Resolutions

When I finally decided to note down my resolutions, but Satan stopped me,,,i can't open the internet.

Finally I'm online and I have only 10 min .

1st confession.
Writing resolutions is my struggles.

- I don't know where to start
- Ah mo not so good n not a good writer , afraid to look ugly
- if write down the resolutions, didn't able to do it. discouraged and ma lo..

But thanks to God, sisters prayed for me( I think) with Jason 's helped, we came out a very simple resolutions.

Define- Resolutions: resolving; great determination; formal statement of a committee's opinion.

As a couple:

1) exercise twice a week( it is big struggle for me)
2)once a month: hospitabiltiy
3) Date with our gals individually.


As personal:

1) Iron my husband's clothes(pai sei ;))
2) Pray at least 1/2 hours( no interruption)
3) QT reading at least 1 hour( no break or interruption in between)
4) mediate and memorise a verse a day( keep the satan away)

Love,
Veron Kuwe
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Sharing of the Tan's 2009 Resolutions

Dear all,

It is the time of the year for resolutions. I usually will have a key verse to mediate on.
Last year the verse was from Matt5:13

"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?" So I started calling myself SaltyTan to remind myself to remain salty.

For this year, our family verse will be

Philippians4:4-8
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Now for the resolutions

We usually categorise into 3 categories
1. Spiritual

• Build relationship with Christians (Spend time with 1 couple every 2 months,
  outside own group)
• Friends (Reaching out to parents of kids' classes,inspired by Carol)
• Continue to follow Karen's QT series in hotnews

2. Family

• Consistent weekly devo
• Weekly sharing of Highs and Lows
• Read to kids

3. Self

• Excel in work
• Exercise regularly (weekly)
• Learn Geography
• Read 1 book every 2 months
• Be disciplined
  
  

Pls pray for the Tans
Love
Soon Keow aka SaltyTan

It's the time of the year again. In another 10 hours or so we'd have stepped into year 2009. What a time for reflections and showing gratefulness, making resolutions and confessions. Not exactly an easy task though, especially if it's on the blog for all to see. But we as disciples of Christ, what have we got to hide from anybody?

Resolutions have been made with progress covered, so I'm not going to touch on this topic this time round. But I'd like to show my appreciation to many sisters and brothers who have helped Adrian and I grow spiritually and were there when we needed them most. Veron, Lay Choo and Pauline, thank you for babysitting for us for 6 days when I desperately needed a break and just ran away to KL for an escapade in November, leaving the 2 kids with you. Thank you for the meticulous care and concern you've showered them, to the extent of doing their laundry, such that I have nothing else to do when I returned from my escapade! Lay Choo, thanks for being there always when I needed help or a listening ear or some sound advice, your friendship is so precious to me and my family. Pauline, I'm sorry if I've hurt you unintentionally, but I'm glad we've sorted out our differences. Right now I don't know what I can do without you staying so close to me, ready to meet me any moment for a short prayer or just to listen to me pour out my sorrows and woes.

Ling, Bee and Soon Keow, thanks for the encouragements you've given me over numerous occasions. We may not know each other well, but I look forward to 2009 when I could spend more time knowing you better and establish closer ties with you. Especially Ling, with our kids in the same school and same level, we can come together and discuss their homework eh? :)

Reflecting upon 2008, it has been a pretty fruitful year for me. I started giving tuition from home so that I may spend more time with my kids, and this has resulted in a relationship we now have so close that it has never been before. Towards the end of the year, I started dedicating a day each week to teach students from families with financial difficulties, hoping that they could do better in their studies and stop the vicious cycle of not being to get a well-paid job due to their education level. This I will continue in the new year and the number of students have grown into 3. I hope that God will give me the strength, calm and organisation ability to teach them, as they are from different levels.

Now comes the most difficult part: confessions. It has been quite a challenge to keep up with my 'normal', routine life, let alone my spiritual life. I'm enslaved to my psychiatric medication for life, and that is not exactly a pleasant thing. It takes a lot of discipline to force the medications down my throat at regular hours everyday as they are time released medicines. And the side effects, bloatedness, edema, weight gain, extreme thirst, they are killing me. It's such a great temptation and so easy to conveniently 'forget' about taking them, but I've learnt from past experiences that convenience means suffering, not only to me but to my whole family. I thank God for giving me a pair of lovely twins who understand I need much time-out for myself, and take turns reminding me to take my medicines. With the medicines, I'm drowsy not only at night after the dose, but also throughout the day, so it's almost impossible to keep up with my housework after I'm done with tuition. With situation as such, my struggle with keeping up with my quiet time, the study of Patmos and the reading of New Testament really suffers. So does my marriage. I'm so grateful that God sent such a wonderful and understanding man as Adrian into my life, but no matter how wonderful he is, he is still human. When the going gets tough in the office and he comes back to an unkempt house with a wife half asleep in bed by 8.30pm, it is really no fun. I'm trying hard right now playing with medications to keep me awake long enough to gradually clean up the house, then I will employ a part-time cleaner to clean the house twice a week. Hopefully that will make Adrian's life easier and more willing to come home. And we'll be ready to host disciples from overseas this coming SEA conference.

Dearest sisters, as you can see, I'm realy struggling much in my life, especially with the killer medicines. Please pray for me that I will overcome them and not the other way round, and that I will be more fruitful this coming 2009. I want to make evangelism and saving lost souls/sheep the top of my list, and I need all the prayers I can get. Also my lessons with the 3 needy students, I need organisational skills so that I will not neglect anyone of them.

I thank you for your prayers for I know you'll be praying for me. Amen.

Resolutions for Year 2009

A bit too greedy, the widget box won't take all I want to write, so I guess this is the next best alternative to voice out my resolutions.

Resolution #1:
Evangelize and bring more lost souls/sheep to church, especially parents of my children's friends whom I'll get to meet daily on weekdays.
To date:
~1 Catholic brought to church, awaiting to start bible study with Golden girls. Been attending Sunday services regularly and enjoys fellowship with the Golden girls.
~1 highly arrogant lost sheep brought to church and handed over to Phua Hee as he is a single. Problem off my hand. Hee hee hee...!!!
~1 lost sheep who stopped attending church 4 years ago will be coming to church 1st Sunday of 2009 with 13yo daughter. Please pray for them.

Resolution #2:
To be a good discipler.
Struggling to keep in touch with my disciple Natalie Chan. While I understand how she is currently feeling as I went through a similar self-denial state for 1.5 years, I want to help her get out of it faster, yet I don't know how to do it when she intentionally avoids our attempts to contact her. The only way I can find out about her wellbeing is through her husband and daughter. Please pray for me.

Resolution #3:
To discover my spiritual gifts and put them into practice.
So far I have come to discover that my bilingualism, ability to teach and even my Bipolar Disorder are gifts from God. I use my bilingualism to reach out to Mandarin speaking sisters and help them integrate into the fellowship, use my ability to teach and dedicate Friday afternoons to teach kingdom kids who are academicaly weak but can't afford help financially, and my understanding of my illness to form a support group for sisters in church who suffer from similar psychiatric problem. Pray for me that I can put my gifts into good use.

Resolution 4:
Register my tuition as a sole-proprietorship business.
After much thoughts and discussion with Adrian, Soon Eng and my father-in-law, I have finally decided to register my tuition as a sole proprietorship. In other words, come Jan 2009 I will be running my own business from home! With receipts issued out under the business name and having a business registration number, it would be much more professional and would be a form of free advertisement in itself among parents who know my current students' parents. Pray for me that this will be a succes.

Thanks sisters!