becoming

睡不著。

睡不著的原因可以許多：

囡囡每晚零晨三點因為發夢而大吵大喊，持續一星期之後， 作父母的想睡也再睡不著…

想著一個星期多的講道，腦裡不停的轉…不停的轉而睡不著…

面對一個月後團契退修會信息的deadline只有幾天而睡不著…

因著許多許多弟兄姊妹所面對的困難，總是自覺很挫敗和無奈而睡不著…

為著教會很多事奉崗位也找不著人（特別是兒童主日學）而睡不著…

聽見Fanny很有心（但叫我有點委屈）的一句「麻煩你o地倆公婆多D休息啦…」而睡不著…

……………

睡不著，

原因可以許多，

還好，

在這寂靜的一刻還有一個「不打盹也不睡覺」的主

陪我一齊

眼光光。

教會網頁的粵語部份經已更新，請多多指教。

跟著著是英文和普通話…

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一年多的討論和整合，感謝Paul、Andrew、Stephen和Kan的參與和協助。

重「理」不重「情」的事奉，
會把我們的視線誤移至
自己事奉過程的順逆，
而非服侍對象的損益。

從提前五章學習

謝謝Vincent T的「雪中送碳」，讓我在不知天昏地暗的工作中

感到

仍有人

在乎我。

放心，我未死，

不過連日來忙於教會的新網頁而疲於奔命。

望著一堆堆的php codes，

勾起了陣陣過去打工時的—

噩夢。

喜歡與否，
你已是一個信徒的活樣板。
惟有在人前人後，表裡一致，
你才能成為信徒的好榜樣。

從提前四章學習

Jocelyn says:

Yesterday we went out for a nice dinner to celebrate Yeh Yeh & Mah Mah wedding anniversary. It was the first time I tried something call “pizza”. I was told that it is mommy’s favorite, and I like it very much too!

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I know I am going to offend a lot of you die-hard Potter fans, but I felt I am compelled to post it.

[HT: Idle musings]
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Who Dies in Harry Potter? God
By Lev Grossman

Joanne Rowling has three fancy houses and more money than the Queen, but she still doesn’t have a middle name: the K. is just an empty invention, added for effect when she published her first book. Starting with that first letter, she has orchestrated a sustained dramatic crescendo unlike anything literature has ever seen. By selling 325 million books in 66 languages, she has almost single-handedly made the case that the novel can still be a global mass medium. With the fifth Harry Potter movie opening on July 11 and the seventh and last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, coming at midnight on July 21, the crescendo has reached a grand climax.

Rowling’s work is so familiar that we’ve forgotten how radical it really is. Look at her literary forebears. In The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien fused his ardent Catholicism with a deep, nostalgic love for the unspoiled English landscape. C.S. Lewis was a devout Anglican whose Chronicles of Narnia forms an extended argument for Christian faith. Now look at Rowling’s books. What’s missing? If you want to know who dies in Harry Potter, the answer is easy: God.

Harry Potter lives in a world free of any religion or spirituality of any kind. He lives surrounded by ghosts but has no one to pray to, even if he were so inclined, which he isn’t. Rowling has more in common with celebrity atheists like Christopher Hitchens than she has with Tolkien and Lewis.

What does Harry have instead of God? Rowling’s answer, at once glib and profound, is that Harry’s power comes from love. This charming notion represents a cultural sea change. In the new millennium, magic comes not from God or nature or anything grander or more mystical than a mere human emotion. In choosing Rowling as the reigning dreamer of our era, we have chosen a writer who dreams of a secular, bureaucratized, all-too-human sorcery, in which psychology and technology have superseded the sacred.

When the end comes, where will it leave Harry? He’ll face tougher choices than his fantasy ancestors did. Frodo was last seen skipping town with the elves. Lewis sent the Pevensie kids to the paradise of Aslan’s Land. It’s unlikely that such a comfortable retirement awaits Harry in the Deathly Hallows.