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Step Up and ....BLOOM!


Boy, it feels good to be a woman! The world will never be complete without women...Can I hear all my girlfriends out there say "AMEN!" Haha...no I didn't join some feminist movement, in case you wondered what had happened to me. I just finished the BLOOM 2006 Women's Conference at Acts Church on the 23 and 24th June.

Hey if you missed it (I'm speaking to the girls only)...catch the next one next year. Believe me, you won't regret it. Well I actually missed the Fashion Show sponsored by Blook cos I was abit late but at least I got the goodie bag! For this year we had the GREATEST goodie bag ever. There were like loads and loads and loads and loads of stuff.... like Her World Magazine, Cadbury Center-Filled Cookies, Cadbury Gold gigantic bar of chocolate, Dutch Lady Iced Latte, Lipton Green Tea with Lemon, Cosway lipbalm, Nestum cereal, Estime Skin Care pack, Ginvera Shampoo, Ginvera Marvel Gel, Bio-Essence sample, AND AND.... a BLOOK VIP Card!! Which you can only get if you spend RM500 and above in a single receipt on normal occassions!! Come on... is that cool or what?!! And that is just for starters... We had like bonus prizes hidden under our seats and there were like loads of gifts just being given out every session! Even the speakers' clothes were sponsored by Blook...jealous...


Hey for only RM20, it's definitely worth it! We had sumptuous tea breaks...which seems more like main meals catered by Banana Cafe among the beautifully decorated church. The halls were decorated with tea lights and fresh flowers...was so tempted to bring one back. Each of the chairs were tied with a satin pink or cream ribbon, making the place look so sweet and inviting...a woman's touch!

But the best part of the conference were the sessions. Ps. Sandra shared about the value of a woman. She taught us about how women have more 'details' because there is 'architecture' in a woman's body...so who says a woman is not valuable in God's eyes! And like wine, a woman's spirit gets better by the years...haha, imagine women are like fine wine.


In Ps. Lee Choo's sessions, she taught about the purpose of womanhood. Though hard to accept, what she said about "pain being a part of authentic womanhood" is so true. Women go through so much pain throughout the centuries because of always being treated 'second class' or as 'property' by men. That's why the feminist movement came about. Then it slowly evolved to the modern women's cry of today as modeled in shows like "Sex in the City" where the 'message' is, "I will not allow men to hurt me, and if they don't hurt us, we will hurt them first."

So what really is womanhood? Being a woman is not about being better than a man. Both man and woman are needed to "bear the image of God" without which it is not complete. Guys and girls have distinctive qualities in each that helps to bring out the best qualities in each other and together they produce a synergy that enhances each other's potential. Isn't God's creation amazing! That's why the whold purpose of gender differences is liken to "as iron sharpens iron". There are bound to be fireworks but each one comes out better for it. Therefore gay/lesbian relationships is a form of running away from relationships that can build character.

So only a woman can be a suitable helper for a guy in a marriage relationship because only a woman can confront a man about his maleness...and it doesn't help if a woman acts like a man! In a marriage relationship, the woman's role is to complement and not compete with the man. She is meant to encourage (to lend courage) because the man's greatest fear is failure. She is also meant to confront the man about his weakness and to challenge the men to become REAL MEN!

So the purpose of a woman is to be a builder of relationships and family. Women who do not fulfill that purpose end up dividing the church/relationships through gossip or slander. So if women do not understand their purpose of womanhood, the men will not be able to fulfill theirs and the result is one BIG MESS.

In the second session, Ps Lee Choo also talked about boy/girl relationships. She talked about how each individual have different love languages. But no matter what our love language is, we are not to build our identity on our love language. Our self worth comes from knowing how much we are worth. She also talked about how the Bible commands guys to love their wives but not to the wives. The reason is simply because women just LOVE NATURALLY while guys need to learn how to love. Therefore the greatest need for girls is affection, but for the guys is admiration. She ended the session with an altar call and Ps. Sandra prayed for me when I went up. I really needed to be prayed for and I was truly encouraged and refreshed during the conference.

I better end the posting here before someone thinks I'm giving them a sermon. It's just that I'm so excited to share all these 'treasures' that I've learned. But just let me end here with a cute quote from Ps Lee Choo about guys and girls who are looking for their marriage partner:

For the girls: "When you get yourself right, the right guy comes."
For the guys: "Every girl is right if you treat them right."

I couldn't agree more. So Bloom where ever you are girls!

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