I once understood the gospel as God asking me to let him into my narrative, to find room for him in my heart and life. But now I realize that God bids me to find my place in his narrative. In God's story, he, with his own two hands—the incarnate Word and the Holy Spirit—recapitulated and reversed the human situation so I can now live in him. Through him I can live in the expectation of a restored world without the presence of evil. Here and now, because God became incarnate and recapitulated all things, I live in him, in his narrative, and he lives in my life, which is to be a witness to his narrative for the world.
Labels: Healing, Reflection, Worship
對於下個馬季起增加5個賽馬日,馬會公司發展事務執行總監麥建華表示,不會助長賭風。
麥建華出席電台節目時說,在本港七、八月的暑假檔期,不少「忍不到手」的港人都會到澳門賭博,有調查顯示,在08年7至8月就輸送了33億元往澳門賭場。相比之下,馬會增加5個賽馬日,所起影響有限。
麥建華又說,委托中大進行調查,發現參與賽馬的人士主要以30至40歲為主;當中九成人表示,不會因為增加賽馬日而參與更多賭博活動。
Labels: Discontent, News

融雪之前
牧神搭上春色的火車,而
日光
在我們之間
各站停靠
一千座噴泉
交響夢
異次元的玫瑰
嬉戲之後
早點回家
A mature Christian is easily edified.
Labels: Reflection
Labels: Healing, Personal, Reflection

My new friend’s email soared across an ocean, “We were really hurt, and, years later, I’m still trying to find the way forward.” A former student sat across from me on my couch, “I’m getting married and I long for the ability to a create a loving space for others. I’ve been afraid that I will, instead, repeat the patterns of my childhood. An old friend rattled her iced tea glass and said, “I’m aware that this experience was devastating and could distort my soul.” And a beloved neighbor’s voice came across the other end of the phone, “I’m trying to work with integrity, but I’m swimming with sharks.”
All of these conversations occurred in the last day, and I find myself reflecting on the relationship of fear and deceit. "Blessed is the one...in whose spirit is no deceit"(Psalm 32:2). I have generally thought of deceit as a deliberate hiding from God and others. But there is another kind: deceit that is generated by fear. We’re not naïve anymore—what “could” happen is no longer theoretical, and our strong temptation is to allow our fear of the past repeating itself to create deceitful lies about ourselves…and more importantly…about the healing, protective love of our God.
When the sharks are swimming, open-mouthed, around us, the instinct to survive is an exceedingly important one. But not all waters are infested with sharks, and the challenge is to face their shadows when they are no longer snapping. This is the hard soul work: to unfold our painful stories truthfully, including the naming of our very real fears. As long as they lay festering within, they have the power to deceive us with lies and distort our responses to God and others.
In calmer waters we can, like the invisible woman kneeling at Jesus’ feet, narrate our story to our Lord (most helpfully in the presence of others who now carry his life). As it was for the woman who was not hidden (Luke 8:47), the Lord's compassionate power both heals the places we know, and the places that lie hidden from us. For the saddest possibility in life is not that we will go through turbulent times, but that we would yield to them the deceitful power of shaping our responses to the future.
Yes, there are sharks. But there are also dolphins. I want to be free to know the difference when I get back in the water.
Labels: Reflection
香港性教育、研究及治療專業協會的一項調查發現,有45%受訪中學生認為援交是一種「互相利用、各取所需的社交生活」,而4.6%中學生更報稱自己可能參與援交,當中近半來自Band 1中學。協會發言人相信,實際參與援交的學生人數定必比調查數字高。
梁佩恩又認為,部分援交少女自認為與性工作者不同,這只是她們內心的防衛機制,希望否定自己正在做錯誤的事。她又覺得援交少女將援交視為工作,是一種價值觀的扭曲,她說:「工作是一個中性的詞,要是把援交當成工作,她們便會錯誤地以為援交是沒問題的。」
Labels: Healing, News, Reflection

Why is it that we like to use acronyms in someone's death to express our condolences? It's lazy and cheap. If you really meant it, then here are the remaining letters: "est n eace, ichael ackson"
We are not grieving about him, we are grieving our ideas of him, we are just scratching our disgusting sensational celebrity itch.
Labels: News, Reflection
Labels: Healing, Recommend, Reflection
