New Season

A new season has dawned on me.

A season of independence.

What happened to my health? Shuyi doesn't get sick easily in the past. Why is she always sick now? Because the my immune system is weakened so that the baby will not be rejected during my pregnancy? Or is there something more to it?

......

Of course tis the latter.

It's time I grow up and be responsible for my own health. My mum is no longer by my side serving me soups and fruits. Now I'm in a different household, a different culture with different living habits.

Finally, apart from anxiety and provocative spirit...

Yet challenged by a way of life that lacks discipline, management of health and wealth with little considerations for the future...left to follow the world into luxury and instant gratification in terms of spendings and other material enjoyments...

And my Lord is awakening me not into a season of pure intercession but of discipline and diligence,

discipline and diligence to hold true to what is balanced, content and sufficient way of life, to discern and initiate what is good for the spirit, soul, mind and body, for me and for my family...

Beginning with my eating habits, my work, my household cleanliness and tidiness, things that one would naturally neglect when work and pregnancy fatigue kicks in.

Yet there is wisdom in the balanced way of life, in choose the life that Daniel chose, in setting himself apart even in the King's courts, in choosing not to be a sloppy man tossed and carried around by the waves of the world.

My mum has shown me the way to choose health for the body. Now it is my turn to take on the baton and to continue it in my household.

Oh Lord, help me.

Let me choose what is good for You love 'goodness', not what is extravagant or popular or purely luxurious.

I surrender my daily habits into your hands and I once again acknowledge you as my Creator Lord and King, to put into perspective what is good, right and beneficial.

Let wisdom be upon your creation.