Another item of thanksgiving! Today Andrea called me over to her desk for a moment. I didn't know what to expect - was I in trouble again? I haven't done anything wrong recently! Hehe!

It turned out that yesterday (13th March) I had been with the company for six months already and after six months our salary gets reviewed.

Andrea informed me that my pay was reviewed, and I met all performance targets so my salary has increased an extra £500, which means I now work for £13,500 a year! =)

Little bit more money for me each month and a little more for mum too.

The Lord has mercy on our family at this tough moment. I pray that I may never forget this.

In the morning Alan gave out a bundle of survey returns to me. Had ten in this bunch, so I started looking through the survey reviews mainly Q2 answers. Had six 10's of the ten surveys. Not quite seven or eight Greg had me expect, but still good. A 'Mr Smith', who whilst on case notes and courtesy call expressed satisfaction at CRC service and outcome gave me 1/10, surprised. Anyway, I went to toilet and came back to my desk when Kirsten was talking to Scott. Kirsten then turned aroudn to me and said, "Oh Gordon, just the person I need to see. I'm here to give you a ten for tens." So I said, "Oh alright" and saw I got six 10's, signed and dated clipboard. Kirsten counted six £10 notes and gave them to me. All six £10 notes I folded into my wallet then meditated a prayer to God giving thanks.

Initially I thought I might keep £20 for myself and give mum £60, if I got £80. But since it's £60, I thought give mum £40, but at the end, when i was in the kitchen about to hand money to mum, I decided it was better to give £50 to mum and I keep £10.

I would feel better and mum would make better use of the money. Also next month there will be another £10 for 10/10 incentive but also average grade has to be 7.4+.

So thanks to God for His mercy on our family and I hope I have more opportunities to get more money, and give thanks to God.

Writing this whilst at work, to be transferred to Grace Book later.

A few moments ago, I asked Greg Burnett if it was possible to look at our survey returns for this month since there is an incentive that offers us £10 cash for every 10/10 we get returned from customers. The system was down so we were not too busy and had no queues etc.

Greg jokingly asked me if I wanted to see how many tenners I'd be getting. I sheepishly smiled back. Greg raised his hands and asked if I wanted to know how many tenners I'd be getting - and started raising his fingers - from thumb to total of seven fingers and he wiggled eighth finger saying "possibly".

I was surprised / amazed by that, and could only say, "really?!". Greg saidI have the highest rating in the centre this month or something along those lines. Alex heard and made a comment of respect or awe.

All I could say was "praise God" but unfortunately I did not say it loud enough.

The Lord really had mercy on our family. I prayed a few weeks back telling God if I got any amount of money I'd give most of it to mum to support the family. So if I get £80 I plan to only take £20 and give rest to mum. I think we'll get our cash at work in a few weeks time. I cannot wait to see my surveys. Will write again when I get the money. =)

It's amazing how God can speak to us. Tonight Je and I spent a few hours talking things over, talking over our situation.

For the past two months we've been together, yet not 'together' as such. A sort of unspoken 'agreement' or 'feeling' for each other, but how long can this sort of thing go on for?

We already agreed last time that we are "more than friend, less than lovers". Recently we've been really close and really it's like we're boyfriend / girlfriend but not officially kinda thing.

At end of our discussion we concluded two things:
i) Je might not be emotionally ready to start another relationship
ii) We should give more time and now include God in our relationship.

So we prayed together about wher our future lies, and asked God for guidance in our lives. It felt much better after that and from then it felt 'fresh'.

So came home, bathed and prayed to God, again, asking for guidance and forgiveness for leaving God out of the picture. Went to sleep and Lye Yoong texted me, 1:29am.

Message: "Do not let busyness of everyday life take ur eyes off God n Christ or crowd out the Holy Spirit's guidance."

I was like 'Wow! Amazing!' It cannot be a coincidence Lye Yoong would text me such message out of the blue. Must be God speaking to me through her.

So I forwarded the text to Je to encourage her too and show her God's wonder.

Just so cool. So yeah, we should be praying more often now. And Jean also mentioned she would rely on me a lot for spiritual guidance. Not necessary a bad thing seeing as it would mean I need to keep my spiritual walk in check. =)