Jen Lee's week 12
Hey everyone...
I'm in the midst of a challenging assignment - while this is a welcome distraction, I will have to keep it pretty short...
1. Update on assignments - I have four more to do before the end of the semester, which will be in less than a month's time. How time flies (which means I will be busy busy these few weeks - please pray for good time management, smooth flow of ideas and efficient academic writing)!
Specifically, I want to thank God for a good group presentation on Thu - my group which was made up of 6 girls worked quite well together. There was one point in which we had to streamline our proposal (we were only given 12 mins total!) and my part which I had worked on got drastically reduced, which was a bit demoralising, but in the end, it worked out :)
The challenging assignment I'm talking about is due this Friday...originally it was due last Friday but thank God the lecturer gave an extension because I was spending time to help a friend out who was feeling so stressed about school work (due to language difficulties) that he couldn't sleep or eat for two days. With the extension, we all got a bit of breathing space, so my friend is much better now, but do continue to pray for him.
Pray for me too because I have trouble coming up with a participatory communications strategy based on the two reports on aboriginal mental health workers that I read. The assignment is worth 50% of our grade, so it is kind of pressurising :[ I thank God that my first assignment for this class was graded well, so that was a form of encouragement.
2. Another of my classmates has decided to quit the semester and head back to her home country due to language difficulties. She's had a rough semester - in addition to not doing well for her assignments, her aunt was suddenly hit and killed in a drink driving accident. So maybe it is better that she go back, but I am going to miss her. Please pray that we can continue to be in touch and that she will open her heart to the love and comfort of Jesus.
3. Lifegroup - I helped out with seekers' discussion last Friday. We shared about how God takes care of us and encouraged the three pre-believers (they are regular faces at lifegroup, have been coming for about a year) to try out asking God for help the next time they are anxious about anything (1 Peter 5:7 Cast your cares on God for He cares for you). It was cool to share and talk about the questions they have. One of them came to Sunday church service two days later for the first time, so praise God :)
I'm helping to play guitar for worship for the first time this Friday. Practice will be on tom night. I've not really played with a keyboardist before and there will be free worship so please pray that I'll be in sync with the Holy Spirit and the others in the worship team :)
4. Sometime during the week, I spoke to my housemate about some relationship issues. She and her boyfriend of 1-month plus are both believers, but they only began to go for things like lifegroup recently so while she gets to know a more mature believer in her lifegroup better, I offered to keep her accountable.
We had a good talk but the next day, her bf said he was unhappy that I had spoken to her without him being around. To him, it seemed that I was wanting to interfere and control the situation. Given that he doesn't know me very well, I can understand that he would be on the defensive. We clarified matters and agreed that future talks about their relationship will be when both are present. I am glad that he spoke up because he usually lets things slide and we (my housemates and I pray together every Tue) had prayed for him to express himself more.
Of course, being human, I was a bit hurt and taken aback that my intentions to help were not received as positively. This is my first time mentoring anyone in a relationship and I know there are many areas for me to grow in. I think one of the important things to learn is to be secure in how I've conducted myself (granted that I will make mistakes because all this is new to me), and not be affected by how others see me. To be committed to speak the truth in love, even if it means being misconstrued. I thank God that one of my lifegroup sisters was available on Facebook to chat with me about this after the whole somewhat intense discussion, and she prayed for me so that I would not carry any residual emotional hurt inside.
Please pray that God will give me wisdom for future interactions. Also for my housemate and boyfriend to settle into a lifegroup that they will attend regularly, not only so they can find accountability partners within that group but for their spiritual growth. It's not that I want to push away responsibility, I will always care about them as their sister-in-Christ, but I think their relationship needs to be situated within a real Godly community.
Ok, that's it from me....
hope this email finds you well...write when you're free and I will do my best to reply :)
take care and God bless,
Jen Lee
I'm in the midst of a challenging assignment - while this is a welcome distraction, I will have to keep it pretty short...
1. Update on assignments - I have four more to do before the end of the semester, which will be in less than a month's time. How time flies (which means I will be busy busy these few weeks - please pray for good time management, smooth flow of ideas and efficient academic writing)!
Specifically, I want to thank God for a good group presentation on Thu - my group which was made up of 6 girls worked quite well together. There was one point in which we had to streamline our proposal (we were only given 12 mins total!) and my part which I had worked on got drastically reduced, which was a bit demoralising, but in the end, it worked out :)
The challenging assignment I'm talking about is due this Friday...originally it was due last Friday but thank God the lecturer gave an extension because I was spending time to help a friend out who was feeling so stressed about school work (due to language difficulties) that he couldn't sleep or eat for two days. With the extension, we all got a bit of breathing space, so my friend is much better now, but do continue to pray for him.
Pray for me too because I have trouble coming up with a participatory communications strategy based on the two reports on aboriginal mental health workers that I read. The assignment is worth 50% of our grade, so it is kind of pressurising :[ I thank God that my first assignment for this class was graded well, so that was a form of encouragement.
2. Another of my classmates has decided to quit the semester and head back to her home country due to language difficulties. She's had a rough semester - in addition to not doing well for her assignments, her aunt was suddenly hit and killed in a drink driving accident. So maybe it is better that she go back, but I am going to miss her. Please pray that we can continue to be in touch and that she will open her heart to the love and comfort of Jesus.
3. Lifegroup - I helped out with seekers' discussion last Friday. We shared about how God takes care of us and encouraged the three pre-believers (they are regular faces at lifegroup, have been coming for about a year) to try out asking God for help the next time they are anxious about anything (1 Peter 5:7 Cast your cares on God for He cares for you). It was cool to share and talk about the questions they have. One of them came to Sunday church service two days later for the first time, so praise God :)
I'm helping to play guitar for worship for the first time this Friday. Practice will be on tom night. I've not really played with a keyboardist before and there will be free worship so please pray that I'll be in sync with the Holy Spirit and the others in the worship team :)
4. Sometime during the week, I spoke to my housemate about some relationship issues. She and her boyfriend of 1-month plus are both believers, but they only began to go for things like lifegroup recently so while she gets to know a more mature believer in her lifegroup better, I offered to keep her accountable.
We had a good talk but the next day, her bf said he was unhappy that I had spoken to her without him being around. To him, it seemed that I was wanting to interfere and control the situation. Given that he doesn't know me very well, I can understand that he would be on the defensive. We clarified matters and agreed that future talks about their relationship will be when both are present. I am glad that he spoke up because he usually lets things slide and we (my housemates and I pray together every Tue) had prayed for him to express himself more.
Of course, being human, I was a bit hurt and taken aback that my intentions to help were not received as positively. This is my first time mentoring anyone in a relationship and I know there are many areas for me to grow in. I think one of the important things to learn is to be secure in how I've conducted myself (granted that I will make mistakes because all this is new to me), and not be affected by how others see me. To be committed to speak the truth in love, even if it means being misconstrued. I thank God that one of my lifegroup sisters was available on Facebook to chat with me about this after the whole somewhat intense discussion, and she prayed for me so that I would not carry any residual emotional hurt inside.
Please pray that God will give me wisdom for future interactions. Also for my housemate and boyfriend to settle into a lifegroup that they will attend regularly, not only so they can find accountability partners within that group but for their spiritual growth. It's not that I want to push away responsibility, I will always care about them as their sister-in-Christ, but I think their relationship needs to be situated within a real Godly community.
Ok, that's it from me....
hope this email finds you well...write when you're free and I will do my best to reply :)
take care and God bless,
Jen Lee
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