Skip to main content

First week of 2021

I would say the first week was a hectic week. Many things happened not according to my plan.

It started with the kids's first day of school which I forgot to check their uniform and shoes and ending up they were not prepared. Not only that, many unexpected tasks came almost at the same time.

My multitasking skills are like two swords. During those period, I managed to handle and solve the problems on the other hand I didn't feel that I was in the presence.

My brain was working every second day and night even my dream was so sporadic. Fortunately, I could find some peace during that period. Morning prayer helps to calm me down and give me strengths and grace.

In the beginning of the year, I was prompted with the word "Grace" with the quote from bible verse 


Eventhough I am not sure what's the meaning of that, after a week has passed, I realised that God gave me a daily grace so that I was able to do His will.

When things come beyond my control, I pray and surrender it to God and He reminded me of Israelite story when God sent them out from Egypt. He was with them day and night and provided their needs, however they still complained because things were not going to according to their think.
Do I want to be an Israel who always complain and never satisfy or do I want to be the Paul who always gives thanks and embraces any situations.

That's give me strengths and true enough, when I start to give thanks, I feel positive energy build up. I have a strength to embrace it and soon the problems are solved unexpectedly. God provides what I need in the way I couldn't expect.

Today, when I walked to the gym, I tried to reflect on what this week has been doing.
The messages I receive are

  • Always put God first in everything I do and everything will fall into the right place
  • Withdrawing for winning
  • God's grace is sufficient
  • Challenges make me a witness of God's works and draw me closer to Him
  • I haven't been mindfully presence in the past week, I don't spend quality time to my hubby and kids as my mind is thinking something else.
  • I need to make it right by spending this weekend focusing on my spouse and kids.







Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dreams come true - Cappadocia (day 7)

This is the highlight of Cappadocia which is hot air balloon ride. As it depends a lot on the weather, we were lucky that we could fly to watch sunrise. We were picked up around 5.30am in the morning to Urgup area and arrived 20 mins later. They provided us with light breakfast while they lit up the balloon.  We started riding it around 6.20am and it's so breathtaking to see the Goreme area and hundreds of balloon joining us. The sunrise is around 7am and by 7.30am we already landed safely.  We had champagne celebration and received certificate too and returned back to our hotel for breakfast. Around 10am, we were picked up for Green Valley tour. Stopped by at Goreme Panorama and Pigeon valley for photo spots. After that, we went to Underground city where Anatolian people lived underground to survive from natural disaster and dangers. It's amazing how they build the houses and lived there for a long period of time. Then, we continued our tour to Selime Monastery and Cathedral ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Reflection

It's been such a long time that I sit down, press a pause button and reflect back what has happened in my life, what things I should be grateful, what are the lesson learnt and what I should improve Things have gone so fast in my life and it's like unending cycle. It's been almost 2 months since I helmed the new project in the company I am working and it took half of my life. I felt like I had a new baby but not "literally baby", it's more responsibility as many lives are on stakes. I had no experience, no mentor and coach, no team per say, only one person who's not hundred percent fully committed in this project and on top of that, the company threw me in the deep sea that  I need to swim and survive. It reminded me back when I started my motherhood journey. With no knowledge, no experience, no mentor, no helpers and little money, we need to nurture the living baby and finally we survived. The first one was always the harder, but after the second and thir...
Post a Comment
Read more

Dreams come true - Cappadocia (day 6)

It's time for another dream destination - Cappadocia. After arriving at Athens International Airport, we miscalculated the transit time. We only gave 1.5 hours in between without realising that we needed to change the airline and domestic route so we rushed out and checked in 25 minutes before the flight departed. Thanks God, we were still allowed for checking in. After settling in Turkish airlines, we were provided with warm baguette and drinks which could calm ourselves and our seat was next to emergency door so we got leg room. We arrived at Cappadocia airport which was very small and reminded me on my hometown's airport in the old days. Then we were picked up by airport transfer to our cave hotel - Panoramic cave hotel. The journey to the hotel was amazing, we saw many natural chimneys that we never saw before. Arriving in the hotel, we checked in to our pigeon nest room which was chimney suite and never stop took pictures of the room and the scenery surrounding. In the lat...
Post a Comment
Read more