blue skies all the way home

Honestly, I cannot believe it is only 1pm. Because I've been up for about 7 hours already. Yeah... and what a day it has been already. Woke up did my QT, went to the gym at SSC. WALKED HOME from SSC, yeah... 10km. Took much less time than I expected, 2hours. Just felt like I needed a long walk, and some time alone to talk to God.

Woke up this morning, and as I was praying, God told me He was going to show me that He is still here, that He is still in control. Told me it was going to rain heavily; but as I walked home, I would have blue skies all the way home. God is still here, always and forever. It started raining like crazy after I left home, but as I started my walk home, the rain disappeared, and at the end of the walk, it was hot sunshine and clear blue skies. I've uploaded some pictures to my flikr, the commentary is there as well.

As I walked home, I prayed, asked God why I was feeling the way I was feeling, why I was even on this long walk home. Then He asked to think back to 10 years ago, to an incident when I was on a long walk as well. I went, "huh?". Then I remembered.

I was in secondary 2, in the Red Cross, attending the HFIC camp; it was March 1995. On the first night of the camp, we departed the Red Cross camp site (in Siglap) at about 10.30pm and walked to East Coast Park (think route march), somewhere near SAFRA resort. We reached at almost 12am. I was very sleepy and the late night was causing my temperature to rise. And the thought of walking back to Siglap frightened me. And as expected, on the way back, I fell about 30 minutes behind my coursemates. My officers were accompanying me right at the back of the pack. Concerned that I was sick and extremely tired, they offered to allow me to take a taxi back to camp. But I decided to soldier on, and finally reached back to campsite at about 2am.

Then the Lord said, "You did not give up then, don't give up now." Thanks God! I really needed to hear that. I don't know what the outcome might be; but I'm not giving up, not till the Lord tells me to.

It's been an hour since I returned home, and I'm not tired. Feel quite energized actually. Did not want to go to school today, but will leave soon. Going to complete that Science of Music composition project. Won't return home till I get the skeleton of the last 20 seconds done.