Goodbye...farewell and thank you

We started Grace Notes since year 2006 and we have been assembling to rehearse and gathering to minister to others in music and songs for 14 years. 

And we are so extremely grateful and thankful to Chinese Methodist (Cantonese) Church Kuala Lumpur for their generosity and grace in providing a place for us to practice and rehearse all these years. 

But it is time to say goodbye...

...the church will be undergoing renovation work and so we looked for a new place for our rehearsals and again by God's providence, we have been offered a place. 

With that, we will be moving and today is our final rehearsal in this location. 

I must say, some of us are indeed very sad to go.

Goodbye...and thank you.

pearlie

I am thankful

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! 

His faithful love endures forever. 

Has the LORD redeemed you? 

Then speak out! 

Tell others he has redeemed you from your enemies.

Psalm 107:1-2 (NLT)

I'm only so thankful to the LORD for what he has done in all my life, even the little thing today which is a big thing to me. 

Thank you Abba. 

pearlie

Lord, I thank you

 

I feel so thankful today and I found this prayer that says it all. 

Prayer of Thanksgiving by Vienna Cobb Anderson

God of all blessings, source of all life,  giver of all grace:    

We thank you for the gift of life:  

for the breath that sustains life,  

for the food of this earth that nurtures life, 

for the love of family and friends without which there would be no life.    

We thank you for the mystery of creation:  

for the beauty that the eye can see,  

for the joy that the ear may hear,  

for the unknown that we cannot behold filling the universe with wonder,  

for the expanse of space that draws us beyond the definitions of our selves.    

We thank you for setting us in communities:  

for families who nurture our becoming,  

for friends who love us by choice,  

for companions at work, who share our burdens and daily tasks,  

for strangers who welcome us into their midst,  

for people from other lands who call us to grow in understanding,  

for children who lighten our moments with delight,  

for the unborn, who offer us hope for the future.    

We thank you for this day:  

for life and one more day to love,  

for opportunity and one more day to work for justice and peace,  

for neighbors and one more person to love and by whom be loved,  

for your grace and one more experience of your presence,  

for your promise: to be with us, to be our God, and to give salvation.    

For these, and all blessings,  we give you thanks, eternal, loving God, through Jesus Christ we pray.  Amen.    

pearlie 

Source: BeliefNet

Wonderful things of the world #1: Forelle Pears

 

I would like to start a series called Wonderful Things of the World. It all began one afternoon some weeks ago when I was at the office. It was lunch time but I felt like just having fruits. So off I went to the grocery store and bought a Forelle pear. It was quite a sizable one and it was so yummy. 

What a wonderful thing that God has made. 

I was at the morning market today. I drove my son to college this morning and on the way back, I thought I'd find a place for a good breakfast, and ended up having a good stroll in the busy morning market in OUG. 

And at the fruit stall, there it was: a whole pile of Forelle pears, and I bought ten. It was RM10 for five, but I felt five was too few. Ten was too many, but who's counting. 

pearlie

An incident on the road

 

I was traveling from Penang to Ipoh when a truck I was overtaking had an explosion in one of its tyres. I am so thankful we are alright. The driver did not lose control of the truck. It slowed down and stopped at the shoulder of the road and I drove on. I felt something did hit my car. I stopped at the next available rest area to check. It was alright. Only the side of the door was marked with a dark spot where I think it got hit by rubber. Most importantly, we are ok. 

When I shared this with my colleagues at work, our health and safety manager sent us the above picture with the following:

When passing large lorries especially trailers, pass quickly. Make sure that it is safe to pass, do it on a straight road and not when nearing a turn-off or junction. Make it easy for the driver to see you and provide you space. 

Do not linger alongside a trailer lorry as it is very risky. Incidents of heavy vehicle tyre blowouts is becoming more frequent, and it can cause flying tire debris and cargo to be flung towards you, or the heavy vehicle may swerve and lose control. Either way, your life can be in serious danger.

Stay alert and cautious when driving near big lorries or trailers as sharing the road with them can be dangerous if you are not aware of the hazards.

I thank God for the safe journey. 

pearlie

A Thousand Words #179

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Photo Source: The Telegraph