Church was vandalised

This morning we went to church and found out that between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the church was vandalised. Someone had thrown golf balls at the church windows and there were two gapping holes.

Some church members were very quick to get into action. There were glasses splattered all over the chapel and Noah, one of the elderly men went down to the church to sweep away every piece of glass on each pew and on the carpet. He made sure that no one would be hurt.

Some young men, put up cardboards and plastics and pasted up the broken windows as the weather has been bad.

First thing in the service, we prayed for whoever vandalised the church and service went on as usual.

Truly, the church is only a building, it is the people of the church that give it life.

Those four-letter words

We put behind the vandalism incident and Pastor Winters preached on more important issue such as the financial situation in US. It was a good message.

We all know that in our current economic situation, it would never be possible to live a debt-free life. Example, even buying a HDB flat, we would already plunge ourselves into debt. However, the wise would made sure that his debt should be kept below his income level. His credit card bills would be cleared at the end of each month and not rolled over till it snow-balled into an unbelievable and unpayable amount.

The Bible talked about such issues. Proverbs 21: 20 "Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it" A wise man would ensure that his family has the good things but a foolish man empties his house. We don't need to have all of it. Romans 13:8 "Owe no one anything..."The verse speaks clearly for itself. God has never intended us to owe anything to anyone. The borrower is a salve to the lender and we have seen and read about it many times in the papers.

Debt is basically a bad thing, a dangerous thing and it is something which God doesn't want us to have.

Recently, hubby and I were about to buy a big ticket item (before the financial crisis happened). It was a really good buy. The seller requested that we give him a deposit first but more time for him to consider. We were surprised as to why we need to pay a deposit and yet still give him time to sort out his issues. God has always given us wisdom to make informed decisions and we have always believed in the guidance of God. We decided to give him more time but without paying the deposit. During the waiting time, the financial market went into turmoil. We were so thankful that God was on our side. In the end, we decided we should not go ahead with the purchase, we would just wait.

So there goes the four-letter words....WAIT is WISE

All ready for winter?

Past few days have been really cold and friends have given plenty of advice as to what to buy, where to buy cheap but good winter clothings. So, we spent our Saturday, shopping for winter clothes and found more places selling good and cheap winter clothes.


I hope these are enough to keep all of us warm.


When you are at the right place at the right time and they have the right stuff,
you know you've got a good bargain. This pair of flats cost me only US$2.98!