Dinner gathering

Had a great meal today with my friends

Autumn fruit

house warming and eternity

At last had house warming with friends. We had a wonderful time together, singing and having good food to our hearts' content. Thank God for the precious moments! Life is short,
soon these happy times shall become our memory. Our youth and vitality will no longer last, however, we have new hope as Christians. 基督徒評論家及神學家F. W. Boreham說：「有一天，我短暫的人生將沒入黃昏，日落時刻也要來臨……到那時，在暮靄之中，異乎尋常的黎明卻要在我面前展現。在日落的最後一道光線之後，將有我從未見過的白晝升起；那一天將把我失去的歲月悉數追回，而且永不再有黃昏。」

Watoto Children's Choir

Last night I went to a concert with my sister. It was given by a group of children from Africa living in a ministry called Watoto's village. They were the orphans of Aids patients. Although they live in a poor country, they are fatherless and motherless, they are surrounded by wars and terrors, there is hope brought to them by Christ's love. Their song is full of energy and joy. We dance and sing with them and shared their vision. I like to listen to them speaking, in a special accent. They showed confidence and clearly express themselves. There is a part when the children told us one by one their dreams. Many of them hope to become doctors, pilots, teacher

愛 喜樂 生命

Dad's photo

A photo taken by Dad. I am still praying for him to put faith in Christ. I know God is doing His work.

赤徑的傍晚

A few cows resting beside the river.

Longke

A peep of the quiet beach through the forest.

Longke

The beautiful beach of Long Ke. Behind that, a Gospel rehabilitation farm.

張晓風的詩

太阳打翻了，金紅霞流滿西天;
月亮打翻了,白水銀一直淌到我床前;
春天打翻了,滚的滿山滿野的花儿,
清香打翻了,散成一隊隊的风;
风儿打翻了,飄入我小小沉沉的梦.

excerpt from http://www.rbcasia.org.sg

因着选择罪恶路，
羞辱击垮我灵魂！
但我谦卑呼求主，
他赐平安再泽我。
-D. De Haan

满有恩典的上帝会赐我们智慧去处理过去的错误抉择，并帮助我们在未来做出正确的决定。

Mushroom

A big big mushroom! It's about 20cm in diameter. It grow on top of cow's dung. The top has some brownish pigment on it.

Meditation on Jesus

Just before Jesus went for crucification,
he goes to a place called Kesimany with
his 3 disciples, John, James and Peter to
pray. There he meditates what is going to
happened to him and his heart is filled
with anguish and anxiety. Sweat come down
from his head and he frowns hard in pain,
yet he pray to God that His will be done
on him. His 3 disciples began to doze into
sleep while praying. Jesus come to them 3
times and see that they cannot keep their
eyes open. Though he know that they shall
betray and desert Him soon, he still asked
them gently to keep awake and pray with
him. After that He knows that the time for His
biggest mission on earth has come and He
accepted it with peace. The excessive
demand in work from time to time due to my
limitations and weakness cause me a lot of
anguish and anxiety too. To me, the stress
of work,family, interpersonal conflicts is
the cross I need to bear now. The disciple
respond to Jesus's situation with praying
.However, their flesh is weak and they
frequently cannot resist from dozing off.
So how are we able to get close to Jesus
in order to know Him and walk with him? My
interpretation is that We need to continue
to bear the cross with our best effort and
pray for each other.

Flower exhibition in Victoria park

This year's theme flower is Geranium. There are many different stalls. One particular spot exhibits herbal medicine that are possibly useful for treating cancer. A lot of space is used for artistic exhibitions. I stopped in one station where there are many cactus. Some are very chubby indeed. Most of the cactus is put in pot with pebbles . One pot of cactus looks like a piece of tumor . Another one is like being cut out from stone. I also saw a peculiar plant which can eat insects. It grow on tree trunks and need to be showered often.

visit to excel farm

更新園探訪分享 2007

一月二十七和二十八日的週末和弟兄姊妹再一次去到位於廣東省增城市的更生園福音戒毒所探訪。感謝主，給我們多一次彼此服事和建立的機會。我們一行七人，有雪聰、崇正、潤仙、富華、景鴻、現怡和我，很順利地到達了目的地，黃昏的日光溫和地斜照著更生園，雖然是隆冬，但園裡的天氣並不太寒冷，Vivien和其他弟兄們熱情地招待我們進入園內。由於房間已經一早打掃得非常乾淨，我們很快便可以安頓下來。這次在園裡總共有四位學員，其中一位是剛剛才進園裡的，他已有十幾年吸毒的經歷，過去一直無法成功戒除毒瘾，一直生活在恐懼和憂慮當中，這次是他姊姊送他到園裡來的。看見他讓我想起一節經文：「憂傷痛悔的心，主必不輕看。」{詩51:17}他重覆地說這次來是下定決心，定要戒除毒癮，把自己的生命奉獻給主。真的很高興見到神的工作在他的身上開始。我們一起禱告，為這位弟兄生命的改變感恩。

晚上現怡分享參加敬拜工作坊的經驗, 我們有一起唱詩和禱告服事的時間。弟兄們更不辭勞苦地幫我們預備好熱水，由於熱水爐壞了，他們必需把水一桶一桶地由樓梯抬上來給我們。主日早晨我們一起七時左右起來晨運 ─ 跑步和做體操。雖然很疲倦，但是大家都很認真地操練身體。完畢後，有一段靈修的時間。10點鐘就準時開始敬拜。這次由阿堅做主席，潤仙講道，富華分享了兩位曾經沉溺賭海的弟兄的得救見證，阿平也分享了他戒毒時的經歷，看見弟兄分享時候眼裡泛出淚光，心裡默默禱告，求主醫治他，給他喜樂與平安。

之後，景鴻帶我們查經，學員提出一些問題，都得到及時的回答。大家對於聖經的認識和理解都增加了。下午就是健康講座的時間，由我負責講解一些吸毒者有機會得到的疾病。弟兄姊妹們都積極地發問，感恩地雖然我在這方面的認識很有限，主都給我服事的機會。

這次探訪更生園，看見學員的人數雖然減少了，但有許多曾經在這裡受過栽培的學員都繼續和Vivien保持聯絡, 有些更有穩定的教會生活。而當地的地方政府也更多地接納更生園在戒毒者輔導與復康方面的工作。現在在增城的政府戒毒中心的戒毒人仕約有900多人，希望更生園在這方面的工作會有更多的參與，成為當地人的祝福。

twelve steps towards abstinence

1.we admitted we were powerless over addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2 came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
3. make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him
4. make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
5.admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
6. were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
7. humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. make a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
10 continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of the steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

meditation

Come and fill me up
(by Sandy Yu)

I humbly come to seek Your face,
come and fill me up,
come fill me up.
I long for Your dwelling place,
cleanse me from my sin,
come fill me up.

Jesus, my Lord, Jesus, my King,
Your precious blood washes me.
Jesus, my joy; Jesus my peace.
Grace flows down and covers me.

reading

Got loads of paper to read now. Really don't know how the writer is able write such a long paper, each 9-10 pages! Is it cost-effective to write such a long essay in order to convey a short message? How "cruel" it is to write more than 4 pages in an article! Protest! Protest! Well, just kidding. Work is work, still need to spare time for the reading. Dear Good Lord, please grant me patience to finish the work.

gift

Finally able to pass the English Bible out! Thank God!

rosemary

I 've got a bottle of rosemary which I do not know how to use. Just thinking of throwing it way. Out of curiosity, I search the internet and found the following information:

Rosemary has a very old reputation for improving memory, and has been used as a symbol for remembrance (as in worn during weddings, war commemorations and funerals) in Europe, probably as a result of this reputation. Students in ancient Greece are reported to have worn sprigs of rosemary in their hair while studying for exams to improve their memory, and mourners would throw it into graves as a symbol of remembrance for the dead. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia says, "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance".
Rosemary and its constituents carnosol and ursolic acid have been shown to inhibit the growth of skin tumors and to provide a natural anti-oxidant protection against skin cancer and photodamage. [citation needed]Don Quixote (Chapter XVII, 1st volume) mixes it in its recipe of the miraculous balm of Fierabras with revolting results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary

Is this true? Well there is two thing I learn from this : 1.the behaviour of Greece is quite similar to Japanese who also wear a cloth on their head when they prepare for examination. 2.I can keep the bottle