The internship experience

Well well, the day of me finally looking at books is over; now replaced by a daunting sight of the "internship experience".

So far things have been rather interesting under Doc Goh. Me and the team working together have really had our hands full. Here are the list of projects we as a team are working on.

• Corporate training material
• Materials for website development
• Goal setting

On top of that, we have to help out with 2 upcoming events: The HELP Psychology Challenge and the 30 Hour Famine. Yeah... fatigue and lack of sleep is on the rise. Don't even have time for a life anymore. Haha. Well....its the ponderer sighing off... :P

Change is the essense of improvement in an individual

I've been meaning to write this for a long time because it's one of the quotes I came up with. If ever I become famous for anything, I want this quote posted up somewhere muahahaha.

Change like many of us know is not easy and it is a tedious and difficult path. To change implies restructuring, reconstituting, and reestablishing one's identity, character and values. A simple example to put this is that of a criminal. Criminals are the ones who usually need this form of reconstruction of their entire being.

Change if defined by what I mentioned above (change of identity, character and values) is fairly difficult. Just imagine the social stigma and condemnation a criminal faces when he exits jail and tries to live a normal life again. It isn't easy and the journey is so tough that many just rather surrender to that schema of being a criminal (since no one thinks I am capable of change, I might as well abide by their wishes.)

That's a fairly extreme example. Most of us don't have to go through that. Our struggles might be more trivial but nonetheless equally important. It's always said that human beings can never attain perfection in life. That doesn't mean however that we should never strive towards it. Many say perfection is overrated but if you never try how far up the scale would you go?

Think of your journey of change as an adventure and further on years into the future, you would look back and say I am now a better person as a result of this change and look how much closer you are to perfection now. As is written in in Romans 12:2, we should "be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."

A dawn of something

Life as it is has been rather hectic these days. Been asking God what is it he wants me to do with my life of late. I was a little afraid of the answers I might be getting. I remembered once hearing in Psalms 34:7 that if you "Delight your self in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."

Well I am gonna rationalize this sentence for you best I can. To break it down

• Delight yourself in the Lord.

This means to make God's desires your desires. Delight yourself in the things that God sees to be worthy of delight in. As it is also written in John 14:15, "If you love me, obey my commandments".

• And He will grant you the desires of your heart.

Interestingly, we pay more attention to this part of the verse than that of the beginning. It says DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD!!!. That means to make your desires HIS desires. I used to think this is God's way of screwing around with verses but it's clear that I didn't read the contract properly.

I thought that this is God's way of screwing me out of a good deal but it's not. We can't even begin to comprehend the love, the sacrifice, and the pain He went through to redeem us. It's like Paul Washer said :" God is going. HEY!!! I AM YOUR GOD AFTER ALL THIS!!! AND YOU ARE MY PEOPLE WHOM I AM SO GLAD WITH!!! and we reply: "Ok.....so what else is there?" For God to have went from immortal status to come down to mortal and die for us, can you imagine how much of power you would be giving up? It's like the Sultan of Malaysia suddenly decides to become a normal citizen and help society instead of sitting on his throne. Imagine the magnitude of power you would be forgoing and to humble yourself to a level to which you as a God would be willing to die for your people. Jesus came the first step, who are we to say "what else is there?"