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| Hey kids,
I'm back! just got in and am feeling a little jet lagged but doing well. just been hermitting and seeing family. good to be back home...but come 2 weeks and i'll have the itch to go again!
pics are coming. stay tuned!!!
How was christmas for everyone?
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| Lay Ho ma??
My grandma can't understand my chinese and she keeps on calling me my sister's name...I think I'm having an identity crisis!! lol..
Anyway, hey kids, just a quick note so say I've arrived in Hong Kong. We arrived last night..... I'm a little jet laggeed but extremely happy to be here. THis morning i went out for dim sum with my grandma today and tonight's the big chinese banquet for my sister. My brother and I are off to Burma on Monday so I'll write when I can!
Seeya! Hope you're having fun making snowmen. he he... don't hate me just becuase I'm in +25 degree weather...
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| 1 more day and then I'm off on a 14 hr flight to asia! woohoo. i'm super excited and in the middle of packing and trying to wrap everything up. It's going to be 5 weeks of adventure in myanmar, scuba diving in Thailand, buzz of Hong Kong, then up to explore the natural wonders of China.
Have a great christmas everyone and i'll see you when I get back for New Years.
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| all day today I've been reflecting on the words that were preached today at church. the message was so clear and so concise. It was refreshing.
Pastor Greg flew in from Vancouver and talked about life's purpose but it led into a discussion about love.
What is your life's purpose? the bible in Matthes 22:37-40 says that our purpose is to love God and Love others. having a right relationship with God and a right relationship with others makes life meaningful. So what is love?
Is love a feeling? does love make you feel warm, wanted, make you feel good? What happens when that feeling fades? Or is love an action? Doing things for people? is love a behaviour? Are you reducing love to a set of behaviours? ..But I read my Bible, I did this for you, that shows you I love you... Are you simply to 'do' the "right" behaviours becuase you know you should or is there more? There's more.
Love is a motive. Love is a Motive. It's doing something, for someone not so that you look good, but that they do. Love is doing something for the benefit of others.
Pastor Greg then dove right into an example. Premarital sex. Why is it bad? If I love him/her, then why not?
Ask yourself what your motive is. Then ask yourself if you are 100% committed to this person. Why? Because if you're not committed entirely to someone, you won't be completely real with them about who you are. You'll carry insecurities along and instead of having sex to truely give of yourself to that person, you're taking something away from them because maybe you're having sex because you want that person to like you, or maybe it's just because you want it for your own gain. Sex might look like love but it's a trap that strings along insecurities, baggage, mistrust and hurt if done with the wrong motives.
Wrong motives are often selfish. and when you look at selfishness, it is the root of all sin. so sin=selfishness=selfish motives. Is it starting to make sense? Sin is whatever breaks relationship and love is whatever blesses relationship.
Love is selfless and sin is selfish.
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There's so much more I want to write but I don't want to let these thoughts get disjointed. This message really stuck today and it's made me evaluate my actions and why (for what reason or motive) I do them. It's hard not to be selfish. It's not hard to ask the question, What's in it for me? It's pretty natural actually, but I need to be reminded again that if my purpose is to love (and it's obvious that love is what this world is longing for), then my life is to be lived selflessly.
Some good thoughts to chew on. I hope you'll think about them and take time to look at your own life too. | | |
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