快樂工程: 2月 2017

2017年2月24日星期五

40 days of LOVE by Rick Warren

Some remarkable points I should print to myself :-
1. The first purpose of my life is to be loved by God. Yes it is important to serve, obey, and trust him, but your first purpose is to love him. Wow! HE made me to love me! The reason I'm alive is because God wanted to love me.
2. How to deal with confrontation- manner counts. Right + Rude = Wrong
3. A Church family moves me out of self-centred isolation. The local church is the classroom for learning how to get along in God's family and learn to care about others and share the experiences of others. "If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it. Or if one part of our body is honoured, all the other parts share its honour." (1 Cor 12:26) To serve, to fellowship are important; to love is the most essential.
4. You are called to belong; not just believe.
5. The antidote for Loneliness is God's unfailing love. I will never be separated from His love. By chance or by choice,we may lose some loved ones.
6. Church attender Vs Church members = consumer Vs contributor;
7. Church is a place in reality that I love in action. To love real people NOT ideal people. I'm called to love imperfect sinners, just as God does.
8. If you want to grow, you need other believers. The phrase "each other" or "one another" is used more than 50 times in the NT. We are commanded to love each other, pray for each other, encourage each other, admonish each other, greet each other, serve each other, teach each other, bear each other's burdens, forgive each other, submit to each other, be devoted to each other, and many other mutual tasks. This is biblical membership. See, how important to get connected to the church.

2017年2月23日星期四

Feb review

Feb 2017 will soon

to me in a few days.
The theme of this month :- Love each other.

For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other.
1 John 3:11

In Feb, I decided to love more in action.
I started a 28~day bible study plan on 40 days of LOVE by Rick Warren to dig into the topic of LOVE. Yes, sure it refreshes me...☘

. Points are jotted in another blog article.

Over the month, during the long CNY holidays, I paid a visit to some elderly sisters with Connie. Really want to

them as God loves me.
I also started studying bible with a colleague during Wednesday lunch break instead of my regular Wed fasting, a means to stay close to my Lord.
I get connected to a single mom thru prayers and gatherings.

🏻that I will share bible with her thru role modelling.

God trains me up how to rely on Him to grow in faith thru life struggles esp relating to parenting my adult girls.

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🏻that my love for them will make them feel I am the one whom they can count on in struggling time

. Thanks for the test and we passed it.

Love is a choice, that I decide to persist with commitment because it is the message I heard at the beginning.!

2017年2月21日星期二

My spring of life...He wants me to live with joy

I was consumed by the controversial Donald Tsang’s case – Misconduct in office. Finally he was convicted of the charge and will be sent to jail…his retirement ends up in the jail. What a tragedy!

I related it to my past experience and felt sad just like Jeremiah in Lamentations 3:19-21 The sadness overwhelmed me that even my girls could envisage.

"I’ll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I’ve swallowed. I remember it all—oh, how well I remember— the feeling of hitting the bottom."

I shared my sadness in CA’s Tuesday Fellowship… I admitted my fragility. And looked up to Him for help… just like the lady once suffered from Cerebral Palsy was healed by Vision. Thanks…

I want to change my life (at least focus at the present), I have to change my mind/my thoughts. So that’s what Jeremiah did. You see Jeremiah’s mental switch in the next verse:-

But there’s one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope: ^22-24God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out, his merciful love couldn’t have dried up. They’re created new every morning. How great your faithfulness! I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over). He’s all I’ve got left.

God loves me…He is God-the eternal, all knowing, infallible God who created me to be loved by HIM and will never leave me just because of my being imperfect, fallible!

2017年2月2日星期四

第二間書店

放了幾天的春節假期，也有些計劃，跟著日常書店介紹逛逛城中不同二手書店，也是一樂也。

最可愛的，我的小女兒同行：她陪我，我也陪她。這是我最珍惜的。

我選擇的第二間是「艺鵠」，位於灣仔軒尼詩道365號富德樓20樓 : 優閒的空間，寬敞自由自在，或坐坐或看看，當日還有年青人在此高談濶論，開會談大計.....，我們就在此隨意讓自己的手在書面上、書脊上感受著作者用心創作那本書的熱誠；眼睛也隨著空間遊走，由高至低，由前門至後面，由紅橙黃綠青藍至紫；心也在這時間空間靜靜地定格了，享受著這片刻心之恬靜。