2 Thessalonians 3:16
"Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you."
It has been an emotional Christmas evening as I bid farewell to an outpost of rangers whom I've loved and found a sense of I belonging even though it consumed much of my life on Saturdays. This includes the youth leaders and fellow leaders whom I've worked alongside over the period of time I was in the church.
Parting is never an easy thing when we have invested time and heart into lives and the journey seems short in light of the fact that our life's journey only ends the day we cease to breathe and our spirit goes back to heaven to meet our maker.
I can empathise with Paul how he felt as he left each of the Asia minor churches and left a piece of his heart behind with the individuals whom he nurtured and bonded with.
I know that each individual I've met in the past 3 years in living springs fellowship needs to walk through their own life's journey and learn to stand on their own faith, but still, that feeling of hoping to be with them when they go through the roughest patch of their life is what makes letting go so difficult.
Yet, I'm not God, and only He can ever be the one who will always walk with our loved ones through their lives. Thus, into the hands of God I list and commit every single one of the folks I know and may the blessing of the above prayer be a hedge around their lives. That they will have the saving grace of God in their lives until the day they meet Him.
(YongEn, Daniel, Nicholas, Jason Chua, JingWen, Zackarias, Amanda, Crystal Seah, Fion, Jason Zhang, Crystal Teo, Shiyun, Eleanor, Joan, Kaiying, Claudia, KaiFeng, Maverick, Gabriel, Bennett, Ivan, Jerome, Jordan, Joaquin, Norman, KaiZhi, Ah Ping, YueEn, Sandra, Xuan, Tony, Raymund, Louis, Melissa, Xiaoyan & all the leaders & pastors)
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"By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence." (2 Peter 1:3)
