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七年就这样如飞而去。。。 7 years fly by just like that…

七年里面一个人的外貌、环境、心境等等,可以有很多改变。。。至于我呢?那你呢?
你比以前快乐吗?你比以前满足吗?曾经认真想过吗。。。?
Within seven years a person’s appearance, environment, heart condition etc can experience a lot of changes… what about me? And what about you?
Are you happier than before? Are you more satisfied than before?Ever considered that seriously…?

七年前在灯塔 / Seven years ago at Lighthouse – 2004

 

今年在灯塔 / At Lighthouse this year – 2011

 

2004…..

2011…..

因这一次到灯塔教会带给我很大的冲击和鼓励,所以翻开相簿看我2004年在灯塔留下的画面。。。再跟最近刚去灯塔的照片相比较,七年的变化肯定会有,尤其是外貌,岁月的痕迹等等。。。
七年的回忆不仅涌上心头。。。走过的岁月、心路历程、感慨、欣慰、酸甜苦辣等等。。。
七年,脑子里可以浮现很多的画面。。。有些人已去、事已非,但最重要的,我们的心是否对主依然执著、依然单纯?

Due to the impact and encouragement on myself after the visit to Lighthouse this time, I looked into my album again and found the pictures captured at Lighthouse in 2004… comparing them with those photos just taken during the recent visit to Lighthouse, the differences of seven years are definite, especially in terms of appearance, the footprints of years gone by etc…
Memories of seven years inevitably surfaced in my heart… all the days trodden, journey of the heart, remorse, comfort, bitter sweet memories etc…
Seven years, many pictures can come to mind… some of people long gone, things that cannot be undone, but most important of all, is our heart still as determined and pure towards God…?

 

2004…..

 

2011…..

七年里,我知道我不是每次都合神心意,也不是每次都那么专注。。。我也有不顺服的时候,也有分散注意力的时刻。。。
太多时候不明白上帝为什么要使用像我这样的人。。。

In these seven years, I know I may not be after God’s own heart all the time, and may not be completely focused every moment… there were times I did not obey, and times I got distracted…
Too many times I have wondered why God would use a person like me…

 

我想这就是所谓的神的恩典和怜悯,发现他始终没有丢弃我,他对我的心始终如一。。。
只有这样我才能服事下去。。。不是因为配得,而是感恩。。。

I guess that is what we call the grace and mercy of God, to realize that He has never once forsaken me and His heart towards me is ever true…
It is because of this that I can carry on serving… not because I am worthy but grateful…

 

主啊,求保守我的心,永远就只事奉你,永远都把荣耀归给你。。。阿们!
O Lord, please guard my heart to forever serve You alone, and to forever give all the glory to You… Amen!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

看到我,他惊慌失措! He panicked upon seeing me!

有没有那种感觉,有时候见到一个人,我们会惊慌失措,身体出现怪异小动作尽流露我们紧张的心情,然后IQ突然降低,开始语无伦次。。。?

有人说我常使人出现那种状况。。。不!不要误会!不是因为我魅力无法挡,或帅到让人不能有正常反应!你们也知道绝对不是那个原因!而真正原因是,唉!因为我“杀气”太重,让人有一股很“畏惧”的感觉。。。

朋友说我该检讨原因何在。。。后来多数结论把问题怪在我的浓眉上,还建议我把眉毛剃掉或修掉!但不行啊,很多时候不能用口或手时,我需要用到我的眉毛向同工或助理指示一些工作需要。。。

Ever had that feeling, sometimes when we see someone, we will start to panic and weird little actions from our body will betray our anxiety, then our IQ will suddenly drop and we become incoherent in our speech…?

Some people say I tend to cause people to become like that… No! Don’t misunderstand me! It is NOT because I am irresistibly charming or so stunningly good-looking to cause them to behave abnormally! You all would know that is definitely not the reason too! The true reason is, sigh! It is because of my “over-bearing fierceness”, and that gives them a kind of “respectful fear”…

Friends ask me to examine myself as to what the reason is… but most come into the conclusion that the culprit is my thick eye-brows and they suggest that I should shave off or at least trim my eye-brows! But I cannot do that because many times when I cannot use my mouth or hands, I need to use my eye-brows to instruct my staff and assistants what to do…

 

话说那天,初为人父的他要求我帮他儿子取名字,我也很努力的想和祷告,结果想了一个名字,被他拒绝了!原因是,他说有点像马来名。。。我也不能怪他,因为那毕竟是一个希伯来名,老实说我也不太确定如何发音。。。既然如此,我也忙,就说那他自己取名字好了。。。

要知道,我们的这些沟通都是透过他的组长,而不是跟我直接交流。。。组长也责备他说,牧师那么忙还那么认真帮你想了那么好的名字,你竟然拒绝!我想他也觉得很不好意思,但还是决定不要用我给的名字。。。

The story begins with the new dad asking me to help name his new born son. So I was very serious in thinking and praying for a name, and finally I came up with a name, but he rejected it! Reason being, he said it sounds like a Malay name… well, I can’t really blame him as it is a Hebrew name and honestly I am not very sure about the pronunciation too… Well, since he did not want and I was very busy too, so I asked him to think of another name himself…

You must know that all these were communicated through his leader, he did not talk to me personally… His leader kind of rebuked him saying: Our pastor is so busy and yet so kind to think of a name for your son and yet you rejected the name!
I think he felt quite bad about it too, but he still decided not to use the name…

礼拜天散会时,刚好我在大门口跟他碰个正着!我全然出于关心的问说结果孩子名字取了吗?
我看得出他很紧张,脸有点红,有点吞吞吐吐的说:取了,是妈妈取的。。。
然后他就说洋名叫 Zacchaeus (即圣经人物“撒该”的英文翻译。其实我也蛮喜欢这个名字)。。。然后,他就很认真的告诉我说 Zacchaeus 就是圣经里面那个爬上桑树要看耶稣的矮子。我感觉很有趣他需要告诉他的牧师撒该是谁,所以我就作弄他,向他鞠躬道谢说:谢谢你告诉我撒该是谁,谢谢!谢谢!

他顿时脸变得通红,觉得很不好意思。。。大夥儿也大笑一场。。。

回到家,我从 Facebook 收到他寄过来的简讯,他说:

“嗨!牧师。。。我觉得很不好意思因为刚才在教会对你说的话好像是侮辱了你的智慧!像你这种美貌与智慧并重的人,哪里可能会不知道Zacchaeus这 个名,我还真是多此一举去解释,真下衰。。。虽然你心胸宽大,一定不会为这种芝麻绿豆小事放在心上,但还是要跟你说一声不好意思~谢啦~”

我读了真的是笑出来了,太可爱了,哈哈!

Sunday, after service, I bumped into him at the door! With pure concern I asked him, so have you decided on your son’s name?
He seemed very nervous, somewhat blushing and stammering, he said: yes, already, my mother named the baby…
He proceeded to tell me it’s Zacchaeus (actually I kind of like this name too)… then he went on to tell me rather seriously that Zacchaeus was the name of that short guy who climbed up the sycamore tree to see Jesus. I was kind of amused that he should tell his pastor who Zacchaeus was, so I teased him by bowing my head and said: Thank you, thank you! Thanks for telling me who Zacchaeus was…

Immediately he turned red and felt very embarrassed… and everybody laughed…

When I reached home, I saw a message he left in my Facebook that read:
“Hi, Pastor… I feel very embarrassed that I was like insulting your intelligence just now at church! For someone like you with a combination of beauty and wisdom, why would you not know who Zacchaeus was! I was really doing the unnecessary to explain, so “sia-soi” (embarrasssing)… Though I know you have a big heart and you wouldn’t hold this against me, I must still apologize to you~ thanks~ ”

I really laughed when I read that, so very cute, haha!

 

Zacchaeus,欢迎来到这世界,你爸爸真的是很可爱!
Welcome to the world, Zacchaeus, you have a very cute daddy!

 

 

爸爸大聲的呼喚。。。 Dad’s loud call…

記得小時候常因貪玩而忘了時間,到了晚上就不敢自己一個人走回家了!
原因是回家的路上要經過樹林,小孩子常幻想有怪物或鬼魂會出現,所以就會賴在表姐家不敢回家。。。

半夜時,突然會聽見很大聲的呼喚:“義忠!”,就在表姐家窗外響起。。。
雖然大聲,卻是非常的溫暖人心,那是我很期待的聲音,我知道救星到了!
我會急忙衝去窗口往下喊:“爸,我在這裡,等我!”。。。然後開開心心跟著爸爸一起回家。

I remember when I was small, I often, due to too much play, forgot the time to go home, and when night fell, I did not dare to walk home alone!
Reason being I had to walk past some forest on the way home and children tend to imagine monsters and ghosts and all sorts of things, so I would drag on at my cousin’s house not daring to go home…

Suddenly in the middle of the night, I would hear a loud call: “Gee Tiong!” just outside my cousin’s window…
Though loud, it warmed my heart as that was the voice I had been waiting for, I knew help had come!
I would quickly rush to the window and shouted downstairs: “Dad! Wait, I’m here!”… then I would be going home happily with my dad.

看我童年的家,屋頂都被樹葉遮蓋了。。。照片中的是大學生的我。。。
See my childhood home, the roof is hidden by the trees… that’s the university me in the photo…

這是回家的路。。。看我的褲,我爸做的咧!當年很流行哦!
This is the road home… notice my pants, tailor-made by my dad! Very popular then!

其實是爸爸發現這麼遲了我還沒回家,他擔心我的安全就出來找我;而他通常也知道在哪裡找得到我,找到我時,他也不責備我,就讓我開心的跟他回家。。。
他知道我很欣慰他來了。這就是父愛吧。。。

上帝對我們的愛何嘗也不是如此?但我們卻常誤解他。。。
那天禱告會時讀的經文就讓我聯想到這童年往事,也更認識父神的愛。。。

詩篇139章3節說:
我行路,我躺臥,你都細察,你也深知我一切所行的。。。
第7節:
我往哪裡去躲避你的靈?我往哪裡逃躲避你的面?

往往這經文會讓一些人感覺上帝很清楚知道我們的罪和做錯的事,我們怎樣躲也躲不了。。。
所以這經文讓一些人感到壓力和恐懼感,那是基於我們對天父不夠認識。

難道上帝找到我們真的就是要定我們的罪和斥責我們嗎?我不以為然。。。
就像我童年的回憶一樣,其實是我做錯,貪玩,忘了回家,可是爸爸來找我是要帶我回家。
他的大聲呼喚不但沒叫我害怕,反帶給我安全感因我知道我不需要再害怕我黑暗的路途,而可以有爸爸陪伴平安的回家了。。。

Actually it was my dad who discovered I was still not home when it was already late, worrying about my safety, he came to look for me. And normally he knew where he could find me too, when he found me, he did not scold me, he just allowed me to follow him home happily… He knew that I was glad he came. That must be a father’s love…

Is not God’s love the same towards us? And yet we so often misunderstand Him…
The verses I read from the Scripture during the prayer meeting that day rekindled this childhood memory of mine, and helped me understand the love of our father God more…

Psalm 139 verse 3 says:
You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways…
Verse 7:
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Where can I flee from Your presence?

Very often these verses cause some people to feel that God knows all our sins and wrongdoings, and there is nowhere we can hide from Him…
That is why these verses cause some people to feel under pressure and fearful, that is due to the lack of knowing our Father God truly.

Is it really God’s purpose to condemn and scold us when He finds us? I do not think so…
Just as in my childhood memory, I was the one who did wrong, I was playful and forgot to return home, but dad came looking for me to bring me home.
His loud call not only drove away my fear, it gave me a sense of security to know that I needed not to be afraid of the dark journey home anymore, as my dad had come to accompany me home safely…

爸爸本身現在也已安然回到天上的家。。。
Dad himself has also returned home safely to heaven now…