Principle of contentment

Today Pastor Dennis Lum preached abt principle of contentment 

1 Timothy 6:6-10

6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of moneyis a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faithand pierced themselves with many griefs 

v6: Godliness with contentment is great gain .

- satisfaction in a great way

v7: Time on earth is temporal. Do not be attached to the possessions on earth.

• Happiness & contentment doesn't always happen with having new stuff or more expensive stuff.
• Contentment stems from a heart of gratitude

3 ways

1) Grow a heart of contentment

2) Live simply 

- instead of asking what more can I have, ask what else can I do without?

- declutter; simplify 

- live below our means 

- refocus on what's most impt (God)

3) Delight in God 

- let yr hopes/wants/likes be all abt God

My thoughts

Personally I really like today's message. It reminds me of a book that Ange recommended me to read a few mths ago "Raising grateful kids in a self entitled world". 

Ps Dennis first talked abt how every 1 in 5 Singaporeans are paying only the minimum on their credit card , thus raking in debt. In fact, he said that the credit card debt is at a 10 yrs high for Singapore. And what does that actually mean ? Over consumption? Buying too much of happiness ? Do we really believing that buying this will make us happy? What does happiness means to u ? 

In a society which emphasis so much on buying a bigger xxx of everything, it's hard to be contented with what we have, n not think of "upgrading". I'm glad that bcoz of how tight we were in a few yrs ago, we had alrdy made our lives simpler.. N i hope in the years to come , we would b able to simplify even further.

Catch Ps Dennis on the sermons tom live on FB at 830am and 11am for the same message.. hope it will bless u as much as it has for us..

The month of celebrations

And thus began the start of July- my birthday mth.. and the celebrations have started..

With jm being the first to celebrate for both of us. Like last yr, she offered to cook a sumptuous lunch to treat us. It was really v sweet of her to do that and I always enjoy our times together, gossiping away..hahaha.. thankful for the friendship made with these 2 ladies.. we have gone a long way.. from being single , to married and eventually motherhood..和她们在一起我很舒服。希望她们天天开心，身体健康。

3rd July (actual day)
After my grouses of him being unromantic, I was kinda worried that he would have nothing planned for that day. But he did la.. We watched ocean12 in the morning, or perhaps I should say I watched it coz he was deep asleep for most of it.. Hahaha.  . We had lunch at swensen followed by bowling.. haha..quite eventful...

And I won in the game of bowling! hahaha... we each bowled 4 games in an hr..super exhausting..and i'm glad that the better player (aka me) won! (by a huge margin too..hahahahahaha)

went home to pick the kids and off for dinner before watching another movie... lol.. i know right.. so many movies in a day..lol.. watched mr incredibles coz its a family cartoon..suitable for the 4 of us.. mr choo snored in the show (again), though it was less noticeable this time round coz the noise fr the movie more than covered it..hahaha...

Thankful for them in my life, no matter how difficult the journey may be, I know its all worth it. Becoz you all are with me.

Had a few more lunch celebrations with friends, to which I can't be more thankful for. Grateful that they took the time to do it la... coz like what I always say, i'm not good at keeping friends.

My shoppholics kakis.. i always say I wanna exit the chat bcoz i wanna stop buying..hahaha..just kidding.. the kakis to know where and what to buy, at the best rates..hahaha...

my colleagues from day 1.. though we are now older, and i'm much heavier..hahaha.. we've been thru so much together that even though we only lunch together 3 times a year, it always seems like we have so much to talk abt... hahaha

my mummies kakis whom Joy and their daughters were in the same childcare..

Woman is so hard to pleased

Had promised the twins to bring them to Ikea before the start of jun holidays but only got to doing it today.

Was an empty Monday for me thus I suggested to uncle choo that perhaps we could go paktor after Ikea..

Dropped the twins at school abt 11ish and asked him where we going .. he says he can't think of anything and thus we headed home.. Coz still too full from breakfast and he wants to do housework..

Ya, the 女人 in me was feeling sian.. argh.. besides eating, I can't think of any activities that we enjoy doing..难得老娘今天不用去工作，我们可以 lomantic  一下吗。难道除了吃，我们就没有别的活动了吗?

suggested cycling and he said it's too hot to cycle at noon.。say I will go crazy with the weather.. blah blah.. suggested bowling and he say he wanna do housework.. 😣

Anyway we went for bak kut teh after he was done with his housework.. complained with my kakis that I think men, especially Singaporean men, stop dating after a few yrs..lol. . Told him if there's no plans , then I probably head back office after lunch (last resort).

And we went cycling after lunch.. lol.. 我知道我很麻烦。。哈哈😄。。 

This was probably the first and only decent shot we took.. Coz shortly after I was exhausted by the cycling.. initially had wanted to cycle all the way to waterway point but cycling on pedestrian walkway was too challenging for an amateur cyclist like me.. and by the time we reaxh the PCN, I was too exhausted ..lol. . The whole cycling stint probably took less than an hr but I was happy that we managed to do some activities other than eating.. haha.. at least we burnt some calories tog.. haha..