Best gifts

I wonder when I would stop discover the so-called "best gift". I guess I will NEVER stop receiving best gifts in my life because the Bible told us that, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" - 1 Corinthians 2:9

A few days back, my best gift was all the heart-warming phone calls from all around the world.

Last night, Alison spent her precious time with me for a luxurious Chinese meal, a glass of champagne, and an adorable card, a set of wine candles, and the theme (name) of my life bookmark, it stated, "Live as though heaven is on earth." All these are the best gifts.

Today, my best gift is the posting from Hua Jing. She beautifully summarized the minutes, hours, and days that we walked through together for the past 8 years. I am touched!!! I have let many precious moments slipped away but she brought them back to live again, as if the faded pictures once again painted with colors. As if one day, our Father in heaven will reveal all the little stories that we walk through with Him. You are a charm, sis!! Thank you.

When we have the ultimate BEST GIFT in life - Christ Jesus, all the other things shall be added unto us. Isn’t He awesome???

Birthday, Christmas, and New year

By the way, I had a wonderful Christmas. It was woven with laughter, great moments, sweet gifts, and delicious food. Oh this year! I have 2 bottles of wine, a wind chime, a Kate Spade's handbag, a Banana's wool coat, a black iPod nano (4G), plenty of Christmas cards... ooh ohh and a pair of nice walking shoes. Stefan told me that he was mailing me M.I.L.K, which I have no clue what it is... so...

The best part was that I received calls again from many corners of the world for birthday, Christmas, and New Year wishes. It was awesome. Tell you what? This is the best gift to me when someone picks up the phone, checks the time difference, makes plan around the call, pays long distance phone bill, and demands herself/himself to REMEMBER wishing me "Happy Birthday" and "Merry Christmas". Hey, you out there!! My mom, dad, sis, uncle, Chisso, Nata, Shally, Pei Pei, An Qi, Ah Lai, Sofia, Stefan, Charissa and ALL the others... THANK YOU!! I am well spoilt, pampered, and loved because of you all. Muaakkkkkaakakkakaka!!

It is good to be alive and to have heaven within us!! We can have His heart, His world, His blessings, and His majesty in us because He came, suffered, died, and rose again. Jesus, indeed, is the reason for every season.

Let's anticipate a better tomorrow and a more glamorous 2006!!!

Random updates

I am so lazy to lay my fingers on keyboards and make my brain cells work. Many pieces are dancing around my mind. No correlation or a string attached among those pieces. They are mainly random thoughts that decide to stay awhile with me.

1. The wise men still seek the Lord
I went to SF Hope Evangelical Church on Sunday to hear Dorman preached. He did a great job in presenting the history background and the underlying meaning of Christmas. Best of all, I love about the three gifts. As I wrote on Hua Jing’s blog…

Gold – A gift for King = the King
Frankincense – Used for burn offering by high priest = the most high Priest
Myrrh – Used in burial = the dying Savior

He, Himself, is the gift for the world.

2. I command all the body cells in Judy’s body submit to the Lordship of Christ Jesus.
3. Dissatisfaction. This is the resounding message that I hear constantly. Not about my life, not about God, not about my dream… Maybe I just choose not to be satisfied by what I consider – second best.
4. The Bible told me that without Christ, the gentile had no share of the privilege to love and be loved by God. I am amazed of His grace and He is indeed the Lord and King of all. That is why all nations should come and worship at His feet. I am excited to catch a glimpse of heaven.
5. I am going to the synagogue!! A Jew invited me to go with him after an interesting conversation about Judaism and Christianity. Through the work of the Holy Spirit, he finally realized that Christianity is not only about Jesus gave us eternal life and peace on earth, but it is about who He is and who we are in Him.
6. Preparing a list of – 5 things I believe for in 2006. I have been asking the Lord to fill the items. I want His desires to be my desires.
7. I have strong opinions about values and principles, love and integrity, success and failure, and religion and faith.
8. … Last thing, I have to prepare my annual update. All my dear friends will be receiving that. I promise, I wont be late.

Merry Christmas

Tomorrow is my Chinese calendar’s birthday 11.14. It is funny how we have western calendar, Chinese calendar, Muslim calendar, Japanese calendar, and other existing calendars. Needless to say, God has His own calendar! He says one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day (2 Peter 3:8).

Christmas songs have been resounding everywhere, from radio to malls, restaurants to home, as the call of the morning sun. It is a reminder of the birth of the King and the Lord of all. Nevertheless, I do not understand why people around started to change ‘Merry Christmas’ to ‘Happy Holiday.’ They said, we had to respect the choice of other people and we must not offend other religions. Sniff! It is like calling “Zoë” – a human, a girl, or a walking creature. As if making ‘Zoë’ lost her personality, character, and whom she really is would contribute a better mean to the society because ‘Zoë’ will never again offend anyone and make her respect the freedom of choice. This is a crime of neutralizing or erasing the true identity of oneself.

I prefer to be MYSELF and Jesus is the King and the Lord of All!! So I wish you all – “MERRY CHRISTMAS”!!

Back to U.S

Finally, I am back to California after a long interesting and heart-warming trip.
As usual, jetlag kicked in. I had less than 3 hours of sleep last night. I couldn't help thinking what would people do when they fail to fall asleep. Would they reminisce hours and days that have passed? Would they start counting sheep? Or just like what Stefan once told me... "Just close your eyes."

I think my heavenly Father demanded me to spend time with Him last night because He missed me. For the past 3 weeks, schedules and people were filling up my time with endless flight catching, talks, and laughers.

Surely, it is time to draw close to Him again.