becoming

If you are one of those people who pray, please remember Jocelyn as she is having fever and rash since the weekend.

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Update: Jocelyn is confirmed with having scarlet fever.

We are so out of sync with this world.

I mean, we, Christians.

Make it Chinese Christians.

Have you ever run into a situation when you suddenly (and finally) realized that the world you lived in, is nothing like you at all? That the world is much more messy than you can imagine or dare to admit? Did you notice that people outside your Christian “la-la-land” are way more complicated that you expected?

That, my friend, is called the REAL world.

Look around — look beyond those “happy faces” who show up on Sundays; look into the reality of what this world has become.

Look.

Don’t just make casual comments like “O my, this is such a twisted world”, “This country is so morally corrupted”, or “How can they do that”…

Stop that.

Look.

Look, for example, at what are on the selves as gifts for Mother’s day:

Household Guide for Dying
Surviving Divorce

… and many more.

You know what I mean? No, these are not your regular electronic-massage-chair gifts; not your average coffeemaker or juice-maker gifts.

Look.

Look how disconnected we are. How disconnected we have become.

And you tell me our archaic way of evangelism is still effective?

Jocelyn says:

You know what? This is daddy’s first time to wonderland! I introduced him to many wonderful games and adventures there. Look how happy he is playing the “spinning cup” with me!

聆聽的意思是，當別人停止說話時，你不是在想要說甚麼、忙於構想你的回應，而是專注於他剛才所說的話。

Norman Wright

Jocelyn says:

Hi everyone! Ta-da, I am 4 years old now!!! And guess what, it is also time for my favorite sushi! And look at those cup cakes which Lan Yi & Gu Ma got me! By the way, I don’t even know that you can write on a small cup cake like this! Maybe they can write my chinese name next time…

Thanks everyone! Enjoy the photos!!

在車內。

「Daddy，我想pray 一個prayer to Jesus，然後Daddy pray …」

「好，咁你pray 啦。 」

「謝謝天父，我而家4 years old 啦，求天父，求天父… birthday girl 唔 sit on the bench…」

在學校，老師對住調皮的同學，罰time-out，就係去 sit on the bench。

為父滿懷安慰，女兒終於識得自己祈禱。

「囡囡，跟住要講乜嘢呀？」口裡的「阿們」孵之欲出…

「…求主潔淨，奉主名求，阿們。」

…

在上學的途中，

Jocelyn突然想起已經許久沒有回校的V。

「或者V唔再o番來了。」她輕描淡寫地說。

這許久不見的同學，女兒常為她的不在，想過不同，卻都是短暫的理由。

我向車內的倒後鏡望，第一次看見她天真的面上，那若有所思的神情：

「而家得M，R，和S一齊玩了…」

那是一個落寞的神情。

那一刻，爸爸為妳，就這樣經歷了人生的「愛別離」，

心也碎了。

是的。那天看見妳最要好的同學，她的名字從班房中的名單上刪除了，我也不知怎樣對妳說。

沒有解釋、沒有道別。

總覺得，像妳這個年紀，這不是妳應該有的經歷。

不應該。

我沒有說話，

只有心裡想：

「女兒，這就是生命中的無常和荒謬。」

妳懂嗎？

作爸爸的，

情願

妳不懂。

Links to some pictures from our last trip to Vancouver.

1. Deacon Ordination
2. Others from the Trip

Enjoy!