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| I was once chatting with a friend online and I forgot what we were talking about already, but it led to his mocking comment saying "God's presence must be HUGE in China".
I'm sorry, but it's quite true.
Not only huge, but it's also been around for quite awhile.
In the province of Fujian, I've only been staying in Fuzhou city and occasionally traveling to other cities for work or visits. I can't speak for the entire China, but whoever gave me the impression that China is a very atheist or Buddhist country must have been mistaken! Just within Fuzhou, I've seen buildings after buildings of churches all over 100 years old, including the one I've been attending in the past 3 months. Props to missionaries who brought the Gospel in hundreds of years ago... these churches have all had a history of being forced to close down once due to political reasons, but they've been gradually reopening... and growing.
I remember once traveling to a really rural part of the province to visit a container port or something. On our way, we passed by many small and simple villages. Brick houses, neighborhood stores, road-side markets, children playing with chickens... and was I amazed to see an old church with a cross standing tall on top of it. How in the world did missionaries reach such a local and secluded part of China? And when I looked more closely to the village houses, instead of seeing two lions on both sides of the door post, I saw one after another: a cross hung on top of each door. Instead of red wall decorations with messages asking for prosperity & wealth, i saw red 暉春 with messages like 主賜平安 (God gives peace). It seriously wasn't something I expected to see in China.
In fellowship, I was really curious of how the students came to know God within a country that's quite closed up and forbidden to speak about religion. One by one, they all told me that either their grandparents or parents or relatives are Christians... and there are more from Christian families than I would have imagined. Evangelism is prohibited within China, but the roster of the fellowship is growing week by week. Quite effective in an illogical way!
This is indeed a really blessed country. Having seen all this with my own eyes, I cannot deny.
God's presence was and is and will be huge in China no doubt about it. | | |
| Life get's surprisingly more meaningful when you learn to "count the days of your life". I've got so many chances to learn this and every time I cannot deny the joy that emerges. It's no wonder that it says
Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of Wisdom (Psalm 90:12)
Prior to home-going, there's still a lot to look forward to after all.
Cooking a "Western" meal for friends at church, and attempting to bake a cake with a rice cooker.
Learning how to play the piano better for worship from the worship director at church.
Learning Reebok operations, something quite new to me.
Learning how to bao gao zi (wrap dumplings) from scratch! Including how to buy the ingredients and all.
3 more Bible studies to lead, which I enjoy very much.
3 more Friday nights to play badminton with my coworkers here.
I smile to His wonderful mercy and plans for me despite how much I complained. I'm grateful for His strength for me so that I survived the teambuilding "boot camp". All things wouldn't have gone by so smooth if it wasn't for a God who loves me so much and watches over me at all times~
Pictures of a typical Sunday lunch =)
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| a life without anything to look forward to can be quite painful and depressing.
1 more month of this life...
thank goodness, then I'll have H O M E to look forward to.....
hanging in there. | | |
| Returning home for the holidays was sooooooooo refreshing.
So many things happened and I can't believe it all happened just within 10 days ...
the surprise party for Chan ka (I still smile at its success whenever I think abt it lol), returning to the HK office for a day and seeing everybody, mid-autumn festival at the beach, good food and family gatherings, dim sum almost every morning with grandma, visiting my newlywed cousins and their new house, seeing Linford, Em and Amelia at Fatburger, Starbucks (i missed that!) with Emmy before she leaves HK for good, attending the sports day events for HKBC and watching the girls and boys run hahaa.....
sigh, you can imagine how hard it is for me to leave this place, and even harder to leave loved ones. (it might have to do with the contrast of the place that I will have to be in haha...=P)
It's only going to be another 45 days....
thank you for the home-made packed "dinner/breakfast": Grilled Ham & Cheese Sandwich with chips squashed together with an apple strudel on top!
thank you for the ipod nano and 899 songs to keep my sane.
you have no idea how much they mean to me when I feel so alone.
thank you Father for your grace and love.
I don't deserve it but I have it all. | | |
| 不經不覺已經工作了一年的時間,過去一年所經歷的, 應該是我二十多年來最新鮮的...!
沒想到會入這一行.... 沒想到第一次出門離開父母會在內地居住.... 一生都沒想到會走入一間工廠.... 也沒想到要懂得看簡體字.... 第一次自己在大陸遊山玩水..... 第一次自己搭內地的公共巴士... 不是第一次感受孤單, 但第一次覺得孤單得來很被愛的...也很滿足的... 第一次真的很想很想家人... 但這是第一次搬去大陸時沒有哭過的 lol..... 也將要第一次報稅 oh no.....O_O
還有 這次來福州.....上個月去上海.... 上星期回香港....... 更是第一次自己幫自己訂機票...以往都是由我們的AGENT (my mom) 去做的 WAHAHAA
唔認都唔得....真的大個啦..!
No longer in high school, no longer in college.... Things really do change once I started working.
In fact they seem to change in a much faster paste... I have to keep up with it. There have been joys and tears in the process, but it has been GOOD. No one can deny the plans of the Sovereign one, and His intentions are ever so good. I might have made complaints, might have vented about.. stuff.... but looking back at the traces of the path where I've walked all my life, His blessings filled every part of it.
還有更多的第一次要來...... 還有更多的恩典要臨到. | | |
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