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(Proverbs 31:25-26)
"She is clothed with strength and dignity; She can laugh at the days to come.
She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue." |
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| the meaning of love by kellie spehn |
The Meaning
To love is to share life together
to build special plans just for two
to work side by side
and then smile with pride
as one by one, dreams all come true.
To love is to help and encourage
with smiles and sincere words of praise
to take time to share
to listen and care
in tender, affectionate ways.
To love is to have someone special
one who you can always depend
to be there through the years
sharing laughter and tears
as a partner, a lover, a friend.
To love is to make special memories
of moments you love to recall
of all the good things
that sharing life brings
love is the greatest of all.
I've learned the full meaning
of sharing and caring
and having my dreams all come true;
I've learned the full meaning
of being in love
by being and loving with you.
- Kellie Spehn -Labels: in creative mode |
ranted by Jerraine @ 1:12 PM  |
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| singing the monday blues |
have been feeling irritated the whole day today. barely kept my temper in check especially when errant students forgot to bring their work, books, etc. had to remind myself that i need to show them grace at least a few times. as i looked at how some students misbehaved in class, i wonder whether i really have the capacity to be a teacher. i doubt whether i have the love and patience to bear with them. i am now teaching in a rather good school where errant students are the exception. how do i tough it out in schools when rebellious students are the norm? *ponder*
i really admire those teachers who have been teaching for so long. i think i also start to understand how teachers gradually get jaded and lose their passion... if we as teachers start to lose our perspective and be very negative, it's really in a matter of seconds before we just teach for the sake of teaching. i dun wanna end up like that... sigh. God, please help me to be surrendered and to trust in you. help me to be patient and not lose my passion to teach. help me not to be harrassed by little 'civilian affairs'. help me to remember with gratitude how I get the chance to teach. amen.
aniwaes... pls also pray for me to remain undistracted and focused. thanks.Labels: a queen thinks |
| ranted by Jerraine @ 1:02 PM |
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| Friday, February 23, 2007 |
| the past, the present, the future |
recently been talking quite a bit to my colleague who is fast becoming quite a good friend. as i chatted with her and listened to her stories, i was reminded of my own stories. my stories of late had been about my struggles with discipline and health... but my stories of past had a different inclination. heh. i could almost feel tendrils of unpleasant and pleasant memories caressing the back of my sub-conscious, threatening to break into the open. well, i could not 'tahan' the itch... so i opened the floodgate willingly. it made me once again amazed by how God has protected me so much. I think I said this before but I seriously think that I would not be alive right now if I had not been a Christian since JC. I did plenty of wild things in the past... do I regret them? somewhat... the experiences i went through has tainted my heart, mind and the repercussions are quite permanent aka my health. yet... if i did not have this experience, i think i would be a lot more prideful about my own abilities and be so much more harder to humble.
... yeah... shall go back to marking... :)Labels: a queen thinks |
| ranted by Jerraine @ 12:03 PM |
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| Thursday, February 22, 2007 |
| a royal's desire |
(or rather for the past 2 daes as well), i was reading abt queen of sheba in 2 chronicles 9:1-12. as i analyzed verse by verse, i was very convicted and inspired by her desire to pursue the truth. In the first verse, it was said that she "came with hard questions". what are some hard questions that we have thought about? some hard questions people have asked us? one of the hardest question that i always felt it was hard to answer satisfactorily was 'why is there still so much suffering in the world if God is about love?' i remember the enthusiasm i had when i was a young christian or even when i was just studying the bible. i would discuss with my friends ever so fervently... yet as i grew older, i became weary of hard questions. i wanted to shun people who would ask that kind of questions; or i would look at them with a critical eye and judged them to be hard-hearted towards God. i slowly lost the joy and the enthusiasm to dig deeper into the Word and became comfortable with what a certain level of knowledge of convictions. it took my best friend's fallaway to make me to be so broken and to seriously re-evaluate my relationship with God and how i had to desire to grow with the right motivation. queen of sheba went to Solomon with hard questions that had troubled her heart; she had heard alot abt Solomon's God-given wisdom but she still doubted. She needed to listen and to experience it herself. This reminded me of Bereans who in Acts had that heart to re-examine and to think carefully abt what was taught to them by others about God. i always remember what a sister shared to me. the gist of it was 'we can live on borrowed convictions for a while but to remain faithful til kingdom come, we need to have our OWN convictions.' it's very true..God had been showing me very clear examples of how this piece of advice rings so true through different people and situations.
another thing that i was fascinated for a while was the amount of wealth and fortune the queen was bringing. it was amazing how much she was willing to bring to go to a king whose fame she doubted. why did she bring so much gold still? i feel that this is precisely where the difference of a skeptical heart and a cynical heart stands. a skeptical heart will ask ask ask ask ask and will have the willing heart to listen and leaves the options of accepting open. a cynical heart will ask ask ask ask ask but never once giving any chance to himself/herself to believe in the answers given. the queen of sheba was doubtful yet she was also hopeful thus she brought all that wealth to pay for the answers. she was willing to pay the price. it made me also think abt how highly i prize God's wisdom. how much do i cherish God's Word? When the queen was so overwhelmed and convinced of Solomon's wisdom and about God, she unhesitatingly gave all that wealth to Solomon. Did Solomon need the money? I did not think so... but she still gave it! Does God really need us to pay the price? No... he is the all-powerful God! Yet it's a measure of how much we really desire to have God as the center in our lives.
What encouraged me a lot was verse 12. Solomon gave back queen of sheba MORE than what she gave him. Solomon gave the queen all what she desired and asked for... and he gave more than what she gave him. Eh... strange huh? What is meant by this? For me it meant that the answers to the hard questions, the solutions to her troubles in her heart, the satisfaction of her desires COST more than what she gave. She gave 4.5 tons of gold and it was still not enough?! Wow... God is not stingy at all. The answers that God provides for us; the amount of blessings he gave us... this are things we can never ever have the means to pay back in full. Yet does God withdraw his love from us? No... not at all! He just continues to love us so much. Is it really too much for us to love God and put him as the center of our lives? :)
this are some thoughts from my quiet time... hope you will not get too confused over my thought processs. :PLabels: my time with Him |
| ranted by Jerraine @ 11:57 PM |
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| queen in boots |
| You Are Western Boots | 
Your boots can sure walk a long mile - but they're still chic! |
Labels: strokes of boredom |
| ranted by Jerraine @ 7:16 AM |
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| Thursday, February 15, 2007 |
| personality of the queen |
| You Are An ENFJ |
The Giver
You strive to maintain harmony in relationships, and usually succeed.
Articulate and enthusiastic, you are good at making personal connections.
Sometimes you idealize relationships too much - and end up being let down.
You find the most energy and comfort in social situations ... where you shine.
You would make a good writer, human resources director, or psychologist. |
Labels: a queen thinks, strokes of boredom |
| ranted by Jerraine @ 5:35 PM |
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| Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| Quite interesting an English test |
| Your English Skills: | 
Spelling: 100%
Grammar: 80%
Punctuation: 80%
Vocabulary: 80% |
Labels: strokes of boredom |
| ranted by Jerraine @ 12:27 PM |
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| What does my name means? |
| What Victoria Means |
V is for Vigorous
I is for Influential
C is for Caring
T is for Tame
O is for Outgoing
R is for Revolutionary
I is for Intense
A is for Astounding |
HAHAHA... I am 'tame' eh? hahaha... so farnie...Labels: strokes of boredom |
| ranted by Jerraine @ 12:18 PM |
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| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 |
| emotionally intelligent? |
| Your EQ is 140 | 
50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick!
51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you'd have better luck understanding Chinese.
71-90: You've got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely.
91-110: You're average. It's easy to predict how you'll react to things. But anyone could have guessed that.
111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt.
131-150: You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin.
150+: Two possibilities - you've either out "Dr. Phil-ed" Dr. Phil... or you're a dirty liar. |
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| ranted by Jerraine @ 11:03 AM |
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| Friday, February 02, 2007 |
| A short tale about Priscilla |
Please refer to Acts 18:1-3, 18-19, 24-26 for some reading about Priscilla. :)
I was doing some research about Priscilla and I found out several facts about her.
Firstly, her name is a Roman name and Aquila is a Jewish name, meaning she's a Roman and he's a Jew. Secondly, reliable sources of secular history states that she was from a prominent family of nobility living in Rome. So what's the point knowing this? Well, apparently Priscilla, a Roman, married Aquilla, a Jew. This marriage was likely to have met with immense disapproval and countless objections. Why? In those days, the Romans hated the Jews - The Emperor Claudius had just issued an edict expelling all Jews from Rome. Priscilla was also from a prominent family. I believe all these was even more pressurizing for her. Yet as I read from the verse, her troubles did not just end there. She was also forced to leave the place where she most likely had spent her growing up years in just because the emperor wanted the Jews out of Rome. Imagine leaving behind all your family and friends PLUS it wasn't her or her husband's choice to move. I cant imagine the stress she must had felt. The blanket discrimination and blatant disregard for people's feelings... in a way this are not exactly unfamiliar to me. In this world, life will always be unfair. People will not like you just because you were from a certain race/gender/age group/class. People may dislike you upon first sight just because of the hairstyle/clothes/bags/shoes you wear. More likely than not, when I face with such biased discrimination, I feel discouraged and have bad attitudes. I will also feel justified of having bad attitudes these people. Yet Priscilla did not focus on the negativity in her life. She simply just served God to the best of her ability and supported her husband in every good he wanted to do for God (Roman 16:15).
The implicit trust that she had in the Lord was amazing and humbles me. It makes me reflect on the extent I trust God. Do I trust God totally with my life? Or only parts of my life? Do I try to meddle in the plans He has for me as well? Looking at Priscilla it also reminded me of how even though she and Aquilla were tentmakers aka in the business of selling tents, they always made sure they served God first. Sometimes, I get so caught up in my job and other commitments that I forget that my main business is in serving the Lord.
Yep, so as we are busy in our daily lives, let's always remember what our main business is and how much we need to be surrendered to the Lord.Labels: my time with Him |
| ranted by Jerraine @ 11:15 AM |
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