pre-year 12 + bgr reflections

pre-year 12 reflections:

it's been a very *short* but satisfying holidays. i've had my chance to catch up on sleep, go out with friends, read Christian books and refresh myself. but year12 sounds so scary. i've even had a couple of nightmares about it recently- one where my chemistry lessons were replaced with dentistry on my timetable! ahhhh!!!!

but seriously, i KNOW it's going to be one long year coming up, filled with stress and workloads disproportionate to my time and.. lots and lots of maths homework. but, it's not all bad. everyone says year 12 is the best year of high school. i'm sure it will also be filled with fun and fond memories as well as many many outreach opportunities and witnessing for Christ! i also hope it will be a year where i can have more freedom as well as rising responsibilities. and i know i won't be alone- God has richly blessed me with many loving and supportive brothers and sisters in Christ, who i already know will encourage me to live for Christ and with eternal perspective- just thinking about u guys now makes me smile =)

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BGR reflections:

a few points about dating-
- Bible doesn't say much about it; however from talking to people with past experiences, it's best to leave dating until uni. why? because the whole point of dating is marriage. in high school, most people don't even think about marriage, so why bother dating? the only two outcomes from dating are breakup and marriage, which means that if you date during high school, you're setting yourself up to get hurt by breakup.
- just because you like someone doesn't necessarily mean you have to date them. a lot of the time, dating can ruin a perfectly good friendship with someone you like. this is because in most cases after two people breakup, they never talk to each other ever again. so if it's two months dating someone or 20 years as good friends, I'd choose being good friends anyday.

what about marriage?
- Bible explicitly says that Christians are to marry Christians. why is this so? If one person lives for God, but their partner lives for themselves, this makes a very difficult relationship because the two are going in totally opposite directions.
- there are many more points on marriage such as what if you marry someone and then you become a Christian etc, but most of them are specific to a situation, and these are only just general points to give an outline of what we covered on BGR night.