Women of Destiny

The talk on the two consecutive nights were truly fruitful. Really worth me giving up going to the Miri Jazz Festival. It was like drinking from the fire hydrant. If I am to share with my fellow sisters about what I have learnt, it’s going to stretch out throughout the night. I am going to order the CDs ones they are ready. One of the highlights was having a VISION. Having a positive vision will guard ourselves vigilantly against attack. Without vision, people perish. Some people go through their life with the rear view window as large as the windshield, when a compelling vision for the future is so crucial to us. That left me contemplating on my very own VISION….a newer version that is. I am growing old every second and knowing that I can’t do anything about it left me desperate more than ever to start accomplishing my visions! Exercising patience is not any easier. I use a journal to ensure I do not derail from what I have planned for the day. But having disciplines are not enough. I just learnt the fact and now its already mid 2008! Its not time to bail out though. Another important note I will ponder on is that our purpose decides our potential and not vice versa. With that, I trashed most of my plans and remade new ones. This intertwines with the vision thinggy of course. I felt lighter now.   

Women of Destiny glided off the runway very smoothly. A round of applause to everyone who involved to make it so welcoming. Some worked throughout day and night. I am glad that I could contribute in the photo shoots for the standing banners, involved abit in the decoration, creating the invitation card layouts and was the massaging crew among the rest. I hope many women were touched. My heart goes out to the women out there. I rubbed my shoulders with some women who toiled their hands to bring up the family single handedly. Some were so brave and spiritually contented and guarded. So many were gifted with different abilities. Cooking is one! Women are wonderfully made. Oh, and the ice breaker games for the two nights were so much fun and FUNNY. 

Some shoots I requested for while the pro photographers were idle for awhile in between the photo shoot at Vic’s nicely decorated hehe.

  

Everything falls into a nice great plan. The next day wasMother’s Day. A family picture was taken on the day. Mothers (biological and in-law), I truly love you and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. No words can describe. I long for the day my son will start telling me he loves me not only on Mother’s Day but on also any other days. Gosh, there it goes, impatient again.

There was a storm that very night. It was like the scenes from The Day after Tomorrow. I have never seen coconut trees bend so much. What is happening to the weather! I Missed out my dinner with my mum. But I can make everyday a Mother’s Day if I want to ^^. Have plans to visit her tomorrow.

Direction in Life

I heard alot of people went to the Money & U seminar. And I was at the verge of joining. Not being able to afford the seminar with my current jobless status, I had to reconsider. Somehow, I was convinced that I could find a better answer and seminar in the days to come. I was even more convinced when I had shared my situation and discussed it with my “sisters”. Relieved but at the same time still in need of guidance to life management. Well, God is awsome, always. My sis-in-law shared me a book by Rick Warren “God’s Power to Change Your Life”. Initially, I glanced at the yellow bold words that seemed to be shouting in my face, I wondered if I needed to change my life so badly and if any changes were necessary. I questioned myself if I was in a bad state of life. I couldn’t answer myself. After a chain of occurances since last year, there seemed to be somthing that WAS missing which was why I had the urge to join the seminar.

Anyway, the very first chapter was like the very last chapter like Rambo4, the actions starts from the very first word. The power of God is already starting the moment I flip open the small handbook. Joyce Meyer’s book Women-to-Women  had quite the same effect but somehow I was so drawn to this handbook I just couldn’t get my hands off it.

Well, the very 1st chapter elaborated 8 principles to stress management. So am I stressed? When I were working my heads off at work, I were seriously stressed. I am not working now, am I stressed? Am I? Am I not? Well, ding dong ding dong, I guess its another type of stress.  Since I started to have a very different perspective towards life, the different type of stress came in the package. In the end of this chapter were two points for putting thoughts into actions. Take out 3 of the 8 principles that stand out to be dealt by me right now! Identify 3 specific ways to begin simplifing my life within next week. Great! Just what I need. Funny, I just read about simplifying life from J.Meyer.

To share, the 3/8 principles that stood out:-

1.  Identification

2.  Dedication

3. Organization

4. Concentration

5.  Delegation

6. Meditation

7. Recreation

8. Transformation 

And the 3 specific ways to simplify life? Well, lets just start with sleeping before 12 and waking before 8 (before my bb wakes), have my very most nutritious prayer (silence and solitude), after deciding on my schedule don’t be detoured by others from my initial plans.  Hope these first 3 steps will release some of my stress hopefully ALL my hidden stresses.