Shaken and Stirred

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Last night’s 8.5 richter earthquake made me woozy while I was talking to sumyi online. Suddenly our friends all over the world paused on MSN. They recovered about 5 mins later typing a little shakily from Bangkok and Taiwan, saying they just felt an earthquake.This is the 2nd time I’ve been in an earthquake. The first time was at home in my JC days in the middle of the night about 2 or 3 am… it was a rather strange experience. It felt like someone was pulling and pushing my office chair back and forth across the floor, giving a slight rock to the chair’s occupant, except that I knew there was no spiritual presence behind me, so it took me a while to figure out I was actually stuck in a quake! =)

How revelations does seem to be unfolding. =) Wars, insurgencies, earthquakes, natural disasters seem to be happening with an increasing urgency. Hm… just a thought… every time Charles leaves for a holiday something happens…. Maybe we should not let him go on holiday… haha.

But my heart is with those affected, and I wish I could just leave my work to go help and minister.

Talking about work… I really hve lots to thank God for. The past 2 weeks have been extremely discouraging, but today I received my report which I’d typed after other work had made me sleep 1.5 hrs a night for 1.5 weeks. One was extremely tired, and had stayed up through the night to do the whole report, while Sumyi slept by me, and my other group members rested. I don’t blame them, they didn’t know how else to go about doing it. We got full marks, and I KNOW it could never have been possible without His grace, me so tired and disillusioned but praying still, the rest all having given up.

I sought my group’s permission to continue work based on this project for my honours year, and they agreed since I’d designed the experiment, formulated the hypothesis and wrote the whole paper, while they’d done the legwork of carrying out the experiment, and getting apparatus etc. But I know they really worked very hard to carry out the experiment, and we couldn’t have done without each other. (the child we worked with was hyperactive.) I told them I wanted to cite their efforts using this proj as a pilot proj for another experiment that would carry this one a step further. They agreed rather happily. A suggestion from Dr Madelena: who knows, we might publish in Nature as a response to Spelke and Hespos, whose ideas allowed me to write this paper. =) Dr Madelena is very supportive and pleased. Father once again You’ve given me so much more than I could ever have asked for, and beyond my wildest dreams. Father even now keep me humble, and show me what You would have me do. I’m a little afraid of getting carried away with work and complacency. Watch me, and shake me when my eyes and heart have drifted away from You.

I love You Father. =)

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