It has been almost three months since we arrived in the States. And we truly thank God for how He has been so wonderfully close to us during this time. One concern we had before coming over is how the demands from the studies would affect our family relationship. We are grateful that over the last few months, although the workload is extremely heavy, our relationships with one another and with God have remained strong. We still have time of prayers together; do most of the things together; go on outings together; discuss and make decisions together; eat together.... All these are by His great grace.
Beside the studies, another daily focus in our lives right now is seeing to Charis' growth. We are praying for wisdom, and that we will focus on God and God alone in parenting her in God's way. It is really good to see that she is starting to be more independent (although sometimes she tries to be so independent that it gets to us) and learning more things - both about general stuff and about God. And you know she is growing intellectually when she tries to reason with you like an adult, or asks for things in a more persuasive way. (Just the other day, she successfully persuaded me - her artistically decline oldman - to role-play with her a scene from her donutman DVD... I had to sway and sing and act with her...)
One thing that we are concerned with is the way she interacts with others, especially children of her age or younger. She actually relates quite well with adults whom she is familiar with (thanks to her exposure to all the granparents and uncles and aunties back in Singapore). And she really likes children and babies - she would pray for some of her friends almost every night. However, the way that she shows her affection and friendship is a bit "physical" - she hugs, she sayang, she kisses, etc. We sometimes are afraid that in her love, she would unintentionally hurt and traumatize these children... So we are now going to spend some efforts on her social skills....
Our prayer requests for all season:
1. that we will continuously guard our relationship with one another and with God
2. that we will nurture Charis well
Our prayer requests for this specific season:
1. that we can tahan the winter
2. that we will learn to work the heater in the house correctly
3. that the sweaters and jackets that we have are as good as they proclaimed to be
4 comments:
Come to think of it, maybe I should take up some lessons at the Drama department in school so that I can sway and sing and act better. And who knows, maybe I can then take part in American Idle... I mean American Idol.
On second thoughts, I can take part as I am now... easier to become famous. I still remember this guy who became quite well-known because he CAN'T sing. (Ya, so famous that I can't remember his name...)
Will continue to keep the 3 of you in our prayers
I say go for it tk! I'm sure you have the talent..it's somewhere in there.... all the way in there....deep deep down inside you... very deep down....
;)
Hahaha
Eleanor, VERY funny!!
Way to go william hung!!
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