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Crushed to Grow

Our life has been a story of transformations. Like seeds we have been crushed from our comfortable pods, our pride & selfish claims buried in the ground, and from the mud the Lord is raising us up, growing us with strength and love like we have never known before, extending our branches that we may worship and dance with the wind of His spirit, sending out ripples of faith... Here is God’s awesome story, written through our lives.

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January 25, 2013

Crushed to Grow: Get bitter or better?: Dear friends, The past few days have been a hectic yet exciting days. Papo has been improving so fast, friends who haven't seen him duri...

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Get bitter or better?

January 25, 2013

Dear friends, The past few days have been a hectic yet exciting days. Papo has been improving so fast, friends who haven't seen him during the new years holiday came back with a shock, as they witnessed he is able to speak more in sentences and communicate with them. After the tracheotomy removed 3 days ago, he is now speaking with more clarity than prior to the removal. . He is able to convey his heart, and the amazing thing today is my husband cried, with tears flowing from his eyes continuously, for almost half and hour when a close friend visited. I never seen him cried and saying "today I cried a lot" few times ....but we sense this is a great release for him, for his fears and burdens has been trapped in for 5 months, and once he is able to speak God gives him chance to release all these tensions in his heart through crying. We told him it is OK for a man to cry, it is healthy in his case. He profusely saying "thank you for praying for me" , ...

A day filled with cocktail

January 07, 2013

Dear friends, This is my second posting for the blog. I am still considering if I should upload pictures on this blog....confidentiality issues and bad internet connection problems are the major factors for doing so. Believe it or not the internet connection in Surabaya, the second largest city of Indonesia, is still very "lemot" (translation: very slow). Back to Papo updates (from the wife's perspective of course). It is a great Sunday for me, for I was greeted with "I love you" by my hubby when I said "good morning" when I met him in his room downstair. We chatted for a while, and he said "You are a wonderful wife", that was definetely a pleasant surprise, as I replied "You are a wonderful husband too". But he continued with saying "sorry....sorry...sorry", when I heard this (actully it's more like reading it from his lips, for he has no clear voice yet) I can't hold my tears.... I...

How does TEST morphs to TESTimony?

October 07, 2013

I found time really flies when there are too many things to be done, yet time is always not enough. Yet often time before I fall asleep, sweet and funny memories of my husband pre-accident stage floated on my mind. My hubby, Papo (Pastor Poedji) loved learning new things in particular about finding your platform to share your life with others. He even download his e-books and asked me to listen to them. How to build up your small groups and lead by examples. All the leadership books are readily available for me, to the point I often took them for granted. Some of our small group leaders even complained "Wait wait, please don't send us anymore ebooks or articles....we haven't finish the one you sent last week." He answered with a smile "All leaders are readers." I remembered asking him out loud : "Why would you want to go into so much trouble to improve yourself so much in the area of communication? I know how hard it is for you, you are not a...