impressions

It’s the end of the 4-day convention. My female owner has been unusually quiet coz she has not been video conferencing home. Due to the long hours of the convention, she also has not been online very much. Despite this, she still managed to catch up with a few precious friends from homeland

i) SC – who came online just to find her and managed to, bringing testimonies of God’s grace and miraculous works
ii) KK – the guy portion of her closest couple fren, finally spoke to him online, although she could not stay for long
iii) ET – providing an update on aikido and grading matters (some office stuff too but my female owner is slowly learning not to care, yay!). Heard that they did well for grading. Congrats!
iv) JW – to discuss the holiday trip to Goldcoast (my female owner is going away for a few days and in her usual backpacking fashion *think Shanghai*, she has not settled the basics, like transport and itinerary. She's so apologetic about it. Sorry mate!)
v) QY – glad that she’s settling into school -> He has a wonderful plan for your life (Jeremiah 29:11). Believe it!
vi) P – as always, her partner in crime. P never fails to relate to my female owner in the most familiar and soothing manner. Chicken wings and beer soon babe!
vii) M – always radiating with warmth and God’s love, speaking a word of season

Ah, I’m digressing. I wanna talk about what my female owner learnt/ or set her heart to do, as a result of the convention (non-believers may not understand the following so if you feel uncomfortable, you can choose not to read. It’s important that I write these down coz my female owner has a poor memory and needs to be reminded of whatever she has learnt).

• She has REALLY surrendered her past to God – decisions, mistakes, hurts, disappointments, cynicism etc. That conscious decision is really important for her to set her heart on, in order to move on. God told her to pray for my male owner as part of her healing process. Not something which my female owner is really earnest to do but she would try.
• She has surrendered her negative mindsets to God – her mistrust of people, “All guys are bad” mentality, better-not-to-depend-on-anyone attitude – and decided to be less anti-social. So she spoke to some strangers during the convention. Err… she survived.
• She has renewed her relationship with God – has gained a fresh perspective of spiritual gifts and prayer and wants to see herself growing in some of the gifts. She also wants to start each day with prayer and bible reading (might be a challenge, coz she tends to sleep late and hence, wake up just in time for school)
• She wants to hone herself musically – flute, keyboard and guitar (in that order) – so that she can be used in this area (that’s another major area to conquer, coz she has performance anxiety, so much so that she refused to play for her Onli Fren’s wedding. Something which she still regrets esp when they talk about it)
• She wants to be a blessing to others, with whatever she has (to be the light upon the hill). If not now, then when? But she has no concrete ideas yet.
• She wants to put God as the centre of her life and not stay in the lukewarm, let’s-see-how-things-go-stage anymore.

My female owner knows that there will be times when she will find some of the things above challenging as she juggles with the different aspects of her life. However, this would be the direction that she wants to head towards for this year.