Today is a busy day for Kiddo. She has been wrapping herself with our church’s youth group and with the music exam around the corner and extra tuition classes, her plate’s pretty full. She’s been out almost all day today and except for a couple of hours in the morning and about an hour in the afternoon, all of which were filled up with her music exam work.

Last night we gave the Home Group a miss. Kiddo had earlier said that we have not been going out for dinner for a while now, so we drove out to Doncaster for dinner at the TGIF there. We then picked up a couple DVDs and came back home to watch one of them.

I dont know what to make of our (my) current situation with the Home Group. Frankly, I dont think  I can take anymore of those talks about people receiving messages and visions from God. God telling X this and saying that to Y. It happens all the time, when as much as I seek Him, I have received diddly squat. NEVER had I received any word which I was 100% sure was from Him, except what I read in the Bible. So, being around people in the HG frustrates me no end and is totally contrary to my personal experience. I dont think I fit in there.

I think when Jesus said “seek and you shall find”, he was only talking about our salvation, ie if we seek God in Him (Jesus) , we will find. I have not experienced this promise in any other context. I dont know, maybe one day He would let me. So far however (over 27 years as a Christian and over 5 years of actively pursuing Him), my experience suggests that is the case.

I’m just about to watch an ex-colleague on YouTube. Edmund Bon is always a bit of an off the wall character. He’d strut around the office without a shirt late at night (11pm, say), when the air con has been turned off in the office. His  raw potato white skin with a protruding paunch which is strange for a relatively skinny bloke, is a sight to rival Rosemary’s Baby. He’d use mixed metaphors all the time (in his chinaman style), use the most inapt illustrations (though we all know what he meant and see the sense of it) and in spite of his perceived lawyering brilliance, often is a butt of jokes in the office. He is however, a gutsy pug of a lawyer, full of fight and always thinking laterally. To me, most of all, he was always a sincere fellow and good fun to be with. For those of you who are wondering, a couple of Malaysian bloggers have been sued by some senior executives of the The New Straits Times for some of their articles. Some think the suit should not have been brought against them. I think it’s a bit of a yes and no. Yes, the suit may have been commenced by the executives if they think they have been defamed by the bloggers, but no, the NST should not have been a party to the suit. The general perception is that the damaged item is the ego of these executives, not the reputation of the newspaper. I have personally knowledge that the general perception is relatively accurate.