this week....

August 4, 2006
“I Did That Too”
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Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. —1 Timothy 1:15
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Our friend Barbara Leavitt loved flowers. Her home was a garden of rare beauty and sweet fragrance, and so was her life. Her presence was like a delightful bouquet.
Barbara went to be with the Lord in 2005, but something happened a few days before she died that I will never forget. My wife and I were sitting at her bedside with other friends telling stories about our childhood when I mentioned that I had once stolen some flowers. There was a park between the elementary school I attended and our home. One day, while walking through the park, I saw a row of irises in bloom and cut several to take to my mother. Some older boys saw me and threatened to call the police. I lived in terror for weeks thinking they would come and take me away.
Barbara placed her hand over mine and murmured softly, “I did that too.” I thought, That should be my response when I see the sins of others or hear about them—“I did that too.” Perhaps I’ve not committed their particular sin, but all sin is blameworthy and requires God’s forgiveness.
Awareness of our own depravity is what John Newton called “the root of perpetual tenderness.” I don’t want to be like the ungrateful servant in Matthew 18. I want to be gracious and show mercy, for “I did that too.” —David H. Roper—David H. Roper-->
Teach me to feel another’s woe,To hide the fault I see;The mercy I to others show,That mercy show to me. —Pope
We can show mercy to others because God has shown mercy to us.

2/8/06 Wednesday
RD- I went home after I bought the DNP .. playing maple story to release stress
well , only up to level 10 still haven reach any of the job advancement yet..
but at least level 10
Realised that my dad now is 50 years old le..
I better jia you..

3/8/06 Thursday
DO- feeling sad because really can't enjoy the day off.. gonna go out attending meeting because I 've been warned .. haiz..
I went to Millenia to take the goodies after I visit my aunt, and finish the meeting, and hae dinner with my cousin, cousin's wife, niece,my aunt's family...aunt Emily and aunt Sally
then go home
go and bought a small book to joit down my incoming and outgoing spending

4/8/06 Friday
Morning on course , work afternoon , then come back
will going for a course on 18 and 21 this month
seeing the husbands still love their wife when she is in this kind of condition, no beautiful outlook, mentally confuse or daze because of disease, mayb will just leave in such a stage or in future might still same condition, they never give up on their wife... I very touched in my heart
Love , responsiblities is this mean

I see one 70 plus old couple, wife sit on the wheelchair holding the umbrella to cover the sunlight for her husband and the husband was wheeling the wheelchair which his wife sit on it under the hot sun... I saw it at the bus station in front of my place..