JAMA jnr 2005

Thank you God for my cell group:
For Sebin and his quirky & 'smart' comments, making our cell meetings always interesting.
For Donald and his smiles.
For David C and his generousity to get us all drinks at meal time on the last day.
For Nicole and her sweet nature.
For Anna and her maturity and enthusiasm to always bags the front seats during service.
For Kelly and her desire to know you more.
For Jess and her heart to follow your lead.
For Youn-mee and her enjoyable presence.
For Louie and his 'wow'ing card tricks.
For Tim and his 20 cent coin move and smiles.
For Thomas and his love for basketball and good heart.
For David L and his prostrate prayer position and laughter.

Thank you God for the great times we shared together. I pray for these sons and daughters that they would continue to walk a life of faith even after JAMA jnr, persevering and continually praying. Please provide them accountability and support.
Thank you God for allowing me to blessed by getting to know the volunteers and staff.
Thank you God for sharing your Word with us through the speakers of the conference.
Thank you God that you answered so many prayers.
Thank you God that you are really before, here now, and in the future.
Thank you God for teaching me many things and opening my eyes to what you want me to see.

I pray now that Where you do Lead, that I will follow.

Far Far Away

I went to my uni friend's house last night for dinner. She lives in a place called Maralaya or something like that. It's near.. Kenhurst? like near Windsor? It is SO far away! There are no street lights, there are possums running across the road all the time that I had to re-run over some dead ones. So the highlight of my night was finding the most funniest road name.

FUGGLES RD

that is so funny. I don't know why.

Be Tough!

GrRrrr...

All my life... I never knew

God has given me a rare blessing- one best friend who has been there with me since the grade 2 teacher kept her back another year. She is Amy with the curly blonde locks. Little Amy would do cartwheels all along her frontyard while I'd wait to go home after spending all day at her house and swimming in her pool. She was Elfie, I was Dannido - we wrote diaries together about the 'naughty' people in our class.
We've been kept together, from Primary school, through High school and now into University hoping to graduate from the same degree. I've never been sure at what the Higher plans are of keeping us together most of our lives have been...

............... until now.

I was walking to uni with Amy this morning and I said, "I'm so tired. I slept at 1:30".
"Danni!" She says, "You've said that all your life!"
"What?"
"That doesn't make sense! It's out of context," she continues.
"No it's not. What are you talking about? It makes sense!" I protest.
"You're meant to say I went to bed at 1:30 or I fell asleep at 1:30," she states.
"No it's not!" I exclaimed.
"It's wrong! I don't know what your Korean-English has done to you..."
".... ohhh you do not bring that in here. That sooo has never made a difference" (I thought)
"I need to get a third party's opinion", I said.

Turning around, I ask a random gentleman with earphones on who couldn't even hear me anyway.
He supports Amy.
In which Amy finished with, "You speak a good English Danni".

NoooooOoooOoo...

And after going to every person I meet at Uni following this morning's incident, I have conducted personal research.

Hypothesis: Due to the influences of bilingualism especially the combination of English and Asian languages, the expressive purposes of some syntactical structures have been misunderstood and therefore misused. In particular, I slept at...

Method: The question, "Do you say I slept at 1:30?" was asked to an ABC (English and Cantonese) within the environment of a Sociology lecture. This same question was asked to an only English speaker after initial shock was overcome by the realisation of this misuse.

Results: The ABC stated that she did say it, where as the English speaker immediately stated that they did not and provided a correction saying, I fell asleep at 1:30.

Discussion: I was thinking about where I picked up this expression. This is such a big deal because I use it all the time. If my Aussie friends don't use it, then I must have learnt this arrangement from Korean friends which takes me to a little recording in my head of I-will-not-be-named aka Miss Cambodia (Thailand '04)'s voice. She is not the only one!

I guess it's like saying.. "I walked at 1:30" as opposed to "I went for a walk at 1:30". Context is absent.

Conclusion: I have a speech pathology.

Some light food for thought!

I had my special uni friends over for brunch the other week. It was a really nice day and here are some pictures of what we ate!



These are prawn... frittas?? haha I don't know what to call them. They're strategically placed on top of cherry tomato halfs and a corriander leaf for decoration. (I tried to play chef, u see!)



Some Sushi! I love salmon and avocado sushi coz I love salmon and avocado together and separately!

And you can't have a brunch without fresh strawberries and cream!! Mmmmm.. yum! =)

With all my heart...

I've been realising how much sometimes we know God as how other people see him. And there is something I really want to develop. To know God deeper. I want to know my relationship with God and know the uniqueness of that.

Today, Steve preached about a passage that I really enjoy learning about: Jacob wrestling with God. There is so much to that passage but one thing that strikes me all the time is that Jacob was intimate God.

I really want to be. That's why my blog is titled "whole-hearted" because I believe that if you give to God your whole heart you will seek him and find him. You will see God's face.

Jeremiah 29:13- "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart".

I want to explore my relationship with God. I want to seek his face. I want to know the uniqueness of my relationship with him. God speaks to some people through dreams, some become intimate with God in prayer through tongues, to some he reveals his Word through the Bible and others it is through their friends. But how can I deepen my relationship with God? How can I experience him in a special way in which I know it is my own? How can I be Jacob?

I'm not very good at choosing books. I'd love to look into this so if anyone can recommend me books on my questions I will love you and be eternally grateful!

We're working on a EM newsletter to be launched on the last Sunday of September. We're really praying that God would use this ministry because we know how powerful it can become. If you could pray for the people working on the newsletter and that in all things God would be glorified and known to the community that would be lovely!
We're all very excited about it! We feel like we're working for some hip magazine company and that's how serious we would like to be about it.
We would love to hear from you if you are interested in being a free lance writer or artist or have any skills in design/computers.

Surrendered to You