I have been missing.

Okay the post telling everyone that I’m alive was a lame teaser. Now on to real news.

If you have not already known, I am not back at home for the summer. I am 9148 miles away from home; have been so for the past year and will be so for the next year. I really don’t know when I will be coming back but for sure, I will see home after I have graduated.

So one year has past. One year in Engineering Science and out I’ve come; victoriously, maybe but I’ve survived. Victoriously I’ve entered but battered as I exit. Survival in Eng Sci is the core issue; it is not about winning the battles, but more of winning the war. The battles were tiring; I was mentally tired by the end of the academic term.

Time has been quick to fly.

I have enough posts on reflections of life in Canada for your eyes; I don’t want to dwell on another melancholic post reminiscing the good ol’ days at home. I have learnt to move on; I no longer miss home, rather I miss my family members and friends. My earthly home is no longer where I’ve stayed for the longest but is entitled to my own interpretation. Home is the fruit of my initiative in loving my surroundings; the people, the place, the culture.

Anyway, for the summer I am volunteering withe a few professors; mainly paper works and me working on something related to water filtration in developing nations. That has been going well thus far; intimidating to do presentations to professors in the same room, but the depth of knowledge I am exposed to is so good

Church and Christian Fellowship are happening at the same time. I have been serving with both and that keeps me busy throughout the summer.

Sometimes I don’t know where to run to when I have questions and that bothers me. Sometimes I wonder who is interested in my spiritual growth and who can I go for comfort. Sometimes when I think about my one year in Toronto, I am glad to have made a variety of friends but I wonder who are my buddies. Sometimes I wish to share my life stories with some people but if only they would like to hear it. Sometimes I am dumb. Sometimes I am stuck in between eating and feeding. Sometimes I love to be on my own so much that I have become socially inept. Sometimes I am too independent and stubborn.

Despite it all, I am learning to place my trust in Him.

Matthew 11:28 – 30 – “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Ah well..life moves one. When the world throws you lemons, make lemonades!

Psalm 42:5-6 – “Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so troubled within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my saviour and my God.”

Here goes!