Falling into You

Falling Into You

Falling into You
Softly I come
Willing to be
All You ask
Of me

Surrounded by fears
Engulfed in flames
None can help
None will help
But You

You called me
Out of darkness
Happily I rise
Lightly I soar
To You

Belated epiphany

Sometime back I wondered what had happened to my dreams of working for the lost, the homeless, the hopeless....I was feeling a bit burned out at work, under-appreciated and unvalued, wondering whether I was doing any good at all at my job. Today, I was re-reading that blog entry when I was struck with the realization that I AM doing what I always wanted to do--ie to work with the orphans, the widows, the poor and downcast of society! Duh! Yah, I am a bit slow in my brain-power at times. I am privileged to be one of the few people who are doing something that I love, where I can do something to help make the world a better place, and still have a sufficient income for my needs (not my wants!)



Anyway, that's my epiphany for the day. And I encourage everyone else to search for your own epiphany...not just for today, but for everyday!

A Happy Poem

I'm an occasional poet, and thought I could publish my poems on my blog occasionally! Here's one I did some years back in response to a friend's complaints about my bouts of depressed thinking....

Here's a happy Poem
Dedicated to a friend I know
Who says I'm always depressed
Pessimistic and way down below!

So I'll flit like a butterfly
From flower to flower
And then to your nose
To join you in your shower!

Ooops, sorry, boys and girls
Forgot this poem is supposed to be PG!
So out I'll go, to wait for you in your bower
Then you and I will run out to play by the sea

How happy and carefree we shall be
Busy playing like bumble bees
Dancing around the sand dunes we'll be
Silly and joyful and terribly carefree!

Sinners searching for a Saviour

Most of you know that I seldom blog about my faith. That's cos when I started this whole blogging experiment, I promised I wouldn't use this as a platform to talk about God, cos I'm not that good a Christian, and cos I think there are many thousands of bloggers and web-sites out there that do it much better than I ever could!


However, this being Sunday and all (and cos I'm feeling achy in my knees and thus didn't do the Shape Run today...sigh...), I thought I could spend a couple of minutes musing about love, faith, grace and forgiveness. I don't claim to be an expert on religions, so I can't really say with any great authority how many religions preach about those things.


I know that love, faith, grace and forgiveness are central tenets in my religion, and these are what hold me close to God. I named my blog "Lost in Singapore" because I was lost till I found myself in Christ. That was many, many years ago, and the amazing thing is that through all these years, I've lost my way time and time again, and yet Christ always manages to find me in the wilderness and bring me back to the right path. That's love, that's grace, that's forgiveness!


Songs have been sung, poems have been penned, books have been published about love, grace and forgiveness. Yet all the words that have ever been written still don't quite measure up to the depth, height, width, the sure IMMENSITY of God's love, grace and forgiveness towards us poor sinners.


And for faith. Ah, that's the kicker. For me, it's not my faith in Christ that holds me to Him. It's His faith, in me, in humanity, that we will each find our way to Him, that's what holding us to Him. We let Him down each time we say an unkind or hurtful word, each time we harm another person, each time we do something wrong. Yet our God goes on loving us despite it all, believing that we are still worth the trouble. Isn't that amazing?

And what should be our response to this? Think about that for the rest of today.