I should really read this once a day… As a husband I beseech Thee, o Triune God, make me unselfish, cheerful, trustful, thrifty and a devoted companion. As I am blessed by Fatherhood, I ask the additional grace of helpfulness and good example. May our family be modeled upon the Holy Family. Amen.
Apple’s Steve Jobs died yesterday at age 56. Too young. Twitter went crazy about the news, and found this Stanford commencement speech, which had a lot of things I wanted to jot down, so here they are. The transcript was found on on Stanford’s website. …Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can [...]
Fascinating. One of my favorite blog 8Asian’s Koji Steven had a interesting write up titled “Was Jesus Asian?” And while he concludes that he probably wasn’t Asian (he was probably more like Arab people, which is also interesting) the links to images of Asian christianity art are really fascinating. I was baptized in my late [...]
Quit, don’t quit? Noodles, don’t noodles? You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That is why it is called the “present.” – Master Oogway
It is my daughter’s first birthday today. Happy birthday, Mary-chan. We love you very much.
One of my favorite poem is Ame ni mo Makezu (Be not defeated by the rain) by early-Showa (1920s) poet Kenji Miyazawa, and I’ve found and posted beautiful translation in 2005 on this blog, but Hong Kong musicians got together and wrote a song for it, to benefit the Japan earthquake/tsunami relief effort. (via Gil [...]
So sudden loss causes us to look backward – but it also forces us to look forward, to reflect on the present and the future, on the manner in which we live our lives and nurture our relationships with those who are still with us. We may ask ourselves if we’ve shown enough kindness and [...]
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was the first English book that I read on my own, by myself in English, with a dictionary in hand. I was in high school. It still remains my favorite book of all time and I just got a free copy on my Kindle. Here is my favorite excerpt from [...]
From A Charlie Brown Christmas(1965) Charlie Brown: Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about? Linus: Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about. Lights, please. [a spotlight shines on Linus] “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by [...]
Breathe in the love of Christ, and breathe out tension and anxiety. Breathe in the love of Christ, and breathe out fear. Breathe in the love of Christ, and breathe out negativity. Breathe in the love of Christ, and breathe out anger or resentment. – from ARISE, Season 5, page 21
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