Last Sunday, after our second exciting HopeKids LIVE! service and meeting with the team to discuss outreach, we went to Marina Square to catch up with a group of my former university friends. One of them who was still staying in Australia came to town for a holiday with his family. The group have not caught up for almost 5 years and it was cool that we are able to pick up where we left off almost instantanously. Though all of us still look young and 'eh hem' beautiful, some of us have had new jobs and others a few more children. We talked and they were particularly curious about my new year-old job in the church. They were amazed that we have an IT department and some of the IT work we do there. They asked if there are vacancies.

Today .. err I mean yesterday (its 12:24 am right now), I got a chance to catch up with old collegues from NCS. Coincidentally on my way back from that, I bumped into my former senior manager (with another NCS manager) where we spoke for a while. Being an highly efficient manager that she is, the very first thing that she asked if I would like to come back. Jokingly I asked if she has a good job for me but before she could say anything, I prompted her that I'm happy where I am. I smiled and I proudly gave her my name card.

Actually I'm happy because i have given up looking for happiness. Happiness is a futile pursuit especially looking for it in the things we gain by ourselves. Instead I have learned to seek the abundance & fullness of the life that has been promised. And because I can not imagine anything more abundant or full than God Himself, I had decided to pursue God. I'm just happy and glad to be able to serve Him as a fulltime vocation. That gladness is a type of joy and I know that joy is an enduring thing.

Would I want to look back ? Not exactly though there have been times I've been tempted..... but those were after all just temptations and i'm learning to differentiate temporal happiness from enduring joy. And it is joy (in the Holy Ghost) that is what I really want to pursue.

I am so glad to have the chance to catch up with old friends again and think about the joy of an abundant life. I'm really happy where I am.