Sunday, January 11, 2009

Tonight's Dinner - Taste and see that it is good

It is interesting, but it's my first time blogging about food.........but still would like to share what I learn :) There is always something to learn.

3 days ago, I learned a new recipe from my work colleague to make quiche with egg & ricotta cheese. I have always made my quiche in the past, the chinese way (Egg & tofu). And me......being a cheese lover, could not resist the temptation to try.

That night, I made my first bacon and mushroom quiche.


It was so delicious that my housemate, another visitor to the house, finish about almost half the quiche, and i packed another quarter for my fiancé. for his lunch. It was so nice that the next day, he sms me after lunch to say that he wouldn't mind more of the quiche. The best part is that both my housemate and fiancé are both not quiche lovers. So now i've converted them to be quiche lovers :)

Anyway, being excited to want to try more different type of quiches, I decided that tonight's dinner will be quiche too. And below are the exciting faces as we try this prawn, mushroom and spinach quiche.











Alright......these are just the fun of cooking and eating.

But as I thought about it now, when it is so good, we remember the taste, and we'll go all way to try to re-create it, we'll put in all the efforts that is needed to make it. And I wondered, do we truly know and have tasted the goodness of God, that we remember it, and that we'll want to go all way to experience the goodness of God, and will make the effort to spend time so that we can truly experience His love and goodness.

I am not surprised that at times we can do all these just for food, but would we instead do it for God. I'm a food lover, but I want to be more of a God lover than food lover. I want to truly (a million times) taste the goodness of God that I will never forget, but will keep craving for it, to the extent that no matter what it takes to experience His love and goodness, I will do it.

Alright, just my little FOOD for thoughts :)

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Am I a backslidder?

I'm sure at some stage of your life, you may have pondered over this question, and perhaps even wondered if you've already back-slided. I have, and many times, I have to come before God in repentance, because I have not grown. Someone once said to me and it is a challenge in my heart always ............ "from the time you stop growing in God, is the time you started to back slide in God."

The sermon on Sunday serves as a reminder for myself that I need to guard my life and heart, to make sure that I don't become complacent, and think that it won't happen to me.

Many years ago, when I was still a very young Christian, I remembered that I went through that stage of turning away from God. It started from "no desire" to get involved with God. I remembered I started to feel bored in life group, during worship, I fall asleep, I don't remember what's been taught in sermons or discussions. The best part is I can fall asleep, and wake up at the right time to say "AMEN" . Hmm........sounds familiar for some? Well, they were the signs of me falling away from God, and I thank God that at the end of that turning away, I choose to come back to God. I remembered that it was during one of the life group's worship session (in Singapore), I couldn't help myself but just kept crying, and there I had a vision.......I was falling off a cliff, and it felt like the falling was never ending, and then all of a sudden, I felt a thug on my hand, and something held me on. And I knew then, that God was and is holding on to me, and whether I will choose to hang on to God.

That was the question that stirred me to wake up from my back sliding. And that was when i made a decision "I will never want to walk away from God". This decision became a conviction. This conviction slowly got deepen over the years. I must say that constantly, in the earlier years, I still think a lot about turning away. But I am always reminded of this decision made, and the experience of that one night. Today, I still remember that very fateful and eventful night. It is amazing that God works in such a wonder. But it is still a learning process to keep strong in God. I do admit that in the difficult and challenging times, I did want to surrender and give in. But I thank God that I have always choosen to look to God. However, it is a reminder to myself again, I should never be complacent, but I need to turn back to God. It is God that I need to come back to. Never be hard hearted towards God; Man may fall and fail, but God can be trusted. That's the difference.

If you think you are slowly fading away, and drawing away from God. You (yes talking about you - who's reading this blog), need to take time to seek God, and allow God to speak to you. Jeremiah 29:13 " You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. "