How do I start?

It has been close to a month since I blogged. And my mind is both rusty and disoriented from so many recent events - the past weeks have been overwhelming and eventful!

As Peter wrote in his blog, one must be caution when one is getting too busy. If I continue to be running around from one activity to another, and not take a step back to see if God is still leading me, I may be just busy for all the wrong reasons! If I don't check-out, I may be on a runaway train that continues to climb to a break-neck speed!

O Father!

Thank you for everything good that has happened in my life! All good things come from you indeed.

And for the not-so-good things... I know I have to face it, and I need to learn to go thru these tribulations with patience and peseverance (which I struggle with) that I may grow to be like my Christ! But yet I fail you so often. Too often. But through it all... you have always been there for me!

Now I am very clear why You've called me to blog. To tell the world of Your goodness, Your greatness and Your love! To tell the world that You are truly God and to remind myself and anyone who reads this that our lives belong to You! Thank you God! You alone has the key to eternal life!

I will never claim to be a busy person for all the right things but here's the list of things on my mind right now:

1. All glory to God for my wife's pregnancy! Has been affirmed thru a dream by a certain "Wong May Poh" :-). Fatherhood is expected early December.
2. What name to give baby? Benjamin or Derek? Wait, baby's sex not yet confirmed. :-)
3. Concerns of sicknesses has been very frequent around family & close friends (my mom recently recovered from Chikungunya & some friends with family members suffering from life-threatening issues).
4. Thankful to God that I have witnessed a salvation of a friend, and have seen a few opened doors - a miracle in itself. And God is reminding me that the harvest is indeed plentiful!
5. Excited that God is challenging me to study His Word in a more systematic way thru a weekly Bible study session using Derek Prince's Foundation Series.
6. Been superly ultra busy with the renovation works at my mom's house - it's a major renovation - just a long list of things-to-do.
7. Lots of headaches and argument whenever my mom wants to do things her way - using divintaion and methods that are just plain superstitous and wrong fear factors!
8. Pressure mounting at work - just last Friday, I experienced 4 escalations - issues that have been nagging my team with some potential escalations to top management.... blubber!
9. More convinced right now than ever that my boss who is in US has no capacity & intention to help us in our struggles! He is the type of person who... (oops... I must not judge non Christians). :-(
10. Constant arguments with my wife... spiritual war here. Lots of spiritual scars in my life already.
11. So thankful to God for His faithfulness to make the recent teambuilding event a time where all the participants were able to enjoy "relationship" building yesterday. The weather was great and the place - well, He took care of a lot things that I couldn't. The inspiraton just come from the Holy Spirit - who is my Helper.
12. Been busy with getting the buyoff and setting up the Ping Pong club & facility in my company. Even though I am quite busy at work, God has just been very encouraging to show me that this is "good".
13. And just yesterday evening... something that I have been praying for a long time is coming to pass... and I thank my Lord Jesus for His faithfulness! (will reveal when the time is right)

God, I am tired... really tired-lah but grateful!

Psalm 3:5
I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.