hellos and how-do-you-dos.

hello world!
we, the Just Kidding gang - Joel, Julianna, Jerry and Kelly - have decided to go public with this blog. and they've left me to do the honours of introducing us all. well firstly, we're from the oh-so-wonderful parish of Immaculate Heart of Mary! :)
some of us actually come from near and quite far just cos it's so wonderful. hah.
and nextly (is there such a word?), we're from the oh-so-wonderful-too Zion's Joy! most of us in ZJ are involved in using music to bring others to God and God to others. i say most cos there're some of us (ahem) who do all sorts of other things other than music!
and...
oh yes, i am Kelly, the Kidding.
which brings me to why we're the Just Kidding people.
it all started when Joel, Julianna and Jerry were standing together during one of the youth rally meetings.
ohhh i'm lousy at this! i can't really remember what exactly transpired, but i remember myself marching up to them to ask 'what about me?' in my usual whiny voice when they said they were the 3Js.
then Joel said that we could be the JK gang.
then someone realised that JK's like, short form for just kidding.
and thus, the Just Kidding people were born!
yes.

so we decided to start a blog to chronicle our days together spent in friendship, in growth and in Jesus's wonderful love!
it was an idea hatched during one of our many conference calls and inspired by another blog by the rhinos..
this whole project is actually still in its infancy... but we're all quite excited about it.
because this blog is a perfect platform for sharing our day's happenings with each other and with our other friends.
for sharing how we have eached been touched by God in one way or another, in big ways or small.
for keeping in close touch with each other.
for spreading a little bit of the joy we have received in the form of blessings!
and this blog is perfect for people like me, who're more linguistically inclined and prefer to see my thoughts out in words rather than to verbalise them. :)

there's so much more i want to say, but i think i gotta wrap this up for now cos tomorrow's gonna be an extremely tiring day. filled with doing His work! for the upcoming rally on 11 March.
how important are my Just Kidding pals to me?
well.. Cheryl said something to me the other day that gave me one of those EUREKA!! moments.
we were just walking to one of our regular prata meals to Hup Seng when she said: "do you realise that the friends you make in church are those that you'll keep for life? cos friends from all other institutions come in and out of your life, usually for as long as you stay in your school or job or whatever. but you go to church throughout your life right?"
and it struck me there and then how right she was! that these are the friends that i'll have with me all my life!
and i truly feel that i've been richly blessed with these wonderful companions, who've been with me through my ups and downs, who show that they care simply by just being there and asking a simple "how was your day?".

if it's anything, sometimes i feel that God uses such friends to show us that He is with us, that He knows what we need to feel better, and i am indeed so so grateful for the small things in life like that which matter.

goodness, i've digressed! i meant to say BYE.
so. 'til the next time!


*kel