When we are wealthy..........

Sometimes I can't help wondering if God brought us to our knees where finances are concerned so that he may bless us and help us become wealthy and prosperous and be a better steward of his financial resources.

Its not that we are that poor but perhaps my accounting background, thanks to NTU, had made me very conscious of our financial networth. Its in the BOLD RED for a long time, similar to the US debt, its is growing with the monthly deficits and its depressing.

Yet amid all these financial gloom, there is always this HOPE that things will change for good. The lord of our finances will turn the situation around. He can make us the head and not the tail, the lender and giver and not the borrower.

We have many pressing needs and wants but when we became wealthy, here is a list of things that I expect will take place:

1) We have our own property!!! No more renting apartments and worrying about rental payments. I ask God for a place that Yan who possess a Masters in Architecture, can rebuild from scratch, complete with a lap pool, waterfall, roof garden and fruit and vegetable patch. I would still love to live in the east and near the beach.

2) a family car with a chauffeur. I am ashamed to have only driven once with my mum in the passenger seat after getting my licence in 1992? way before the "MERGE" traffic signs were up.

3) I want to buy a really good violin. How good? at least $25,000 though I would certainly love to invest in vintage violins like the JB Guadagnini, Guarneri del Gesu and Antonio Stradivari. I want to bid for them at auctions like sothebys but of course, will gladly receive them as gifts or loans

4) I am passionate about music education. I want to set up a music school and sell instruments too. Not the yamaha or cristofori type but one that "invests" in the students, one on one and help them succeed in the classical music world. I want to be a music and instrument sponsor.

5)A giver to the arts and music locally. I feel more for the arts than the kidney patients etc. I no longer Giro donate to such charities as I think the government should provide more grant and these charities and church organisations should not accumulate reserves but should help defray costs of dialysis etc

6) Travel again, especially to Europe, my favourite continent and buy violins attend operas and concerts, visit the museums and shop of course!!

7) We had been tithing more and more, 1% more each year and will tithe from the businesses. I now believe in tithes more than the stock market as a way of growing wealth. Afterall, this is God's Way we had better follow it!

8)I want to play well, perform and also impart the violin skills acquired. I can't wait to attend recitals especially that of Yan's and by faith, Rachel's and in the very future our students'. Hee

9) I want to buy a Steinway Concert Grand - for the love of my life. Yan

10) I am determined to be cash rich for business opportunites and also for giving and sponsorship of muscial education. I believe God will bless our family and make our family a blessing to others especially musically.