doing too much or little

My little adventure at one of the foreign embassies this week was, on hindsight very amusing and entertaining. it was not at that point in time when i was all in pain from doing practically a half marathon (walking 8-10km) while having cramps, pacing back and forth orchard road to get documents, hunt for a place to take instant photograph, collect documents from people....trying to reason with the administration personnel doing visas, QUEUING in the long queue, being present from 9.20am till 12.20pm till it was finally my turn and i was STILL sent back and told "to come again tomorrow with all the documents".

But they were very fair. They did that to every person regardless of nationality, colour etc. Anyone who had one missing document was sent off and told "to come back tomorrow with all the documents". Some in the queue were frustrated, even angry and said "this is stupid!" but i was just amazed by how inflexible things were with the people there....hahaha. But it cuts down on their job and saves energy for them (The administration personnel).

And i thought, maybe we are just doing too much. We make things easy for everyone that we end up doing all the work for others. Simplicity is so much easier and taking a step back to smell the grass/flowers (i forgot which), taking siestas (lol.......not everyday of course) and enjoying huge grasslands, endless beaches, mountains, unending rivers would be so nice.

And i think the cough made me really see that i need to stop giving so much tuition or at least tuition that involves me running around like a madwoman.....the travel time and effort is just taking a toll on me. So i will just simply do less. full stop. 

what is really important

Sometimes I am just thankful to be where I am.
But I yearn to be out there in a different place.
Sigh!

*cough cough* part 2

How dreadful talking about something to unhealthy again. But......this is meant to be a good post. So...let me conclude my chapter with Miss/Mister Cough.

On wed this week i went on the track again, running or jogging. My expected 4 rounds became 11 but the last 2 were slow jogs. I thought this might help my respiratory system recover faster.

However nothing changed!

So i frantically read chapters of the "Bible cure for Asthma" by Don Colbert on the way to work on Thurs and Fri (today). Thurs i read about cleaning the house of dust, dust mites (vacuum with hepa vacuum), use airtight pillow cases and bed sheets (where do u get them in singapore?), keeping animals away and watching out for mildew (this exists in singapore HDB flats?).

THEN this morning i flipped open the book on my favourite bus again (brings me back to my Secondary 4 adventures to town to "study" when my classmates and i were more like watching movies, eating snacks and absorbing the aura of orchard road).

Breathing was the next chapter of the asthma book. I am just so thankful God created the NOSE. Yes, i never appreciated its intelligent design and function till now. It's actually for Filtering, cleaning and humidifying the air we take in before it reaches the lungs. So breathing thru the mouth may cause more coughing cos the air is not as clean and probably dry.

Deeper breaths help. And the jogging may actually worsen the coughing because we breathe short, sharp breaths that time and might use the mouth more than the nose.

My daily encouragement and food.....i am weak without His word -
“for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.”Hebrews 6:10

what the cough taught me

this crazy cough...though not even infectious, not the kind with green phlegm, has taught me tons and tons.

Like for instance...i did research on it onlilne on 3 medical websites. its dry cough but non infectious kind and probably due to external dust, fumes, bad air or cold air or dry air. or particles like sugar cane pulp, popcorn kernel that got trapped in respiratory system.... only on people with some kind of asthmatic background. i have sinus background.

other than diagnosing myself, i have also been seeking cures for it. i tried lotsa sleep. didnt help. i tried lotsa warm water. only medium temperature water helps, not hot not cold. lukewarm. sweet drinks like honey lemon, lemon tea helped. Ginger dessets and ginger helped.

the best thing was serious confident prayer over it. since yesterday night when i did that it has reduced in quantity (no. of coughs now has dropped to one-offs and as opposed to a horrendous chain of it) and the MAGNITUDE or intensity of it has reduced to mild. how nice. now its more of a relaxed pace as well. lol.

So Miss/Mister (what gender was it anyway?) Cough has become a friend because it taught me to trust Him (God) more. And always, Prayer is far more effective than earthly remedies.

biblegateway.com

“Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.” Colossians 4:5-6 ASV As I counseled you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus, so that you may order certain people who are teaching a different doctrine to stop. Have them stop devoting their attention to myths and never-ending genealogies; these divert people to speculating instead of doing God’s work, which requires trust. The purpose of this order is to promote love from a clean heart, from a good conscience and from sincere trust. Some, by aiming amiss, have wandered off into fruitless discussion. They want to be teachers of Torah, but they understand neither their own words nor the matters about which they make such emphatic pronouncements. We know that the Torah is good, provided one uses it in the way the Torah itself intends. We are aware that Torah is not for a person who is righteous, but for those who are heedless of Torah and rebellious, ungodly and sinful, wicked and worldly, for people who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral — both heterosexual and homosexual — slave dealers, liars, perjurers, and anyone who acts contrary to the sound teaching that accords with the Good News of the glorious and blessed God. This Good News was entrusted to me; and I thank the one who has given me strength, the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord, that he considered me trustworthy enough to put me in his service, even though I used to be a man who blasphemed and persecuted and was arrogant! But I received mercy because I had acted in unbelief, not understanding what I was doing. Our Lord’s grace overflowed to me with trust and love that come through the Messiah Yeshua. So here is a statement you can trust, one that fully deserves to be accepted: the Messiah came into the world to save sinners, and I’m the number one sinner! But this is precisely why I received mercy — so that in me, as the number one sinner, Yeshua the Messiah might demonstrate how very patient he is, as an example to those who would later come to trust in him and thereby have eternal life. So to the King — eternal, imperishable and invisible, the only God there is — let there be honor and glory for ever and ever! Amen. — 1 Timothy 1:3-17 (CJB)

dear you

please deal with all your issues then let me know when you're all ah...ok and all happy deep down. you can't change what happened in your past but you can accept it with a strained smile, half smile...or a shocked look or an honest sigh. and things even bad things happen for an ultimate purpose. the lord is sovereign after all. and i think God actually HEALS....not sure about the time part like how long it takes people to heal and all that. depends on how much they want to get healed? or seek for it? this is all so complex. i think even if i had a doctorate in psychology i wouldn't be able to solve many life's problems. counselling maybe but how effective i dunno.

just. simply. wait.

Sometimes there's not or NOTHING you can do about something because simply, and reasonably and rationally, it's not within your control or anyone's control. So the best and makes-most-sense thing to do is just. simply. to. wait. for God.