Faith Noodles

This past month I felt like God really wanted me to learn to ask Him. For what? I'm still learning, but I've been praying for anything and everything that's been on my heart like my needs, needs of others, (less frequently) world issues (of course my heart is super flawed, so at the same time, I've been praying that He will align my heart's desires with His and He has been correcting and leading me). There have just been situations, things that people have said to me, devotions and bible studies that just seemed to have the same theme: learn to ask Me. Without going into detail, the coincidences were so frequent, I really felt that God was trying to get my attention. And I'm finding that as I learn to ask God more and more on a regular basis: - I am really learning to depend on Him (I am learning to ask as a result of the realisation of my own spiritual poverty - I am just completely incapable of doing anything right for God in my own strength and I need t...

From A New Name asking for help when you really don’t want to being still when you’re used to being busy gently challenging someone who lashes out, but refusing to back down prayerfully putting your loved ones in God’s hands, instead of carrying them anxiously telling a friend how much they mean to you talking about Jesus and not just God saying no to some things so you can say a proper yes to others asking a stranger for coffee/getting to know someone new standing by someone who keeps letting you down keeping going though it’s hard and you’ve not been able to do it in the past choosing to hope instead of despair trying instead of playing it safe doing things differently (sometimes) staying silent when you want to speak up and speaking up when you want to stay silent being vulnerable first admitting you don’t have the answers not doing it just because everyone else is believing what you can’t see, more than what you can feeling scared and still doing it looking weak when the world a...

My transition back to my normal routine has not been all smooth sailing. I’m blogging about these tiny mishaps now to remind myself to not take myself so seriously ;) Incident 1: My friend persuaded me to get a gel manicure. She said it looked way better than normal manicures (it costs more too). She was right, but I got the manicure without having any idea whatsoever that UV light was used to set the gel and how hard it would be to remove it. :( Since I was on holiday, I choose a slightly more outrageous colour and planned to remove it before I started my placement in three weeks. No big deal. I left the task of removing my gel manicure to the night before my work placement started. I was horrified when NOTHING came off after I rubbed my nails with a cotton wool dipped in acetone. It was then I realised that I may need to show up with bright green fingers on my first day of work. Pretty horrific stuff, I know. I consulted youtube and apparently, to remove gel manicures, y...

Just a quick post on my month-long break. Ah, if only I had more time! And so, I have been on a one-month holiday to visit family and friends. Totally unplanned, but surprisingly, everything just worked out somehow. I really felt a peace about this trip. Sometimes I feel really guilty when I take a holiday because I have a thesis etc to write but this time, I didn't entertain any feelings of guilt because I really felt that somehow, God wanted me to take this trip and have this holiday! I went into this last minute trip firmly intending to give out as much as I could.. and I feel like I've been given so much more than I have given out, loved on so much than I have tried to love, and I've had waaaay more fun than I had anticipated I would! It was as though each day, God was pouring His deluge of blessings over me. I also learnt that: 1. I must always ask Him (and not just keep quiet and "get on with life" as I often do), because He loves to guide and provi...