Day 2: Wasting Time with God

Hey hey hey, it's a brand new day and the birds are chirpin'!

Okay, so I am taking over Dionne Hoe Down throwdown because she doesn't want to make you guys wait...*awwwwwwwwwww* such a sweet numshkin!

Okay, so today's passage actually conincides perfectly with the theme of our youth retreat, Encounter and I believe it will always serve as a reminder to everyone that spending time with God is necessarry.

I was at Bishan library early in the morning at 10 am because I am free like that, ok no la, because i was bored rather. And at that unearthly ( I can't say ungodly cos it's not like it was a bad thing to go to the library or something) hour, the library gets really quiet.

So i basically spent 2 hours there by myself reading tons of books that were not very educational (oh wellers) but it was time well spent. First, I got to spend time alone with myself. Honestly, you are never alone, only with company of different nature. Dionne and Christabel would fall into the normal human flesh and bones kind while the one I spent time with today was of a divine, omnipresent, spritual kind.

It was refreshing to sit in the quiet and just let God speak to you, albeit not hearing his loud thunderous voice booming through the shelves, I did feel God giving me rest. Like relaxation and peace kinda thingummy. It's tough to put a word to it but I definitely felt refreshed and it was awesome just being alone, listening out for Him. I realise that it doesn't have to be intentional in the way where you go into a really tensed mode and try really hard to hear for a still small voice,

rather, taking time to find a quiet hideout in the library, without the earphones embedded in your ear canal can also be a conducive place for celestial chit-chat (just trying to be all lit-ty here)!

What I felt God was telling me was how girnomous this world is and that it is not confined to my imagination or what i've seen. I have been worrying a little about my future, in terms of short term ones like annoying A levels and frustrating further education but somehow in the library today, admidst the heaps of travel guides and cultural books, I've come to see that God's plans for you is similarly not restricted by our own understanding/expectations!

Sorry, if this sounds too personal but I really feel that no matter where/under what circumstances, God can still speak to you, we just have to make an effort to hear:)

You know He STILL loves you
(although you totally stole the cookie from the cookie pot)

xoxo,
Jillian