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EURO 2008

This is the first time I’m really crazy bout this game. I know all the team, who’s the player, their achievement and history of the previous Euros…Not in details of course, but enough for me to enjoy every match that I watch, you know, who they are and which team they belongs to. Last night I watched match between Portugal and Czech…haha…I’m the rose among the thorns. I don’t know why I’ve become so fanatic about football lately…Maybe, I’m kind of bored with the ‘girls stuff’ and why not sometimes switch to ‘boys stuff’…haha…Girls, I told you…It’s fun and worth watching!! (^_^)

End of the Spear….A true story.

This is the book I read currently, a story of a mission work in Ecuador, among the Waodani community. For me personally, this book really inspired me, even though I haven’t finished reading it. It is written by Steve Saint. This is the brief introduction of the author.

“He grew up in Ecuador in close community with the Waodani. His father, Nate Saint, was martyred while attempting to befriend the Waodani. At the request of the Waodani elders, Steve returned to the Amazon in 1995 with his family. His experiences in the jungle led him to establish I-TEC, a non-profit organization that assists the ‘hidden church’ in its journey toward independence, self substance, and maturity”

Here’s the review:

From the backcover

“Steve Saint was only five years old when his father was brutally killed by Waodani warriors, men from the most savage culture ever known. But in a story almost too amazing to be true, Steve eventually comes to know- and even love- the very ones who drove the spears into his father’s body.

Decades after their lives were changed by learning to walks God’s trail, the Waodani ask Steve to return to the jungle with his family to live among them and teach them how to interact with the encroaching outside world. Striving to mesh his two very different worlds, Steve must face the tragic events of his past and learn to fully trust God through terrible danger, great loss and remarkable joy.”

I love reading biography, especially of those who giving their life to the mission work of God. For example, besides this book, I’ve read Vision for God, The story of Dr. Margaret E. Brand, served on the staff of the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, South India for eighteen years. In India she became a world expert on leprosy’s effect on the eye…and for twenty two years she is the staff of Gillis W. Long National Hansen’s Disease Center in Carville, Lousiana, where she was the Chief of Ophthalmology. Other than that, I’ve read about Ravi Zacharias, Elisabeth Elliot and Ben Carson in Gifted Hands. All these people are professional in their area. Yet in their professionalism, they responded to God’s mission and bring impacts to others around them and even to the whole world. I hope that I can be like one of them, but of course in a way that God has chose for me…I want to be part of God’s mission even in my own area of expertise…Keep Praying….Amen.

The more I want to 'discard' him from my life, the more things I get to know bout him...

I really want to know from you readers, how to forget and totally erase memories of a person from your life? I've this problem. I don't want to think about him, yet he keep coming to my mind and to my life. I want to ignore him and don't want to know what's going on with his life, but the info related to him keep coming to me. Why I want to forget bout him? Because, thinking of him cost me so much hurts. Sometimes, instead of praying for him, I pray to God that I can totally not thinking bout him and forget bout him. But I still can't. I wish for one single day, whereby there is no single thoughts of him. Alangkah bahagianya saya kalau itu yang terjadi...banyak lagi hal2 lain untuk difikirkan, tetapi kenapa dia yang sering muncul dalam fikiran saya ni...aduh!!!...Anyway, I believe God always has the right timing for everything to happen. When? I don't know...But, I really hope today, tomorrow, or the next day. I hope....

Four out of seven....maksudnya?

Out of seven days last week, four days I was in the church, all day long...thursday till sunday I was so busy with church activity... and I really enjoyed my weekends dou...1-3 may, we have a seminar for sunday school teacher and on sunday we had a church opening in Cheras awana...I'm very tired today(monday) and too exhausted to write anything... Even, our lab will be moving back to faculty and some renovation to our house need to be done by this week. Anyway, out of my my tiredness, I'm really thankful for God's strength and answered prayer for the entired week...Last week I mention about all things new in my life, indeed I've a new calling...Be a teacher to our little kids in church...hehe...I'm called to be a sunday school teacher. I would say yes for this, because, somehow deep inside my heart I believe, God has a beautiful purpose in it. And, another thing, I'm so thankful and joyful for He has answered my prayer. I almost give up in my prayer, but last friday night, after receiving an unexpected phone call from my friend, I know God has answered my prayer...still have keep on praying, and 'segala sesuatu akan berlaku indah pada waktunya'....I guess that's all till now...I'm too tired to write more...Keep on typing a wrong words and wrong spelling.hehe..I hope I can 'shut down' my 'system' an have a deep deep sleep, but I've to wait till 5 pm when I'm back home...