Mornings

I was rushing on my way to church for practice this morning, and a thought suddenly crossed my mind - maybe church starting at 9am is not such a good idea after all. Having church at 9am means having practice at 8am (which is really the time practice should start if we want to have real practice), which also means I've gotta wake up at 6.45am to get ready and drive from where I live to where church is (not near at all).

Then later another thought crossed my mind - church ended at 12noon and beyond. Which means service lasted for more than three hours. Is that a good thing?

I used to go to my former church which service starts at 8.45am. Now, that's relatively early, even earlier than now. But we always ended at 10.30am, or on later days, 11am. And, this church is in KL, about 10 mins drive from where I live. But this is merely circumstantial, of course.

I searched my heart. Is this my flesh speaking? Just coz I can't wake up early enough to make it most of the time, I'm I having doubts that it's not a good thing after all? Or is it really not a good thing for me? Am I being selfish? Am I the only one thinking this?

Being able to go to work at partially flexible hours do not help my mornings. (Partially flexible meaning so long at it's not too late and preferably before 10am). I never really get to work on time. Which means more time to sleep, and if you know me well enough, sleep is important to me. So if I never wake up early on usual days, it would be harder to wake up on a Sunday, of course. Is that the problem then?

This is the struggle in my mind of late. I guess the question I need to ask and pray about (before talking to someone about it) is whether having church at 9am is good for the general congregation. Are people really benefitting? Since this change is done in view of encouraging more prayer time, are we all really praying more? Or is it just a matter of an earlier and longer service?

Just some Blah

I'm writing this on Sweetie's new laptop, and it's not easy. But it's really tiny, versatile, compact, convenient (notwithstanding the occasional minor electric shocks while the thing is charging - well, you can't have everything....).

The holidays so far has been rather relaxing and fun. Good time to catch up with friends and family... more friends than family actually. Before I know it, it will be time to get back to work. Sob sob....

We visited LC yesterday. It was really good. She's expecting her baby next month. Wow... one of us... having a baby soon... so sureal. We had a good prayer time together. It's funny how it is with friends who share the faith - you never contact them for years, but once you do, it's like we are still able to share our innermost concerns because we know in our hearts we understand that above all, God knows exactly what we need. All we have to do is to commit to Him and remind each other to commit to Him.

Nothing else really interesting other than that, I think. Nothing worth writing about. No profound thoughts (that I can recall... yet...).

Just one lazy afternoon hanging out with Sweetie and being together. Yawn.