I realised that this blog has been left stagnant for a while. Well I presume that most of you are in your last week of term one and therefore, most of you are recieving your term grades and well for the sec 4 students, probably having your first meet-the-parents session of the year. I wonder how are all of you are feeling right now.

Going through the first term of school may not have been the easiest transition for most of you especially if you're a sec 1 student, sec 3 student or even JC 1 student. Thrown into new environments, trying to handle the new subjects and new demands of almost everything. Yet, many lessons can be learnt just within these 10 weeks of school alone.

As expected, adjusting back to school is difficult. Making new friends, feeling like all else is futile because you are not doing well in school. But I want to encourage all of you, God is ever present with you. He is your friend when you feel you are friendless, He is always there to catch you when you feel like you are falling from the sky because you aren't doing well in school. He understands when you feel misunderstood and well, corrects you when He knows you need to.

Sometimes, He may do things that we do not understand but when we look back, we see the good that God has planned for us. You see, as humans and more less teenagers, we tend to be a little more headstrong especially pushing for the things we want. We sometimes turn our backs on God's calling for us because it's not the way that we want to go but you know, it's just like the story of the prodigal son. God is like the father waiting for his son to return home. It's never too late.

We tend to stray away from God when things get tough but trials come our way so that we can be strengthen in our faith. Satan will try means and ways to get us away from God. My encouragement to you guys is really to stick close to God. He is the one who gets us through the hard and tough times. He is our encourager when we lack encouragement.

Take heart. Press on.

- dora