Evening"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night." When I can do nothing to help myself...當我全然無助、陷入絕境時。。。幸好有我的烏龜朋友來相助！ －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－ I wonder if he said, "THANK YOU!" 嗯。。。突然想：牠表示謝謝了嗎？
由於網路的無遠弗屆，國際聯姻如雨後春筍。各種正面、負面結合現象讓人嘆為觀止。
離我們這兒不遠的南方小城，一位牧師透過神學院找到我，希望我能夠幫助一位丈夫剛剛過世的中國妻子解決一些帳單方面的問題。她的英文實在無法應付得了。 聽說，丈夫癌症突發，很短的時間內倒是盡心地安排好一切，不給妻子有任何後顧之後。看來，她也不需面對丈夫其他家人子女的問題。倒是比較簡單的狀況。但是，我相信她一定也萬萬沒有想到，原來是要享受一個美國的家庭生活，如今卻成了寡婦，生活頓失重心，落得孤單一人。 感謝神的恩典，現在教會的牧師願意探望幫助她。在她最痛苦難過的時候給他  A well-known speaker started off his seminar holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this."
He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill. He then asked, "Who still wants it...?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air. "My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We may feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who DO LOVE you. The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE. You are special-Don't EVER forget it." If you do not pass this on, you may never know the lives it touches, the hurting hearts it speaks to, or the hope that it may bring. Count your blessings, not your problems. Dear J J,
Thought of you when I was reading Charles Spurgeon's Morning & Evening - February 22 It is not our willful fight in the battle or begging for His strength to sustain. It is "God Almighty, eternal, omnipotent, stoops from His throne and lays His hands on the Child's hand, stretching HIs arm on the arm of Joseph so that he may be made strong!" "If there were no covenant, then we would fail indeed; for all grace proceeds from it, as light and heat proceed from the sun...Christian, it may be that the archers have sorely grieved you, shot at you, and wounded you, but still your bow abides in strength; be sure, then, to ascribe all the glory to Jacob's God." 敬拜中讚美的禱告範本：Prayer of Praise at Agape Baptist Church Sunday Worship Service － Christine Liu
Our Heavenly Father, Blessed be your glorious name, may your name be lifted high on earth today. We as your children are here to worship you and adore you this morning. You have created everything good and have sustained everything with your faithfulness and power. You alone are the Lord of all! With Your great compassion, You have not repaid us for our iniquities. You have shown us how to have compassion toward others, even our enemies. With Your long suffering love, You gave your only begotten son, the Lamb of God to become the perfect Redemption to take away all our sins. You are the One true God, You are not like idols in this world, they have eyes but cannot see, have ears, cannot hear, have mouth, but cannot speak. Father, You do speak and continue to speak to us through your Living Word, and You give Your Spirit to us. We praise you because you are praiseworthy, we love you because you first loved us! We trust You because we saw how you guided your people long ago with pillar of cloud by day and protected them with light of the fire by night. Today, you continue to provide for your children with all the goodness. And You promise to return with judgment in your justice and peace. Now, in this worshiping hour, we want to love you and give you all our praise and adoration through Jesus Christ, Your beloved Son, and we pray in His most wonderful name, Amen! 將近兩年前，終於被女兒說服應該使用MacBook。但拿到手這麼久全靠自己摸索、亂整，倒也完成了不少工作。感謝神總是給我靈感去摸出條路來。
但是，終於還是決定要有系統地學學如何有效使用報名上課。為了想透徹了解如何使用iTune，而且，因為不久前更新了一次，版面變得好像很陌生。有點不知所措，所以為此趕緊上課。 但是，沒想到，一坐下來就自己悟通了，問題解決了。 接下去是昨晚網站出的問題，弄了半天，培訓員也束手無策，我東試西試，竟然最後自己又弄通了。不過，還是謝謝那培訓員和我的交談帶給我不同的腦力刺激，不至於獨自苦思。 I do get energy by talking and being with other people. 從慧美“非死不可”上轉貼：
* 一次有人請近代偉大神學家卡爾巴特（Karl Barth，瑞士神學家，教宗PiusXII認為他是阿奎那斯之後最偉大的神學家，1886~1968），用簡潔的話來表達他的神學，他以一首兒童聖詩來回應：「耶穌愛我我知道，因有聖經告訴我；…」他曾說：「喜樂是感恩最簡單的形式。Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.」很簡單、很感性的神學！又說：「最好的神學不需要擁護者，它能證明自己。The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.」當有個錯誤或有偏差的神學思潮出現時，我們不一定需要專注於反駁之。當你擁有正確立場，你行得端正，遇見誤會或批評毀謗時，就不一定需要為自己辯解。 ＊《神學？學神？》 中世紀經院哲（神）學家阿奎那斯Thomas Aquinas說︰「神學乃是讓神教導我們認識神、引導我們歸向神。」現代神學家巴刻 J. I. Packer 給神學所下的定義︰「學習聆聽聖靈在聖經中所說的話，照著遵行來改正指引我們的生活。」 神學的英文是theology，是由兩個希臘字合成的：theos神 + logos道。所以神學就是有關神的學問，教導我們認識神的話語、神的心意、神的法則、神的道路、神的作為，使我們認識神自己。 |
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