Him in our daily lives

God's Face
How do we see God's face through the midst of our daily lives? Ain't it so hard?I guess this question kept going through my little head throughout the course of this week.For me this week has been another journey of self discovery and a journey together in faith with the people around me.

Sometime this week I had a nice sharing time with a dear friend of mine, and I was posed this challenge to see God's wonders during the course of my week. I remember clearly the other day, I took the point to try to look out for His wonders and how He use us as His little intrustment to reach out to the people. I remember noticing this lady, ( she's a clark and what she is required to do is admin stuff. ) going around during our break time, talking to very random people. At first my classmates were saying this to me, " julie, that lady's weird eh?" and I couldn't agree more.
But soon I realised as I stood at my little corner at the canteen, munching on my bread (breakfast), watching her go from table to table, I noticed that she went to those tables where there was only one poor student eating alone as though she was a social outcast. She sat with them, and spoke to them, and I thought she was helping them feel that they are worth something even if the schoolmates thought they weren't. At first I really went to think why she was doing it and what her purpose was, I just thought that she was amazing cause she's doing something that her job does not even require her to do!

Until yesterday, when I was seating at the canteen table and there was this other classmate who was a real social outcast seating across me. And wonderfully this lady came! And she sat down talking to my classmate and in her hand was a book of PNW songs! She began telling my classmate that we must pray in times like these, when we are all alone, and there is no one around us who could understand us and that she believe strongly that God is truly present in our lives. The next thing I know she was teaching the song, Days Of Elijah to my classmate! I was stunned that I was left speechless, call it crazy or what, but she went out of her way to take time off from the office to come out and talk to the students, or rather those social outcast, to tell them ( or at least so far I know one) that God is truly present in our lives and that we need to pray in times when we feel lonely, or when we feel that the world has turn its back on us. I remember seating there, watching her infront me singing, I said this to myself "there you are God, working through her, amazing! PTL! (:"

He was present there and then at the table where I sat, through that lady, trying to reach out to the outcast and telling each and everyone of us, that we're never alone, cause like I said previously every step we take, He takes WITH us. And somehow or rather, I'm reminded of the song, crash and burn. Instead of the song dedicating to a friend, how about Jesus dedicating it to you!

Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone

Imagine Him telling you that, " Let me be the one you call" when you are in need of help, when no one can understand you. He wants to be part of our lives, He wants to mend our broken heart and He reminds us that we're never alone! That He will be there walking the steps that we walk, and never to forsake us.

This week has been a beautiful week. Everyday was a fresh start of His love and mercy! And everyday was a learning step for me, I saw the importance of sharing like FINALLY! (: Sharing has helped me see that I'm not alone in this world going through my own struggles, that there are others like me and that God puts us together to encourage each other in our little struggles and that by sharing we may find our answers to wriggling our way out of them. ( thank you dear friend! it has been wonderful being able to share with you! a blessing indeed. and thank you to the woman circle! )

I would like to end my post with a song that one of my classmate was singing non-stop the other day. A song from her children church and I thought it was pretty cute but with profound meaning.
Dear God, You know I want to be
A princess on a pony, Tarzan on a tree
Dear God, You know I want to have
Chunky shoes and funky toys
Dear God, You know I want to be
The top of my class and be a great big star
Dear God but most of all,
I want to be with you

Great Big Daddy God, I wanna sit on your shoulder
See the whole wide world
Sing and whistle down the road
Dancing in your footsteps
Sing all the way home !

HIS PERFECT LOVE CAST OUT ALL FEARS
- julie