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8,000 toys for kids in tsunami-hit countries

AFTER opening up their wallets to help those affected by the tsunami over a year ago, members of the public have again shown that they care - this time by donating more than 8,000 soft toys.

The soft toys were collected in a Singapore Red Cross (SRC) event, Share Joy, Bring A Toy, in just five days - from Dec 26 to 30 last year - at the tsunami photo exhibition in Tampines.

These were sorted yesterday by SRC volunteers and will be dry-cleaned free by laundrette Crusade Services before they go to non-governmental groups and voluntary welfare organisations for distribution to children in tsunami-affected areas of Aceh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Accompanying the toys are notes of encouragement, penned by the children who donated them.

- Straits Times, 23 Jan 2006.

I think the people over in tsunami-affected areas need their shelter and food more than toys.

We live by faith, not by sight.

The Evidence of Faith

The fields were parched and brown from lack of rain, and the crops lay wilting from thirst. People were anxious and irritable as they searched the sky for any sign of relief. Days turned into arid weeks. No rain came.

The ministers of the local churches called for an hour of prayer on the town square the following Saturday. They requested that everyone bring an object of faith for inspiration.

At high noon on the appointed Saturday the towns-people turned out en masse, filling the square with anxious faces and hopeful hearts. The ministers were touched to see the variety of objects clutched in prayerful hands – holy books, crosses, rosaries.

When the hour ended, as if on magical command, a soft rain began to fall. Cheers swept the crowd as they held their treasured objects high in gratitude and praise. From the middle of the crowd one faith symbol seemed to overshadow all the others: A small nine-year-old child had brought an umbrella.

- Laverne W. Hall

a worshipper

some say this, some say that; nobody says this, everybody says that. HE SAYS THIS!

some say tok more
some say dun tok so much,

some say scold them
some say dun scold them,

some say explain the song
some say leave the preaching to preacher

some say sing new songs
some say dun sing new songs

some say sing rock
some say sing jazz
some say sing pop
some say sing blues

some say sing in C
some say sing in A,

some say too high
some say too low,

some say bright colours too distracting
some say somber colours too boring,

some say dress more formal
some say look casual,

some say play more
some say you play too much

some say play louder
some say play softer

some say keep it simple
some say its boring

some say this
some say that

nobody says i'll choose to worship God
everybody says be perfect and I'll worship God

nobody says i'll choose to worship God
everybody says i'll worship if you sing my favourite song

nobody says i'll choose to worship God
everybody says i'll worship if you sing it in my style

nobody says thank you
everybody says you should have done better

He says He has a plan, a special plan, a loving plan

He says i should please Him, not men

He says just worship me

and He's got the last say.

- princess_soaps