God's plan for our holidays

It is more than 1 month into the holidays now. During the entire semester, i was longing for the 3 month break and there were never thoughts about working. I just really wanted a good long break. I started to hear about friends making effort to apply for internships and other short term vocations and was really impressed at their desire to work and gain experience. I mean, all i wanted to do during the 3 months break, was to relax.

The thought of working didn't really bug me until recently, when friends started to ask what i've been doing for the past few weeks. And my reply would be "Oh, i'm happily enjoying my holidays...spending time with matthias and my family". And when i ask them back the same question, most of them would say that they're working and are pretty busy. It was then i started to ask myself if i've been making good use of the holidays.

I approached dear and shared with him my thoughts. I initially started to feel quite useless cos i'm living off my parents while happily enjoying myself and while people are outside gaining experience out of their comfort zone, i'm happily sleeping till i've got sufficient rest and not gaining any knowledge via work. Plus, there's only $$ going out, and no $$ coming in. After some thought, i have come to realise that not working doesn't equate to spending a meaningless holiday. This holidays, God has His plans for dear and i. It started off with dear's dad having to be hospitalised for a period of time, and then my family trip (so far). Throughout the past 6 weeks, we have spent much more time with our families (both sides) and ourselves. And we believe that it's really important to spend time with families. Both dear and i have managed to spend time with our families ourselves, and together as well. We've been trying to make a balance each and every week. And i must say, i'm much closer to my own family and to dear's family during this holidays. When the semester starts again, i'm sure i wouldn't be able to spend as much time with my family since work will start to pile like nobody's business.

Perhaps this's God's plan for us this holidays - to build up our families. Maybe this's all parts of God's plan towards my family's salvation! You never know yah? I'm sure God works in creative ways :) And i thank God for each and every plan that He has for us.