+ Important moments are moments like dinner with a BFF and her five kids at Prive Cafe. We also helped the cafe tune its guitar at the kids' corner. We chose a song to play. A Beatles song, of course. In My Life.
+ No more leaving after this leaving: Following a group chat, I got to thinking about dying. We are all dying. As a new day dawns, we are ever closer to death. What, then, for us is the most important moment of our lives? The moment is now. Being aware and accepting that we will all die one day makes us treasure life and people more, adopting a "carpe diem" approach to every day. It doesn't mean that we have to seize the day as the world defines it; we have to seize the day according to what we consider important and eternal. Dare to curate our lives, time and resources so that we devote all these to all that is the most important to God and us. Invest what we have wisely for eternal returns. Be answerable to God, not man.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
+ Raise the bar: Attended the first service of 2017. The message was hard-hitting. Avoid being lukewarm and spiritually passive. Re-align and re-adopt a right posture of running after God with wild abandon. Jump into the river; avoid walking around it and seeing it from a safe distance. Desire to always be in the inner courts. Avoid setting our spiritual bars so low. Pray. That’s the one thing that God has impressed on me in 2017.
+ A storied life: “I like the etymology of the word “experience” - it comes from the Latin experentia - to try. So all that you have lived through, it is unfinished business, still waiting for you to come back to it one day and give it a story.” - Boey Kim Cheng
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