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Aisuru Youni by Kotoha

We live in loneliness
寂しさの中僕らは生きる

Singing loneliness beyond the light
光の先で孤独を歌う

I hope tomorrow never comes like this
このまま明日が来なけりゃいいの

Let me tell you how tired I am
疲れたくらい 言わせてくれよ

Only your voice in my dreams
夢の中君の声だけが

As if I could hear it, as if asking a question.
聞こえたような問いかけるような

It's like sparkling in this world
この世界で煌めくような

I'm looking for the meaning of life
生きる意味を探しているの

The blink of a night that makes me feel like crying
泣いちゃうみたい夜の瞬き

Let me love you today
すらも今日は愛させてくれ

I'm sure tomorrow and the end will be the same
きっと明日も最期もそうやって

A bandaid somewhere in my heart
心のどっかに絆創膏

I'll live until I can't put it on
貼れないまんまで生きていく

It hurts, it hurts, the wound hurts
痛いの痛いの傷口が

I don't think about the meaning of my birth
生まれた意味は考えない

It hurts when I think about it
考えたら辛くなるの

But your voice is warm
でも君の音だけは暖かいから

Can I stay like this?
このままで居てもいいの？

Is it okay to be who I am?
ありのままで居てもいいの？

There are so many things that one person doesn't understand
1人分からないことばかり

Is it okay to love all of that?
それも全部愛していいの？

It's like sparkling in this world
この世界で煌めくような

I'm looking for the meaning of life
生きる意味を探しているの

The blink of a night that makes me feel like crying
泣いちゃうみたい夜の瞬き

Let me love you today
すらも今日は愛させてくれ

333

Forgetting what lies behind
Setting our hearts on the prize
Always keeping our eyes on our lord Jesus
We're running the race to win
All the way to the end
Laying down every sin
That would seek to hinder us

And we'll be faithful to our calling
For you are able to keep us from falling
For in your promise
We will trust
We'll be faithful to finish the work you began in us

Trinity

We're pilgrims on the journey
Of the narrow road
And those who've gone before us
Line the way
Cheering on the faithful
Encouraging the weary
Their lives a stirring testament
To God's sustaining grace

Surrounded by so great
A cloud of witnesses
Let us run the race
Not only for the prize
But as those who've gone before us
Let us leave to those behind us
The heritage of faithfulness
Passed on through godly lives

Oh may all who come behind us
Find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion
Light their way
May the footprints that we leave
Lead them to believe
And the lives we live
Inspire them to obey
Oh may all who come behind us
Find us faithful

After all our hopes and dreams
Have come and gone
And our children sift through all
We've left behind
May the clues that they discover
And the mem'ries they uncover
Become the light that leads them
To the road we each must find

Brief Timeline of Trinity, Reverend Pastor Dominic Yeo & my life

At 25 yrs old, I had interview at Hybrid Motors ; Eddie Lo [ Founder) at 178 Paya Lebar. I did not attend the interview but God led me to Trinity. For seed to grow, it must break.I started attending Trinity since I was 25 years.

At 33 years old, I felt abandoned when Reverend Dominic Yeo left Trinity as Lead Pastor in 2023 to become Chairman of World Assemblies of God to accomplish M33 purpose & mandate. Jesus was abandoned by God at 33 years old.

In hindsight, Trinity was the church I had been searching for since I left Paya Lebar Methodist Girl's Secondary School in 2005 my O levels in 2005. Reverend Dominic Yeo led Trinity for 18 years from 2005 - 2023. 

Around the week of Anthony Bourdain suicide, I quoted Romans 8: 38-39 

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things presents, nor things to come, Nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

That very same week, Reverend Dominic Yeo printed the above as weekly bible verse on bulletin.

I believe God's purpose of the pandemic is to remove external and extrinsic to redirect our focus on our intrinsic development.  Life changing events occured during the pandemic years which made me invite unbelievers colleagues and relatives to church. 

At present, Reverend Dominic Yeo is Chairman of World Assemblies of God Fellowship. Currently, Dominic Yeo represents Trinity as ambassador. I believe Pastor Dominic Yeo will return for Trinity the way Jesus will return for us in 2033; M33.