Today marks the 11th day, from that previous 7th day, of me not making any major mistakes for wife to get upset! Halleluja!!! ;) 7 + 11 is a grand total of 18 days. Wife also celebrated her good mood last Friday... well, technically she was in a good mood because of other reasons, but anyway, good mood is good mood, who cares about reasons? So the next prime number after 11 would be 13. Let's see if we can go on like this for 13 more days! :)
This weekend we also saw a bunch of houses/condos. If God willing, we should have a place soon enough..., if not, oh well, that's okay, we'll just wait. Why get it now if God is preparing something better for us later? Of course, if God has already prepared for us a good home now, why wait til later, right? So hopefully we stay close with God's will... ;) The market is just too weird lately. Given my indecisive nature, I just might be paralyzed by over analysis... so I hope God will push us if we're acting too reluctantly... and stop us if we're acting too impulsively... in God we trust!
Pastor Jim talked about faith, hope and love this weekend. He also talked about how God can use the lame, the weak, even the totally failed, screwed up kind of folks. However, as Almighty as God is, He cannot use a quiter. Whenever we lose faith, lose hope or lose love, inevitably, we'd want to quit... and it'll be game over for sure. Pastor Jim even went on to speculate that if Judas didn't commit suicide and repented, for sure even he can become an apostle of Jesus later! So, yeah, may we all persevere on and never quit for the love of God!
Today's scripture reading was kinda interesting..., it talked about how women's vows can be nullified by their fathers or their husbands. So basically women can only vow if they have permission from their father... or if married, from their husbands! And if the husbands were to nullify her vows sometimes after he heard it, the husband will then be guilty for her!!!
So in case of divorce, wife violating her wedding vow, husbands will automatically be guilty!!! Oh well, better make sure I don't nullify wife's wedding vow then. ;)
(Num 28-30, 173.0 lbs, $4.759)
Monday, June 30, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Good luck Billy!
Billy Gates officially retired from Mircrosoft today... and will now be fully devoted on his charity work. Not sure if he's Christian or not, it sure would be nice if he were! ;)
Also found out that one reason gas price is rising, besides the falling dollar value, is because pension fund managers are now investing in commodities such as gas! These commodities really should be 'traded' instead of 'buy and hold'... and because they are buying huge quantities and holding them... naturally we now have a shortage of supplies... consequently driving up prices! Congress is currently working to solve this issue, hopefully this is fixed soon... because the high gas prices is really hurting the whole economy. Another area of concern would be the airline industry... experts are predicting that if the current fuel prices continue... pretty much all airlines will go into bankruptcy! And then Boeing will probably be finished... and then... Anyway, stock market has declined drastically in the past few days. We're officially in a recession. These are times perfect for us to get into a better relationship with God! ;)
Today's reading was about Phinehas. It was during a time when Israelites were seduced by Moabite women... and just as when the whole assembly were weeping infront of the tent, there was one Israelite who openly brought a Midianite woman with him infront of everyone... this prompted this priest-Phinehas to follow the couple to their tent and killed them. His zeal for God pleased the Lord and it helped stop the plague that was with the whole community too.
I only hope that I may have that same kind of zeal... not to kill other people for God of course, but to kill the part of myself that is still sinful... if we all have sufficient zeal to act justly, to love mercy and to humbly follow God, surely the messed up economy would stop too. May God help us... and may we help ourselves not to do foolish things...
(Num 25-27, 173.4 lbs, $4.759)
Also found out that one reason gas price is rising, besides the falling dollar value, is because pension fund managers are now investing in commodities such as gas! These commodities really should be 'traded' instead of 'buy and hold'... and because they are buying huge quantities and holding them... naturally we now have a shortage of supplies... consequently driving up prices! Congress is currently working to solve this issue, hopefully this is fixed soon... because the high gas prices is really hurting the whole economy. Another area of concern would be the airline industry... experts are predicting that if the current fuel prices continue... pretty much all airlines will go into bankruptcy! And then Boeing will probably be finished... and then... Anyway, stock market has declined drastically in the past few days. We're officially in a recession. These are times perfect for us to get into a better relationship with God! ;)
Today's reading was about Phinehas. It was during a time when Israelites were seduced by Moabite women... and just as when the whole assembly were weeping infront of the tent, there was one Israelite who openly brought a Midianite woman with him infront of everyone... this prompted this priest-Phinehas to follow the couple to their tent and killed them. His zeal for God pleased the Lord and it helped stop the plague that was with the whole community too.
I only hope that I may have that same kind of zeal... not to kill other people for God of course, but to kill the part of myself that is still sinful... if we all have sufficient zeal to act justly, to love mercy and to humbly follow God, surely the messed up economy would stop too. May God help us... and may we help ourselves not to do foolish things...
(Num 25-27, 173.4 lbs, $4.759)
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Jacob's ladder...
Brother GD talked about Jacob last night. Main points were about how we ought to encounter God, experience God... and there's something else I forgot... should've taken notes! ;) Anyway, basically God seeks us, stays with us, and God wishes to bless us! Likewise, we also ought to seek Him, stay with Him, and be a blessing to Him and to others....
Brother GD also talked about Jacob was probably 77 years old when he fled to his uncle's place..., that was based on some bible scholars back calculating his age from other events of the bible..., I sure like to try that one out sometimes. I always thought Jacob was quite young when he fled home... hmmm...
Today's reading was about Balaam... and possibly Eddie Murphy the talking donkey! ;) It's interesting that God blesses Jacob's descendants and doesn't change His mind! May my descendants or family or friends also be blessed because of me!!! Of course blessings are one thing, what's more important is that we need to learn from Jacob about how we should hold on to God with all our might! If there's no real relationship with God, so what if you're blessed? We can only end up squandering our blessings... and still complaint and grumble about our lives like the Israelites... and end up going no where. So... yeah... may God and I hold on to each other and never ever let go!
(Num 22-24, 17? lbs, $4.759)
Brother GD also talked about Jacob was probably 77 years old when he fled to his uncle's place..., that was based on some bible scholars back calculating his age from other events of the bible..., I sure like to try that one out sometimes. I always thought Jacob was quite young when he fled home... hmmm...
Today's reading was about Balaam... and possibly Eddie Murphy the talking donkey! ;) It's interesting that God blesses Jacob's descendants and doesn't change His mind! May my descendants or family or friends also be blessed because of me!!! Of course blessings are one thing, what's more important is that we need to learn from Jacob about how we should hold on to God with all our might! If there's no real relationship with God, so what if you're blessed? We can only end up squandering our blessings... and still complaint and grumble about our lives like the Israelites... and end up going no where. So... yeah... may God and I hold on to each other and never ever let go!
(Num 22-24, 17? lbs, $4.759)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Twisted!
This twisting building is pretty cool, I wonder if they can really make it! Such design for sure would help stop suicides I think, people won't be able to jump cleanly to the bottom without hitting some rotating buildings in between... ;)Anyway, last night we saw a pretty twisted movie called Bucket List... ;) Basically it's a list of things to do before you kick the bucket! The only thing that they did in the movie I would really want is something I've already done! Which is driving hard on a race track! I was actually on that particular track... and I showed my spin on that track in my wedding video! The only other thing that can top that would probably be driving in a Ferrari!
Climbing mount Everest would be nice too, but I think that's just too dangerous.... probably more so that skydiving. If possible, I'd rather take a ride to space... yeah, I wonder if it's possible for us to get into space affordably before I die.
Of all the other places, I most certainly wouldn't mind going there, but I don't think I'm dying to go there though... heaven is probably the only place I'd die to go there! ;) I think all the earthly places don't attract me as much because I've basically seen it all! I think it'll probably be more interesting to actually live there for a while...
Anyway, as for my own bucket list, I'm really still not sure yet, I don't have any detail list or anything like that... After seeing that movie, all I know is that I do want to find joy for myself and to bring joy to others too before I die! I hope I can do it with something big, but even if it's something small, that's cool too!
Today's reading, it talked about death of Aaron... and about how Moses messed up by striking the rock instead of just speaking to it to get water... about how Jews got snake attacks because of their grumblings against God... they couldn't find joy for themselves... and they didn't bring each other joy... and consequencees ended up disasterous for all of them...
Joy of the Lord is our strength!!!!
(Num 19-21, 172.4 lbs, $4.759)
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Will God continue to bless America?
70% of Americans believe there are multiple paths to salvation. Famous Christian leader James Dobson also accused of Obama of distorting the Bible..., probably because Obama is perhaps closer to the 70% of the Americans when it comes to issues of faith...
Anyway, regardless of who's right who's wrong, Lord knows. Is it worth fighting over? If 70% of the American jumps off a cliff, should we do so too? Also, must we all agree with James Dobson's interpretation of the scripture? Or must we agree with Pope's interpretation?
God gave each one of us a Bible so we can read it for ourselves. God also gave us brains so that we can think for ourselves. Whatever we believe based on what we've read, we should just live accordingly. I'm not super Apostle Billy, I can't be 100% sure that I'm right, but I gotta practice what I preach in order to truly give God a good testimony of my life. If 2 brothers of Christ were to have some disagreement on bible interpretation..., should we kill each other over our disagreements? Or should we just humbly yield and let the other person be right for the sake of unity? WWJD?
Of course, as pastor Jim said, we are to cooperate as much as we can without actually compromising ourselves. Jesus cooperated to his death without compromising himself. Hopefully I can do likewise... leaders being good Christ-like leaders, followers being good Christ-like followers... Husbands be good husbands..., etc.
Today's reading was about Korah, Dathan and Abiram, who rose up against Moses and Aaron with 250 men, well-know community leaders... they went to Moses claiming that whole community is holy, everyone of them, the LORD is with them too... they asked why Moses and Aaron are trying set themselves above the LORD's assembly?
Of course, in time, God showed them why. I know for sure 70% of the Americans are wrong..., only trying to be 'politically correct'. Not sure if Dobson's right or Obama's right..., but surely time will tell. Dobson's also said he won't endorse McCain too. So not sure what Dobson's trying to do. Why not he run for president? ;) Comparing Obama and McCain, for sure I still trust Obama more regarding faith related issues, but I am a bit concerned that as Obama is drawing closer to power... he's compromising more and more...
May God help us not to compromise too much... May the hand of God strengthen us so that we can maintain our integrity.
Oh, and thank God for the slight drop of gas prices, may this trend continue too! ;)
(Number 16-18, 174.0 lbs, $4.759)
Anyway, regardless of who's right who's wrong, Lord knows. Is it worth fighting over? If 70% of the American jumps off a cliff, should we do so too? Also, must we all agree with James Dobson's interpretation of the scripture? Or must we agree with Pope's interpretation?
God gave each one of us a Bible so we can read it for ourselves. God also gave us brains so that we can think for ourselves. Whatever we believe based on what we've read, we should just live accordingly. I'm not super Apostle Billy, I can't be 100% sure that I'm right, but I gotta practice what I preach in order to truly give God a good testimony of my life. If 2 brothers of Christ were to have some disagreement on bible interpretation..., should we kill each other over our disagreements? Or should we just humbly yield and let the other person be right for the sake of unity? WWJD?
Of course, as pastor Jim said, we are to cooperate as much as we can without actually compromising ourselves. Jesus cooperated to his death without compromising himself. Hopefully I can do likewise... leaders being good Christ-like leaders, followers being good Christ-like followers... Husbands be good husbands..., etc.
Today's reading was about Korah, Dathan and Abiram, who rose up against Moses and Aaron with 250 men, well-know community leaders... they went to Moses claiming that whole community is holy, everyone of them, the LORD is with them too... they asked why Moses and Aaron are trying set themselves above the LORD's assembly?
Of course, in time, God showed them why. I know for sure 70% of the Americans are wrong..., only trying to be 'politically correct'. Not sure if Dobson's right or Obama's right..., but surely time will tell. Dobson's also said he won't endorse McCain too. So not sure what Dobson's trying to do. Why not he run for president? ;) Comparing Obama and McCain, for sure I still trust Obama more regarding faith related issues, but I am a bit concerned that as Obama is drawing closer to power... he's compromising more and more...
May God help us not to compromise too much... May the hand of God strengthen us so that we can maintain our integrity.
Oh, and thank God for the slight drop of gas prices, may this trend continue too! ;)
(Number 16-18, 174.0 lbs, $4.759)
Monday, June 23, 2008
Hot and tiring weekend!
Weekend was HOT HOT HOT! A/C vent of the Master bedroom in our apartment seemed kinda clogged or something... flow is real low... so it can get hot even in the evenings! So we decided to move to the other cooler bedroom. Plus, we're hoping to train our kitty cat to NOT disturb us while we're sleeping... wife is constantly losing sleep because of the cat acting up! If he acts up again, our plan was to simply to kick him back to the master bedroom alone all by himself! Of course, we don't mean to abuse our animal by locking him up in the hottest room in our apartment, it's just that his drinking fountain... along with his 'bathroom' is located in that room... we want him to be able to drink and relief himself while doing 'time outs' in the room that's all... it's NOT animal abuse! ;)
Anyway, thank God that our cat seemed to be feeling better now. Finally begin to "purrrr" once again. Not sure what happened. Our initial move from one bedroom to another seemed to kinda disturbed him... not sure what's going on... he wasn't sure where was he suppose to sleep! ;) However, I guess he adjusted rather quickly! Praying for kittycat works too! So far, we haven't had to lock up our cat just yet... hopefully his mood can continue to improve...
We also had a big brunch at parent's house on Saturday. Wife and I cooked them american style breakfast. It's kinda hard cooking for so many people... I'm not used to that! Luckily those aunts couldn't eat a whole lot... so it was easy to stuff them up... it just took me way longer than I thought... I have a lot more respect for professinal chefs now! ;) Anyway, at least we all had a pretty good time overall...
We also did some house hunting over the weekend, but still can't find anything we really like at the price where we can afford. Just gotta be more patient I suppose. Surely we will find something sooner or later. Surely God is preparing for us something way better than anything we could possibly imagined! Praise the LORD!!!
Yeah, Pastor Jim told us that praise is the only way for us to pursue the presence of God! So halleluja!!! ;) One thing we ask and one thing we seek is to live in the house of the LORD all the days of our lives!!! Today's reading was about Joshua and Caleb..., may we be like them, may we have the spirit of Joshua and Caleb... that even on super HOT days... even when things appear to be against us, we won't be afraid because we know that God is with us!
(Num 13-15, 174.2 lbs, $4.789)
Anyway, thank God that our cat seemed to be feeling better now. Finally begin to "purrrr" once again. Not sure what happened. Our initial move from one bedroom to another seemed to kinda disturbed him... not sure what's going on... he wasn't sure where was he suppose to sleep! ;) However, I guess he adjusted rather quickly! Praying for kittycat works too! So far, we haven't had to lock up our cat just yet... hopefully his mood can continue to improve...
We also had a big brunch at parent's house on Saturday. Wife and I cooked them american style breakfast. It's kinda hard cooking for so many people... I'm not used to that! Luckily those aunts couldn't eat a whole lot... so it was easy to stuff them up... it just took me way longer than I thought... I have a lot more respect for professinal chefs now! ;) Anyway, at least we all had a pretty good time overall...
We also did some house hunting over the weekend, but still can't find anything we really like at the price where we can afford. Just gotta be more patient I suppose. Surely we will find something sooner or later. Surely God is preparing for us something way better than anything we could possibly imagined! Praise the LORD!!!
Yeah, Pastor Jim told us that praise is the only way for us to pursue the presence of God! So halleluja!!! ;) One thing we ask and one thing we seek is to live in the house of the LORD all the days of our lives!!! Today's reading was about Joshua and Caleb..., may we be like them, may we have the spirit of Joshua and Caleb... that even on super HOT days... even when things appear to be against us, we won't be afraid because we know that God is with us!
(Num 13-15, 174.2 lbs, $4.789)
Friday, June 20, 2008
Thank God It's Friday?
Last nite we had dinner at Ning's house... and I finally get to meet her husband Ming! It was just a quick get together before Ning gives birth to her 2nd baby... her stomach is BIG!!! We also get to see her new place too... we almost couldn't find it! Ning's one year old son Elliot is also quite social for a kid who doesn't really know how to talk! Anyway, it was fun to finally meet the rest of the family members of Ning! ;)
Also found out thru the news last night that Obama cannot really be trusted with his words! I've seen footage of him claiming that he won't run for president in his first term when he first started out as US senator. He said he's not ready and most likely won't be ready. Well, now he's ready to be president I guess. Recently, he said he's going to forgo the government backed election financing and raise his own money... so that he can avoid spending limits. He supposedly made commitments to go this route origianally, but now changed his mind because he realized he's pretty good at raising money! Hopefully he's not getting too much special interests money... Anyway, I finding myself liking Obama less and less. Of course I'm not sure if McCain is really all that full of integrity himself, it's just that Obama supposedly should offer us a different kind of politics, but somehow it's beginning to feel like politics as usual. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for 4 years I guess. Let's see if he can really offer us any of those audacity to hope for our future...
Anyway, weird stuff is happening. I really thought I stuffed myself last nite, but I was really surprised by my light weight this morning. Not sure what happened. Our little kitty also threw up this morning... he also didn't pur as usual when I pet him this morning. What is going on?!?!? Stock market also took a dive today... DOW is well below 12,000... Everything is pretty much red... Coca Cola is barely green, but may not stay green by the time market closes at 1pm...
Sigh... at least gas prices didn't go up today and at least today's Friday! Praise the Lord! ;)
Today's reading of Numbers was about Jews finally leaving Sinai... and then the Jews began to complain about things. Yeah, I guess it's not a good idea to complain too much about things..., surely God knows what he's doing? Of course we better do a good job of whatever we're doing and make sure others don't complain about us..., but when it comes to situation that's beyond our control, the moral of the story is that we should just continue on and don't whine and don't worry about too much, right? God is with us and God is taking care of us, right?
Right! Help us learn to trust in You more Lord God! Thank You!
(Num 11-12, 173.2 lb, $4.789)
Also found out thru the news last night that Obama cannot really be trusted with his words! I've seen footage of him claiming that he won't run for president in his first term when he first started out as US senator. He said he's not ready and most likely won't be ready. Well, now he's ready to be president I guess. Recently, he said he's going to forgo the government backed election financing and raise his own money... so that he can avoid spending limits. He supposedly made commitments to go this route origianally, but now changed his mind because he realized he's pretty good at raising money! Hopefully he's not getting too much special interests money... Anyway, I finding myself liking Obama less and less. Of course I'm not sure if McCain is really all that full of integrity himself, it's just that Obama supposedly should offer us a different kind of politics, but somehow it's beginning to feel like politics as usual. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for 4 years I guess. Let's see if he can really offer us any of those audacity to hope for our future...
Anyway, weird stuff is happening. I really thought I stuffed myself last nite, but I was really surprised by my light weight this morning. Not sure what happened. Our little kitty also threw up this morning... he also didn't pur as usual when I pet him this morning. What is going on?!?!? Stock market also took a dive today... DOW is well below 12,000... Everything is pretty much red... Coca Cola is barely green, but may not stay green by the time market closes at 1pm...
Sigh... at least gas prices didn't go up today and at least today's Friday! Praise the Lord! ;)
Today's reading of Numbers was about Jews finally leaving Sinai... and then the Jews began to complain about things. Yeah, I guess it's not a good idea to complain too much about things..., surely God knows what he's doing? Of course we better do a good job of whatever we're doing and make sure others don't complain about us..., but when it comes to situation that's beyond our control, the moral of the story is that we should just continue on and don't whine and don't worry about too much, right? God is with us and God is taking care of us, right?
Right! Help us learn to trust in You more Lord God! Thank You!
(Num 11-12, 173.2 lb, $4.789)
Thursday, June 19, 2008
7 days...
Today marks the 7th day of having good moods! Then unfortunate side effect is that wife would end up gaining weight, I personally don't mind that at all, but she didn't like it. Oh well, win some lose some, we can't have it all I guess. Another draw back is that for sure our cat is now under spiritual attack lately. He has been in a bad mood for pretty much the whole time! May God help our little kitty get better too! May God also give us wisdom so that we can know what we can do to help him out...
Today I read about the Jews dedicating to the tabernacle and setting it up... and then that firy cloud covering over it... when it lifts up, then pack up and go... when it stays over the tabernacle, then they stick around... How cool is that to have God's presence so clearly known to you. To also be able to know when to go and when not to go... well, our bodies are not the tabernacle of God too! Are our tabernacles dedicated and set up the same way? May God help us set things up properly. May we be able to know God's will and obey God's will so that we won't end up wandering around in the wilderness for too long. Yes, Lord, we don't want to go the long way... or do things the hard way like the prodigal son. Not that we want to take a short cut or anything like that..., but we do want to get to our promiseland on the shortest possible route!
And finally, may God continue to help and work with those currently suffering in disaster areas around the world. It really seems like there's more and more disasters happening all over the world. I suppose the end is probably near..., but since the LORD is our shepherd, what do we have to be afraid of, right? Show us Your glory!!!
(Num 7-9, 174.2 lbs, $4.799)
Today I read about the Jews dedicating to the tabernacle and setting it up... and then that firy cloud covering over it... when it lifts up, then pack up and go... when it stays over the tabernacle, then they stick around... How cool is that to have God's presence so clearly known to you. To also be able to know when to go and when not to go... well, our bodies are not the tabernacle of God too! Are our tabernacles dedicated and set up the same way? May God help us set things up properly. May we be able to know God's will and obey God's will so that we won't end up wandering around in the wilderness for too long. Yes, Lord, we don't want to go the long way... or do things the hard way like the prodigal son. Not that we want to take a short cut or anything like that..., but we do want to get to our promiseland on the shortest possible route!
And finally, may God continue to help and work with those currently suffering in disaster areas around the world. It really seems like there's more and more disasters happening all over the world. I suppose the end is probably near..., but since the LORD is our shepherd, what do we have to be afraid of, right? Show us Your glory!!!
(Num 7-9, 174.2 lbs, $4.799)
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Changing minds....
Anyway, stock market is pretty much all red today. At least boeing stock inched up a tiny bit because of the news. ;) But if current fuel trend continues, I think a lot of airlines will go bankrupt... and by the time Boeing's ready to present the new 787, airlines might not have enough money to buy it anymore! Hopefully things won't end up that bad... hopefully economy decide to change its mind and start to go up!
On a more spiritual note, it's interesting that a bunch of atheists signed up onto my prayer challenge experiement. Basically instead of debating them on theological issues, we Christians also are going to pray for their conversion. I also asked them to please respond back whenever they're converted... so... here's hoping and praying that their names will soon appear on the book of life soon! ;) I've debated them a lot, I figure it's time that I pray for them a lot now... we'll just have to wait and see how things go... see if those atheists will eventually change their minds...
Thank God that God doesn't change minds about putting His name on us and blessing us! Thank you Abba!
(Num 4-6, 174.2 lbs, $4.779)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Ramblings...
This morning, my battery finally died at a gas station, good thing I've prepared a new one in the trunk, so I was able to swap it pretty quickly! Anyway, I guess I can finally get rid of the extra weight in my car for the past 5-6 months. I thought the Honda Dealer mechanic just wanted to rip me off earlier this year when he told me that I need to change my battery, so I went ahead and bought a new battery just in case... and I suppose he's not lying after all! ;) The bad thing now is that my radio's anti-theft feature kicked in... after power outage, now it's asking for a code and I have no idea what it is... need to get back to Honda dealer to figure that one out!
I've also recently finally finish my reading on the Symmetry book. Was able to get a lot of reading done on the plane! Quite frankly, I still don't have much of a clue what that math professor's talking about... and the author knows that most people won't be able to get it either... so at least he wrote the book with some historical perspective. I know a lot of mathematician names from math classes... they're either equation names or theorm names. It's kinda cool to finally know some of the histories behind the various mathematicians. According to the author, in order to be a good mathematician or artist, one almost always have to suffer a bit of autism. The official medical term would be Asperger's syndrome.
Hans Asperger, a Viennese paediatrician, identifited the problem as a higher functioning type of autism. Symptoms include severely imparied social interaction; all absorbing narrow interests; burden themselves with routines; non-verbal communication... and in some cases... clumsiness.
I think I might have this disease! ;)
There's an interesting character name Conway in this book who the author has worked with. He holds the world record on his ability at knowing the most decimal places of Pi. He can also quickly figure out what day or the week is it at any given date. He set up his computer password that way... he has to do this exercise several times within a time limit or else the computer would lock him out. He claims no one would be able to hack inside his computer! ;) He also has the ability of flipping 20 heads or 20 tails in a row. Unfortunately the author promised that he won't reveal the secret... so I don't really know how it's done... so basically, this dude is just obsessed with math and makes games of it. The guy is actually very talkative... except that the communication is one way. He likes to share with you, but he doesn't necessary want to hear what you have to say... the guy cannot remember the names of his colleagues even after working 20+ years with them!!! ;)
Anyway, moral of the story is that people are just different. What's mathematically cool near the end is that these guys were on a race trying to prove the existence of a Monster symmetrical shape that exists in the 196,883th dimensional space. It's interesting that this Monster seems to have some sort of connection with another totally unrelated theory called the number theory. Why is there a connection? What is the source of this connection? They still don't know. They call it the moonshine effect. Just as we see the moon shines, but it's not really giving off light, it's merely reflection light from another source, which is the sun. At this point in time in human mathematical history, they still don't know what is that sun yet, but they have figured out that there must be something! The new mathematical discover also seemed to be peaking interests of physicists... because it offers way to marry quantum physics with theory of Relativity!
It's really amazing how deep knowledge can go as humans dig deeper and deeper.
I personally believe that ultimately, we will be able to find the glory of God causing all those moonshine effects! ;) When I'm actually living my eternal life, perhaps I'll spend some time to actually figure out what the heck these mathematicians are talking about in detail! ;)
(Num 1-3, 174.4 lbs, $4.779)
I've also recently finally finish my reading on the Symmetry book. Was able to get a lot of reading done on the plane! Quite frankly, I still don't have much of a clue what that math professor's talking about... and the author knows that most people won't be able to get it either... so at least he wrote the book with some historical perspective. I know a lot of mathematician names from math classes... they're either equation names or theorm names. It's kinda cool to finally know some of the histories behind the various mathematicians. According to the author, in order to be a good mathematician or artist, one almost always have to suffer a bit of autism. The official medical term would be Asperger's syndrome.
Hans Asperger, a Viennese paediatrician, identifited the problem as a higher functioning type of autism. Symptoms include severely imparied social interaction; all absorbing narrow interests; burden themselves with routines; non-verbal communication... and in some cases... clumsiness.
I think I might have this disease! ;)
There's an interesting character name Conway in this book who the author has worked with. He holds the world record on his ability at knowing the most decimal places of Pi. He can also quickly figure out what day or the week is it at any given date. He set up his computer password that way... he has to do this exercise several times within a time limit or else the computer would lock him out. He claims no one would be able to hack inside his computer! ;) He also has the ability of flipping 20 heads or 20 tails in a row. Unfortunately the author promised that he won't reveal the secret... so I don't really know how it's done... so basically, this dude is just obsessed with math and makes games of it. The guy is actually very talkative... except that the communication is one way. He likes to share with you, but he doesn't necessary want to hear what you have to say... the guy cannot remember the names of his colleagues even after working 20+ years with them!!! ;)
Anyway, moral of the story is that people are just different. What's mathematically cool near the end is that these guys were on a race trying to prove the existence of a Monster symmetrical shape that exists in the 196,883th dimensional space. It's interesting that this Monster seems to have some sort of connection with another totally unrelated theory called the number theory. Why is there a connection? What is the source of this connection? They still don't know. They call it the moonshine effect. Just as we see the moon shines, but it's not really giving off light, it's merely reflection light from another source, which is the sun. At this point in time in human mathematical history, they still don't know what is that sun yet, but they have figured out that there must be something! The new mathematical discover also seemed to be peaking interests of physicists... because it offers way to marry quantum physics with theory of Relativity!
It's really amazing how deep knowledge can go as humans dig deeper and deeper.
I personally believe that ultimately, we will be able to find the glory of God causing all those moonshine effects! ;) When I'm actually living my eternal life, perhaps I'll spend some time to actually figure out what the heck these mathematicians are talking about in detail! ;)
(Num 1-3, 174.4 lbs, $4.779)
Monday, June 16, 2008
Salvation Army...
Other than occassionally seeing them at supermarket doors during holiday seasons... ring bells and asking for donations... or remembering to give them old cloths and stuffs..., it was quite an eye opening experience during Saturday when I saw one of their 'events'. Wife was hired to play in the orchestra for them... the event wasn't really public but we managed to get a ticket for me anyway.
Anyway, to see a bunch of them dressed up in army uniform is kinda scary, but they've been around for 140years! Their mission statement is cool though. Of course they want people saved, not only that, they are committed to grow those saved saints so that they can do more of God's work. Of course they also know that before they can save anyone, people's basic needs have to be met. So I was pretty moved by some of the video testimonies during the event...
However, the event itself is kinda lame... wife said there was never any sound checks at all during rehearsals or before the actual show. It showed. When people began to worships, we simply cannot hear any of the music nor can people figure our who's actually leading the worship! ;) Plus the computer crashed in the middle of the event... So I just prayed for them... and I pray that they can do better in the future too instead of wasting their money like that! ;) I've been to many chinese christian events, surely none of the chinese ministries have as much money as the Salvation Army, and in comparison, I think the chinese ministries are doing pretty well! ;) Anyway, don't mean to compare, since we're all God's army, but it's obvious that we need to get MORE organized!!!
Of course we're still thankful of the gig God and Salvation Army have given to us! We'll be keeping them in our prayers. We're also thankful that so far, I haven't made any screw ups that badly... and wife has been able to keep her mood in control..., but too bad our kitty is still kinda in a bad mood though... sure hope he'll start to feel better soon.
Today's reading of beginning part of Lev 26 had also been encouraging... especially during the times of poor economy. Gas prices is really going up at a crazy rate. This is certainly a time when we need God more and more as Pastor Jim said. May we all have a good relationship with our Father in Heaven.
(Lev 25-27, 174.6 lbs $4.779)
Anyway, to see a bunch of them dressed up in army uniform is kinda scary, but they've been around for 140years! Their mission statement is cool though. Of course they want people saved, not only that, they are committed to grow those saved saints so that they can do more of God's work. Of course they also know that before they can save anyone, people's basic needs have to be met. So I was pretty moved by some of the video testimonies during the event...
However, the event itself is kinda lame... wife said there was never any sound checks at all during rehearsals or before the actual show. It showed. When people began to worships, we simply cannot hear any of the music nor can people figure our who's actually leading the worship! ;) Plus the computer crashed in the middle of the event... So I just prayed for them... and I pray that they can do better in the future too instead of wasting their money like that! ;) I've been to many chinese christian events, surely none of the chinese ministries have as much money as the Salvation Army, and in comparison, I think the chinese ministries are doing pretty well! ;) Anyway, don't mean to compare, since we're all God's army, but it's obvious that we need to get MORE organized!!!
Of course we're still thankful of the gig God and Salvation Army have given to us! We'll be keeping them in our prayers. We're also thankful that so far, I haven't made any screw ups that badly... and wife has been able to keep her mood in control..., but too bad our kitty is still kinda in a bad mood though... sure hope he'll start to feel better soon.
Today's reading of beginning part of Lev 26 had also been encouraging... especially during the times of poor economy. Gas prices is really going up at a crazy rate. This is certainly a time when we need God more and more as Pastor Jim said. May we all have a good relationship with our Father in Heaven.
(Lev 25-27, 174.6 lbs $4.779)
Friday, June 13, 2008
Kiss my gas!!!
Another source of pain for pretty much all of us is now the steadily rising gas prices. Heard over the radio about a new protesting campaign called KissMyGas! Well, there's not much we consumers can do to lower the price of barrels of oil except to perhaps cut back our usage... however, for now, we could make the oil companies compete for our business. With such high prices, it's really ridiculous to see oil companies with huge profits... just kissmygas campaign will basically try to get all drivers to boycot certain brand of gas for a month... so that this particular company will be forced to reduce it's price in order to win back customers... andthe organizer will pick another oil company to boycot next month...
In theory, this should work if everyone's on board with this..., but of course it'll be difficult to really 'unionize' all drivers like that. This month Exxon/Mobil is the target. I will avoid getting gas from them for a month and see if this thing would really pan out! ;)
Anyway, last night we had a rather peaceful night. ;) After wife came back from her rehearsal, we pretty much just relaxed and slepted... and it's interesting that our cat later on got the angry fire burning in him!!! Rub him the wrong way, he'll tried to attack and bite you!!! Yeah, wife has noticed this type of behavior earlier... whatever happens to her will in a day or so later... get transferred to the kitty. Hmm... we can only hope that more of whatever God has be transferred down to us too... so that we can pass on to our kitty more of those godly goodies! :)
(Lev 22-24, 174.2 lbs, $4.759)
In theory, this should work if everyone's on board with this..., but of course it'll be difficult to really 'unionize' all drivers like that. This month Exxon/Mobil is the target. I will avoid getting gas from them for a month and see if this thing would really pan out! ;)
Anyway, last night we had a rather peaceful night. ;) After wife came back from her rehearsal, we pretty much just relaxed and slepted... and it's interesting that our cat later on got the angry fire burning in him!!! Rub him the wrong way, he'll tried to attack and bite you!!! Yeah, wife has noticed this type of behavior earlier... whatever happens to her will in a day or so later... get transferred to the kitty. Hmm... we can only hope that more of whatever God has be transferred down to us too... so that we can pass on to our kitty more of those godly goodies! :)
(Lev 22-24, 174.2 lbs, $4.759)
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Pain is temporary, but love is forever!
Daniel has finally came back from his "new baby vacation", so I had lunch with him today. He's been out for a month now... and claiming that it's probably more of a 'vacation' to be in the office than being at home now... because it's really demanding to be taking care of this new born baby around the house..., plus his wife went thru a pretty severe labor pain too... So he had to pretty much take care of them both... around the clock! I feel sorry for him and feel happy for him at the same time too. Anyway, may God bless his family... and may his family grow closer to God too! They are Catholics, but only goes to church during wedding and perhaps Easter and Christmas... of course faith in Christ isn't all about going to church... I just pray that somehow, his family can have a closer relationship with God...
Last night I went to brother GD's prayer meeting alone because wife's just not feeling too good... Brother GD talked about how we are suppose to be crucified with Christ(Gal 2:20) and be raised with Christ(Col 3:1)! That is the ultimate kind of relationship with Christ! Do we have that kind of relationship with Christ? Do we set our minds on the things above and not earthly things? Do we really love God more than anything else in this world?
I think it's okay if we feel kinda guilty about that..., provided that this guilty feeling can help us turn things around as it did for Peter. He felt so guilty and ashamed for denying Jesus, but God turned it around for him so that he became a great apostle of Christ.
I really think God created pets not only to teach us how to be good masters, but also to show us how to be a good little servant like our pets. Our cat's entire world is all about us. When we're happy, he's happy. When we're sad, he's sad. Our cat loves his little treats... loves watching and perhaps catching birds..., but as much as he loves those things, his mind is more set on the "things above"..., which is us. This is why pets do end up becoming very similar to their owners. This is also the only way we can become more like our Master too...
Last night wife and I had another me screwing up and she getting mad and neither one of us getting much sleep moment. It's indeed a crucifying experience physically, but spiritually it was awesome. I not only prayed for my wife and repent of my sins, but most importantly, I tried setting my mind on things up above! Surprisingly I don't really get all that drowzy at work with so little sleep. Anyway, I have to be honest that I don't have much energy left to fight in the middle of the night, but surely God will give me energy to pray. If satan wish to attack me and my wife more and more... fine, I will simply pray to God more and more.
Labor pain or crucifixion is only momentary..., but that new resurrecting life shall be forever. I don't know about lots of things, but I know trusting in God is my only Way. Today's scripture reading was about various laws... of which the most important is of course "be holy, because the LORD my God is holy!" May God continue to change me and sanctify me so that I can be truly holy... holy to the point of my wife can even see the difference in me. Help me change O God...
(Lev 19-21, 174.6 lbs, $4.699)
Last night I went to brother GD's prayer meeting alone because wife's just not feeling too good... Brother GD talked about how we are suppose to be crucified with Christ(Gal 2:20) and be raised with Christ(Col 3:1)! That is the ultimate kind of relationship with Christ! Do we have that kind of relationship with Christ? Do we set our minds on the things above and not earthly things? Do we really love God more than anything else in this world?
I think it's okay if we feel kinda guilty about that..., provided that this guilty feeling can help us turn things around as it did for Peter. He felt so guilty and ashamed for denying Jesus, but God turned it around for him so that he became a great apostle of Christ.
I really think God created pets not only to teach us how to be good masters, but also to show us how to be a good little servant like our pets. Our cat's entire world is all about us. When we're happy, he's happy. When we're sad, he's sad. Our cat loves his little treats... loves watching and perhaps catching birds..., but as much as he loves those things, his mind is more set on the "things above"..., which is us. This is why pets do end up becoming very similar to their owners. This is also the only way we can become more like our Master too...
Last night wife and I had another me screwing up and she getting mad and neither one of us getting much sleep moment. It's indeed a crucifying experience physically, but spiritually it was awesome. I not only prayed for my wife and repent of my sins, but most importantly, I tried setting my mind on things up above! Surprisingly I don't really get all that drowzy at work with so little sleep. Anyway, I have to be honest that I don't have much energy left to fight in the middle of the night, but surely God will give me energy to pray. If satan wish to attack me and my wife more and more... fine, I will simply pray to God more and more.
Labor pain or crucifixion is only momentary..., but that new resurrecting life shall be forever. I don't know about lots of things, but I know trusting in God is my only Way. Today's scripture reading was about various laws... of which the most important is of course "be holy, because the LORD my God is holy!" May God continue to change me and sanctify me so that I can be truly holy... holy to the point of my wife can even see the difference in me. Help me change O God...
(Lev 19-21, 174.6 lbs, $4.699)
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Whew...
I think God gave me wisdom on how to solve the arguing with wife thru-out the night problem. ;) Yeah, not sure exactly why this happens..., but I've noticed that everytime when we start an argument about some whatever stupid little things... it's usually near bed time. And then it'll escalate and the wife would become angrier at me... and then we'll always go back to the same "root" problem... and none of us would be able to sleep.
It's interesting this never happen during day time.
So I figured this is satan's scheme. Just when we're both are tired and can't think clearly, one way or another, he'd cause us to get into arguments.
Spiritually, it is pretty clear that satan wants us to just split..., but it's also pretty clear that God wants us to be together!!!
But regardless of the goingons in the spiritual world, in this world, wife and I have got to figure out what do we want? Do we really want to be together no matter what? Do we really want to become a better man/woman for each other? It basically all comes down to how much do we love each other?
Anyway, so I think there'll be no more middle of the night arguments from now on. However, we will continue our lessons on how to properly love one another. May God continue to be our Instructor, and may we both be good students!
Today's read was kinda cool... I particularly noticed the forbidden sex part. I can't believe I've actually violated one of them!!! It wasn't intentional! Really!!! Anyway, I thought I'm such a good boy! Anyway, another interesting note is that Leviticus seems to only forbidding man to man kind of homosexual act. So is woman to woman kind okay? ;) Anyway, not sure why this chapter caught my attention so much..., just thought it's interesting. ;)
(Lev 16-18, 174.0 lbs, $4.669)
It's interesting this never happen during day time.
So I figured this is satan's scheme. Just when we're both are tired and can't think clearly, one way or another, he'd cause us to get into arguments.
Spiritually, it is pretty clear that satan wants us to just split..., but it's also pretty clear that God wants us to be together!!!
But regardless of the goingons in the spiritual world, in this world, wife and I have got to figure out what do we want? Do we really want to be together no matter what? Do we really want to become a better man/woman for each other? It basically all comes down to how much do we love each other?
Anyway, so I think there'll be no more middle of the night arguments from now on. However, we will continue our lessons on how to properly love one another. May God continue to be our Instructor, and may we both be good students!
Today's read was kinda cool... I particularly noticed the forbidden sex part. I can't believe I've actually violated one of them!!! It wasn't intentional! Really!!! Anyway, I thought I'm such a good boy! Anyway, another interesting note is that Leviticus seems to only forbidding man to man kind of homosexual act. So is woman to woman kind okay? ;) Anyway, not sure why this chapter caught my attention so much..., just thought it's interesting. ;)
(Lev 16-18, 174.0 lbs, $4.669)
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Sanctifying fire...
Speaking of God "sanctifying" Aaron's sons by fire... a fire came upon me too last night! Interestingly it started out with a WOW by wife's sudden surprise gig this weekend! Initially we thought it's some sort of spam call because of the weird voicemail they left, but it turned out, they really needed musicians to perform! Details of this gig is still sketchy, but we should know more during Thursday's rehearsal about what kind of concert it's going to be...
Anyway, there's also a Saturday afternoon rehearsal too... so we were just thinking what I'm going to do this Saturday... and one thing led to another... due to my insensitivity... the WOE came upon us and the fire ended up frying us badly!!!
Wife and I tend to fight about the same things... mainly it is my insensitivity that caused her to feel mad/bad... and then my inability to comfort and sooth her which end up causing the situation to spin out of control more.
Why am I so insensitive? How can I even make such insenstive suggestions? Well, had I known how insensitive I was, I'm sure I wouldn't make such a suggestion. It for sure wasn't my intention to be that unsympathetic toward my wife... As for the comforting part, I can't even do better than a cat! Well, of course I can do better than a cat, but since I am not a cat... since God has given me more abilities, naturally more is expected out of me! ;) And I do fall short in that area... :( But I do believe I have improved... or at the very minimum, I haven't gotten worse.
Yes, I think God is most certainly sanctifying me to become more sensitive and to be a better comforter, perhaps my progress really is too slow? God knows I have the commitment and the heart to do His work, but now I'm receiving 'training' in order to do His work well later I guess. I better learn my lessons in order to become truly useful for God. I do want to do better Lord, please help me change for the better... and it better be observible to the wife too!
And regarding the wife, I really think she is an amazing person. She really has her stuff together in pretty much all aspects of her life... and I think the only thing God is teaching her now is to learn to love... the unconditional kinda love. God sent her a cat to let her practice... and she has done exceptionally well at loving the little kitty no matter what. So she now has graduated to humans now... so God sent this pighead(me), a much harder assignment... ;)
May we both be able to complete our assignments to God's satisfaction. Of course, even if we do fail, God will still loves us. But of course we'll miss out on certain good things that could've come out of it..., plus, it is better to not only be loved by God, but also to have God be well pleased with us too. Help us achieve what You want us to do our redeeming Lord! As pastor Jim said, transform us from feeling worthless... to feeling worthy. From fear... to actually having more faith in the end. May God help us experience more happier moments instead of constantly being stucked in the labor pain and never giving birth...
But of course last weekend at Chicago was pretty good... however I guess sometimes it's easier to dwell on the bad things in life and forget about the good things...
Anyway, I think at the moment, the only thing that the Three of us can really do together is TG. (3 meaning God, me, and wife) We probably need to concentrate more of our effort on that than anything else... May God's will be done.
Today's scripture talked about infectious skin disease... and mildew on cloths... about seperating the unclean... May God clean us up... if we're going to be seperated, may we be seperated as holy to the Lord... instead of the other way around...
(Lev 13-15, 174.6 lbs, $4.639)
Anyway, there's also a Saturday afternoon rehearsal too... so we were just thinking what I'm going to do this Saturday... and one thing led to another... due to my insensitivity... the WOE came upon us and the fire ended up frying us badly!!!
Wife and I tend to fight about the same things... mainly it is my insensitivity that caused her to feel mad/bad... and then my inability to comfort and sooth her which end up causing the situation to spin out of control more.
Why am I so insensitive? How can I even make such insenstive suggestions? Well, had I known how insensitive I was, I'm sure I wouldn't make such a suggestion. It for sure wasn't my intention to be that unsympathetic toward my wife... As for the comforting part, I can't even do better than a cat! Well, of course I can do better than a cat, but since I am not a cat... since God has given me more abilities, naturally more is expected out of me! ;) And I do fall short in that area... :( But I do believe I have improved... or at the very minimum, I haven't gotten worse.
Yes, I think God is most certainly sanctifying me to become more sensitive and to be a better comforter, perhaps my progress really is too slow? God knows I have the commitment and the heart to do His work, but now I'm receiving 'training' in order to do His work well later I guess. I better learn my lessons in order to become truly useful for God. I do want to do better Lord, please help me change for the better... and it better be observible to the wife too!
And regarding the wife, I really think she is an amazing person. She really has her stuff together in pretty much all aspects of her life... and I think the only thing God is teaching her now is to learn to love... the unconditional kinda love. God sent her a cat to let her practice... and she has done exceptionally well at loving the little kitty no matter what. So she now has graduated to humans now... so God sent this pighead(me), a much harder assignment... ;)
May we both be able to complete our assignments to God's satisfaction. Of course, even if we do fail, God will still loves us. But of course we'll miss out on certain good things that could've come out of it..., plus, it is better to not only be loved by God, but also to have God be well pleased with us too. Help us achieve what You want us to do our redeeming Lord! As pastor Jim said, transform us from feeling worthless... to feeling worthy. From fear... to actually having more faith in the end. May God help us experience more happier moments instead of constantly being stucked in the labor pain and never giving birth...
But of course last weekend at Chicago was pretty good... however I guess sometimes it's easier to dwell on the bad things in life and forget about the good things...
Anyway, I think at the moment, the only thing that the Three of us can really do together is TG. (3 meaning God, me, and wife) We probably need to concentrate more of our effort on that than anything else... May God's will be done.
Today's scripture talked about infectious skin disease... and mildew on cloths... about seperating the unclean... May God clean us up... if we're going to be seperated, may we be seperated as holy to the Lord... instead of the other way around...
(Lev 13-15, 174.6 lbs, $4.639)
Monday, June 9, 2008
Explode your pop corn !
Interesting video of cellphones popping popcorn!!! Not sure if it's real or not...
Chicago Trip
Trip to Chicago was pretty cool. We pretty much saw everything there is to see in Chicago... and we did it cheaply too! Well, not that we're 'cheap', just want to make sure that we don't waste money that's all! We stayed at a pretty cool hotel thanks to priceline, and we saved rental car money because Chicago has a pretty good mass transit system. Plus, they even provide free trolley buses for us tourists. How cool is that?
There was suppose to be a huge thunder storm too, but weather wasn't so bad after all. I hope our praying didn't end up causing the neighboring state of Indiana to experience flood... :o
Anyway, the climate there really felt very similar to Taiwan. Very humid. Neat place, but not sure if I'd really trade it for LA. I dunno, whenever I travel, I'd never like the place more than the homeplace that I came from..., but then again, if I do get to spend enough time with the new place, it can often grow on me. Seattle is a prime example. I hated that place during my short visits, but after spending a few months there, I actually like it very much! So anyway, I guess I'll reserve my judgement until after I actually lived there for a few months? Perhaps I'll enjoy sailing in the Great Lake cause it's just so windy there! ;)
Today's reading was about how Aaron lost couple of his sons because of the wrong kinda fire they used at the altar. If we don't obey and sanctify ourselves, I guess the moral of the story is that God will sanctify us. In our eyes, it may seem harsh..., just as having live coal touching our lips may seem harsh..., but God has to do what He has to do... and what God does is always good for us. Pastor Jim's sermon also reminded us of this. Whenever we approach God, things can often turn from WOW to WOE!!! Surely Aaron and family were happy to be installed as priests, ready to do God's work, but then woe came to them...
When stuffs like that happens, can we really trust God did it for our benefit for some kind of good? We just have to remember that God is not a God who created us just to later on destroy us. God is not only a Creator but also a Redeemer because His love endures forever!!! Just like in dad's sermon: 我活著就是 基督，死了就有益處。So what if I live or die, right? But as long as we're living, 但願今日教會不但行善，更給人生命。
(Lev 10~12, 174.8 lbs, $4.639)
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Another day...
Obama has 'effectively' clinched the votes he needed to be nominated by the Democratic Party. Whew! What a grueling marathon race! Anyway, I like him a little bit less now, as I explained in my previous blog entry, but he's still my favorite though. May God give him enough wisdom to manage our nation well..., but not too much to the point of getting too arrogant like Solomon. As a 1 term senator... and if elected president... I think it'll be very easy for anyone to over inflate his ego... so may God also guard his heart... and remind him to stay humble... and use him to really perfect the state of our union!
And more bad economic news... GM shutting down plants... and may even sell the Hummer division off... Even government nuclear labs are laying off people due to congressional budget cuts. They are worried that those people might end up working for foriegn governments..., but then why do you lay them off then?!?!? Anyway, surely nobody thought those people could lose their jobs, sign of the times I guess...
I'm still getting this occasional annoying headache. I thought I was better yesterday, but then during the evening it came back again... and my neck ended up pretty sour and stiff too because of the headache... so I finally give in to wife's advice to just take a painkiller last night. I am feeling better today like yesterday..., but hopefully things won't get worse again during the evening... Anyway, I think this is probably the first time I've experienced what Apostle Paul had experienced. But of course I'm sure the thorn in my head is much smaller than his thorn... wherever it was... God has been gracious to me too. I'm not really lacking in anything at this point! :) And I'm going to pray again that may God heal my head... or at least give me sufficient energy during our upcoming vacation in Chicago... also I hope it won't rain too much over there while we're there... But whatever happens, hopefully we'll have a good time and may God be with us! :)
Today's reading was about how Moses prepared Aaron and his sons to be priests. God has also raised us up to be priests of this generation too. May we also be a blessing to the people around us... and may the glory of God appear to all of us too!
(Lev 7-9, 173.8 lbs, $4.439/gallon)
And more bad economic news... GM shutting down plants... and may even sell the Hummer division off... Even government nuclear labs are laying off people due to congressional budget cuts. They are worried that those people might end up working for foriegn governments..., but then why do you lay them off then?!?!? Anyway, surely nobody thought those people could lose their jobs, sign of the times I guess...
I'm still getting this occasional annoying headache. I thought I was better yesterday, but then during the evening it came back again... and my neck ended up pretty sour and stiff too because of the headache... so I finally give in to wife's advice to just take a painkiller last night. I am feeling better today like yesterday..., but hopefully things won't get worse again during the evening... Anyway, I think this is probably the first time I've experienced what Apostle Paul had experienced. But of course I'm sure the thorn in my head is much smaller than his thorn... wherever it was... God has been gracious to me too. I'm not really lacking in anything at this point! :) And I'm going to pray again that may God heal my head... or at least give me sufficient energy during our upcoming vacation in Chicago... also I hope it won't rain too much over there while we're there... But whatever happens, hopefully we'll have a good time and may God be with us! :)
Today's reading was about how Moses prepared Aaron and his sons to be priests. God has also raised us up to be priests of this generation too. May we also be a blessing to the people around us... and may the glory of God appear to all of us too!
(Lev 7-9, 173.8 lbs, $4.439/gallon)
Monday, June 2, 2008
Relaxing weekend...
Yep, other than the one student wife had to teach on Saturday morning, this weekend we really didn't do much of ANYTHING other than just spend time with each other! ;) Actually, I didn't really feel like doing anything too cause I have this headache the whole weekend. Usually I can just sleep it off, but not this time... I didn't even feel like praying, but luckily I have a wife now who can lay hand on my achy head and pray for me... ;)
One of the major story of the weekend was the big fire at Universal Studio... the big fire destroyed quite a bit of stuffs, including that huge King Kong!!! Oh well..., too bad for the tourists who came from afar and was turned back that day I guess... Compared to people at China and Burma, surely this disaster is nothing in comparison.
Another surprising story was Obama finally decided to quit... to cut ties with his church in Chicago. I guess there's no need for us to visit that church at chicago anymore! ;) Honestly, I think Obama's former pastor was pretty lame to have caused so much trouble. Not only did he not tone down, but he kept on pressing on expressing more divisive remarks. He'd even side with Muslim leader Farakan on black issues... hey, is it really about Jesus Christ... or about just African Americans? Who is more important here? Blacks had been treated unfairly, okay, we all know that already. Enough is enough. The last straw the broke the camel's back was a guest speaker at Obama's former church mocking Hillary Clinton. What's up with these people giving sermons? If you're going to apologize later, shouldn't you know that what you are saying at the pulpit is inappropriate? At least pastor Jerimiah would never apologize... ;)
Anyway, so I can certainly understand Obama has had enough. However, I think Obama shouldn't have done that. He could've just stick to his original position of disagreeing with what those people said and leave it at that! People can always have different opinions, right? If my family member has a different opinion..., then I should just disown him? If I have a drug addict brother, should I also disown him when I run for office? How can I trust him to be able to really prefect this union if when push comes to shove, he's just going to cut his ties? Cutting ties with his old church simply because of public pressure is a mistake..., in my opinion. Is the presidency that important to you? If God wants you to be president, who can stop you?
Of course I went thru similar experience of severing ties with church, but that's because my wife is indeed more important than that church. Even the church pastor agrees with me, he didn't like it, but he agrees.
Anyway, surely Obama didn't make that decision lightly, nor am I trying to pass judgement on what he has done..., just giving my personal opinion that's all.
Perfecting unions most certainly won't be an easy task. May God help us all to be able to be one with each other... and most importantly to be one with Him!
Today's reading was about sin offerings... Pastor Jim also talked about how God can use fire(live coal) to clean Isaish's lips in Isaiah 6! Often times we may not understand why God is so bloody... or why God always try to burn or judge us with fire..., but God's intention is to clean us up! As long as we're dirty, as long as two pieces are dirty, it'll be hard to glue them together. Only when the parts are cleaned properly, then it can be possible for the two pieces to be bonded as one. Only then, can God really use us for whatever He wants to use us for...
May God blesses you and uses you! ;)
(Lev 4-6, 173.2 lbs, $4.439/gallon)
One of the major story of the weekend was the big fire at Universal Studio... the big fire destroyed quite a bit of stuffs, including that huge King Kong!!! Oh well..., too bad for the tourists who came from afar and was turned back that day I guess... Compared to people at China and Burma, surely this disaster is nothing in comparison.
Another surprising story was Obama finally decided to quit... to cut ties with his church in Chicago. I guess there's no need for us to visit that church at chicago anymore! ;) Honestly, I think Obama's former pastor was pretty lame to have caused so much trouble. Not only did he not tone down, but he kept on pressing on expressing more divisive remarks. He'd even side with Muslim leader Farakan on black issues... hey, is it really about Jesus Christ... or about just African Americans? Who is more important here? Blacks had been treated unfairly, okay, we all know that already. Enough is enough. The last straw the broke the camel's back was a guest speaker at Obama's former church mocking Hillary Clinton. What's up with these people giving sermons? If you're going to apologize later, shouldn't you know that what you are saying at the pulpit is inappropriate? At least pastor Jerimiah would never apologize... ;)
Anyway, so I can certainly understand Obama has had enough. However, I think Obama shouldn't have done that. He could've just stick to his original position of disagreeing with what those people said and leave it at that! People can always have different opinions, right? If my family member has a different opinion..., then I should just disown him? If I have a drug addict brother, should I also disown him when I run for office? How can I trust him to be able to really prefect this union if when push comes to shove, he's just going to cut his ties? Cutting ties with his old church simply because of public pressure is a mistake..., in my opinion. Is the presidency that important to you? If God wants you to be president, who can stop you?
Of course I went thru similar experience of severing ties with church, but that's because my wife is indeed more important than that church. Even the church pastor agrees with me, he didn't like it, but he agrees.
Anyway, surely Obama didn't make that decision lightly, nor am I trying to pass judgement on what he has done..., just giving my personal opinion that's all.
Perfecting unions most certainly won't be an easy task. May God help us all to be able to be one with each other... and most importantly to be one with Him!
Today's reading was about sin offerings... Pastor Jim also talked about how God can use fire(live coal) to clean Isaish's lips in Isaiah 6! Often times we may not understand why God is so bloody... or why God always try to burn or judge us with fire..., but God's intention is to clean us up! As long as we're dirty, as long as two pieces are dirty, it'll be hard to glue them together. Only when the parts are cleaned properly, then it can be possible for the two pieces to be bonded as one. Only then, can God really use us for whatever He wants to use us for...
May God blesses you and uses you! ;)
(Lev 4-6, 173.2 lbs, $4.439/gallon)
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