I Love Botanic Garden

It’s been almost 9 months since I came to Brisbane, I still remember the first ever time when I went to QUT GP, the first ever person whom I asked for direction, the first ever lecture that I attended, the first ever friend whom I got to know. It seems that all these just happened yesterday. How time flies!

During these 9 months, I’ve found so many lovely things around, lovely people, lovely environment, and lovely BOTANIC GARDEN, I still remember the first time I went to GP, I was like ‘humm…QUT is not too small, at least there’s a big garden!’ but after a few days, I was told that, the ’big garden’ didn’t belong to QUT, but still, I was like ‘never mind, I’ll consider it as a part of QUT anyway!’ So since then, Botanic garden has become my good friend, in the first semester, I had a 3 hours’ break every thursday, so I spent most of the break time in botanic garden, sometimes taking a nap on the chair (some people were surprised to know ), sometimes reading, sometimes having my late lunch, sometimes having a walk…day by day, it has become one of my habits, even in the second semester, when I didn’t have any break time during my 6 hours’ lectures+tutorials, sometimes I would still go to the botanic garden after uni.

There’re times when I feel down, depressed, or gloomy, and I will go to the botanic garden, just to quiet down my heart, it’s joyful to see the crystal sky, the flying birds, the picnicking people, and all those kids who are playing around with each other. Sometimes people will stop and give me a smile, wow…that’s so sweet!

Praise God for botanic garden, it is a place full of peace and joy, and it is a place where I can stop for a while and take a rest and get refreshed!

Peace and Joy

Tough time makes us depressed, but I always believe that we will gain a lot from it if we choose to face it a positive way, and also God will strengthen us as He sees our attitude and faith.

Life is sometimes tough, study is sometimes tough, exam period is always tough, but when you know that God will strengthen you if you tried your best, all the fears will be gone, leaving only peace and joy in your heart.

Today I learnt that, to work most effectively is not about making the best use of the time, or having wisdom, or having a right place or stuff like that, yes, these are important, but the most important thing is to have peace and joy in your heart, because only by this, you will be willing to work and work it happily. I always don’t believe that you will get something well done when you disliked it or even hated it. 

Feeling tired? Why not just stop for a while and find back the peace and joy before you can continue to work again? I believe that the peace and joy will double your hard work. Today when I was walking across the botanic garden, seeing all those natural beauties, when I was listening to a nice song on the way home, I found back the peace and joy in my heart, things which can bring you happiness are always the simplest. Praise God for all His beautiful and wonderful creations!

In Psalm 119: 165 of the Bible it says ‘Great peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.’ Amen!!!Don’t allow fears to sit on the throne of your heart, but make a conscious choice to place it with peace and joy!