感觉与事实

昨天上班迟到了15分钟，刚走进办公室就看到老板对着我皱眉头，好像非常不满意的样子。我急忙坐下可是心里有很多的不满和委屈，自己每天工作超过十个钟头，只不过迟到15分钟何必给我脸色 看，就这样一整天都没mood工作了而且还到处去诉苦，回到家还是愤愤不平，老婆儿子都受气了。
今天特地提早去上班，一踏进办公室又看到老板，这一次心想应该没话说了吧。老板向我招招手然后对我说昨天早上有问题想不通，本想跟我谈可是发觉 我脸色不大好所以没有找我谈并问我是不是工作上遇上什么难题。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。
感觉上我好像受了委屈，受了不公平的对待，并且让这种感觉影响我的工作，我的情绪还有身边的人。事实上老板皱眉头是因为有问题而不是因为我迟到，受了这么多无谓的气都因为自己的想法与感觉，如果能够很成熟的去了解实情，后果会很不同。
以上全属虚构，我所要表达的是眼见或者感觉未必是事实，遇见问题时必须很坦诚谦卑成熟的去了解实情，别让负面的想法毁掉我们。
你要保守你心，胜过保守一切，因为一生的果效是由心发出。

窗口和镜子

当一件好事发生时，我们可以从窗口看到别人的贡献或者可以对着镜子只看到自己有多行。
同样的当一件不好的事发生时，我们可以对着镜子说我必须负责或者可以从窗口看出去找寻代罪羔羊。
你会做怎样的决定呢？

父亲节

每年的父亲节都会让我有子欲养而亲不在的遗憾。老爸走了十一年了，1998 的那一年，老爸因病，前后不到半年就离开了，走时年八十。我是萧家九个孩子的老幺，是老妈在四十岁时“意外”生下的，两老对我宠爱有加，所以我是在大树荫下长大，从小就无忧无虑的。
在成长的过程中，作了很多让父母担心的事，也因自己的不长进让他们为我操心。是他们让我知道家是避风港，无论外面的风浪有多大，我总是可以在家里得到支持与接纳。正当工作开始稳定，祖恩刚满一岁，祖乐还没出生，老爸就这样走了，我还没好好的孝顺过他啊。。。。。。。。。。。
每年的父亲节，每个榴莲飘香的季节都会有好深的遗憾与思念。也曾经对自己说要好好的照顾老妈以报她的养育之恩，也不要再有遗憾了，可是却因工作，离开了生活在一起她，来了美国，这是我心中的痛啊。
希望每年都能回国看她，今年因公司要大重组可能回不成，我祷告我祈求，愿神成全。
祝大家父亲节蒙恩，愿大家珍惜眼前人。要在生前哜咽喉，莫到死后祭山头，不要有子欲养而亲不在的遗憾。

神是我的希望

愿与大家分享这有意思的文章：

神是我的希望這信念表達了兩個意思，一是我的生命裡有希望，另一是我的希望就是神。

很多人的生命裡沒有希望，雖然每日都在生活、工作，但卻沒有明天，只是默默地接受一種莫名的無奈。人類的罪性透過社會各方面的進步，不斷顯露出來，以致世界的道德日見腐敗，教育也無法提昇生命。人沒有了基督，生命就沒有希望。有些人有希望，但卻是假希望，他們一切希望寄托於短暫的、易失去的事物上，例如金錢、學位、情慾……等，因而使生命充滿失望。
基督徒有希望的信念，而且不是虛假的，因為我們都有了基督的生命，而這生命是永恆的。基督應許過有一日要再來，所以基督徒是以現在於基督裡的信心，來投射到那不可知的將來去。我們對將來的希望和確信是基於神的啟示，並現在深入經歷到的基督，因而在困苦、絕望，甚至好像沒有拯救的日子，我們也可以深信神必以祂的愛和全備的智慧，叫我們暫受苦難，使生命能有更大的提升。

今天，在這無望的世界中，我們需要充滿希望的新精神，去消除灰心失意的情緒，要用小孩子一般純全的信心來處理在神面前的期待，期待祂的再來並祂永遠的拯救，進而向這世界展示希望的力量，鼓勵無望的人群邁向希望的明天，因我們相信，神就是我們的希望。

What is the purpose of life?

I found the following rather inspiring. In an interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren said:

People ask me, what is the purpose of life? And I respond, In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body - but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillion of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act, the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.

Life is a series of problems: you are in one now, you're just coming out of one or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life: The goal is to grow in character, In Christ-likeness.

This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer. I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you got to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.

And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for. You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems. If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, "which is my problem, my issues, my pain."

But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.

We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her. It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people...You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.

Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy. It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before.

I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for you to own ego or for you to live a life of ease. So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.

First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases. Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church. Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan - to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation. Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.

We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better...God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.

才德的婦人

我感謝神賜給我一個才德的婦人為妻，每日出外打拼從來不必顧慮家裏，因爲知道有她在打理一切，晚上回家時有熱騰騰的晚餐等著我。

謝謝你，老婆。

心情

從上個星期開始日子就變得好忙好沉重。好多的會議，好多的決定，好多的變動。。。。。。。。 

每天回到家都好晚了，身體疲累，肩頭沉重，腦子遲鈍。。。。。。。

真的有力不從心，好無助的感覺，感覺好孤獨。。。。。。。

只有在心裏向上帝大聲求助，除祂以外我還能求誰呢？

今天祂對我說：你比天上的飛鳥珍貴，你頭上的頭髮我數過。孩子，在我裏面有平安，將一切交給我吧！

我要學習交托，我要懂得感恩，我要珍惜身邊的人，我要活得有喜樂。

笑一笑吧，你是幸福的！