Do you really know Him?

“There are many adversities in our lives and we often say we trust God. Do you know what that mean, what you should expect when you say trust God?” “Do you really know Him?”

This is the opening, which woke me up at the biblical counseling course. My ears are fully open.

“God is delighted to provide, in abundance, not just barely, not just functions but esthetically. He looks around, loves color, wisdom, growth, sense of humor. He always stop and evaluate if it is good, if it intends to deliver, or benefit others.”

Her soft voice and gentle smile stick with me. I am in an adversity, and always declare that I trust Him, but do I really know Him? Do I know what to expect?

Do you?

Liquor store

Ms Suzie wants to throw a party and in need of lot of drinks. She called up the liquor store, requesting “please deliver me X boxes of beer as soon as possible”. Unfortunately she dialed the number of his church Minister, Rev. Smith. Rev. Smith cleared his throat: “Ms Suzie, this is Rev. Smith.” “Rev. Smith, what are you doing in the liquor store?” replied by Suzie.

I laughed and laughed. Do we have double standard when come to judge ourselves and others

Interview with God

http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/popup-frame.html

From thoughts to destiny

Thoughts lead to purpose,
Purpose leads to actions,
Actions form habits,
Habits decide character,
Character fixes our destiny.

What shall we feed to our children?

Organic milk, organic food, our life experience, our knowledge, winning strategy, banking account, highest life insurance in case of accidents of us?

Or like Kungli’s family, living everyday in faith, with no dependable or predicable income, no health insurance, laying down all credentials and high earning power jobs in front of the cross but feeding Zach their obedience in the Lord?

What we feed our children will grow with them and within them will conquer the world? So they will know where to seek help and who will help them when we not able or even do not exist any more?

What shall we inject to our children, Reality or Compliment?

I grew up in hearing comments like “ you are not good at doing this” “this is not your strength” or even “you are not this material”. Parents and teachers inject their own but sincere and honest judgment for young people for their benefits and goods.

One significant thing that we learned at ESL class is not the pronunciation but the no matter how bad the questions from the students, we should reply “it is a very good question”. I sometimes felt that the word of interesting has been overused that I don’t even know what it truly means.

I understand the meaning and power of encouragement but sometimes get confused with injecting compliments vs. injecting reality, which one brings more benefits to the listener? Our teachers injected reality for us and helped us calibrate our course, what’s wrong with that? We all turned out to be just fine as scientists, engineers and lawyers in world-renowned institutions.

Now we are facing our next generation, growing up in United States? What should we inject to them? Reality or Compliment?

There is a theory called “lava effect” stating quantum physics supports: We’re all connected, The universe is conscious/aware, Thoughts are “energy”,… we are talking to our conscious, therefore we should inject positive energy to our surroundings. I agree with the conclusion but find it hard to believe for we are all connected.*some one supports me here.

I don’t have a child now so I don’t know if the challenges of raising a child will make this matter buried in the noise. But I want to share with him or her that always think positively. No matter how bad the situation is, it could be worse. As long as God is living, there will be a way out.

* http://sashen.com/blog/category/quantum-physics/

What should we pass on to our next generation?

Almost all my close friends in the seven years had a baby or two within the last two years. Their lives changed from significantly to everything is baby centered. No matter how cautions they have been with spending money, they throw a fortune on organic food, baby clothing, toys, etc. Watching them, I can not help to conclude one more time that parents are willing to give everything to for the good of their child.

But what is the best a parent can pass on their children? Saving money for medical, dental, law school? Take them all kinds of talent/star program to strength all the hard and soft skills?

My mom has given me lot of wisdom as I grew up. She inspired me to be interested in English. because good command of English will lead to good earning power. She was right until my college days. World changes so fast that what advice we can give to our next generation?

According to this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY&feature=fvw)
many jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004. Wow, at this speed, what advice we can give our children so that they can survive?

I don’t have an answer, do you?

* Kungli has a correlation between this video with book of Revelation. http://agapehousenet.blogspot.com/2009/03/did-you-know-we-are-in-fast-changing.html

* An updated video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8