Capture

The past few weeks have been quite a peak time for me. The local church that I attended – www.therocks.org.au had been doing an early Christmas celebration.

The vision of our church is to bring gospel in a relevant way – hence we do this Christmas Musical Celebration. I was in charge for the welcoming team – as part of my ministry in the Care Department, as much as I wanted to become a blessing to others, I really believe that God has prepared so much blessing. We cant never outgive God.

So here’s the thing that I want to share, part of my task was in the follow up team for new believers/recommitted Christian.  Basically after the drama was done, our pastor, Pastor Daniel challenged the people to accept the Grace. It was a dark auditorium, but I was nearly cried seeing many hands were lifted. One soul saved, and the whole heaven rejoice! As I was participating in the follow-up team, I actually experienced myself the feeling of First Love.

For some of us who has been Christian for a while, I think it is crucially important to be involved in experiencing the First Love. (ie. through mentoring new christians, involved in cellgroups, evangelism, etc.)

I can testify to you, as much as those people that we prayed for were feeling relieved, we were also being imparted with the joy they experienced.

Last week, I have got this very deep calling to do something more about spreading the gospel of Grace. I have been praying, contemplating and strategizing the calling, and I sense that God is guiding me to the path of internet evangelism. Some of the quotes that I received from tweeter (yes, believe it or not, God speaks through tweeter message):

• Start doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you’re doing the impossible -St. Francis the Assisi (RT @sidneymohede)

From a book that I currently read, Flying Solo – How to start a business:

• Dont be trapped into the perils of uniqueness. Spend your time on making your product unique

And of course the foundation of all theories – the Bible. John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Action plan, I have registered meetinggrace.net. I have registered meetinggrace tweeter name. I started drawing some mindmaps. I believe that internet is a very powerful way to spread information – and i believe the Gospel of Grace could ride the wave of this information era. I dont think I can write the whole big plan here in this blog, as I need to focus on to do the real work, recruiting the team, getting some information, creating the website, etc. But hey, if only one soul will be saved through this website. That’s more than enough for me. If there isnt, well, God knows my heart. He has put this into my heart, He must have prepared something big ahead.

If you are interested to join this Grace Movement, please let me know I think it will be a very rewarding journey. The screenshot below, hopefully will be the end result of the development – and yes, I didnt develop it from scratch. I bought a template for WordPress

Until then, keep the spirit up – you know that God cares you more than you care about yourself  (PS. He knows the number of your hair).

His Servant,

Christian

As usual there have been quite a few topics that have been boiling in my head. Sometimes, it is not easy to decide which one to pick. I wouldn’t say I’m good at knowing the bits and the nitty gritty of the truth in the bible, but I believe and I choose to set the Bible as the filter of my writing. So if I haven’t got enough biblical foundation for a topic, then I will not write it here. Well, at least I aim towards that direction.

Allright, this hopefully again will be another series that I should write more in the future. I based this series on Jesus’ statement that we have to learn from little children. I think there is a profound truth in His statement there. As we grow older we learn new things – it is good, but I do think that we also have to unlearn  some of the things that are not useful for our personal growth.

This blog post is titled ‘Are We There Yet?’ – I heard this question from my little nephew when we were travelling back in Indonesia. To help you getting the full picture of the story, here’s the background setting.

We were travelling from Jakarta, the main city to a smaller city on the country side. The whole journey will take around 2-3 hours, and it was quite late that night when we started leaving Jakarta. There were me, my nephew and his dad – which is my uncle in the car. I was sitting on the front seat, my uncle was driving and Tio sat on the back seat. I’m being the observant in this story, so here’s the interesting conversation between him and my uncle:

(oh my nephew’s name is Tio)

10 mins after we left Jakarta

Tio: Are we there yet?
Father: Not yet, we just had left our house.

20 mins after passing the first traffic light.

Tio: Are we there yet?
Father: Not yet, son, just sit down and look outside..
Tio: But it’s so dark outside, I cant see anything.
Father: Did you bring your Nintendo DS? why dont you play some games?
Tio: I’m bored. How long it’ll take us to get there?
Father: Well, we just left 20 mins ago, so it’ll be around 2.5-3 hours to go, depends on the traffic
Tio: That long?!.. grhmm..
Father: Enjoy the ride.. it wont be that long..
Tio: <still grumbling>

I can still hear the same questions 2-3 times and my uncle was so patient giving him simple answers that can be understood by Tio.

The next few minutes were silent. I turned my head and checked on Tio. I saw him sleeping.

1 hour passed by …

2 hour passed by …

Finally we were closed to our destination. I heard Tio’s voice at the back – he seemed to wake up from his sleep. And you know what’s the first question that came out from his mouth.

Tio: Are we there yet?
Father: We’re very close, son, couple more minutes to go.. you know that round about, yes, we’re that close..
Tio: YAY!!

Driven by my curiosity, I asked Tio.
Me: Tio, did you get a good sleep just then?
Tio: Yes, I did.
Me: I thought you were bored, dont you want to see the journey, all the cars outside, all the trees that we passed.. and why did you stop asking ‘Are we there yet’?..
Tio: Umm.. I dont know..  I was  sleepy and my dad said he is going to wake me up when we’re there.. so I slept..

Right at the moment, I was strucked with the wisdom that we can learn from little kid. As a grown up person, we like to reason everything. We like to know the what, where, when, and especially why. The curiosity to knowing the details sometimes will steal our ‘sleep’. The opposite attitude, as I learn from the little Tio is, he trust his dad to take him to the destination and he knew that his dad will wake him up when they reach the destination. I think that can be defined as Faith

Now, faith doesnt mean that we should sleep and wait for miracle. Miracle does happen, but it requires partnership from us, sometimes God is waiting for us to take the first step of faith. Stepping our foot the realm of unknown, or let me rephrase it, stepping our step to the new business opportunity, new ministry, new job, new relationship, or anything that looks daunting.

The fear of unknown will always be there – and we cant deny its existence. It always be there – but I do know we can conquer it.

Tio stopped asking question ‘Are We There Yet?’. It is normal to question God from time to time, and I believe God loves to answer our question. But asking the right question is needed in order to get the right answer. I personally think, asking ‘Why such and such could happen’ kinda question is not the right question. I believe the right question should be ‘God, what do You want me to learn from this?’
I believe we don’t have know the reason of every single things that happen in our life – the creation (us) will not have the capability to understand the creator (God).

My prayer is that all of us will be able to differentiate what things that we need to do and let’s do the best out of it and let God do the rest.

Wow, it’s 2:19 AM. Time to sleep. Please feel free to leave any comment below – the blog world seems to be very quiet without your comment. Until then – have a blessed week!

It is not a coincidence that we’ve been talking about Grace and this event that I’m going to talk through – that is happening very soon. If you are living in Perth – I encourage you to come to the annual Musical Performance – MEETING GRACE – hold by The Rocks Church.

MEETING GRACE is a contemporary Christmas musical production created for today’s audience. Inspired by a true story, this musical will take you through the life journey of Grace.
Familiar Christmas Carols, entertaining music, singers, dancers, multi-media, lighting – nothing is spared in this production!

Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Mt Pleasant Baptist Church
Street: 497 Marmion St – Mt Pleasant – WA

TGIF – Thank God It’s Friday! I’m not boasting that I’m a busy person, but everyone deserves a break, everyone needs a good weekend.

I trust you have a good week – if it’s not a good week then dont worry, dont stress to much, just put that burden for a while. That problem is enough for that day, God’s blessings are new every morning. Worry over the problem will not help solving the problem. Take a break and come back to ‘hit’ the problem tomorrow – a new perspective will help solving the problem. And most of the time in my case, I get new perspective when I’m in relaxing mode.

Talking about relaxing – I have been observing some people on the blogging world that they’re stop blogging because one reason of busyness. It is a funny statement, if that statement is true then the inverse will be true, ie.  people who are blogging then must be the most relaxing people – ie. have nothing much to do, why not blogging?

I think that is not a valid statement – well, you can find another hundred valid statements for not blogging, but not busyness. To me, being busy and not doing something is just an excuse of not putting attention on something. Dont get me wrong, I’m not trying to judge those who has stopped blogging as I’ve heard some ‘booo’ on the background.

I’m not saying it’s right or wrong – I just think busyness relates very close to priority setting. If we’re busy on something that means we’re putting high priority on that thing, and less priority on other thing. So if you has stopped blogging, and people ask you question why? just dont say, “oh i’m busy”. It’s better to say, I dont want to make time to blog.

That leads to the point that I want to say, why I keep blogging? I found blogging is a ‘therapy’ for me. It’s very relaxing to let my finger and mind just wander away on a subject. I usually have a topic in my heart during the week and ‘simmer’ it in my head. So when it is about the time to write, I just cant wait to ‘serve’ the food on the dish. So as long as I find blogging as a relaxing activity, then you’ll probably will still find a new article every week.

My sister (she’s probably the one and only fans I have for now – thank God for her!) gave me a constructive feedback that my writing is not really structured, some of you may think the same way, and you know why by now, I’ve never really structured it. I leave my finger ‘dance away’ with my mind as the coreographer – and it is a spontaneous dance (most of the time anyway)…..

Okay, enough writing about me, I hope you enjoy the ‘entree’ , let’s progress to the ‘main course’. Still in the series of ‘The Embrace of Grace’ – if you are new to my blog, please read my previous post as they are very related to each other.

The price of commitment

I am sure you all know the word ‘commitment’.

• committedness: the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose; “a man of energy and commitment”
• the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action; “his long commitment to public service”; “they felt no loyalty to a losing team”
• an engagement by contract involving financial obligation; “his business commitments took him to London”
• a message that makes a pledge

I’ve stolen this idea from a blog that I cant remember the exact url address.

• A commitment is something that makes a wife to wait for her husband to come home from working late and serves him the hot soup even though she has to wait until the middle of the night
• A commitment is something that makes a worker to go to work and stay at work when the project is not going right
• A commitment is something that makes a manager ensure his subordinate to deliver the project on time although that means he has to stay at work late and does the actual work
• A commitment is something that makes a volunteer church work comes when he/she is not feeling motivated but yet he/she still keeps doing what needs to be done
• A commitment is something that keeps the goose in Partly Cloudy movie to come back to the same cloud, although that cloud is giving him a lot of trouble! (see my previous post – Partly Cloudy).

You might have your own experience with commitment but the common thread is commitment is not cheap – it is expensive, it’s priceless!

Back in the slavery world, you can buy people’s commitment. But in this generation, can you really  buy commitment? I dont think so… In fact, commitment is rather seen as something that is less important. You can read in the newspaper, a mother killed her own baby, divorced rates are going higher, the list goes on and on.

The Misconception

I was risen in a Christian family – I’ve always been taught to keep reading the bible every morning, pray every night, which can be translated as keeping my commitment to God.  I observe and I can be honest to you that my commitment has not always been smooth sailing. There’s a down time, and surely there’s up time. This is called human behaviour. I’m not trying to justify myself here, but my point is, how fragile it is to based our relationship with God on the foundation of our commitment.

If I’m being good that week, then I’m loved by God. But if I am happened to surf on those R+++ website (let’s keep it real, ok, guys ) , then I’m not loved by God. Substitute the action with any kind of sin then you’ll feel unloved by God. It is not only just current sin, it can be past experience, you think you have hurt God before, and you think you dont deserve God’s love everytime you think about that past experience. Does that sound familiar?

Our current stage of life is like a snapshot, it is an unfinished product, it is still moving forward. I think it is a misconception to base our relationship with God on our commitment to Him. The bible says we have to build a house on the solid foundation – it is insane to build a house on sand beach. We have to have a stronger foundation to build our relationship to God.

Boast on Jesus’ Love

I have been listening to Joseph Prince’s Podcast and this blog is inspired by his teaching. He studied about John, one of Jesus’ disciple. John is known as the disciple whom Jesus loved. It is funny that the statement ‘the disciple whom Jesus loved’ cant be found anywhere in the Gospel, except in the Gospel of John.

Guess who wrote the Gospel of John? Surprise surprise! It was John himself!!

John knows the secret of building the genuine relationship with God our creator. He builds on the right foundation. He has the solid rock base. He is boasting on Jesus’ Love to him and not the other way around (like what Peter did!).

I think that is a relieving truth! It is not us who are committing our lives to Jesus – it was Jesus who first committed HIS life on the cross for us. And that empowers us to commit our life to Him, but our commitment is not the main foundation, it is His Constant Love towards us!

I’d like to speak to two main audiences here:

1. If you dont know anything about Christianity and Grace – and if this writing has intrigued you to know more about Jesus then you are on the right spot. Pray and invite Jesus to come to your heart. Dont know how to pray? Check this page: http://www.godlovestheworld.com/

2. If you are a Christian but you feel unloved by God, I hope this blog gives you a new revelation. Dont base your love to God on your work, Jesus has paid the priceless commitment on the cross. Dont crucify Him twice by not accepting His love to you. Running back to His embrace will help us breaking that bad habits, getting back to the right track, and not going back to the old living. Remember only you who can make that first step to run back to His embrace…

We have been singing this song in the church – the lyrics are very powerful, have a listen and do the necessary action! His unfailing love is closer than you think!

Blessings,

Christian Lebe [the person whom Jesus loved]

I went to see UP today – I love Pixar animation! They’re always unpredictable..

Pixar has this tradition of making short clips as part of the main movie – and it usually presents a non-talking character. Watch this – I think it is so meaningful..

If I have some tags (ie. one word to choose) to describe this clip, I would choose at least these three words: Love, Friendship, and Commitment.

What do you choose?

This is the second part of the series. If you visit this page for the first time, then you might be better of reading the first part of this article (see below). Otherwise, let’s dive in…

2. Running to grace is our part

I’ve got this illustration from my pastor – Pastor D – coolest pastor on earth. God has blessed him with one son, Jayden.

It is quite usual for 3 years old to do naughty things, and it is quite usual for a good dad to give a bit of ‘slap on the wrist’/ rebuke in love. But the unusual thing is Jayden’s response towards his daddy. When he got the ‘slap’, he actually cried and run to hug his daddy. Now that’s unusual for an adult. A default response to most adult when he/she got ‘slapped’ is to create a distance with the other party. And in this case, if we are ‘slapped’ by God, sometimes we ask the default question ‘Why God Oh Why?’ and even blaming God for circumstances.. I dont want to go to that path – what I want to focus is the action of embracing the hug of the loving dad.

Why does he do that? I think one of the main reason is because Jayden is feeling confident on his dad’s love. He knows that the embrace of a loving dad is there. He knows that although it doesnt feel good to be ‘slapped’ but at the same time he knows that he can get the cure of the pain from his dad. Now, that is quite confusing for most adult, but I think that is the right attitude.

The grace is always available, why dont we embrace it?

There are some hindrances that stop us from running to the embrace of grace. It might be bad past experiences, wrong mindset about God, or even self-pride. Whatever it is, why dont we learn from the little Jayden to take the action of taking the first step to run to the embrace of Grace?

It is our responsibility to take that first step!

1 John 4:18 – There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

There have been quite a few topics in my head (and my heart – dont you know your heart can think?) that I want to post this week. From the not so serious one, like a list of interesting things you can do in toilet when doing your private business to a bit more serious topic.

Now, I ask a question to myself, if this is going to be my last post – then what I want to post. (i am not usually that serious, trust me ) but I think I picked the right topic – I called it “The Embrace of Grace” – “Falling into the embrace of Grace”.

And no, Grace is not a name of a person – although it is definitely a good name. I get this definition of grace somewhere.

grace (noun): unmerited favour

My definition of grace is getting something that you definitely do not deserve. I am not a pastor, I have never done any bible course,  so I dont think I want to start bringing bible verses here. I write this blog from a perspective of a person who has received the grace – that second, third, and never ending chance.

1. Learning to receive

From time to time, I observed a lot of Christians are struggling to get the concept of “receiving”. If you have the “Asian” background like me, you might think that you have to do something before you earn it. You have to do something before you get something. And if you are a type  A person, you probably find it really hard to grasp the idea of “receiving” free gift. You gotta work hard in order to earn good result. No pain – no gain. That makes sense in some areas, but definitely not in the area of Grace. I think the first step to get the idea of Grace – is to learn to receive.

Sometimes Christians think that “I have to pray hard, make myself good in front of God before He will listen to my prayer”. I think that is a wrong mindset – God has already said, “ask and it will be given if it is according to His will”. So I think the first thing we have in mind is accepting that the fact that we will receive what we have prayed! Yes, it is that bold – now  the next question is how much faith we put in trusting God’s timing and His sovereign will.

The biggest gift of Grace comes in the form of Salvation – Christians are bunch of imperfect people who put their hope on one source – the Grace.

2. Running to the grace is our part

Hmm.. i felt so tired somehow.. might need to finish the rest of the blog tomorrow

Before leaving this page, you might want to listen to this following song that perfectly depicts the message I want to share.

I See Grace – New Christian Church

This is the current wallpaper on my iphone. I have this as a reminder to myself:

1. Our life will be driven to the place of our dream.

2. If your dream died, dare to dream again.

3. There is a reason why you have the dream in your heart – that meant to be fulfilled.

4. Dare to dream a big dream – there is a reason why that dream in your heart is so HUGE! it is that HUGE so that the DREAMCREATOR can work on His ’magic’ to help you fullfilling that dream!

This topic has been simmering in my head for quite sometime now. Now, maybe I chose a not-so-good title, consulting has a very limited definition. So, let me expand the term Consulting.

• In Information Technology and all the gadgets world, we call it troubleshooting.

• In Christian world, we call it counselling.

• Similar terms will be advising, discussing with..

Bottom line, when somebody is asking you a suggestion in relation to his/her issue/question/challenge then my definition (at least for this blog) is you are consulting.

Why do I choose the word – consulting – here? Perhaps because that is my daily job, I’m an IT consultant. But believe it or not, happy or not, like it or not, from time to time you will be a “consultant”.
A friend might ask you a question,

If  people thinks you look like Dr. Phil, “My relationship just doesnt work – I cant just connect with her/him anymore! – What do you think I should do?”

If people think you are a technical geek, “My MS Vista just wouldnt work – should I convert myself to Macintosh?”

If people think you are a dog geek (I mean dog owner), “Jojo keeps barking everynight – What should I do?”

The list of questions will be endless. But I hope you get my point, everyone is a “consultant” at one stage, but will also be the other party, ie. the “client” at another stage of life. It is just facts of life – that’s why we need each other.

Now, let me get to the point why this blog is written, I dont see myself as a perfect consultant (or even a perfect client!) – as I believe such person never exists anyway! I like to observe people behaviour – working as an IT consultant daily and voluntarily work in the Care Department of The Rocks has made me going through the ‘consulting’ cycle almost every day – as a consultant as well as a client. What I want to put as an observation in this blog; are some points that might enable us to be a better consultant as well as a better client. I believe the whole thing is a synergy interdependent process. And I call it an art – because this is “an Art” that has to be experienced!

How to be a good consultant?

1. There is a reason why God created two ears and one mouth.

If you are a young consultant person (like me), you might experienced the same feeling as me. When people ask your opinion, your head will just be filled of the words of wisdom, all the bible verses you can remember if you are Christian, all the wise quotes from book you’ve read, or even some twitter messages from those mighty one!
Guys, when people ask you for advise, most of time, it is not the right time for you to show off how wise you are. It is about that person! It is about how you can put yourself on those person’s shoes? And guess how do you do that?

Sadly but true, yes, Listen!Listen!Listen! – your first and foremost task is to be a gold digger, ear is your tool to dig deeper, read between the lines, read the body language (this is a good topic to be covered next time), try to convey the message that the other person want to send. It is not that simple, but it is rewarding!

‘Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak’ JAMES 1:19

2. A leader is someone who knows to ask the right question.

Now your second tool to be the gold digger, is “question”. Before you conclude everything that you have conveyed, you will need to ask questions – a lot of questions. You can lead the conversation by asking the “right” question. Now, the right question might be varied depending on the topic. Some general tips perhaps:

• Asking specific questions, narrow it down!

Actual dialog of a former WordPerfect Customer Support employee. (Now I know why they record these phone conversations!)

Operator: “Ridge Hall, computer assistance; may I help you?”
Caller: “Yes, well, I’m having trouble with WordPerfect.”
Operator: “What sort of trouble?”
Caller: “Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away.”
Operator: “Went away?”
Caller: “They disappeared.”
Operator: “Hmm. So what does your screen look like now?”
Caller: “Nothing.”
Operator: “Nothing?”
Caller: “It’s blank; it won’t accept anything when I type.”
Operator: “Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out?”
Caller: “How do I tell?”
Operator: “Can you see the ‘C: prompt’ on the screen?”
Caller: “What’s a sea-prompt?”
Operator: “Never mind, can you move your cursor around the screen?”
Caller: “There isn’t any cursor; I told you, it won’t accept anything I type.”
Operator: “Does your monitor have a power indicator?”
Caller: “What’s a monitor?”
Operator: “It’s the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV. Does it have a little light that tells you when it’s on?”
Caller: “I don’t know.”
Operator: “Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that?”
Caller: “Yes, I think so.”
Operator: “Great. Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it’s plugged into the wall.”
Caller: “Yes, it is.”
Operator: “When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one?”
Caller: “No.”
Operator: “Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable.”
Caller: “Okay, here it is.”
Operator: “Follow it for me, and tell me if it’s plugged securely into the back of your computer.”
Caller: “I can’t reach.”
Operator “OK. Well, can you see if it is?”
Caller: “No.”
Operat or: “Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over?”
Caller: “Well, it’s not because I don’t have the right angle—it’s because it’s dark.”
Operator: “Dark?”
Caller: “Yes—the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window.”
Operator: “Well, turn on the office light then.”
Caller: “I can’t.”
Operator: “No? Why not?”
Caller: “Because there’s a power failure.”
Operator: “A power …. A power failure? Aha. Okay, we’ve got it licked now. Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packing stuff that your computer came in?”
Caller: “Well, yes, I keep them in the closet.”
Operator: “Good. Go get them, and unplug your system and pack it up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store you bought it from.“
Caller: “Really? Is it that bad?”
Operator: “Yes, I’m afraid it is.”
Caller: “Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them?”
Operator: “Tell them you’re too stupid to own a computer!”

For this performance the Customer Service Provider lost his job. But looking from the other angle, in my opinion, this consultant has put the best practice of asking the right questions!

• Elaborate on feelings – if you are in the “relationship/heart” – (anything other than IT – trust me, you dont need to do this if you are troubleshooting a technical issue!)Ask questions like, “what do you feel about such?”

By doing this you are trying to make a ‘heart-to-heart’ communication. Now, my definition is you are trying to sympathize (Wikipedia: Sympathy is a social affinity in which one person stands with another person, closely understanding his or her feelings). The better you elaborate the feelings of the other party, the better you get the understanding of the issue. I’m not the best person for psychology, my guess, is once you can sympathize, the next step is to be able to empathize. Let’s not get caught up in the jargon. Bottom line is, listen with your heart, not just your head.

Now, if you are a Christian – we have the best tool that God has provided for us to use as a Consultant – it is called ‘Compassion’.  You can put all the theory into practice, but without the ‘Compassion of God’  in your heart – I believe you wouldnt be able to do the task of “consulting” well.

Compassion gives you the strength when you dont feel want to listen to others problems
Compassion gives you the ability to feel what the others feeling
Compassion breaks your heart to what break God’s heart
Compassion enables you to channel God’s love to others..

Practical talk now, how do we get that Compassion? – I think the secret lays in Matthew 7:7 Read and put it into action! You’ll get it sooner than you think! Careful and what you pray – cause you know you’ll receive it (I’m referring about asking the ‘right’ thing’)

I think I had enough for now, one post a time, I might write some more from the other party’s side (ie. the client). One point would be, dont take everything raw. We, consultants are not God! We try our best to give the best suggestion but at the end of day, we have been created with the gift of common sense. Test everything – dont eat it raw. That’s just one point, I’ll write some more pretty soon!

Until then, stay strong! God bless you!

PS. Please feel free to give comments/feedback. I will appreciate it very much

Welcome to my blog the ‘Capture’!

Having a new re-new-ed blog is like getting a new gadget for a guy, a new toy for a kid, a new cosmopolitan magazine for a girl, a new girlfriend/boyfriend for a single. You always want to check this new ‘baby’. I’m on that stage now! I think the welcome page deserves a page lift – good website design concept says that if the page is one click away from the homepage, the chance for it being read by reader is definitely less than the page on the homepage. *DOH*

Okay, here we go again, from the page about the ‘Capture’

I don’t want to brag to much about the idea of blogging. I believe this is probably the hundredth times you read a weblog. By saying the following line, I will break the first rule of marketing a brand – “this is just a usual blog”. Yes, it is true, as I thought about it more, I just cant find anything unusual or uniqueness of this blog. This is just another personal weblog.

HOWEVER though, some wise person says, we have to a vision to keep us moving forward – hence, I just let my thoughts wander around and compiled the following reasons why the ‘Capture’ exists. Now, I don’t want to sell these points to you. If you want to keep reading, that’s good (that’s probably mean we have the same way of thinking), otherwise feel free to browse around the net or go back to your online social networking that might still have opened on the other tab..

Perhaps, it will be interesting to outline the not-to-achieve list.

What things I do not want to achieve through the ‘Capture’?

1. Capturing my daily life – tough luck, I don’t like sharing my days to outside world.
2. Elaborating negative thoughts or critics – life is just too short to be spent on pondering on negative thoughts. There are too many things to be enjoyed on the other flip side of the coin.

What things I want to achieve through the ‘Capture’?

1. I chose to “identify” this blog as “Capture”. I quickly searched the meaning of capture on my Iphone Apps. It is defined as

“capture” (noun) – the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property – oops.. not really what I want..

Ok here’s another try:

“capture” (verb) – succeed in representing or expressing something intangible.

Yes, that’s right. That’s exactly what I want from this blog. Life goes too fast. Clock is not ticking anymore – it is running. There are so many lessons to learn for a day. There are so many moments to remember for a day. Just pause your thought for a second, have ever really thought that your mind is very powerful “instrument”. Unfortunately, it is not that powerful enough to memorize all the moments we have passed, it only picks some significant moments in our life and “document” it.

I’ve heard somebody says “we write to forget”, I’d come from another perspective, I write to remember every single moment that God has allowed to pass by in my life.

2. “Responsibility is created to be fulfilled by a person, while burden is created to be shared”. The past few weeks I have experienced the power of sharing testimonies.

Testimony encourages you.

Testimony inspires you.

Testimony empowers you.

The ‘capture’ tries to capture the good stories that are happening in my life as well as others to encourage you – the reader – going through the uncomfortable situation that might be happening surround you.

3. To ‘capture’ someone else wisdom. Why do we need to re-invent the wheel if somebody has already rolling on it.

Okay maybe I’ll add a little bit more. This place is still messy, I welcome you to check this spot next time. Hopefully I have the passion to do a bit more