I was complaining to mel today about how the New Year Resolutions are sooo depressing, especially at the end of the year. She asked me what are my 2009's Resolutions and because of the failure to achieve 2008's, I've lost the motivation to set new ones or even reuse the old ones. While I was surfing the net in the afternoon, I stumbled upon an article from www.billygraham.org and found it meaningful and inspiring. This article is titled "Three New Year's Resolutions … to Keep" - something I need quite badly.

The first is to Live Generously - to be generous with your time, your forgiveness, your gift and talents God gave. Live generously, and God's love will be evident in your life. The second one is to Reflect All Year Long. Because we do not constantly reflect, we forget about our resolutions and we neglect them. And that's how the end-year-depression came about. We should reserve a timeslot each day to pray and ask God to show us the kind of person he wants us to be. (refer to James 1:22-25, can be found in the article) The third and last one is to Grow Closer To God. When we learn and memorize verses from the Bible, it opens up the opportunity for God's wisdom to take hold in your life; so it's not just raw memorization. (refer to Proverbs 7:2-3, can be found in the article) Another way is to spend time daily with Him, “Come near to God and He will come near to you” (James 4:8). The article also mentioned about Intercessory prayer, which is to pray for others. Praying for others sets free God's power in their lives—what a beautiful gift!

3 resolutions, 10 words. God Bless for the year ahead!

The article can be found here.

Okay, now for JNCO. Due to the limited vocabulary capacity, I can only say that it was crazy. But even though it was tough, God still preserved (保守） me and that can be seen with the miracles that may seem small to you but are huge to me. First, I woke up late. I was supposed to wake up at like 5 plus but woke up at 6 plus in the end. (I can't confirm that the details are accurate because it's quite blurry now already.) Thank God I reached there like 10 minutes before the fall in time! I can't believe I'm on time (lah)! I'm so convinced that I'm late and heading straight for punishment and you can imagine the relief that engulfed me when I saw the rest sitting at the canteen. (Prepare yourself for the second one) The second one - I forgot to bring my toothbrush. Yeah, toothbrush! I was rushing out from home and forgot my toothbrush. Well, guess what happened then? It's really a miracle, Melissa's booking out on that night and she gave me her new toothbrush. Wow! Thank God! Or else I wouldn't know what will happen to me. I've learnt alot from the camp and I'm not that afraid of 'red alerts' now, except for the changing part. Red Alerts are like fire drills, only it's mock injuries. But I guess it won't end, because there's foot drill MOI, first aid MOI and SNCO.

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But have I not witnessed and went through God's preservation?