Notebook of DREAMS

three cheers for me.

this blog belongs to DESIREE tan zhi ying.
desiree will be turning 21 on the 24th december 2009. she will love anything you give her, including your hugs and kisses.

you can add desiree on msn at crushgirl_18@hotmail.com or add her on facebook.
desiree studied in st. anthony's canossian primary and secondary school and later moved on to tampines junior college.
she is currently in SMU, doing her bachelors in business management and hopes to graduate by 2011.
right now, she doesn't need anything except an INTERNSHIP.

desiree is a CATHOLIC and she attends the 11am mass in the Church of the Holy Trinity every sunday with the SERAPHIM choir.
desiree is attached to the FIDES family in SMU. her life would be so different if she didn't have her Faith.

she loves to eat any kind of ICE CREAM and wouldn't mind chocolates as well.
she loves to shop and has a soft spot for shoes and dresses.

1:04 AM

Monday, October 27, 2008

Patience and Prayer

Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. So then, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you will be healed. The prayer of a good person has that powerful effect.
-James 5:13-16

I came across this chapter when I was in the Chapel this morning. All these while, I have been thinking. Maybe it’s true when people say that problems are sometimes made up by the person’s own wandering minds. I thought about how empty it would feel without singing praises for God during every opportunity I can. I thought of how my life would be like without my Faith. And I realised that I would be leading a very sad life if I didn’t have all these blessings in my life.

One thing I have realised that I will never let go, is that I will never give up any opportunity I have to sing for God. I may not have the best voice, I may not have the musically talents, and I may be so distracted during Mass that I start to lack personal prayer time with God, but I still wouldn’t want to give up my opportunity. This is the first week I chose to take a break from choir, but I still couldn’t help up go back for practice and sing with the rest of the choir on the loft. This is the one and only commitment I can give wholeheartedly to my Faith now, and I will do my best to ensure that I don’t lose that.

My God does have mysterious ways of giving me answers. Different sources, different expressions, different people, different language. But at the end of the day, He knows that I will get the message when He has sent so many of his angels to lead the way.

Taming the Tongue

The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.
-James 3:6, 9-10

Judgement, wrong in every single way, cannot be put more clearly into words for me to comprehend than these phrases. I have to control my tongue, and once I have tamed my tongue, many of the other problems I have will be able to be solved on its own.

To my all powerful and ever-living God, thank You!