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From blogging to public speaking

Posted by Robert A. on Thursday, August 21st, 2008

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Blogging made me better with written words; but how about spoken words or public speaking?
I experienced that quite some time ago, even before I took my break and my holiday. That night I had church small group gathering and I was not in the mood of attending. It is the men’s [...]

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If only your life is a Wordpress project

Posted by Robert A. on Saturday, August 9th, 2008

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Do you dare to make your life an open source project?
Imagine your life is an open source project… Let’s say a Wordpress project!
People will be able to download it from internet, check out your PHP source codes, modifying it with all sorts of plugins and themes, and making it a custom-made [...]

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Happiness in success journey

Posted by Robert A. on Monday, August 4th, 2008

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Do you enjoy your success journey?
As promised, Reason-4-Smile got a new theme. The new tagline is “Happiness in Success Journey”. It’s pretty much inspired by Joyce Meyer with her program, Enjoying Everyday Lives. I wanted to do the same thing, or I should say the mini version with this blog: sharing and [...]

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In The Valley

Posted by Robert A. on Tuesday, November 13th, 2007


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Thank you for valleys, Lord.
For this one thing I know,
The mountain tops are glorious,
But it’s in the valleys I grow!

It’s a part of In The Valley poem I read from my church bulletin article, written by Elder Elgin Chan. Few things to be learned just from the passage above:

  1. Be gratitude wherever you are, we can be grateful when we are successful, but how many of us can be grateful when we are in the valleys, when we are in wilderness. Valley signifies our struggle, our limitation and weaknesses. Choose to find something to be thankful everyday even when you’re in the valley.
  2. Have a vision, look at the mountaintops, put your goals, have hope and faith to reach your goal.
  3. And grow! It’s also something that we can always be thankful of with the valley, we are growing! Choose to grow wherever you are!

When you’re thankful of the valleys, the journey is enjoyable, and when you’re growing, the wilderness experience we have is shortened.

How we act in the wilderness determines how long we’re gonna stay in the wilderness.

Joyce Meyer

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2 Responses to “In The Valley”

  1. Bob Says:

    You’re right, I do like that version better!

    Thanks for the comment over at my blog, and thanks for this great post.

    Hope you have a great post-Christmas time.

  2. Robert A. Says:

    Thanks Bob! Same to you!

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