Saturday, July 16, 2005
Duck
Yeah, I'm on a roll today - gotta do all me blogging as I may not have the chance to do so for the next 3 weeks!!!
I always like the illustration of a swan - or in this case, a duck (can't find any pics of swans now). As you see them glide over the glassy surface of teh water, they look so graceful, and move almost effortlessly. This is far from the truth. If we look underwater, they are kicking like crazy to saty afloat and to move forward.
I had lunch the other day wif a full-time worker. A FTW is wat we call a person who has a full time job serving the church. These people are usually professionals and/or trained individuals who ahve given up their secular jobs to work in the church - some as pastors, some as administrators etc.
Oh, they are usually paid pretty badly. Perhaps the leaders think that the FTW will have more rewards in heaven??
So usually, we think of them as "super Christians"!
In actual fact, they are very much like any other Christians. But we see them like ducks, so graceful, so relaxed, not realising that underneath, they go thru the same struggles - or perhaps even more - as we non-FTW christians do.
He shared his problems, his struggles, how he sumtimes feel that if he is doing his previous secular job, he would be eaarning so much more, his financial problems etc.
Yet, he remains faithful to his calling.
Let us never forget the FTWs in our midst and continue to pray and uphold them in any ways that we can.
Swimming wif fishes! 
I always like the illustration of a swan - or in this case, a duck (can't find any pics of swans now). As you see them glide over the glassy surface of teh water, they look so graceful, and move almost effortlessly. This is far from the truth. If we look underwater, they are kicking like crazy to saty afloat and to move forward.
I had lunch the other day wif a full-time worker. A FTW is wat we call a person who has a full time job serving the church. These people are usually professionals and/or trained individuals who ahve given up their secular jobs to work in the church - some as pastors, some as administrators etc.
Oh, they are usually paid pretty badly. Perhaps the leaders think that the FTW will have more rewards in heaven??
So usually, we think of them as "super Christians"!
In actual fact, they are very much like any other Christians. But we see them like ducks, so graceful, so relaxed, not realising that underneath, they go thru the same struggles - or perhaps even more - as we non-FTW christians do.
He shared his problems, his struggles, how he sumtimes feel that if he is doing his previous secular job, he would be eaarning so much more, his financial problems etc.
Yet, he remains faithful to his calling.
Let us never forget the FTWs in our midst and continue to pray and uphold them in any ways that we can.
// posted by imissw @ 11:45:00 pm 
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i think you have a fetish for ducks.
but besides that, yes, FTWs are really amazing! i've always been in awe of UKJ and how he does it day in, day out...
Really respect him and the others for that.
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but besides that, yes, FTWs are really amazing! i've always been in awe of UKJ and how he does it day in, day out...
Really respect him and the others for that.
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