Mr WHO ?

A New Start

to be written by the divine

Who's who ?

Waiting humbly at the spot... waiting.... waiting...

in the long long road ahead

with a open Question Mark

in unknown

Hope

Amen

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Serve Our Father together

Need to reiterate again, as this is so sweet and true deep in my heart

30 July 2008

So now, I get it.

I look and wait for someone with whom we can serve our Father together in totality, as a family together headed by Jesus Christ, and SERVE together in support of each other, and each other's family.

This is particularly me, my wish, my life's wish, and my future family & partner's wish.

My love wish.

Amen.

Just be frank and straightforward about it.

I do have a criteria now.

God, may I?

God, can I be frank about this?

Father God, I love you, and I wish WE can serve you together, holding hands in hands, heart to heart together, love you together. Support each other to love you together.

I feel so much being supported and happy and all... and be fulfilled.

God, can we love you together? Help each other to love you at times of difficulty together????

I would be so 幸福, nothing sweeter than this. To be able to pray together, hold hands together to pray wholeheartedly in our marriage.

Rest in God

The Lord takes care of me as his sheep;

I will not be without any good thing.
He makes a resting-place for me in the green fields:

he is my guide by the quiet waters.
He gives new life to my soul:

he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name.

耶 和 華 是 我 的 牧 者 ． 我 必 不 至 缺 乏 。
他 使 我 躺 臥 在 青 草 地 上 、 領 我 在 可 安 歇 的 水 邊 。
他 使 我 的 靈 魂 甦 醒 、 為 自 己 的 名 引 導 我 走 義 路 。

Psalm 23

Hymn: YHWH is Love 【耶和華是愛】 詩集：上帝聽禱告，8

耶和華是

愛，讓我安身青草溪水邊，
神令我省察心中的幽暗，共同渡每一天。

耶和華是愛，在困境中祂保守引牽，
神為我擺設豐足的恩惠，在危難也不會變。

在世間主恩與共，祂的愛存在常無盡，
神為我施恩惠，保守勉勵，共同渡此世。

耶和華是愛，讓我安身青草溪水邊，
無限滿足快樂湧於心裡，在危難也不會變。

My Birthday wish ~.~

Celebration of Love!

Video Features Sand artistic Illana Yahav, Music by Merav Josef-Levy, Saxophone played by Tevet Sela www.sandfantasy.com

~ . ~ A birthday Rose to me from God's child ~ . ~

Pray for Cedar Fund's work on children with AIDS in Lesotho through a local church.

Lesotho is a small country surrounded by South Africa.

It's on a mountain and about 30% of the population has aids. Cedar Fund has been funding a Girl's school & boarding project started by a Chrisitian couple in liaison with local church. My friend & her husband led a team of 8 to visit Lesotho on behalf of Cedar 4 Mar - 12 Mar 2008.

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My Birthday wish

God's work be done in my family, my colleagues as it is in heaven.

I conceive to do Alpha Course in my Faculty Lab Block in Mar 08. Start with my continued prayer for my Brother to participate and be touched by Our Almighty Triune God.

A Dream... A long prayer....

Alpha Course

for scientists, geneticists, medical researchers, lab technicians,

awe of God's creation.

Pray for its persistence, spiritual guidance, union of spiritual hearts

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Hopes!

Hi P & E,

My therapy of hope! I want to buy a copy too, if you see this book in HK! It definately helped me through the trough of sadness and tells me LOVE HOPES!!!

Paul's Song of Love elaborated by Rev Smedes:

"Gradually the parents let go of their hearts' demand that she
be different from what she is. They let the conditional demand for change melt into unconditional acceptance of what is .

Love hopes in a new way.

This totally accepting love brings hope, not for a miracle of healing, but for the miracle of joy, which is the miracle of gratitude.

This love brings hope that life is good, that it has point and meaning, and that the future ahead is one which we can walk into expectantly. In love we learn to expect to be surprised by God and joy - along with pain. Love is the power of a new hope that can co-exist with pain.

Hope fails when love is a demand instead of a gift.

Agapic love lets things and people be, and in the gift of letting things and people be, love becomes a power that creates a hope that will not disappoint
us."

(Quotes from L. B. Smedes (1979) Love within Limits, Ch12).
Rev. LB. Smedes : Love within limits: realizing selfless love in a selfish world. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1979. Rev. Smedes was a retired minister in the Christian Reformed Church, a former ethics professor at Fuller Theological Seminary.

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Love Hopes All Things

LOVE IS THE POWER of hope. As long as a person loves, he is able to hope. Love keeps us hopeful, in all situations, against all evi­dence. On the human level hope keeps love alive. When such hope is lost, love eventually goes with it. To be hopeful is to face the future with some gladness, some thankfulness, some sense that the present is worth liv­ing because we expect the future to bring what we deeply desire.

For Paul, however, hope has an added dimension beyond desire and even expectancy. Hope is certainty. He speaks of "a hope [that] does not disappoint us" (Romans 5:5)

The promise of Christ is that he is our hope. This hope cannot fail
because Christ will not and cannot fail. This is why Christian hope is often symbolized by an anchor, "a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul" (He­brews 6:19).

Hope in Christian experience means: "I am sure as I face the
future." Now we should note that this is true "because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit" (Romans 5:5).

Love is the power behind the hope that" does not disappoint us." Love stimulates the certainty of Christian hope.

Hope at its deepest is not focused on particulars.

At its core hope looks beyond a solution for a problem, an escape from pain, for assurance from
God that life has point and meaning in spite of disease, problems, and pain. Hope looks to the promise of the final victory of Jesus Christ over all that hurts and kills. Love breeds this hope in both the person loved and the loving person.

Love gives hope to the person loved.

Caring is a form of love, and to know you are being truly cared for is to know you are being loved. When a person knows he is loved, he has hope. This does not mean that he will expect a cure for his cancer, but he is given courage to feel that life is good and that to­morrow is God's gift of the future. Perhaps through the touch of human care the patient may discover anew the saving love of Christ, the Lord treating him as a pre­cious person.

And perhaps his hope will focus beyond this life on unending life with God. Love has given the power to hope that life can be worth living in the midst of problems.


Love gives hope to the loving person.

If we love the world we are compelled to hope for its redemption. The experience of God's love gives us a deep but paradoxical discontent with the way things are. The paradox in love's discon­tent is that we rejoice in our world as it is. We are glad to be in and of this world.

Love sees possibilities that apathy and indifference cannot see. Driven by self-giving love to seek a happier personhood for another, we are able to hear signals in the other person that hint of a will to change. Love keeps us open to possibilities within the loved one.

How can love keep a person hoping while a relentless hammering of disappointments beats at his life?

Only if it becomes a love that gives without demanding a return on love's investment.
The first test of agapic love is whether it can give the gift of freedom.

Love is a power to let selfish hopes die .

Hope fails when love is a demand instead of a gift. Agapic love lets things and people be, and in the gift of letting things and people be, love becomes a power that creates a hope that will not disappoint us.

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Summary from Rev. LB. Smedes : "Love within limits: realizing selfless love in a selfish world". Chapter 12. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1979. Rev. Smedes was a retired minister in the Christian Reformed Church, a former ethics professor at Fuller Theological Seminary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_B._Smedes

Rev Smedes' quotes on Forgiveness

I'd keep aggregating the right mind, attitude, love, and courage, and spiritual wisdom in these 2 months before I make the step to contact KB regarding our meeting half a year - 1 yr later.

My words for KB (in orange highlight):

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
Rev Lewis B. Smedes

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Rev Lewis B. Smedes (Change to "Hurt")



You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Rev Lewis B. Smedes



Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Rev Lewis B. Smedes


To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Rev Lewis B. Smedes



From http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lewis_b_smedes.html

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