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Thoughts about Modest Dressing (from an 18 yr old!)

 I'm so happy that my young friend agreed to do a post for me to talk about modest dressing! She is the 18 yr old homeschooler I was mentioning in this post.

I asked her to talk about what she understands about modest dressing and if there are any struggles being a teenager who chooses to dress modestly. She speaks honestly about how her dressing seems to cause her to be less noticed. Many teenagers these days have no concept of "shame" with regards to exposing themselves (for attention from the opposite sex.) Teens dress very provocatively these days!

But I believe that her shyness regarding showing off too much skin is grounded in a whole ton of teaching concerning the matter of protecting one's modesty. Ultimately, it is a choice that she is making to protect her modesty despite the trend of her peers, and I am glad for young people like her who dare to be different for the Lord.

I love the spirit in which she tackles challenges like when a dress she loves is not up to standard, she will alter it to make it good. May the Lord bless her for her diligence to do what is right! She has even sold her sewing projects! Isn't that great!

What an example she is to me! :) For years, I had been feeling so defeated about finding modest clothes at the department stores. I would just throw my hands in the air and give up on shopping and go home sulking and blame the world for selling clothes like that. Well, no more. Now that I have picked up sewing, I'm going to alter clothes to bring them up to standard! The other day, I was at Metro and my mind was racing thinking of all the possiblities that are now opened up to me now that I can sew and alter clothes. hahahah.... I'm soooo excited! :D

Well, here's her post.... be blessed! :)

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"A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman, and loose enough to prove you're a lady."

This is one of my favourite quotes. To me, it succintly summarizes the essence of modesty: being feminine, without being provocative.

Ever since I can remember, the primary consideration when choosing clothing was the modesty, or lack thereof. Throughout my life, I have worn skirts, dresses, and culottes almost exclusively. Not that pants are forbidden entirely. Rather, skirts and dresses are perceived as more feminine, and therefore more appropriate. And honestly, I feel prettier in a dress than in culottes!

Challenges....

I am not unaware that certain styles of dress (or undress?) attract more attention from guys. When I compare my figure or clothing to that of other girls, I start feeling jealous that they don't seem to feel half-dressed (as I would, if I were to wear a similar outfit), and that they do seem to be noticed more than I. But the fact is that there shall always be girls willing to reveal more than I am willing to. Even if I were to abandon my guiding standards in order to "compete" with their immodesty, I still would not win! Instead, I choose to protect my modesty.

Skills in Sewing

One of my hobbies is sewing my own clothes. Since I was thirteen, I have sewn a coat, a petticoat, five shirts, six swimsuits, ten dresses, thirteen skirts, and seventeen pairs of culottes. Most of those projects began by designing/altering the basic pattern, and experimenting from there. Granted, quite a few of these turned out unwearable for various reasons....the first t-shirt I designed, I did not know about "wearing ease", so I made the pattern to my exact measurements. Needless to say, I never wore it! Until I learned to visualize the length of a skirt when the pattern says "25 inches from waist", several of my skirts were on the short side of wearable. On a couple other shirts I made, due to the fact that I used vintage patterns which were too large, I over-adjusted for the size difference, and they turned out rather snug. Multiple pairs of culottes did not fit properly. In fact, until I drafted my own pattern for them, they barely fit at all! But I can't remember any project that was an absolute fiasco...I always learned something!

I especially enjoy designing and sewing a modest-fied version of clothes I see girls and women around me wearing.  Several times, I have been able to "redeem" clothing, such as this skirt, which was above knee-length, by adding a contrasting band of fabric along the hem.

And also this dress, which was both too short and too low-cut. I found a t-shirt at Salvation Army which exactly matched the colour and drape of the fabric...'tis nearly impossible to tell it was altered!

I have designed & sewn three swimsuits for myself, and three which I sold to friends.

My most recent project was this dress.

I fell in love with the detailing on the bodice, and the embroidery around the hem. Unfortunately, it had spaghetti straps, which I do not wear, and was too low-cut as well. The solution? Wide grosgrain ribbon sewn along both sides of the straps, and across the neck.

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More thoughts about Christian Dressing Standards.

 

 

From Ralph Lauren to OshKosh?

Haha... is this turning into a sewing blog? :p

nah. But I'm really pleased with my latest sewing challenge. Actually, I was impressed by a certain 18 year old homeschooled young lady, when I saw she was wearing a mini-skirt which she took and lengthened with more material, making it a modest, fashionable, wearable skirt!

So I was sorting through some used clothes that dear folks passed to me, and I came across this Ralph Lauren pair of pants for toddler girls. I spied it and imagined what it would be like if I turned it into a skirt. Just for fun. 

What do you think? :D Corduroy!!! I love.

I hope that folks reading this will get excited about being creative about dressing modestly, just like that 18 yr old young lady. :)

On the homeschool front, my kids are watching me as I venture in to this new found skill and they are eager to learn to sew too! The two older ones have already started helping me with the straight sewing. :)

Yay!

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Article on Christian Dress Standards.

 

 

A Bible Conference & Seminar by Missionary David Cloud

Search online for David Cloud (Way of Life Literature) and you are going to get into some controversy. I have grown much from this man's literature ministry. Just by his writing output alone, you will know he is not an ordinary Christian. To me, he is quite the closest person I know personally who is Psalms 119 personified. He is truly the most hardworking person I know when it comes to studying the Bible and researching about issues that pertain to the Church, church history, the Bible, etc...Prolific, I tell you.

Come, and be blessed, be encouraged, be challenged.

Challenging Preaching and Lessons by Missionary David Cloud

We are pleased to have Missionary David Cloud to here with us from March 11-15 for a series of challenging messages from God's Word on issues families face in the Last Days. Our prayer is that this will be a blessing and encouragement to you. 

Our meetings are open to all but please note the meeting schedule below.

 

Keeping The Kids, 11-13 March

This seminar aims to help parents and churches raise children to be disciples of Jesus Christ and to avoid the pitfalls of the world, the flesh, and the devil. Statistics show that a frightening percentage of children that grow up in Bible-believing churches drop out when they reach adolescence. They either go full-fledged into the world, or they remain on the periphery of church life, or they join a contemporary church that essentially promises them they can have Christ and the world, too. We are convinced that this does not have to happen, because God has given promises in His Word about child training, but winning the battle is not easy and requires complete dedication by the parents. 

Who Should Attend:

Parents

Grandparents

Youth and Teenagers

Youth and Sunday School workers

 

Music, For Good or Evil, 12 March

Music can be used for Good or Evil, but how will you know what to use it for unless you are grounded in the Biblical principles of music? Contrary to contemporary philosophy, music is not neutral and the Christian is accountable to God for its proper usage.

This seminar aims to equip Teens, parents and those serving in any music ministry to under the principles of what constitutes godly and spiritual music and how to discern styles of music.

Who Should Attend:

Youth and Sunday School workers

Youth and Teenagers

Song Leaders, Music ministry workers

 

Sunday Morning Service, 13 March

We are honoured to have Bro. David Cloud to minister to us God’s Word on this Sunday morning. All are invited. There will be nursery and a children’s chapel available during the service.

 

History of the King James Bible, 15 March

This presentation covers the fascinating history of the English Bible from the 15th to the 17th centuries, focusing on the Wycliffe, the Geneva, the Tyndale, and the King James. Brother Cloud has an extensive personal libraries on this subject which includes many rare titles from the 17th to 19th centuries. He has done firsthand research in England, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Greece, and Israel, and has examined two of the 14th century Waldensian New Testaments.

Who Should Attend:

Pastors, Missionaries, Church Staff and Workers
Parents, Youth, Teens

 

Meeting Schedule Summary

“Keeping the Kids”

11 March, Friday 7.30pm-10pm Part 1

12 March, Saturday 2pm-5.30pm Part 2

13 March, Sunday 1.30pm-3pm Part 3

 

“Music, for Good or Evil”

12 March, Saturday 10.30am-12.30pm

 

Sunday Morning Schedule

Adult Class 9.15am-10.15am

Worship Service 10.45am-12.30pm

 

Sunday Afternoon Schedule

“Keeping the Kids” 1.30pm-3pm Part 3

 

“History of the King James Bible”

15 March, Tuesday 2pm-5.30pm Part 1

15 March, Tuesday 7.30pm-10pm Part 2

 

Note: 

1. There will be nursery provided for Sun morning

2. There will be Question & Answer sessions, time permitting

 

About Way of Life Literature

Established in 1974, Way of Life Literature is a fundamental Baptist preaching and publishing ministry based in Bethel Baptist Church, London, Ontario. Wilbert Unger is the Pastor of Bethel Baptist. David W. Cloud is the founder and director of Way of Life.

The goal of Way of Life Literature is to stand for the truth of God’s Word without compromise, to preach the Gospel, and to produce well-documented materials to strengthen New Testament churches in these apostate days. We are also church-planting missionaries in Asia.

 

Christian Dressing Standards?

Is there even such a thing? Before I came to biblical Christianity, I didn't know that there even was such a thing as a dress standard, much less a dress standard for Christians! How dare anybody tell me what to wear! I used to dress mainly by my mood. I didn't even think it was an issue to wear mini-skirts or shorts or tight jeans or spaghetti straps etc. etc. etc.. Now I realize how I was too complecent and not understanding the will of the Lord, as expressed in His Word!

The following is attributed to my reading from various sources on the subject matter and is by no means exhaustive. For better context, please do read the entire chapter of the quoted reference.

Godly Dressing vs Worldly Dressing

Romans 12:1-2  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The Bible's description of Godly Dressing:

1 Timothy 2:9-10  In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;  But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

If you read further in this passage, it is clear that the modest apparel is accompanied or stems from a humble spirit of subjection to authority. So very importantly, the heart of the matter concerning dress standards ultimately is a matter of the heart.

If one has a heart that is humble before God and willing to please him, it will show in the way one dresses.

On the other hand, if one has a rebellious, proud, haughty spirit, it will also show in the way one dresses. Like the harlot in proverbs 7 (see below). She has an impudent spirit. The spirit of rock and pop music is this way too. (I'll do what I want, when I want and the way I want.) Anyone who listens to this kind of music will be affected in their spirit. It is not a coincidence that dressing styles follow music genres.

Proverbs 31:30  Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

It is clear, that God would rather have a heart that fears Him and loves Him. The externals, like how one dresses or talks, will follow suit. These days, however, so much emphasis is placed on the way a woman ought to look. But you know, all flesh will one day decay in the grave. Why spend so much time, effort and money?

The Bible's description of Worldly dressing:

Flaunting Sexuality

Proverbs 7:6-12  For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,  Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:  And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

How does a harlot (prostitute) dress? Obviously, in a manner that emphasizes and flaunts her sexuality. Too much of what is common fashion these days do so much to emphasize erotic zones and show off parts of the female body for ALL the WORLD to see, that really ought to be shown only to their husbands. Legs, buttocks, breasts, back, shoulders... either exposed or titillatingly presented. Sadly, so far gone are these standards of modesty that even brides who are supposed to be chaste show too much in their wedding gowns.

The dress standards in churches these days is a crying shame. It is a terrible sin when sisters dress like harlots to go to church and cause the brothers to not be able to concentrate on worshipping God! Church ought to be different from the world out there. Already, we can't walk around shopping malls, or bus stops without be accosted by pictures of naked women, and even people on the street who dress so skimpily. Church ought to be a place of sanctity where our brothers (and sisters!) do not have to avert their eyes to avoid sinful thoughts and freely worship God.

So, it would be reasonable to say that for a Christian, we ought to dress in a way that de-emphasizes our sexuality. But I'll be quick to add, this does not mean we de-emphasize our femininity! There is a difference!

Blurring of the Sexes

The Bible does have something to say about dressing in a way that blurs the distinction between the sexes:

Deuteronomy 22:5  The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Abomination! What we wear can make us an abomination to God! Women who wear pants like men are really in danger of blurring the lines. I am also thinking about unisex hair cuts these days. Guys hair are so long these days, they look like girls. No wonder there is so much (sexual) confusion. (Romans 1:27) Christians ought not be like that. A man must dress manly and a woman must dress, well, womanly. 

Alluring Makeup 

2 Kings 9:30  And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.

What's wrong with wearing makeup? well, in this passage, this is evil queen Jezebel and she was doing it to "gain favour" with Jehu who was arriving to kill her. So we can understand that in some/ many cases, make up is used to allure men. A lot of make up techniques is really to change facial features like make the eyes look bigger, change single eye lids to double, etc. It really stems from a dis-satisfaction of what God made a girl/ lady to be. Makeup, if put on at all, ought to only subtly enhance what features that God has endowed us with. Many from the modest dressing camp feel make up is a complete no-no! (I don't wear makeup because I don't like gunk on my lips and face.) 

Do's and Don'ts? Go by Principles!

Pants? yes or no? shorts? yes or no? t-shirts? yes or no?

I think the list can go on and on and to list every piece of clothing and material combinations is an exercise of futility.

So, for years now, I have been going by principles to decide if a piece of clothing is modest or not. (That plus my husband's final say! I'm glad he is around to help me check. Having 4 sisters and being the only boy must have helped him loads in this department. haha) Again, this is not exhaustive but I hope it might be helpful to some out there reading this.

1) Does this piece of clothing frame my face or frame my body?

In wearing any piece of clothing, a good guideline would be if the beholder's eyes would be only drawn to your beautiful smiling face, or the curves on your body. 

2) Does this piece of clothing hug my body too tightly, thereby showing all the intimate curves?

*jeans, pants, tight t-shirts, most swimsuits

It really isn't about covering the body with cloth because like the current fashion of wearing leggings certainly covers the legs with cloth but shows off all the shape of the legs and leaves nothing to the imagination.

3) Does this piece of clothing show or allude to parts of my body that only my (future?) husband ought to see (eg. breasts, thighs, buttocks, shoulders, etc.) How about when I bend over? Or when I sit down?

*tube dresses, shorts, short skirts, low necklines, low riders, most swimsuits, certainly bikinis!!! etc.

**think how sheer cloths and peek-a-boo holes, prints across the chest or buttocks in clothes also draw the eye to look at the female body.

 Mothers of young children especially need to be careful to make sure their clothes still cover their modesty when they bend over to pick things or carry the children. Mommies do a lot of bending over and sitting on the floor! I have been soooo embarrased by mothers who show me all their clevage unintentionally when they bend forward to tend to their little child.

4) Does this piece of clothing or hairstyle make me look like feminine and womanly? (Speaking to women, of course.)

I am not a dresses/ skirts only person. There are times when wearing skirts are impractical! Actually, those times are rare. I have learned you can play tennis in a long skirt and you can scrub the toilet in a skirt! It is possible to wear modest pants or skirt-like pants or culottes and still fulfill the modest dressing principles I mentioned.  It all depends on the cutting of the cloth or the design of the garment.

This is the reason I want to follow in the footsteps of many dear Christian ladies in my church and Christian circle of friends (online ones too!), my own dear sister being one of them, to learn how to sew!

You know, I really thank God for Christian families who make a stand about their dressing standards. (The way many Muslims make a stand about their dress standards too.) Whenever I see families where the boys are prim and properly dressed and the daughters are modestly dressed, typically their skirts nice and long, I always think of this verse: 

Psalms 144:12  That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

How expensive, beautiful and polished our daughters ought to be! Our children ought to dress with an attitude that says they are children of a King, and they ought to be different and carry themselves that way. Not rummage through the garbage and filth of this world and put on the look of morally bankrupt sinners.  

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Questions or comments or thoughts? Please DO write~ I'd love to hear from you. [email protected]

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- related websites and articles:

BBC: Stop sexualising our children

David Cloud: Dressing for the Lord

Google: sites on Christian modest dressing

- Some of my sewing projects since I learned how to sew:

The "little" Black Dress

Rose Pattern Dress

Pinafores

 

The "little" Black Dress

Hee hee... so you sew one dress, you can sew another.. and with a different piece of cloth, you can get quite a different effect! (See the CNY dress here.)

When I discovered that after sewing a black skirt for myself, I had quite a bit of cloth left over, I imagined that I wanted to sew a dress for baby no 5 with a sash around the waist. I ended up sewing one with the rose pattern cloth for CNY before I got on to doing the black dress that started it all.

Well, I'm glad it turned out quite nicely. :D

 

I was talking to hubby the day I finished this dress. I told him that the clothes that I sew for our children are not to be passed outside of the family but they will be family heirlooms. Wow, what an awesome thought! I want my grandchildren to be wearing what their grandma sewed!

And then, oh dear, they can look closely at the seams and say, look! porpor made a mistake here.

hahaha...

Well, I hope to keep improving on the workmanship. ;) Hubby dear says I ought to put some kind of tag inside the clothes to authenticate it as done by me. 

Ecclesiastes 2:24  There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Amen! What a blessing.  

Funeral of grandma Mary

Last week, we attended a simple and beautiful funeral service for Agnes' grandma Mary. The dear soul has departed and she is now safe in the arms of Jesus and free from pain and sorrow. Praise God that she had received God's gift of salvation and is dressed in God's own rigtheousness to enter into heaven!

I am told that people do not bring children for funerals. Some because they are "pan tang". Superstitious. Chinese culture is fulll of superstitions. Thank God that because of what I understand from the Word of God, I am free from superstitions because I know God is master over everything and anything that happens in life and death are in His perfect control. 

Leviticus 19:26  Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Galatians 4:9-11  But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?  Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

Yes, my children did walk around the casket and gaze upon grandma Mary's peacefully reposed body. I'm glad I had the opportunity all through to talk to my younger ones about where is grandma Mary's soul is now in heaven and it is only her body that is here and committed to the ground.  

I think the other reason that people do not bring their children to funerals is because some children do not know how to behave at such occasions! :(  

This was the burial on Friday morning.

As far as possible within our power, we believe in burying our dead and not cremating the body. In land scarce Singapore, cremation is the norm.

In baptism (by immersion) is a picture of the death, burial and ressurrection of the believer, just as Jesus died, was buried and raised the 3rd day. Baptism alludes not only the the death to the sinful old self and rising in the newness of life in Christ, but also to the future fulfillment of prophecy that the power of death will be destroyed. O glorious DAY! Likewise, we believe in burying our dead because it is an act of faith that one day, Jesus will return (before the 7 year tribulation) and the graves will open and those bodies in the graves will be brought up to meet the souls in the air.

1 Corinthians 15:51-57  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?   The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  

Christians should bury their dead because cremation is not a Christian practice in origin and fire in the Bible is always a picture of judgement.

To bring my children for funerals (this was not their first) is for me, part of their education. It is good for them to learn that the Bible says that all who die in Christ "sleep" only to be awakened in glory and to see it first hand. Children do face death, either their own or their loved ones'. It is good for them to learn from the Bible all they can about what it is to prepare for it. Isn't it a blessed thing that God teaches us in His Word and we don't have to be afraid?

In fact, I was glad when no. 3 (7 yrs) told me after returning home, Mom, I have learned a lot about death. I didn't understand so much at the last funeral when I was younger but now, I understand more.

Dear Lee family, thank you for your wonderful testimony and personally caring for your grandmother through all her health struggles. It is a great lesson to me about sacrifice and love. God bless and comfort you during this time of loss. 

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Agnes' blog: http://finding--myself.blogspot.com/

 

 

Chinese New Year 2011

Yikes! I haven't posted in yonks!!! make that beyond yonks!!! :P I think this was the longest I've gone not posting... it almost feels alien to be typing an entry....

I've been understandably busy...*pats self on shoulder* Afterall, it's Chinese New Year. :D We have been happily busy with baking.....This year, I learned two new New Year goodies recipes (besides our usual wonderful pineapple tarts.) Amond cookies we learned at ladies fellowship. (Thanks Mrs Sng for teaching! ) And I decided to try kueh baulu this year too. I love eating them, that's why. I went the trial and error method and tried some recipes that I found on the internet. 4 ingredients: eggs, flour, sugar, baking powder. But the proportion to which they are mixed makes a world of difference. Hence many different recipes with different proportions. Which to choose? eeney meeeny miiinae mo.

The first one turned out too eggy. The next one was too much baking powder... and so on. In all, I wasted 16 eggs, much time testing, tweaking, till I got one that I was half satisfied with. (Though I still feel it is too heavy in texture.) Then again, I think my food standard has risen. :p

As usual, my sis' family came over for the annual pineapple tart bake-a-thon.

Factory, more like. This year, BIL got in on the rolling and portioning action.  lol... but a good pineapple tart consists of quality jam and lovely, buttery pastry. My dear sis spent whole nights cooking the grated pineapples into jam. That really makes a whole lot of difference than store bought ones.

It's all good fun working together and chatting... all part of the festivities.

Besides helping with the baking (like rolling the almond cookies into perfect rounds, they love that job!) my kiddos were busy helping to decorate the house with their bunny creations. It's the Year of the Rabbit!

This is our goodies corner! With the children's ang pao rabbits at the top there. And I love going to the orchid farm to get bouquets of orchids for new year.

I'm so thankful, this year, with God's enabling help and my mom to guide me, I managed to sew jie jie mei mei dresses for my two little girls. It is indeed such a joy to dress them in my own handiwork!

My first bodice, sleeves and zipper! :D Keep pushing on and learning new things!

We started feasting even before reunion dinner, with a mega reunion dinner with my husband's paternal side of the family. His father has eight brothers and one sister (and people these days say a family with 5 children in large???) So that makes for a LOT of cousins and nephews and nieces!!

And one can imagine that a family dinner this large can be quite a rowdy affair! And they are Hokkien to boot! We had really good food....

We had sucking piglet! The kids (and I) were somewhat horrified to find the teeth still intact.... 

But... suckling piglet was nonetheless mmmm mmm yummy!

*crunch crunch*

And they were roasted on site:

Oh yeah...

We had the usual Chinese New Year dish, fish maw soup. The children asked what's this?? and papa said Sponge Bob. lol

So we ate Sponge Bob for dinner.

And we also had the now politically incorrect Shark's Fin Soup!

I really shouldn't say this but it was yummy.

So the main part of CNY celebrations have come and gone. We've got some more visitations to do and some more guests to receive but I think the main part is over.... I thank God for a new year and a promising start. Haha, still starting 2011 homeschooling wise. haven't quite got into the swing of school things and then this break to break the whatever momentum we were gathering.... But it's ok. We go by life's rhythmn. Not the School's.  :)

HUAT AH! I'm posting a vid of the Ong Clan lao yu sheng. This is a kind of new year salad which I will allow wiki to explain, for obvious or not so obvious reasons...Listen to the song in the background. It's talking about the god of fortune or prosperity coming to your house to visit you. Somewhere in there, I said I'd be afraid (coz he dresses kinda wierd.)

 

Again, there is no true propserity unless the God who gives all good things blesses you!

James 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.