"Cos I am so in love with You, there is no one else for me; I lean not on my understanding, my life is in the hands of the maker of Heaven; I give it all to you Lord, trusting that you'll make something beautiful out of me; There's nothing I hold on to." //Nothing I hold on to (Make something beautiful out of me); Jeremy Riddle I miss my scandinavian summer holiday very very much. I saw and learnt so much over those 14 days that I just feel compelled to journal my experiences here so that I will never forget. So let these vignette of Scandinavian summer stories be a token to keep and cherish forever. While we were in Oslo, Norway, we had the opportunity to visit the Fram Musuem, named after the majestic Fram ship which is housed inside the museum itself. Just opposite the Fram Museum is the wonderful Norwegian Maritime Museum. And while we were waiting outside, I stumbled across a boat building workshop nestled just in between these two maritime museums. There was an incomplete wooden boat in the middle of the workshop. All around the half-finished boat were tools, wooden logs, and little mountains of wood shavings. It was not a pretty sight and I couldn't even envision what the finished boat was supposed to look like! After that, we got onto the bus and while waiting for it to move off, I was listening to the song "Nothing I hold on to (Make Something Beautiful Out of Me) by Jeremy Riddle. And there was a beautiful lyric in the song that said, "I give it all to you Lord, trusting that you'll make something beautiful out of me." And right at that moment, in my mind's eye, I saw an image of a block of wood and there were sharp carving tools cutting into the wood in order to construct a ship that would be able to sail on the high seas and withstand all manner of waves, storms and winds. And at that moment, revelation struck me and I understood what God was saying to me. That my life is fully in the hands of God, my Maker. And everything that happens to me in my life happens for a reason. Even if there is pain and suffering, it happens so that the unusable and unwieldy parts of me may be chipped away and turned into something beautiful and worthy of God. And a prayer arose in my heart. Thank you Lord for holding on to me in this life and saving me for eternal life so that I am able to dwell in the beauty of your presence forever. Today, I pray Lord, that I will not lean on my own understanding but I will trust wholly in you Lord, knowing that you will surely make something beautiful out of me. This is the beautiful cover of the song by Sarah Lee and I hope it will bless you as much as it blessed me:-
"Cos I am so in love with You, there is no one else for me; I lean not on my understanding, my life is in the hands of the maker of Heaven; I give it all to you Lord, trusting that you'll make something beautiful out of me; There's nothing I hold on to." //Nothing I hold on to (Make something beautiful out of me); Jeremy Riddle I miss my scandinavian summer holiday very very much. I saw and learnt so much over those 14 days that I just feel compelled to journal my experiences here so that I will never forget. So let these vignette of Scandinavian summer stories be a token to keep and cherish forever. While we were in Oslo, Norway, we had the opportunity to visit the Fram Musuem, named after the majestic Fram ship which is housed inside the museum itself. Just opposite the Fram Museum is the wonderful Norwegian Maritime Museum. And while we were waiting outside, I stumbled across a boat building workshop nestled just in between these two maritime museums. There was an incomplete wooden boat in the middle of the workshop. All around the half-finished boat were tools, wooden logs, and little mountains of wood shavings. It was not a pretty sight and I couldn't even envision what the finished boat was supposed to look like! After that, we got onto the bus and while waiting for it to move off, I was listening to the song "Nothing I hold on to (Make Something Beautiful Out of Me) by Jeremy Riddle. And there was a beautiful lyric in the song that said, "I give it all to you Lord, trusting that you'll make something beautiful out of me." And right at that moment, in my mind's eye, I saw an image of a block of wood and there were sharp carving tools cutting into the wood in order to construct a ship that would be able to sail on the high seas and withstand all manner of waves, storms and winds. And at that moment, revelation struck me and I understood what God was saying to me. That my life is fully in the hands of God, my Maker. And everything that happens to me in my life happens for a reason. Even if there is pain and suffering, it happens so that the unusable and unwieldy parts of me may be chipped away and turned into something beautiful and worthy of God. And a prayer arose in my heart. Thank you Lord for holding on to me in this life and saving me for eternal life so that I am able to dwell in the beauty of your presence forever. Today, I pray Lord, that I will not lean on my own understanding but I will trust wholly in you Lord, knowing that you will surely make something beautiful out of me. This is the beautiful cover of the song by Sarah Lee and I hope it will bless you as much as it blessed me:-
