3rd one is don't play play...

It's been great to be able to have a loud baby cries at home once in a while. I remember the time when Cassandra was still 1 month old, both Chii and I were very "gen jiong" about her, many often we tends to overreact.

First time parents mah...

Now that after about 7 years after our first child and 3 years after Jefferson, Grace is borned and we have mixed feeling over the birth of our new baby girl. One is the newborn joy and the dear baby hugging warmth, also the not so bright side would surely be the worries over the night cry and the "hardship" in nurturing the small little baby from zero life skill to a full "functional" adult.

But all in all, I believe God is still go

od. As I looked back, no matter how many times I thought "oh sh**! " or many moments of "How am I going to deal with this?", we still manage to survive the challenges ... Sometime I'm still confused how I managed to overcome them "was it me? my own strength? Saya boleh meh?".

However, bible teaches me that FAITH is when I choose to believe it's Him. So I choose to believe that it was His hand that led me and leads me. Choosing to believe is the first step for Faith in Exercising for me...

It's complicated but so simple, it's easy and yet difficult to comprehend and master. No wonder Jesus wants me to be a like child when it comes to faith.

But sure enough, what happened has caused Chii and I to grow so much, whether in parenting or how to become a better son or daughter for our parents.

He is good, all the time. Praise Him.

James， 加油！琦琦，加油！（傻傻的，自己跟自己讲话）

:- )

God is good, she and the little one are safe!

感谢主，母女平安。谢谢！

真正好的事

蒙神的祝福，我们一家大小4口，连女佣5人，年初到现在都能平安的度过。

神对我们真正好， 祂祝福了我们有了这新家，也通过我的兄弟姐妹的祝福了我们，

我们也喜欢这家，感谢主，也住得平安！

感谢神的保守，医生说琦琦母女都平安健康，并说这星期五要让我们的小女儿出来见面了。

在此，愿祂更不间断的保守琦琦母女俩都能平安，健康和生产顺利。

感谢神！

from,

神的小兵

复活节来了！

来临星期日就是我们庆祝耶稣复活的日子。

我要挑战我自己，给自己15分钟时间，安静的，什么都不做，单单的来思想关于耶稣复活前后的事.

I think it's not a bad idea, for me to settle down, it maybe easy to "freeze" body movement, but it's not easy to try fill our thoughts with God's things for 15 minutes for me, esp. without the help of music or worship, just give thanks and thinking of Him.

I admire some brother sisters that could easily do this... Praise God.

but one way I figured can help me do this, is to pray in the spirit (i.e. pray in tongue), that helps me focus on Him.

DO try this at home :- )

Invite God to the home, not only the house

Thank God the 3rd Saturday of Mar-2010, we have officially moved into our house in Jalan B7. God has been good because it is not easy to lower our renovation cost without His intervention. He blessed me with many.

The house is not perfect, some leakage here and there still, haven't been settled but we still like the house. Not only because it's a bigger place for a bigger family now, but more importantly every inch of our own effort from concept, execution to reality... It's like a dream come true in certain extend :-P

The other day our previous landlord said Bukit Mas has brought us many blessing and we have 3 children since we stay, and I thought it's true. God uses a good place to bless His people, and I believe we are blessed because we invite Him to not only the house, but also to the home.

Therefore, I believe our new place of stay will continue to prosper us and be blessed by God, because the very same wonderful and merciful God is with us, whichever place we stay.

Same goes to Metro, I believe we will be blessed not because we are in the bigger hall or place, but the very same God that dwells with His people wherever we moved.

Glory to His name ! and Thankful :- )

God has no problem blessing us

I may have read it many times, thought about it many times, or taught it to someone, or even experienced it many times, but some how it is still difficult for me to TRUST that our God is a God of many blessings, no God of stingy. I guess I tried hard to understand God, but still does it from a human way.

When I give away something that I have, then I would have less in my pocket. So subconsciously I would think God is also like me, not easy to give away. Or maybe I think, He will always be over careful that if He bless me more than enough, the blessings may "spoilt" me or something. Point is, very hard to believe His abundant blessing is real.

As God spoke to me recently, then I understand (again) that He owns everything, including even things that I own. He can make things out of nothing, and He has all the resources in the world that He can mobilised to make my 'wish come true', that means if He like it, he can make Bill Gates knock on my door and give me a cheque. Well, sometimes He may choose to train up my 'fishing skill' or give me fishing rod rather than feeding me fish all the time.

All this that He has planned for me, has got one purpose. He loves me and has planned a good plan to bless me.

God wants to bless His church, Metro. and what I understand from Him is, He wants to bless His church through His people. I learned that if God wants to bless His church through me, He can choose to bless my 'pocket' so that He can bless the church through me.

But before that happen, I guess I must 'practise' give more than I should to the Kingdom.... then He will look down from heaven and maybe He'll says this ... " Hmmmm... this fellow is picking it up already, he's cool. I think He won't hold the money to himself. Let's give him more, might as well work through one of our kids then other means... "

Good plan huh? Let me practise to give more. Because through the telescope of faith, that's where we see His plan coming to past. If we stop believing, He would hold the horse, waiting for me to connect with Him with faith again.

God will bless Metro as a church, and God will bless us a child of God !

Crossroad 在年底

转眼间又到了年底了. 好像感觉过得很快?

是我自己没在留意? 还是太过专注在其他事情?

Some family things, company and also ministry things has keep my mind busy enough. All these things required a lot of my attention and mental-power, sometimes I also don't know what to do. I noticed I'm no longer pressure-immune like I used to think I was. At least my stomach told me that fact, 'it' complaints already.

Recently I was very distracted, and unable to focus really well on exercising plans many occasions in the past few months. Felt like things out of control, lost of direction(s), feeling very helpless in fact. I noticed I

seldom feel that way, I noticed I was usually very confident in handling things of my own.

Well, what can I say, God is real and I'm almost 100% sure by now that He really cares for my growth, as a servant and at the same time as a leader. It's kind of complicated emotions. On one hand, I should be more "put down hard" (放心) cause He has plans for me. On the other hand, I'm also taking on my new frontier newer path way for my career, family and ministry, you know, it's dark and scary out there in the new frontier.

I certainly hope that God will be brighter that I can imagine in the dark.

What's important is, I am beginning to believe that He is.

It's been a while

It's been a while since we have this blog and it's receiving relatively good respond from people who knows us. Thank God for each and everyone.

We used to have 2 constant 'updater' to help posting to make the variety of this blog, and by God's grace despite everyone busy schedule, they are still willing to contribute to the content, so as the others active such as Ai Chin, How Giong, Hui Theng, Chii Chii etc.

I once dream of a place where many Christian can come together and live as if a heaven on earth, then I realised that was only a fantasy, probably will have to wait till the real heaven for that version. Well, even the Jesus follower has human imperfection.

Then I dream of having a cyber place where many Jesus follower can come together and share their life exciting moments, testimonies and really touching photos in one spot. Then this blog thing was being brought up to me and I noticed it is possible at all.

Unfortunately, then life is fill with busy schedule too... and also I understand not everyone is very 'cyber', including myself. So now I noticed our blog is actually visited by mostly non-Metro member in stead.

Wait wait... this is not sounding like we are going to close this down :- )

This, will remain a sharing spot for those who wish to share their thanksgiving to God.

It will be a place where you are too shy to share testimony to glorify God during prayer meeting.
It will be a place where you feel least important to give God the glory during watch night service.
It will be a place for our sisters like Hui Then & Ai Chin who can still be very near, yet very far.
It will be a place for those who suddenly feel like needing to read passage of encouragement.

Overall, I hope this is going to be a place for you :-)

I love to see God's people together, be it in cell, sunday or here.

See you around, friend.

It's a season of hard landing

I remembered when I first accepted Christ, the first couple of years I actually thought my life is going to be just wonderful, like in the movie you know.

Then later I realised there are stages in the walk with God ... and then at one point I actually thought I know a lot of things. Well, I thought I was smart and quick learner.

Then come to another stage I actually realised that there are more then stages in the walk, and there's also ups and downs in every of those stages too! and it's not a good news, because I don't like the feeling of down...

Recently, I smelled the season is changing for me. It's time for a hard landing.

I've been rebellious to the authorities and I was not playing by the rule of the game, I play it by my own rule. I fly the plane my way. Well God does have an "instruction manual" for us, to show us how to fly my plane, safely according to the creator way.

I repented, before the Lord, that I wasn't following carefully on His "instruction manual", then only I realised, that I was not repenting enough through out my walk with God. I couldn't recall when was the last time I was crying before the Lord for forgiveness... I was playing 'stiff neck' with God. Well guess who won ?

So I see the hard landing has come, that we shall be responsible for my own action. Plane crash and we can get hurt badly. But I also believe, that the Lord is always there, ready to forgive us, to save us. Well our plane may crash, work maybe wasted, but our life will be spared.

That's the gospel isn't it ? ;- )


人 在 那 根 基 上 所 建 造 的 工 程 若 存 得 住 ， 他 就 要 得 賞 賜 . 人 的 工 程 若 被 燒 了 ， 他 就 要 受 虧 損 ， 自 己 卻 要 得 救 ； 雖 然 得 救 ， 乃 像 從 火 裡 經 過 的 一 樣 。
歌 林 多 前 書 3:14~15

超乎一切的上帝

“感谢赞美神!!”.. 这是今早4.30am凌晨起来所做的一件事…就是感谢赞美神…大家可别误会了我的意思, 以为我好像非常属灵的… 而是我觉得自己太过亏欠神了… 所以一大清早天还未亮的时候, 就起身向神认罪悔改, 求神怜悯我…

接着就打开了我们的部落格lifeisabouthim, 又那么碰巧就读到了James所写的 “Busy economy, Busy Christian” 这一篇文章… 第一个时间提醒了我, my life is about HIM... 是的, 祂奇妙的作为在我身上…

因祂为我开道路 :

在所谓目前经济不景气的时刻, 祂的手一路的牵引着我, 让我看到祂奇妙的作为在我身上. 因着祂的带领, 我看到了我目前的经济状况是美好的.. 因我相信祂是赐丰盛生命的主… 因之前会很担心自己的经济状况而无法参与教会所实行的建堂基金计划… 自己的确为了这件事而感到非常担忧及没有信心…

但感谢赞美上帝, 虽然在人看来是不可能的事, 但在神凡是都能.. 我就凭着信心参与了这建堂基金的计划, 认捐了一个数目… 感谢主, 凭着那次信心的宣告, 我看到了上帝的作为, 祂不单加倍了我的经济, 也加倍了我对祂的信心… 因我看到了当我们凭着信心去行每一样事情时, 祂必会赐给我们意想不到的平安及收获… 感谢赞美主!!

就好像James所写到的 “Our God and His people should not be shaken by the cycle of financial crisis or instability of demand-and-supply market. Our God and His people should be above all the reports from bloomberg.com.”

感谢主, 因祂是超乎一切的上帝!! 愿一切的尊贵荣耀都归给我们至高无上的上帝!!

Why we are here?

收到一个姐妹电邮, 非常真实, 非常有鼓励性的对话. 我想借着这地方贴出来, 好让你也能 copy & paste, 然后 email 给你的朋友.... 

An interview with Rick Warren (Author of Purpose Driven Life)

In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said: "People ask me, What is the purpose of life?" 

And I respond: "In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. 

One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body - but not the end of me. 
I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. 

We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense. 
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're j! ust coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. 

The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort;God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. 
We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness. 

This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer. 

I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore. 

Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life. 

No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.  You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems: 

If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, which i! s my problem, my issues, my pain. But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others. 

We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her - it has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people. 

You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life. 
Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy. 
It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease. 

So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72. 

First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases. 
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church. 
Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation. 
Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free. 

We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? 
Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)? 

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. 

That's why we're called human beings, not human doings. 

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. 

Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. 

Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. 

Painful moments, TRUST GOD. 

Every moment, THANK GOD

年真的过去了 :- )

真的快乐不知时日过.新年15天像转眼就过去了. 我觉得这一个新年里, 我最大的收获就是能够有很多的时间与我的家人相处. 包括能够陪我岳父母外出游玩, 让太太和我也能在团员的季节里一尽儿女的本分.

现在假期完了, 上班时间表我想应该恢复了两个字 : "烦"和"忙", 唉~ :-(
上班会让我想到各样的工作, 烦恼, 策略啦, 计划啦!
唉, 有时真的会连饭都吃不下的. 说起来, 压力还真满大的...

但今天我想说的是...

我想感谢神, 因为神保守我, 让我还能为我的工作烦和忙, 因为许多人都在这个年头失去了他们的工作. 想忙都不能啊!

我想感谢神, 因为祂让我在这假期里, 虽然像很快过去, 但我的电池被充电了.

我想感谢神, 虽然我们还没有美丽的大房子, 但有美丽的家.

我想感谢神, 因为祂的祝福和保守, 让我和琦能有这么可爱的儿子和女儿.

我想感谢神, 虽然在百般生活压力之下, 能皆着服侍神反而得着释放, 更新.

我想感谢神, 因为祂会带领我度过难关和风暴, 因为祂是一个"连风和海还也听从他"的神 (太8:27)









嘿嘿, 现在回想一下, 感谢神, 这样的新年也还不赖喔! 感恩 :- )

这个新年, 好好服侍我们的双亲 :- )

我收到了这些图片电邮. 想与大家分享. 这个新年里, 做个基督的好榜样 :- )

申 5:16 “当照耶和华你 神所吩咐的，孝敬父母，使你得福，并使你的日子在耶和华你 神所赐你的地上，得以长久"。 利 19:3 "你们各人都当孝敬父母，也要守我的安息日。 我是耶和华你们的神"

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A day of Snow

It is Christmas season or Season of love. The whole world is busy with all kind of ‘business.’ All of us are preparing to share the good news of Jesus Christ. Some people are sharing the good news of Christ through big performance in churches; some people are sharing through giving presents; and some are sharing through open their warm houses to friends. After all the most important is to share with Jesus’ name.

I am not sure about the situation in Malaysia. Over here, the word ‘Merry Christmas’ is getting less and less. It is replaced by ‘happy holiday, holly joylly holiday, and yadiyeddah,,,,,whatever!!!’ Why do people replace Merry Christmas with all these words that make no sense? The word Christmas is originated as a compound meaning of Christ’s Mass. It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038. It means celebration of Christ. People are trying to take away the Star of Christmas, Jesus Christ, from Christmas. We as a Christian, do we celebrate our Christmas with Jesus. To remind you and myself, celebrate our Christmas everyday with Jesus Christ as the main character in our life story.

Dec 10 2008 was my final exam day also a day that God rewarded me with snow. It was because He said that I am a good girl; I did very well on my final. Hahah whatever!!!! Dec 10, was the day that I first saw snow, OH,,,,,what a wonderful God. God is such a fine designer. Every little drop of snowflake, which does not bigger than a millimeter, has its own design. When I saw the snow, I was not only thank God for the snow, but also for His great creation. Thank God for taking care of every detail of every small little thing that might be “now you see, now you don’t.” We are the only creature that God created with spirit; therefore, God will sure take care of us more that anything else. Let celebration His creation with Jesus Christ as the main character….

Ai-chin

我的天父上帝....

今天读到这篇简短的文章, 再次的提醒了我, 我们的上帝是谁??? 请花一至两分钟的时间来阅读这简短的文章, 也许会帮助我们更加了解我们的上帝....

萬一我恐懼、灰心、焦慮，
那是因為我忘記了我的天父上帝是誰。

我忘記了祂的權能──其實祂萬事都能。
我忘記了祂的旨意──其實我整個一生，祂早已為我安排妥當。
我忘記了祂的同在──其實祂永遠近在我身旁，準備提供及時的幫助。
我忘了祂的主權──其實祂永遠掌控一切，即使有時候我自己掌控不了。
我忘了祂所賜的平安──其實祂所賜的永遠是出人意外的平安。

無助就是轉向信心的第一步，認知人強烈的需要，
和上帝全然能滿足人的需要、正是信心的起點。

愿上帝祝福你! :-)

我收到的一则电邮

这是我收到一位姐妹的电邮, 我觉得内容很好. 所以就照原文把这短故事贴上来.

让我想起, 耶稣是为所有的人上十架的. 我们也应该好好的教导我们的下一代, 能拥有真正的世界观, 希望孩子们能以耶稣的心爱世上每一种人.

在美國，有位白人婦女帶著 6 歲大的兒子出遠門，找來了計程車，司機是位黑人。

這 6 歲的兒子從未見過黑人，心中非常的害怕，就問媽媽：

「 這人是不是壞人，為什麼會長得黑嚕嚕 ?」
黑人司機聽了很難過。
此時白人婦女告訴兒子：「這位司機叔叔，不是壞人，他是一個很好的人。」
兒子沈默半晌再問道：「既然他不是壞人，那他是不是做了什麼壞事，所以天父在懲罰他 ?」

黑人聽了淚水在眼眶中打轉，他很想知道這白人婦女怎樣回答 ?
媽媽說：「他是個很好的人，也沒有做壞事。咱們家花園的花，有紅、有白、有黃... 是不是 ?」
「是啊！是啊 !」

「那花的種子是不是都黑色的 ? 」
孩子想了一下，「對啊！都是黑的。」
「黑色的種子，開出色彩鮮美的花朵，讓這世界多采多姿，是不是 ?」
「是啊！」孩子恍然大悟地說：

「那司機叔叔不是壞人嘍！感謝司機叔叔，您讓這世界多采多姿，我要為您祈禱。」
天真的孩子在一旁禱告著，黑人司機的淚水奪眶而下，心想：

「 身為黑人被世人瞧不起，今日，這位白人婦女如此溫婉地教導孩子，

解除孩子心中對我的恐懼，為我祈禱與祝福。真得好好的謝謝她。」

此時，目的地到了，黑人司機趕緊下車為白人母子開車門，感激的說：

「夫人，謝謝您， 您的一席話，讓我的人生，充滿光明希望，不再晦暗，夫人，謝謝您 !」

很美麗的女子，是不是 ?
這是發生在美國的真實故事。第一次聽到時，深深憾醒沈睡的心。
不止一次的讚嘆這位美麗的女子那高度智慧的言語，教導孩子不要有分別心的同時，更溫暖了傷痕纍纍的心。

+ , - , x , ÷

大家可别误会, 我不是在骂脏话哦…. 而是前几天, 读了一篇短篇, 觉得满有意思的, 在这里想和大家一起分享.

作者说到, 庸庸碌碌的人们, 所有人生的追求, 都能以四个符号来概括. 什么符号呢? 就是加 (+), 减(-), 乘(x), 除(÷).

里头的内容大至说到每个工作者, 都希望自己的薪金, 利润当然是加加加…, 繁重的工作量当然是减减减…. 什么是乘呢? 作者说... 狂想一下, 最好升级乘倍! 一连三级跳. 尽快的升到最高级. 那除呢?? 因这作者的工作是位作家, 那他“除”了当作家, 他还能干什么呢??

作者又问, 那作为基督徒的, 会怎样看这加 (+), 减(-), 乘(x), 除(÷)? 当然希望恩膏会加添, 服事减少, 财富乘倍, 除去不喜欢的会众. 作者说, 可是 “狂想”归 “狂想”, 一位牧师却告诫说 : “加! 感恩心要加倍! 减, 对人生不如意事的埋怨要减少; 乘呢? 信靠主的信心要乘! 除呢? 该除去, 是烦恼.”

最后作者的结论是 : 活着要感恩, 遇事不埋怨, 信心加倍, 除去烦忧.

使徒保罗说得好 : “我知道怎样处卑贱, 也知道怎样处丰富 : 或饱足, 或饥饿; 或有余, 或缺乏, 随时随在, 我都得了秘诀.” (腓立比书 4:12)

---这就是丰富喜乐的人生了.
---这道理原来这么简单啊!

让我们彼此勉励吧!!

My Car was Found

A month ago, someone stole my car. Today, a police officer called me and told me that my car was found. Praise the Lord. The time when I received the call, I was supposed to be in the class. Thank God that I did not have class today. Otherwise, I would not able to receive the call and would have to pay extra $300 for the car to put in police department’s store. (legal gangster)

During the first week, I had hope that my car would be found. However, week after week, information after information (cars were stolen and could not find, even if they were found, the parts would be gone), I lost my hope. Nevertheless, I did not lose my faith in God. I kept on praying to God to have His way. I prayed that my car would be found, but I did not have enough faith. I prayed to God “God, I know that if my car was not found, then I know You will give me another one, and I don’t have to worry about the money.” God is always faithful to those who have faith in Him. Thousand and million praises to God.

Faithful is he that called you, who also will do it.

1 Thessalonians 5:24

Ai Chin

God is always good....

Remember, about 2 months ago, I wrote that we need to learn to praise our God even bad things happen. Theorically, I have learned and understood. Practically, I am learning it now. Between few months I lost almost 50% of my student. And two weeks ago, my car was stolen at school. The moment that I noticed my car was stolen, I was really sad; however, I had peace in my heart. Honestly, I am really sad. I lost my students; I have barely enough to support my living expenses. Now, I lost my car. What can I do? I am not willing to use any extra money from my sister, besides my tuition fees. However, I did not ask God why all these happened. All I can do is to surrender myself to God and put all my trust on Him.

God is really good to me. He prepares everything before all these happen. First, He prepares my heart and faith to trust Him at this very moment. Second, He prepares a car for me. My friend, who lives in campus just bought a car a month ago, is not using her car during weekday. She allows me to use her car. Third, God lets one of my Saturday student stop learning because He knows that I am going to loose my car, and I do not have to worry about no transportation going to her place.

In addition, I have learned that I am really blessed by God comparing to others. At least, I still have money to pay for my tuition fees. My friend, he does not even have money to pay for his tuition fees. He needs to work for few semesters before he can go back to school. Not patting myself at my back. One of my students’ mothers told me that she was encouraged by my faith to God. God is always good.

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28)

Ai Chin

Praise the Lord !

Recently, I was reading a book called A WALK TO REMEMBER. The story is about a life changing of a ‘typical’ teenager—alien and weird. (Let me call this teenage, Mr. A). Mr. A was born in a rich family. Whose grandfather did many harmful things to others in order to benefit him self. The story happened in a country side. In this town, there was a pastor. This pastor worked for Mr. A’s grandfather before. He knew all the bad things about Mr. A’s grandfather; therefore he did not like Mr. A’s family. This pastor had had a wife. But his wife past away when giving birth to his daughter. His daughter—Ms. B was a faithful Christian. Ms. B did many good things for the town residents. Grandpas and grandmas, daddy and mummy, little boys and little girls loved her so much, except, the weird group, teenagers. The reasons they did not like her were because of her good deeds and out look. One day, Mr. A invited Ms. B to a prom. The reasons that Mr. A invited her were because he had no one to invite, and he did not want his friends to make fun of him. Therefore, reluctantly he invited her. After the prom, Mr. A’s perception toward Ms. B had changed. Mr. A and Ms. B were in the same drama class. Every Christmas, the high school drama team would perform a story written by Ms. B’s father. This year, Ms B was chosen to be the prime female role and Mr. A was chosen to be the prime male role. At first he was reluctant to do it. However, Ms. B’s sincere requirement made him no reason to reject. Days after days, Mr. A fell in love with Ms. B. With prayer Ms. B had changed Mr. A. Mr. A started to do good deeds to the residents. However, thing did not go smoothly. Ms. B had leukemia. Mr. A was so sad. During the last few months of Ms. B’s life, Mr. A father helped Ms. B a lot. Because of this, Ms. B’s father had forgave Mr. A’s family.

Although the story was sad, the ending was good. Our lives full of good things and bad things. When good things happen, we say “Praise the Lord.” When bad things happen, we say ‘praise the Lord.’ Do we really praise our God? Saying “Praise the Lord” during bad things happen is a tough homework that every one needs to learn. By God’s grace we are able to learn it. Sometimes, Mr. Tan—satan means it for evil, but God means it for good. Let us encourage ourselves with this verse “ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” Romans 8:28

Ai-Chin