Post-work Dinner with a beloved friend

 Amidst 파전and 불고기...
 

Fellowship with a dear friend who always encourages me to give my 100% in serving others...
 

The one and only Rachel Chan in my life... :P *Dramatic*

moi :) ~

 

Put us together and you get....

Taddaaaa....

 We've both come a long way ~ from our much-earlier-days...

*Coughs* ~ This must have been in 2009 ~

I do have a picture of us in 2007/2008 ~ but I won't put it up here... it is too embarrassing (for me). Hmm, on second thought I will.

Us ~ 2008 ~ >.<

A part of my old blog - in 2008:

".....Once upon a February. Year 2008. Me, a 24-year-old Grace-melody Moo - a confused, disorientated wreck...my faith stretched to its limits with regards to many different aspects of my life. Moaning and groaning about the weather in Penang.. Buying bags and bags of cut-fruits from the stalls behind Penang General Hospital. Blogging every single day. Studies and my lazy days. Meeting up with various beloved people for coffee, lunches and dinners at the most random times of the week, and solitary evenings home alone if not. Occasional library days. Daily night-walks around the condominium blocks, sometimes with Deborah. Cell group, CF, worship team at church, choir, etc. Back problems and the occasional peckish days (with all its crazy food-cravings!!!). All that day-dreaming about what I want to do in the next 5 years, next 10 years, and so on... A young and inexperienced final-year medical student, about to be kicked out of the safe boundaries of her nest!!! I believe, 5 years later, I'm going to look back fondly at today, and think, Hey, that was me. Would I have imagined then...? God, I thank You for Your unceasing faithfulness!!!

About my confusion.... I am confused no more.

I have given it up to God. And I don't want it back, if it isn't God's will. 

Past few months have been crazy. Actually, come to think of it, the past year. Vicious cycles of surrendering to God, then going back to square one (of doubt, confusion and soulish chaos). Surrendering, then going back to square one. Again and again. Such weakness! Such fickle-mindedness. I'm ashamed. Today God spoke to me a rhema word about it, through a beloved friend and sister, Rachel Chan - and I knew it could only have been God. 

Rachel told me, behind every temptation and trial, God waits to see how we respond to it - and He truly rewards those who only put their full hope and trust in Him. Those who wait on Him alone, refusing to be shaken. Refusing to yield to the temptation. Refusing to go ahead of God and His timing. God's eye is upon those who hope on His lovingkindness. I only choose to have faith in Him and be secure. 

I believe You, Lord. I believe in that promise. I choose to stand on it!!! 

Someone recently remarked that I should be more flexible. I now disagree. I am not being ridiculously rigid. I just refuse to step down and take my fate into my own hands. That's all. I never had peace in that. God hasn't called me to move. And I shall stay put! 

Dinner with Rachel Chan today could never have been more timely. Thank you, Rachel...."