Posted on Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Merry Christmas To You All

I grew up in multi-cultural and multi-language background. It amazes me when I found out how many languages spoken in this world! Over 6,000 languages! Can you imagine that?

If you go to Google to find how these people say “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” in any langagues, you will see people say it in so many different ways!

In thise special season, I hope your Christmas will be filled with joy, love, peace and hope from God and may His favor and goodness be yours in this coming New Year!

This is how I say it in languages that I can understand (from the most I can speak & understand to the least):

Slamat Natal deng Taong Baru (Manadonese)

Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru (Indonesian)

Selamet Hari Natal ame Tahun Baru ye (Betawi)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! (English)

Merry Christmas lan Sugeng Warsa Enggal (Javanese)

圣诞快乐，新年快乐
Shèngdàn kuàilè, Xīnniàn kuàilè (Mandarin)

Feliz Navidad y Feliz Año Nuevo (Spanish)

Posted on Friday, December 20, 2013

Am I Failed As A Blogger?

I started to blog for 30 Days of Thankfulness…. but didn’t finish it.

Am I failed as a blogger?

I started to schedule to write a blog post once a week…. but I did and then forgot.

Am I failed as a blogger?

I am sitting here today… thinking…

should I continue write a blog?

should I called myself a blogger?

or should I stop writing because I do not write consistently?

I need support.

I need encouragement.

I need motivation.

I need a purpose why I write.

I need a plan!

I am thankful when I went to Declare Conference in October 2013 and met a lot of my friends I met online through blogging, Twitter and Facebook. I made new friends too. At that conference I heard so many advises from the experts. I am humbling myself under God’s feet, waiting and listening to what He has to tell me and has for me to do. I am waiting.

Here I am rethinking my purpose and pray.

I am going to take a break for these couple of weeks at to end this year and will start fresh in 2014. Hopefully you all will be praying for me too!

Posted on Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Gratefulness Day 13: An Answered Prayer

But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!

(Psalm 66:19-20)

This one of the the answered prayers we received from God in 2013. About a year we prayed for a family car, reliable and safe for longer road trips for our Partnership Development. So we looked around some options but none of them met the needs. We kept praying. We asked our prayer partners, family and friends to pray for this need. Our pastor and his wife prayed with us every week, for this need and for everything related to our ministry need.

God answered our prayer on April 30, 2013. A generous and kind relative of Dave and a partner, let us use her extra car as long as we need it.

We thank God for this answered prayer.

We thank God for everyone who have been praying for us.

We thank God for her.

We thank God!

Posted on Thursday, November 7, 2013

Gratefulness Day 7: A Surprise

Speaking of a surprise on not a Christmas day nor my birthday, about a year ago my awesome husband got me with this gift:

He got me a Silhouette Cameo! A funny story behind this surprise. Two days before I got a box with a spatula and a hook in it. Surprised me for sure because it was addressed for me and I didn’t have a Silhouette. I got suspicious and texted my hubby with its picture and asked him about it… And he said… “It supposed to be a surprise but apparently Amazon sent the spatula and hook before the machine.” And I said, “What machine?!” And he just gave a big smiley 😀 face on the text. He said, “Just wait it will be there in 2 days.”

Sure enought, I got a huge box at the front porch 2 days later… And it was this machine! Since that day, I have been learning, crafting, and creating pretty things with my Silhouette Cameo.

I thank God for this surprise!