Meeting 6 (17/1/09)

So the last lesson was called Accepting the Way God Created You. Hmm,I guess everyone knows what that means!

Christine used an example of two clay dolls my mum and I made; imagine if one doll looked at the other and said,"Hey,why isn`t my hair like his?" or "Why do I have small legs and he gets long ones?"



Now imagine the doll saying to me or my mum,"I don`t like how you made me. My legs look like stumps and my hair`s too curly.It`s not fair!"
I`m not too sure about you guys,but I know I`ve said "Why did you make me like this?!" to God more than once in my life.
And actually when I`m doing that,I`m telling Him,
"you don`t know how to make me look nice.I mean,I look like a wreckage!Why can`t you do better than that?!" Which basically is insulting God,the One who created the whole entire world,plus millions of beautiful species of birds,fish and mammals that are never,never alike in any way.



Also,you never know if God is giving you that particular so-called offensive feature for a very important purpose.
Young Amy wished she had blue eyes instead of her plain brown eyes,so every night she prayed to God that he would change the colour of her eyes.The morning after that,she would wake up,bounce out of her bed and excitedly look in the mirror.But she was disappointed every time,because her brown eyes would stare reproachfully back at her.
So, why exactly did God not answer her prayer? Was He a mean old divine being who had fun making little girls sad? No, God had a very special purpose for Amy`s brown eyes that she had yet to know about.

Fast forward more than ten years. Amy is a missionary in India and she loves it. This is God`s plan for her. She is involved now in rescuing many children from Indian temples, where they are sold into for temple prostitution. On one particular day as she was doing this dangerous task, a few soldiers who had been notified of children disappearing from the temples watched Amy lead the children out. Angrily they marched up to her- but they stopped abruptly. They knew that it was a foreigner that was helping the children to escape – yet here was an Indian woman, dressed in a sari, and she had brown skin and eyes... Because God had given her this “offending” feature, Amy was able to lead the children into safety.

Imagine if there was a little baby who was left on a deserted island and grew up by itself. Do you think that he/she would say to themselves, “I don`t like such-and-such about myself” ? If your answer is no, why?

Because there were no other people for him/her to look at and think, “hmmm, why can`t I be like so-and-so?” We are constantly comparing ourselves to others because there are others for us to compare ourselves to.

The Bible says in Phil. 4:11’ “For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.”

God has made us just the way He intended us to be. And we are beautiful in His sight.

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Christmas Meeting! (20/12/2008)

Our whole Bright Lights group (full attendance! :D)
front row: (l-r) Maelodee, Jasmine, Debbie, Sharlene, Peiching
back row: (l-r) Dawn, me, Angelyn
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We had a simple Bright Lights meeting during the Christmas season.
Instead of having our regular lesson using the Bright Lights materials,
I first shared about the candy cane and how it illustrates what Christmas
is really about. Then we divided into two groups to discuss the previous lessons.

Using a short questionnaire, we shared how we have been applying the lessons
to our lives and which areas we were struggling in.
We agreed to be accountable to each other in the area of daily Bible reading,
and to be praying over the week for one another in the areas that we find challenging.

After that, I had a short project where I asked each group to think of
ways that we can be a Bright Light during the Christmas season.
Here's what we came up with: :)
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1. Have a good attitude in every way -be enthusiastic, cheerful, joyful
2. Reach out to others by befriending and talking to people who are alone or unpopular.
3. Be courageous to witness
4. Be willing to help out during any parties, events, church services, etc.
- have initiative and offer to help set up the place, open doors, serve others food, clean up
- be available by standing nearby, not just sitting with our friends
- be attentive to the needs of others
5. Express gratefulness, and compliment others genuinely for their effort
6. Be generous by finding creative ways to make gifts, thank you cards, etc
- remember to appreciate everyone (including helpers, home guards, etc)
7. Don't gossip during our conversations with others
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Then we had lunch, and had a gift exchange game which Angelyn organized.


The idea was to sit in a circle, each holding their own gift. As Angelyn read out the nativity story, we had to pass the gift to the right whenever the word "right" was read out, and to pass the gift left whenever you heard the word "left". At the end of the story, the present you ended up with was yours! :) We got this game idea from Sharmaine (Thanks Sharmaine!).


There were so many "rights" and "lefts" that we kept laughing whenever they were read out.

Angelyn's gift from Jasmine- a coin box with handmade stars.
If you unravel the stars, you will find a verse :)

Maelodee's present from Peiching.

We had a great time :) Thanks everyone for bringing all the yummy food for lunch!

See you this Saturday!