friend's sharing

Today I heard a very touching sharing from a sister. Her husband die 20 years ago of cancer. At that time when people ask him, do you still have faith in GOD? His answer is, yes! I’m glad that this happen to me instead of someone who doesn’t know GOD yet. Because I know HIM, I have peace in my mind, and I know where I’m going in the end.

2013 application

Oh! Lord please prepares the best for me. I’m still waiting the answer from my application. You know what the best is for me. No matter the result I know it’s from you.

welcome perfect strangers

For those who walk in my life, sometimes you’re not necessary help me or even hurt me. I give thanks to those perfect strangers. No matter how I learn something from it.

2013 chinese moon festival

The Chinese moon festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, it’s a full moon. It’s also one of the big holidays in Chinese’s culture.

There’re legends about it. Here’s one of them. In the ancient past, there was a hero named [Hou] Yi who was excellent at shooting. His wife was Chang'e. One year, the ten suns rose in the sky together, causing great disaster to people. Yi shot down nine of the suns and left only one to provide light.

After the hero Houyi shot down nine of the ten suns, he was pronounced king by the thankful people. However, he soon became a conceited and tyrannical ruler. In order to live long without death, he asked for the elixir from Xiwangmu. But his wife, Chang'e, stole it on the fifteenth of August because she did not want the cruel king to live long and hurt more people. She took the magic potion to prevent her husband from becoming immortal. Houyi was so angry when discovered that Chang'e took the elixir, he shot at his wife as she flew toward the moon, though he missed. Chang'e fled to the moon and became the spirit of the moon. Houyi died soon because he was overcome with great anger. Thereafter, people offer a sacrifice to Chang'e on every lunar fifteenth of August to commemorate Chang'e's action.
At that day friends and family meet together, it’s like family reunion. Together we talk and eat some traditional food usually eat at this day, moon cakes, grapefruits, bbq …etc.

evergreen rehabilitation center sharing 1

I remember that when the first time walk in the rehabilitation center. I feel so warm and welcomed. Everybody there is so friendly, saying good morning, hello, or how are you to me.

When I walk in the room that we are supposed to be with those residents, I greet with each one. One of them ( 司徒伯伯 ), when he first see me, he say to me that I look just like his sister. I then joking to him say then your sister must be very pretty, just like me. And immediately I feel like I’m not just a visitor or a stranger here. I’m like walk into a big family of mine. Others thanks us to be here to visit them, give me the blessings before I have chance bless them, share their life experiences, call me a beautiful lady, say that I have a beautiful smile.

I also try my best use different language to talk to them. I only have very limited words that I know how to day in other language. ( 黃伯伯 )For example, say good morning in Japanese is おはようございます, thank you is ありがとうございます, and good bye is さような. And some other Chinese dialogues like Cantonese and Taiwanese. When I try this, they are so happy; they give me two thumbs up instead of correcting me.

And also should try to memorize the following, Jesus loves you, in Japanese                イエスはあなたを愛して, this is the way to pronounce it, Iesu wa anata o aishite.

Jesus loves you, in Spanish, Jesús Te ama.

nervous

Nervous can always ruin the performance.

How can we take away the nervous? Some people are natural on stage in front of crowds. I’m not, I always feel nervous, so afraid of making mistake(s). But the more you worry about making mistake, it seems the more likely to make mistakes.

voila!

Today I finally know how to spell voila correctly. Voila is used to express success or satisfaction. It’s original come from French. I like the way how it is pronounced. Before I always thought the word beginning with the letter w.