Time

I was praying very hard for message to be shared this week at staff prayer meeting. (I was invited to colead with Gerald-sis-in-law) Initially, I thought of some funny games. But then it has no meaning to it, accept alot of funny factors. "thanksgiving" is a overused theme. So I was surfing the internet and this word "time" came to me. 

In the bible, no other bible verses are more apt about time than this. So using these bible verse, we played a little game at the start of the prayer meeting. And then we sang "In His Time" and "Above all". 

It touched me that at the later part, everyone prayed for different things and... the MT teachers. It was tough. For me, it was tough. There're teachers who extent their love and prayers to MT Dep. People have always looked down on us and we carried alot of burdens. We are considered to be the people who bring down the overall results. But I was new here, and I carried their pasts burden. And I know some teachers hate the MT dep. But now, perhaps, I have to let go,leave it in prayers and let God. 

And I have adapt it in terms of work... 

A time to teach and a time to play;

a time to show grace and a time to discipline;

a time to mark MCQs and a time to mark compos;

a time to be busy and a time to be even busier;

a time to receive praises and a time to get parents' complains;

a time to give 101% and a time to wayang (oops);

a time to feel helpless, tired and hopeless... 

But God made everything beautiful in His time. 

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, 11

(NIV)

3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:3:2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,3:3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,3:4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,3:5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain,3:6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,3:7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,3:8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.