工作狂
自問不是工作狂﹐但近日工作時間長了反而開心了許多。
新工做了近三個月﹐雖然好多野都未定﹐加上有同事轉部門﹐相信未來幾個月改變會更多﹐但係一方面覺得做多左好多野(雖然大老細仍然覺得我係under utilized, 而我都覺得係可以pick up D high level D 既野既)﹐真係有D實際既貢獻﹐同埋將來會有機會試D新野﹐加上各同事都好好﹐開頭驚老細會好micro manage﹐原來都唔係﹐所以都好感恩。最近舊工又終於請到人﹐希望好快可以唔使再煩D舊野啦。雖然前面重有好多未知數﹐但係知道好多野都好好架啦﹐忙唔緊要﹐最緊要返工時返工﹐放左工就唔好諗甘多啦。知道好多人因為工作而煩惱﹐唔開心﹐真係唔好complain 甘多﹐要count my blessings 先得啦。
Shall we walk?
今日難得放五點﹐見甘好天﹐返到屋企就同花粉症既技安出去行下﹐大家都腳痛所以慢慢行﹐40 分鐘來回百萬圖書館﹐幾舒服呀﹐趁未熱到不能忍受活動下﹐如果可以日日行下我諗到519應該會fit D 啩。
Love is an act of your will
近日Purpose Driven Life Devotion 轉左作者﹐覺得幾好﹐尤其在最後用point form 講 so what? 容易apply 好多﹐這是前兩日的post...
要記得愛是神的命令!
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Love is an act of your willby Jon Walker
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” (John 13:34 NIV)
Fellowship — Love is an act of your will.
That may fly in the face of falling in love, or your notions of romance in the moonlight. Now, don’t get me wrong – there’s plenty of room for romance in God’s world, but it pales in comparison to how the Great Lover sacrificed to bring you into oneness with him.
That Great Lover, God Almighty, says we must choose to love one another. We’re to love other believers regardless of how we feel about them or how unlovable they may appear.
No matter how difficult it may seem, we’re to actively, consistently, and deeply love the believers God brings into our lives, our congregations – and our Bible studies.
Love is a command; our decision to love is an act of obedience. God considers loving one another so important that he told us we must do it. (1 John 4:21) It is a lesson so important that the Apostle John consistently describes love and obedience as synonymous: If you love Jesus, you will obey his commands. (John 14:15, 23-24; 15:12, 14, 17; 1 John 2:3; 5:3; 2 John 1:6)
Why is obeying connected with love? Because it reflects unity among believers, a oneness of spirit that is foundational to our union with God, a necessary element of all true and anointed kingdom work: “The message you heard from the very beginning is this: we must love one another.” (1 John 3:11 TEV)
Christ crushes the myth that love is based on feelings. He pushes the definition of love to a higher level – where behavior and beliefs combine into godly action. Love is no longer a schoolyard romance or a relationship dictated by compatibility. Rather, real love is – and has always been – a mother stumbling to her baby’s crib for the fifth time in one night, or a passenger giving up his place on a lifeboat to save someone else from a sinking ship. Love is Christ on a cross, dying for us – even while we were still lost in our sins. (Romans 5:8)
Jesus requires us to view other people as highly valued children of God, well worth of our time, attention, and energy. As members of God’s family, we must choose to love, not selectively choose who to love.
Love requires community. We cannot obey Christ’s command in isolation. We must be connected to other believers in order to “love one another.” Being in community with other Christians forces us to drop our “relationship fantasies,” where everyone we know is easy to get along with and every conflict is resolved in happy compromise.
God shaped each one of us differently, and he knows we all bring different perspectives and needs into any community. The hurts, habits, and hang-ups present in any group of believers create potential for conflict, but God’s design is to use that conflict to help us grow in Christ.
So what?
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Love carries high standards – Jesus says we are to be to one another what he is to us. The love of Christ is selfless, sacrificial, and submitted to the Father’s will. His standard of love is personal, reaching out to the undeserving, looking past their faults and into the desperate needs of their hearts. Relying on God’s grace, begin moving toward that standard.
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You cannot meet the standard – God’s standard is so staggering we can reach it only by relying on the spirit of Christ within us. To paraphrase Galatians 2:20: “It is no longer just I who loves, but Christ who loves in me. And this unlovable person that I now love, I love by the faith of the son of God, who loved this unlovable one first and gave himself up for this person I incorrectly see as undeserving of my love.”
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Love is more than the minimum – Our love is not to be measured by the minimum of what we can do, nor is it to be limited only to those who appear deserving. Our standard for real love is that God “… loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins … since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.” (1 John 4:10-11 NLT) How would your relationships with other believers change if you began to love them with the standard of Christ?
© 2007 Jon Walker. All rights reserved.
Jon Walker is a pastor-advocate living in Southern California and the former pastor of communications at Saddleback Church.
忙
似乎一個好三幅被既題目﹐但係今日同你電郵﹐聽你做左D乜﹐又令我諗起﹐無可否認﹐忙係一眾姊妹既寫照。
雖然姊妹們都唔係果d好aggressive 既女強人型﹐甚至乎如果可以既話﹐我諗大家既理想係做個賺錢買花戴既亞太﹐就算唔係﹐大家都好著重work life balance, 但係唔知點解大家既工作都非常之忙碌﹐而且毫無慢落黎既跡象。再加上教會﹐讀書﹐進修﹐學野﹐家人﹐男友﹐家務﹐等等真係唔知D時間去晒邊。萬一病倒﹐又或遮有D咩unexpected 既emergency, 真係唔得掂。其實宜家個個都好focused 架啦﹐唔會再樣樣事奉都應承﹐平日都無咩話出來食飯傾計(起碼比起我地既全盛時期少好多啦)而我地大部分都未結婚﹐結左既都未有仔女﹐到時生活會係點呢? 真係不敢想像。所以真係要向D working moms 致敬先得啦。
Almost Famous
前兩日同A子去做make up preview 先發現原來做左人地生招牌都唔知。
當然主角唔係我﹐但係見到我地三個影既相被人放係office同網頁來做廣告都幾開心(但係個真相係YY個頭同化裝都係自己攪既﹐唔係三個都係bella angel包辦)﹐重要係係個靚靚既相架裡面(慚愧地我自己都未買相架放呢張相)。雖然對年半前的裝扮唔算太滿意﹐不過最緊要新娘開心啦。除左三人合照﹐重有張超大既新娘大頭相﹐custom woodframe, 好靚﹐忍唔住立刻打俾好姊妹報告一番。發現原來好耐無同佢傾過﹐都係時候要探下新任媽咪同BB 啦。
鬆一口氣
雖然本週要返足5日工﹐又係季尾會忙﹐但可能終於攪惦了兩件重要任務﹐反而心情輕鬆了許多。
其中一樣自然係上週六既陣雨派對啦﹐坦白講﹐一路都好緊張﹐雖然唔係未攪過﹐但唔知點解今次特別stressed out, 可能未試過做主打﹐重要係好多人以為係我同佢結婚既A子既shower 添。時間越逼近﹐發覺越來越多野要做﹐當然各好姊妹都幫忙不少﹐open house, 買禮物﹐包禮物﹐帶食物﹐clean up, etc. etc.﹐ 但係始終有好多野要自己跟返。好多濕碎野﹐如收錢﹐聯絡﹐安排交通﹐遊戲﹐favor﹐買沒收了單的睡衣﹐買花﹐都要自己一手一腳跟返。好彩當日一切順利﹐大家都似乎幾盡興﹐甘都好值得既。不過呢﹐做埋今次收山啦。其實係教會甘耐都有少少攪活動恐懼症﹐唔想再send group email﹐再安排節目run-down 啦。有一日我嫁都唔使攪shower 啦﹐一來唔想大家辛苦﹐二來無意公開D感情事。熟既話﹐呢D野私底下都會傾過架啦﹐個人來問我無任歡迎﹐唔熟既話我都幫你唔到啦。
禮拜又來一次崇拜蝦碌大全﹐明明講好既程序又會改晒既。唔緊要啦﹐程序都係其次既。呢次之後﹐六月先要再上台﹐好快又會有新人做ppt, 甘我地終於可以退休啦﹐可以安安靜靜甘崇拜啦。
未來一個月似乎會靜閒D﹐希望唔會辛苦啦﹐可以做個靚靚既伴娘啦。
難過...
近日身邊有不少人的至親離世。今天又聽說你的媽媽瀰留。
寄了卡﹐又遙送了花牌﹐不知你現在如何呢? 沒有甚麼機會跟你談談﹐但我想你一定知道我們都掛念你...
想不到會趕不上時間﹐為你們難過。希望你們都能回去奔喪。
很久沒聯絡﹐想不到會聽到這消息。你說 "I am okay." 不知能說些甚麼﹐會為你聯絡一下﹐希望你能跟他們談談吧。
為你們禱告...
愛一個上一課
今天﹐想起這首歌。失戀又怎會不怕多呢﹐但愛一個上一課﹐若是遇上錯先生﹐還是寧願選擇自由身了。好的結果﹐沒有誰更值得﹐下一次﹐一定會比今次好﹐終有一天﹐一定會收成正果﹐一定會。
P.S. 原來是亞強的作品。
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歌手：容祖兒
作曲：藍奕邦
填詞：林夕
編曲：Jim Ling@Zoo Music
像有感情 到天星 看風景
他似無還有偏卻 不承認
為了此人 算初戀 太高興
失去承受更悲傷的本領
然後遇著 我至今的經典
曾緊張得似應戰 一晚渡無限風險
然後漸漸 沉重到 不願見
人會變 情會厭 從沒甚麼保險
＊誰擔保可不可 有一個愛一個
為何我不可 值得好點結果
即使悔恨又如何 別離得多不痛楚
其實帶淚都該慶賀 失戀不怕多
多得天的許可 愛一個上多一課
自由也不錯 被吹熄的愛火
光影總算照亮過 想開心如何懶惰
無謂算盡機關只要情動 也不敢錯過＊
逃避寂寞 期待吃喝玩樂
談得多戀愛更覺 不領會何謂快樂
誰是玩伴 誰是愛的幻覺
誰與我 能永遠 留在夢中天國
REPEAT＊
又凍番?!
見七國甘亂於是決定收埋D冷衫(其實好想捐左件雪花添呀)﹐點知一check 天氣聽日開始又凍番﹐跟住幾日high得40 幾! 好彩無一次過執晒D冬天衫﹐唔係就會凍親啦﹐大家都小心啦。
罪的問題
今天主日學開始教羅馬書﹐如果有看過這保羅書信的話應該知道它的主題是福音與因信稱義。今天第一章魚牧講福音與禍音﹐講到罪的問題。有時我們傳福音會過份強調神的愛﹐誠然神愛我們﹐但我們需要福音的最大原因是因為人有罪﹐不能靠自己去與神和好﹐唯有藉著主耶穌在十架上為我們的罪捨身才可以。魚牧又提到人有罪不是因為人了犯罪﹐而是因為人有罪性才會犯罪。完了今課﹐令我想起很多人未能踏出一步信主﹐是否都因未解決到罪的問題呢? 即是說﹐他們未看到自己是一個罪人﹐是不能自救﹐唯有耶穌才是道路﹐真理﹐生命呢? 又想起自己信主﹐都是因為看到自己雖然表面都好好﹐是個好學生﹐又無做過甚麼作奸犯科的事﹐但其實來心有很多污穢﹐係自己解決不到的。經過今日﹐學習到在傳福音時不要怕講罪﹐亦一再提醒我信主多年﹐有時對罪的敏感度都可能會低了。其實每一天﹐我都好需要反省自己﹐要切實的認罪悔改才行。
謝謝
很高興今天再見到你﹐有機會一同吃飯catch up 一下。時間過得很快﹐一晃眼你們都工作啦﹐希望未來日子會多見你一些。謝謝你遠道帶來你親手做的陶瓷禮物﹐很精美呢! 其實你的生日快到﹐應該是我送禮給你才對﹐可是近日忙得緊都沒有時間去買﹐但我總是記得你的生日的。很快又大一歲啦﹐願你繼續在主裡成長!
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