What is my calling?

IN these days, we are swamped by the insidious advent of technology...on one hand, it hollers this alluring enticing message of instant connectivity to people at any time and any space...on the other, I feel it has somewhat encroached into all the intimate and personal places and overtaken truthful communication...I have thus concluded that I have devoted too much time doing meaningless things online, like checking the whatsapp bukit panjang mummies group, surfing facebook and taobao for things to buy...time to let go of the handphone and be really truly present, enjoying the moments with the two of you...

 

I am embarking on a hands free revolution...hands free mama

 

ON a separate note, I recently came across this article...Your calling is closer than you think

I really enjoy the article. I gave up a career to do part time work so I can spend more time with you. Do I ever regret it? Sometimes, when the whining gets to my nerves, when it gets so mundane cleaning up food bits on the floor, changing diapers, arbitrating fights...sometimes, when I hear news of friends being promoted and having high flying careers...but other times, in the quiet and calmness of the nights, I thank God that I am blessed to be able to have the choice to work part time...no way am I going back to full time work, what a bad use of precious time...when the two of you are grown and don't need me as much, I will be...volunteering, going spas, attending classes at the CC, meeting friends...having fun...Back to the calling part. I want to encourage the two of you that fulfilling your calling is not some discoverable concrete entity or your job or something glamorous and impactful like preaching to a 20000 strong congregation or what...As this article extols, it is to be called to everyday obedience. "God has called me to everyday obedience. I am to walk step by step with Him, and if I do so, then I am fulfilling His unique calling on my life." If you are walking with Jesus, you are fulfilling  your calling. And I think I am fulfilling my calling in this season now by being home with you...

 

But you know, being able to be with you and watch you grow is an immense privilege and joy...I don't know how God could have trusted me so much that He gives two of the brightest and sweetest little angels to me to be my little babies...

 

It was my work day. Daddy would drop me to go home to bathe while he picked you up from Wai po's house. Jie jie rushed in excitedly that she had something to show me. I went to the door and saw you with all the soft toys the two of you had brought to Wai po's house this morning. Laugh...

We were having dinner at Wai po's house on Thursdays as usual. This was before Er Yi had her baby Ryan. Thurs nights were dinners at Wai po's house nights. You love er yi and er yi zhang. Er yi is always teaching you some peculiar funny games...today, it was dressing up as pirates and brides...hmmm....

You wanted to cover your eyes. It was hilarious. Actually, this was didi's scarf, yours was the flowery one...

But didi took it and tried to be a bride...

Didi and his many bags. He has this penchant for bags...many a times, he would sling mama's LV pochette when we were at B Panjang Plaza and people would be amused at the sight...

Oh another flag shot...

 

It was family dinner night and we went to Plaza for grocery shopping, as usual. We were always having grocery shopping. You were teaching tong tong how to play a game of peek a boo. It was heartening and amusing to see how the two of you played merrily together...

 

I was telling papa that you were a very bossy girl. We went to T Sha's class today. After class, you played with Jaysen and were ordering him around as usual. When we bathed, I told you how friends might not want to play if you kept bossing them around, just like the Kai Lan cartoon, in which there was a bossy ant who made all the choices and the other ants got so angry and went away. I told you that you got to learn to let your friends choose too....but to build you up that you would have an independent spirit, I told you that you could say No if your friends asked you to do dangerous things...I don't know if you internalise what I said...but we would see how you grow up eventually : )

 

Mummy prays for divine health and protection over all of us...and ya...balmy weather too, coz this is what you always ask me to pray to Jesus for...good balmy weather, not too hot and not raining...

 

In Jesus' mighty name, Amen.