Confirmation

I am posting because I really have to thank God for the way He's been moving in my life. He's been confirming my mission and really comforting me, I've been getting the feeling that if I am faithful to Him with business as my ministry, then He'll be faithful and give to me my heart's one desire: a loving home with wife and kids.

Small things like yesterday, I talked with an immigration lawyer and he gave a contact for evaluating my degree. It was my mistake to not save the text file I had written it in but when I was helping my mom with her Sunday school stuff, I accidentally killed my text file. I absolutely panicked. But armed with only an area code, a vague recollection of the person's last name, and the fact that it was a degree evaluation company, God helped me google out the name and contact. I was so relieved. Incredible. My mom said that God takes care of those who do His work and I believe that is true.

Later that day, for my friend's going out party, one of her friends was chatting and I found out she used to be a knowledge manager at two of the Big 4 accounting firms and her husband was a consultant, with a software background, at Arthur Anderson. I got both some great advice and confirmation that I was on the right track. They told me that being a consultant was very much about personality - you had to be able to be independent, identify the client's needs, come up with the solution, convince people to use the solution; you had to get it done and no excuses about it. Well, roughly that's what I remember. Haha, I just mainly remember I'm on the right track. Great people. And my friend's awesome. Haha.

And the verse that spoke to me this morning: John 12:24-25 "Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over. In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you'll have it forever, real and eternal."

Oh. In case you don't know my mission: to develop communities, by helping people improve their businesses, for the glory of God. Sounds like consulting to me and they thought so too. =)

Been happier and more stable these past few days / weeks (my memory's kinda melded). A colleague even complimented me for being "emotionally stable". Cool. Haha!

Buzzed.

For reasons I don't fully understand (but yes, I'm well aware of my sexual orientation) I've been feeling very happy today studying at a university well known for its very pretty female students. And no, I'm still being decidedly anti-social (though attending the young adult worship session on Sundays and hopefully eventually the small groups involved therein will change that) so I'm not really doing anything about that. Just being happy. Haha!

On other news, I'm feeling amused at discovering that I might be turning into a slight workaholic. Slight. Two jobs, one of which simultaneously scares the crap out of me while making me feel excited at the challenge, and the other just provides some cash. A far better disciplined approach to school than I've ever mounted. Ever. Though I can still do better.

So as of today, I'm just very grateful to God. He's been good. I'm just really thinking that in terms of the social thing, I should step up more while letting go of things to him more. You know, in Singapore, He pretty much pieced together the support network I really badly needed. It wasn't even close to meeting me halfway, it was more like 90% of the way, kinda like, you better say yes, Joe. Though without the pressure. I mean, I was the one who pressured myself cuz I knew how badly I was doing.

Anyway, no, this post isn't really significant as to whether this blog will be revived. Heck, I might start a new one. You know, with a better name. Or rename this. Or something. Wishing well to all my friends and still slightly buzzed from having a very pretty girl sitting across the library table, see ya!

Housing

My daily trod through the bible yielded this interesting tidbit:

Leviticus 25:35-38 "If one of your brothers becomes indigent and cannot support himself, help him, the same as you would a foreigner or a guest so that he can continue to live in your neighborhood. Don't gouge him with interest charges; out of reverence for your God help your brother to continue to live with you in the neighborhood. Don't take advantage of his plight by running up big interest charges on his loans, and don't give him food for profit. I am your God who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God."

Thought it was rather relevant to today's news.