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Sorry for the delay. Here are some pictures of our new place:

只有感謝。

Greetings to you all! Yes, I am blogging from my new house! Thanks to those of you who kindly offered your helping hands in the last few days. Everything has been moved, but looking at my basement study area, I think it will take me another month to unbox and sort things out…

We experienced God’s providence mightily during the whole process. From selling our old house to getting this new one as well as the move itself. God is gracious indeed! Praise Him!

I will post some pictures in the weekend.

In the midst of all the packing and moving to the new house, blogging will be sparse for the next little while.

Wishing you a wonderful thanksgiving with your family and friends. Hopefully my next post will be from the new place!!

Let me leave you with a thanksgiving quote from the good bishop:

We are called to thanksgiving, where we stand at last in the truly human relationship to the creator and the world; and we are called to thanksliving, where we behave as the free subjects of the true king, and owe the powers nothing at all. There is now only one Power we are to follow, and that Power has a human face, a face once crowned with thorns.

N.T. Wright, Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship, p.21

不同的弟兄姊妹問我，按立成為牧師，有甚麼感覺？
老實說，沒有甚麼特別。

反而是過程中，看見你們為這一切事而奔波。我為你們而感謝我的神。

還是那一句：「我是甚麼人？配得你們這樣的愛？」

當然，這一切，是因為祂的愛。
也是你們對祂的愛的回應。

不是我配或是不配，
而是你們認定了，
我是你們的牧者。

認定了，
這是神的工作，

於是，
為此慶祝！
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幾位弟兄姊妹，不約而同的送我一些與牧人有關的禮物，
這一切都提醒了我，
作為牧者，對群羊的責任，

並且，
那位才是真正的

大牧人。
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親愛的Edmund 何尚允弟兄，教會是上主的家、基督的身體、聖靈的殿。凡受洗的人都蒙召叫人認識基督是救主和生命的主，並且分擔更新祂創造之工作。現今你蒙召為牧者、祭司和教師，並與你的主教和其他牧者同工一起參與教會的工作。

作為牧師，你的工作就是用言行去宣揚耶穌基督的福音，並遵照祂的訓誨規範你的生活。當愛護和服事你牧養的會眾，不論年長或年輕、健康或軟弱、富足或貧窮。當講解神的道，宣告上主對悔罪者的饒恕，宣佈從神而來的恩福，主持聖洗禮，及慶祝基督身體和寶血奧秘的聖餐，並執行其它托付於你的職責。

凡你所做的，當以上主豐盛的恩來餵養基督的子民，激勵他們一生榮耀上主。

親愛的Edmund 何尚允弟兄，你是否確信你是受上主和祂教會的呼召，去承擔牧師的職分？

我確信我是為此蒙召。

I am on my way to LA. My first time. Too bad it is only an airport-hotel-church-hotel-airport overnight stay.

我將於9月20日被按立，盼望你能出席，一同見證神恩。

[按立禮詳情]

Hi daddy,

I’m watching movie and scared of the dark. But I have the light with me. I’m still scared.

Jocelyn

BlackBerry®

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Thank you Jessica, you have made my day! (Just that I did not know my daughter is already using a smart phone!)