April 13, 2006

灵魂幸存者

基督教与十字架

基督教从来就坚持我们所负的十字架必须在我们所戴的冠冕以先。作为一个基督徒,他必须背起自己的十字架,包括它一切的困难。痛苦和赛满张力的内容,并背负它直到那十字架在我们身上留下印记,将我们救赎至那必须透过受苦而获致的更美好的道路。
~小马丁路德金

先知

研究那些先知,我注意到他们差不多全部都采取一种双管齐下的方法。
首先,他们会指出上帝在当下所要求的短线视野。在旧约,这通常是一个简单表明诚信的劝谕---重建圣殿、忠于婚约、辅助贫穷、除掉偶像以上帝为 先。然而先知不会就停在那里。他们亦会对应人最深层的问题提出一个长线观点。面对那么多的痛苦和伤害,我们怎能相信上帝爱我们?当世界仿佛被恶魔的阴谋所 支配,我们怎能相信一位公义的上帝?先知透过提醒他们的受众上帝是哪一位,并绘画出将来国度的辉煌图画,去回答这样的问题。
~Philip Yancey, 灵魂幸存者 ( "Soul Survivor") Page 26

April 12, 2006

God loveth adverbs

For three things I thank God every day of my life:
thanks that He has vouchsafed me knowledge of His works;
deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith;
deep, deepest thanks that I havce another life to look forward to -- a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.
~~Helen Keller

April 05, 2006

Who shall cry like this?

Yesterday evening, around 6-7pm, Philip and I went home to cook dinner, preparing for leaving at 8.15pm to meet the rest of the group to visit Pn. Lim at Kuchai. In the midst of cooking, we heard a terrible crying sound, voiced from outside. The cry of the kid, i assume it's a he, crying like being tortured, terrible punished, being hit, and he held the gate and shoke it, crying and shouting "No! No! No!!!"
The first time the cries was being heard was before i get into the house, but Philip was sleeping in the night, andn the cries was from the same boy. The first time Philip heard the boy, he was crying and shouting as well, "不要,爸爸不要!!!" this cry continued until Philip can't sleep, and felt very sad about it.
We are new here, staying in this block. Actually if we all talk aloud, our neighbours will hear us. And this cry is shaking the whole block. Eventually we found that the cries are from our upper unit. We guess it's just above our unit. And when our door is opened, the cries are even more clearer.. I can't stand with the cries, and i felt very very sad and i teared for the boy, praying to God "save the boy from harm, deliver him from evil.." until i can't continue cooking.
Who shall cry like this?