MY JOURNEY ..... YOUR STORY

introduced to Christ when i started school - St Anthony's Convent. we had morning prayers and hymns together with national anthem and school song. we had mass in the chapel and for some of us it was a break away from lessons, a time to rest our eyes, a time to do nothing. for me it was a break and sometimes a short nap. :)

all i remembered was that i could ask for anything from heaven by going through Mother Mary. i believed because everytime i lose something, i'll pray and i'll find it. it was a process that always worked. childlike faith? i guess so. there were no doubts then. i just believed. now that i think back, i didn't pray through Mary, i just asked to be led to where my lost items were and waited for signs. sadly, there was also no deep or sincere gratitude. just a simple "thank you" after that.

this went on all through my school days. however, somewhere along the way, i forgot about the asking for assistance or directions. i made things happen on my own and depended on my own strength.

sometime after seconday school, a friend brought me a to a Christian service...CULTURE SHOCK! where were the books? where was the process? where were the instructions? there was nothing for me to follow! i didn't know when to kneel or when to stand or what to say. however, i enjoyed the service. lost contact with my friend soon after and didn't step into a church after that until some years later for my sister's baptism. started going on and off with my family as shortly after that, my parents and sisters got saved and baptised but not me.

...the story continues in "my journey".

16 nov 2008

a sunday to remember

my water baptism

the anticipation of going underwater, the uncertainty when in the water, the happiness of coming out of the water feeling refreshed.

was something supposed to happen when we come out from the water? there was no fireworks or a great revelation for me...just a wonderful sense of peace. however, when i was in the water, there was an uncertainty. a vision that was not complete. i wanted to stay in there longer to see the full picture... not possible. there was a long queue of anxious believers after me. however, i knew it will be revealed in God's time and it did in one of the services not too long ago. it was a sermon about discarding the old skin and putting on the new skin. closed my eyes and this time i saw the vision. a vision of me floating away in the waters. was that the old me?

then i remembered something else that happened a few days after being water baptised. getting ready for work and doing my makeup in front of the mirror, i looked at myself again after the final touch up and i saw a different me. it was a bright radiant face smiling at me for a few seconds and it was gone. so bright it luminated it's surroundings. puzzled over it for the whole day and remembering that face, i wanted to know who that was. i knew it was me and yet it didn't feel like it was me. by the end of the day, i was feeling scared because what i remembered as angelic had become sinister. what happened? i didn't know. however, as i lay in bed praying, a voice called my name, a "metallic" voice called out once close to me...only once. then a warm embrace engulfed me and i knew everything was alright.

little did i know that this was going to be the start of many wonderful encounters of a relationship with my Heavenly Father.

Rev 3:20
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with Me.

i have opened that door. :)

3:37 AM;
to love You from the inside out

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