New beginning

After months of hesitating and asking God for direction, we finally came to a decision to leave New Covenant Sanctuary. Maybe it's just us, but Sunday after Sunday, I feel that Penny and I were just going through the motion of going to church and serving our respective ministries. I cried out to God and asked for forgiveness that we'd become so passive. What had happened? We don't even know. I guess we came to a point where we were fed up of everything going in circles, and church was the last place we'd expect to deal with spirals.

Many have asked us - what if it was God's will for us to be placed in NCS, wouldn't we be going against His will by leaving? It's a case of being stuck between a rock and a hard place - we'd be damned if we did and damned if we didn't. Again, I prayed for forgiveness and told God that I'd rather sin in an attempt to get closer to Him than to remain there and sin anyway by harbouring so much bitterness that would kill our spiritual lives eventually.

I couldn't bear to leave everything that we tried so hard to build up, but I asked myself 'Would I be able to make a difference?'. In the end, it's all about doing it for His glory and not mine. I remember the prophecy given to me was that I'd work with youth of THE church; the prophecy didn't say THIS church, so I comfort myself with the thought that it's still His house no matter where we serve.

If it was really God's will for us to be there, guess He would send a 'big fish' to 'swallow' us up and spit us out back there.

We continue to pray for the people of NCS as we begin a new chapter in our walk with Christ.

Beaten at Monopoly Junior

I suck at Monopoly. In fact, I suck so bad that even Velouria can beat me. And we're not even talking about the standard Monopoly. We're talking about Monopoly Junior. With smaller notes. Less expensive property. Lesser squares.

Velouria had just gotten a hand me down set and I, being the kiasu parent attempting to educate her about the benefits of board games, decided to have a go at it with her.

The set came without any manual, so I distrbuted $100 to both of us and off we went. Being the aggressive 'businessman' with no strategy whatsoever, I just started buying up all the property that my token landed on. Just my luck that I got all the cheap, crappy ones. Velouria, on the other hand, was a scheming strategist that would have put Donald Trump to shame, buying up properties after a tremendous amount of thought. Only God knows what went on in her head in the midst of all that contemplation.

It seemed to have worked however. In the end, after mortgaging all my houses and selling off all my property, I had no moolah in my box. In stark contrast, Velouria had a handful of blue (her colour of choice) houses left on the board and a considerable stash of cash in her box.

Beaten by a six... no, five and a half year old girl, in a board game designed for pre school children. Major bummer.