Once again, I will miss my birthday at home and with family. This time round I am still in Korea with the National Floorball Team participating in the Asia Pacific Floorball Championships. As I become older, birthdays seem to be less important and there seems to be less emphasis on how elaborate it should be. Keeping it simple is the way to do it.
The guys from the floorball team decided to give me a surprise celebration as they all knocked on the hotel room door just before midnight. Surprised? Not really...but it was really nice of them. They claimed that they bought the most expensive cake in their life (five figure), so i must be really privillaged! :)

Birthdays, no matter how simple or elaborate it may be is significant. It marks a specific time in history that a seed was planted into this world to grow, become, and do great things. So as I spend my birthday and a couple more days here in Korea, I as myself if I have grown, become, and am I doing great things for God? I enter another significant year. This is the year of possibilities!

The most expensive cake ever?! Very nice...and yummy! :)

Two days ago, the reality of answered prayer came as God blessed us with a new van! For many years our family has been praying for a new car as ours was getting very old and was beginning to give problems more frequently. Last December, I had an accident and the old car was sold of as it was not worth repairing. So, for two months it was back to basics and I was on the motobike for most of the time. God knows our needs! Last week he sent someone to offer me a van! Wow! and just after one week, we drove off with it.
The kids are obviously excited as it has been a squeeze for the whole family in a Kancil. What shall we call this van? (They give names to almost everything) How about "the ark"? The van can take a capacity of 8 persons and there were 8 in the ark when the flood came...hmm...that was the conversation when the excited kids were on the way to pick up the van. Conclusion? We did not have any...but yesterday, I heard them calling our new transport the Silver Ark! :)
All glory goes to God for his outpouring of grace and providence!