Assorted stuff... ;p & some good news

hey all ;p hehe... perhaps i'll start off with the good news bit!!! - boyd & viktoriya are engaged!!! wow, such exciting news from a friend whom i'd kinda lost contact with for a few years... one of my good friends at high school, boyd's always been a natural comedian... hmmmz... i wonder how much of that's due to his half-malay, half-scottish pedigree... ;p anywayz - congrats boyd & vik!!!

anywayz - hehe... ;p today was good... first church for the yr, a nice lil sermon about Abram this morning (see passage below), and how he responded to God's calling - which seemed really crazy... pack ur stuff and go to this land i'll show you... - but he knew God and trusted Him with his life... and his faith has made him father of many nations... - God keeps His promises, and we are chosen among all the people on earth to respond to His calling, trusting Him in everything... ;p it's a scary proposition sometimes... but we are to know that God's plans for us are greater than our own ever could be!!!

thanks and praise to God for everything He has done!!! - and, hoping i can trust better in God for the future... so many times i've doubted, or simply not trusted in the God who loves me so much... shall have no more reason to doubt or not trust!!!


Genesis 12:1-9

The Call of Abram

1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.

2 "I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you."

4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD , who had appeared to him.

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD . 9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.