Links lately

Spring in full bloom-College Green, Bristol, May 2014.

-My friend's music. We were college mates in MBI and it's super cool because he's the only Egyptian friend I know of. His guitar and composing skills are really good.
-Kyuhyun's farewell album "Goodbye For Now". He just enlisted in the army so it will be a sad two years without new music from my favourite Korean singer. :( Watch the song's mv on youtube here.
-I've been really into creating planning excel/spreadsheets after watching this video tutorial. ;)
-This Chicago photographer/storyteller (her genuine sharing about faith and life is quite inspiring)
-Kdrama: Fight For My Way is quite cute and fun to watch
-Just finished reading Howard Gardner's "Changing Minds" and it's cool to think about multiple intelligences and read the stories/examples of leaders who have changed people's minds with their rhetoric etc.
-Just getting into this Goblin ost "Beautiful": Crush's original version & Kyu's cover of it
-more lifestyle/real people instagrammers: erin & kristyu

I can only imagine

 I have known this song since I was in the teens but I never grasped the meaning of the song until today in our afternoon prayer meeting at COCM. We read the passage from Revelations 21 and then sang it. I was struck by the picture of one day meeting my Saviour and a deep longing for the day when I finally see God. We often live our day to day life just by the day to day. We focus on the struggles of today, the frustrations of the challenges we face now, or the pleasures we want to pursue to make us happy at this moment, and the successes we would like to have in the next few years. But we rarely remember to look forward to what we are to look forward to the most--an eternity with the Glorious and Almighty God who loves us so much that His plan for those He loves is to give up His Only Son Jesus Christ to give us hope for today and for eternity. It is good to imagine that day. That day when we will meet our Saviour. What a glorious day that will be.
Revelations 21: 1-6

'Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 
2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 
3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.
 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.'

Our Glorious God

It is always good to take time to focus on our glorious Saviour, our Sovereign God who loves so extravagantly and to be reminded that we trust in a God who is Risen.

I was really blessed by these songs this weekend, so I just want to share them with you.

 Have a blessed week ahead!