Everyday is like an adventure. I go to KL Sentral almost everyday now. Standing in the KTM trying to keep my balance as the train moves has become almost routine. Today or rather yesterday we went to Lowyat plaza, my friends wanted to get some stuff. Sigh. Every time I go to lowyat I want to get a psp but every time it doesn't seem to be in my budget. Later we went to eat. had one of the better tasting kueh teow I've had in a while. Thai style kueh teow, spicy goodness. My if it wasn't so not cheap I won't mind having that at least once a week. Tsk tsk.
There's actually a lot I wanted to share but I'm very sleepy now and can't really focus. Oh yeah we went to this Burmese church in Putrajaya, they served us Burmese tea, it was really nice, had a unique taste and then we had mee with coconut oil, again very unique and my favourite watermelon :) then we started talking about denominations and the differences and stuff like that. This guy Samuel (not actual name, dunno if I should use his real name or not) was sharing about life in Burma and how the government discriminates against the very few Christians in the country of mainly Buddhists. And I didn't realise there are many tribes in Myanmar and they speak different languages and stuff. He was saying they needed missionaries in the country and then he shared how his family was saved and how he was the answer to the prayers of his parents and their promise to God was to serve him if he gives them a boy :) wonderful how God works huh?
All these made me appreciate my freedom. I've never really known religious persecution in this way. I mean there's always the teasing and stuff but that's nothing compared to what christians in some of these countries face.
Almost related to this, earlier in the day I was thinking, or rather a thought came to my mind. I was thinking how hard life would be if I didn't have any money. Imagine spending my whole day thinking how to get money to eat and take care of myself? I would not even think about having a mcflurry it would be like impossible. Made me realise how privileged I am, made me say a prayer of thanks to God. The other day I was in starbucks waiting for my friend and this pretty girl comes along, she could not speak and gave me a card saying they have things that I could purchase for a certain amount. Usually people think these are scams but you know there's this softness in your heart? So I got this.
Thank You Lord for everything good I enjoy. Holy Spirit please remind me not to take things for granted and to learn to give to others as I have opportunity. Thank You for your blessings :)
Totally unrelated, listening to tommy emmanuel at night while you write a blog post is a pleasurable undertaking :)
[update] just went over to tumblr and found this gif image. Thought I would post it here.
-ONWARD