Charismatic

Being involved in worship projects can be pressurizing. It causes you to question yourself again and again what worship is trully about. I've been working hard on about 8-9 arrangements of songs for Saturday's worship recording. It's the first of its kind in Taiwan. A lot of effort and time has been spent on the production, the visuals, the arrangements. We've had a couple of meetings to sort out details, choose the songs, choose the band etc. I'm honoured to be part of something creative that glorifies God.  But little niggly thoughts float by, disturbing me and making me think even more. During band practices, I deal with mostly guys. Well, the band is all male, and there is only one other female singer. I'm the band leader, and I've been directing most of the rehearsals. It's a tough job, especially when the band is this big: 11 of us, instead of the normal 4-5. How does one balance being efficient and professional with being gracious and encouragin...

Recent pics of some of the projects I've been involved in. This whole year I've been regularly arranging and performing on a worship music program called 寧靜時分 [Quiet Time]. The producer is now in charge of a new program - directed towards a younger audience. So the last few weeks, I've been frantically working on scores for the new worship recording next week. We also used it for the older program yesterday. And recently, I've also been involved with the 101 church and their Fire-makers worship ministry. Enjoy the photos! GOOD TV Quiet Time. I'm at the piano A nice shot of the vibraphonist/drummer at Quiet Time IM  - Inspiring Moment service rehearsals IM evangelistic concert [I'm half-hidden on the right] Crazy Dawson, who was band director that night ChCh and ChCh The worship team shot.  We're going to Shanghai for a concert in Dec

Haha. I wish I could write a more poetic title. Something less crude. But I've just been reflecting on my own leadership style and contributions to music teams. I think I am not a natural 'leader'. I prefer not to take charge of EVERY work/ministry situation I am in. In fact, most of the time, if you need to me to do something specific, I'll do it without to many questions asked, or disagreements. Because I have found questions/ disagreements futile in many situations [particularly in life-groups, bands and worship teams]. Why? People might not have the musical/adminstrative ability to do what you would prefer them to do People might have be stuck in that groove for the past 10 years. To change it will take more than 1-2 practices I'm not in a position of a authority to change anything. So just do what the leader says. People might not particularly welcome a new person overhauling everything.  Musical arrangements, or administrative plans can range from s...

I had meetings ALL day today. Networking and meeting new people, and keeping up with older contacts is all part of the job. Today, I had dinner with Pastor Sai Song. I want to record his quick prophecy over me at the end of the dinner. "God has given you the gift of the word of revelation. It seems like you have 'let loose' a little and not practiced this gift much. The stuff you receive has been a bit blurry. The Lord wants you to start practicing again. You need to pray for others and prophesy over them. They will encounter God through these words of revelation. They will be richly blessed. God will sharpen the words you are receiving. So practice and sharpen your gift. Step out. Do not fear" "The nightmares you've been having about your future, about disastrous things happening, about scary things going to befall you, they are from the enemy. The enemy wants to frighten you and instill a spirit of fear in you. I rebuke it. Do not fear. Do not believe t...

A lot of grace and favour from God and people lately. An abundance of gifts - gorgeous earrings from life-group leader, hand bags from Sophie, dress and necklace from Eva, lovely fruits from Pastor Caleb, dinners from Wen Ci... And a big discount from the recording studio, mainly because TC worked out a deal with them, and also because he engineered the project, thus saving on recording engineer costs. The blessings of God are abundant...

Every once in while, there are those ppl who see your soul's depths.  They cherish and caress what they see there...and bless your life.  Thank you.... 今天我和Eva碰面～～每一次有機會和她碰面和聊天都覺得很恩典，很被祝福。 上帝都會固定讓我碰到一些天使：以前在澳洲有Nat和Rach的陪伴。她們的友誼和接納都讓我有能力渡過破碎的難關。上帝通過這些管道恢復了我，醫治我。現在我身邊有像柔柔，Eva 和 Sophie 的好姊妹。如果少了她們，我很有可能早就已經崩潰！女人還是需要可以一起分享生命的女性朋友, 尤其是屬靈的伙伴。 最感動的是，Eva說上帝有告訴她，“佳靈需要聊天，或需要人陪伴的時候，你就盡量陪她聊～”。 難怪我都覺得Eva很樂意付出時間聽我的心聲。她也說，她早已經看出來我內心的一些掙扎和自己給自己的壓力和綑綁。可是上帝也吩咐她不要叫我改這個，改哪個，而上帝想親自讓我sense到這些問題。 上帝的timing到了，他就會醫治我，恢復我。Eva的角色只是hear me out~~支持我，為我代禱。 那时，我就深深的感受天父爸爸了解我～他真的知道我的需要。他在供应我～他是一位在意我的感受的神。我......只需要讓他愛我，領受他的愛。沒想到領受神的愛以及身邊朋友的愛也那麼難～我這幾年想小心一點兒，哪知會極端地維護自己，不想太愛人，也不想別人太親近我的內心～ 天父爸爸，我要再次敞開自己的心，接受你的恩典，接受你的愛，接受你的恩寵！！！我是你的寶貝！我宣告：我是你的最愛！你目中的童人！

My days have been filled with activity since I returned to Taipei  [Well, they were filled with activity in HK and M'sia too]. I haven't caught my breath since I've gotten back yet...But I'm relatively pleased with how things are going.  One of the coolest things that has been happening is that suddenly I've been able to track some stuff for my upcoming albums. My American muso friends are here for their annual ministry trips to Taiwan, and my mentor, Jeff prodded me to book them for 2 days. It felt a little surreal, tracking in the studios with a bunch of Americans. All those people who were in there with me, I was musing about how we all met and how divine all these appointments have been. I've met so many great and skillful people here. Thank God for each and everyone of them. Special thanks to Jeff for linking me up with these great session players, and for helping me so much with pre-production. And special thanks to TC, who helped me booked the studio, e...