, before it plateaus and then hopefully picks up in gradient towards another hill of happiness when a healthy baby is born or a house is bought or some other achievement in life unlocks.

K's life seems to have gone downhill since her wedding. Her husband's business failed. She is now experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Both husband and wife needs the Christian community to rally and support them but they are withdrawing from everyone, except a few whom they deem safe. Praying for this dear couple that their faith in God will be purified and grow stronger through these trials of life they are going through. Pray that they will hold firm to their wedding vows, for poorer or richer, and in fact, they are going through the for poorer phase right now. I think it is usually easier to stay together when life is richer, though not always as some do stray when cash is plenty. But the poorer state is also a cause for many to depart. Marriage is a very strange animal. One should not have too much or too little in wealth to have a happy one, I reckon. Then again, what do I know, I am unmarried. :)

1st Post of March

Today is already the first of March. Two months of 2019 have gone by in a twinkle of an eye. Ten months more to go before the year draws to an end. I watched the film, An Interview with God, about a week ago and what struck me from the film was that there is nothing that God cannot forgive us. It strikes a chord in my heart because I know there are many things in my life which I need forgiveness from the Lord. It ranges from daily stuff that happens, a harsh tone of voice with a friend or my mother, a grudge against my sister over the minutest things, to past events which I do not even wish to think about anymore. I am just glad that God knows all my fallenness, yet He accepts me and has nailed my sins to the cross of Christ. Because of what Christ has done, I stand before God white as snow, not because of me, but because of Jesus my Lord.

What a great Saviour I have.

Lord, thank you for your everlasting love for me. Please continue to purify me daily. Amen.