Easter

Man Of Sorrows - Hillsong Worship

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C6jXqdtZi10

See the stone is rolled away 
Behold the empty tomb 
Hallelujah God be praised 
He's risen from the grave

Prince Of Heaven Lyric Video - Hillsong Worship

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HOHSIXZsabo

Prince of heaven Jesus, 
hope of the world

The meaning of

The other day I was driving home from work, saw a guy was flipping an advertising board; he had his earphone on and he was singing and dancing happily. 

This menial job of holding an advertising board on the roadside may not be paid a lot or has a luxury office or anything more.

Sometimes being happy could be simple and easy.

Insect

Who can identify what kind of insect is this?
It looks like a hybrid of fly and bee to me.
It is too big to be either.

Last week when my son took the clothes in from outside after dried, this insect came along in between the clothes, it flew away right after he put the clothes down.

Look! There's an insect, said I.

Oh! I didn't see it, said my son.

Obviously it didn't see you coming either, said I, we all laughed.

And my son tried to kill it with the flapper, it flew in circles and buzzing sound like a fly, a huge one, real loud, like it is angry or crazy or scary or whatever.

Lemon

Today a senior friend came and brought a lot of home grown lemons to share, and he asked me, do you want a bag, I said yes to him.

First, it's hard for me to say no, you know, Chinese, secondly, I know that how joyful is the feeling when you can share something with others, and I didn't want to ruin it.

But actually I do have a lemon tree myself, feeling rather guilty to take the lemons, therefore, before I left for home from work, I asked one of the coworker to see if she need the lemon, it turned out she also has a lemon tree herself, I felt really bad at that instant.

And then before I start the car, I checked my email and Facebook, awe to find that one of my friend was asking for some lemons,yay!

Pastor

Randomly talking and sharing something about our church is searching for a new English pastor with a friend while we were walking at the arboretum, and saw a couple whom I haven't seen them since two years ago.

This makes me feel even sadder,

About two years ago the English pastor and some congregations left the church and then a new pastor came but now again this stay-two-year-pastor will leave this church soon.

Where is the bread

Sometimes when we arrived church, we can smell the freshly baked French breads, baked by one of the Elders, waiting for us all to taste.

Where is the bread? I wondered this morning.

Then the bread came alone in the instant, hooray!

Today we had cheese- jalapeno and sourdough bread.

Snack

Little bags of variety of chips, we ate like happy little kids.

We normally won't buy or consume these snacks for healthy reason.

But once in a while should be ok, right?

Genius

Have you ever woken up right when the alarm clock is about sound?

And set the exact temperature that you need to bake in the dark without turning on the light?

Homemade Marshmallows

You won't believe that you only need three ingredients, yes and it includes water, you just need some patience and time though.

Next time I’ll try to add 3 instead of 2 packages of unflavored gelatin and blend them with the mixer for a bit long time to make the marshmallows firmer.

And these marshmallows are perfect for eat alone, with the hot coco or add some other ingredient to make something like peanut nougat.

Also the reason that I chose unsweetened cocoa powder as the coating instead of powdered sugar is to rid the extra sugar, or if you can use cornstarch, then you probably need to bake it before using it and again that will add some additional calories to it.

2 packages unflavored gelatin

1 cup cold water, divided

1 cup brown sugar

Unsweetened cocoa powder

Place the gelatin into the bowl with 1/2 cup of the water.

In a saucepan combine the remaining 1/2 cup water and brown sugar over medium high heat, cover and allow cooking.

  

Cook until boil for couple of minutes then immediately remove from heat.

Set the mixer's speed to high. Whip until the mixture becomes very thick and is lukewarm.

Lightly spray cocoa powder to a 13 by 9-inch baking pan.

Pour the mixture into the prepared pan, using a lightly oiled spatula for spreading evenly into the pan. Dust the top with enough of cocoa powder to lightly cover. 

Allow the marshmallows to sit uncovered for at least 4 hours and up to overnight.

Turn the marshmallows out onto a cutting board and cut into 1-inch squares using a pizza wheel dusted with the cocoa powder. Once cut, lightly dust all sides of each marshmallow with the cocoa powder. 

handmade water bottle holder

Reckless Love

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc6SSHuZvQE

VERSE 1
Before I spoke a word You were singing over me
You have been so, so good to me
Before I took a breath You breathed Your life in me
You have been so, so kind to me

CHORUS
Oh the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God
Oh it chases me down, fights ’til I’m found, leaves the ninety-nine
I couldn’t earn it, I don’t deserve it, still You give Yourself away
Oh the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God

VERSE 2
When I was Your foe still Your love fought for me
You have been so, so good to me
When I felt no worth You paid it all for me
You have been so, so kind to me

BRIDGE
There’s no shadow You won’t light up
Mountain You won’t climb up coming after me
There’s no wall You won’t kick down
Lie You won’t tear down coming after me

Answer

Today 's sky looks like yes-n-no, it'll rain.

So Will I

So Will I (100 Billion X) - Hillsong United //With Lyrics//

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuYOnYL6G0Y

VERSE 1
God of creation
There at the start
Before the beginning of time
With no point of reference
You spoke to the dark
And fleshed out the wonder of light

CHORUS 1
And as You speak
A hundred billion galaxies are born
In the vapour of Your breath the planets form
If the stars were made to worship so will I
I can see Your heart in everything You’ve made
Every burning star
A signal fire of grace
If creation sings Your praises so will I

VERSE 2
God of Your promise
You don’t speak in vain
No syllable empty or void
For once You have spoken
All nature and science
Follow the sound of Your voice

CHORUS 2
And as You speak
A hundred billion creatures catch Your breath
Evolving in pursuit of what You said
If it all reveals Your nature so will I
I can see Your heart in everything You say
Every painted sky
A canvas of Your grace
If creation still obeys You so will I

BRIDGE
If the stars were made to worship so will I
If the mountains bow in reverence so will I
If the oceans roar Your greatness so will I
For if everything exists to lift You high so will I
If the wind goes where You send it so will I
If the rocks cry out in silence so will I
If the sum of all our praises still falls shy
Then we’ll sing again a hundred billion times

VERSE 3
God of salvation
You chased down my heart
Through all of my failure and pride
On a hill You created
The light of the world
Abandoned in darkness to die

CHORUS 3
And as You speak
A hundred billion failures disappear
Where You lost Your life so I could find it here
If You left the grave behind You so will I
I can see Your heart in everything You’ve done
Every part designed in a work of art called love
If You gladly chose surrender so will I
I can see Your heart
Eight billion different ways
Every precious one
A child You died to save
If You gave Your life to love them so will I

TAG
Like You would again a hundred billion times
But what measure could amount to Your desire
You’re the One who never leaves the one behind

Mutiltasking

We always tell kids that work on one thing at a time.

But when you do the job searching, you will find that one of the job requirements is you must great at multitasking.

Nightmare

yesterday I had a terrible dream; in the dream I was very late for work and I didn't even realize it until almost noon time then I tried to find my phone to call my boss to let her know but I couldn't find my phone, when I finally found my phone there was no miss call or message from my boss which I thought she must call me like crazy and wonder why I didn't show up at work, and then I tried to call my boss and I didn't even remember my work phone.

I know that I must have some pressures from the work.

And I shared my dream to my kids in Chinese.

Me: 昨天我作了一個惡夢.

Kids: what!?

Me: "惡夢" means "nightmare".

Kids: you make a nightmare!?

Me: no! I had a nightmare yesterday.

For if you translate "作" directly into English is "make".

We all laughed.

And there the pressures were relieved.