平靜安穩 quietness and in confidence

你們得救在乎歸回安息，你們得力在乎平靜安穩。
賽卅15
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In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.

Isaiah 30:15

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作為基督徒的他，深明個人價值不因工作能力而定論，乃在於自己確是神所愛

http://www.media.org.hk/magazine/modules/content200808/article.asp?pg=3

我喜歡主耶穌

困乏裏想起主，倍覺蒙恩。

是自己不能夠，才懂仰慕主的能夠；沒有什麼能憑自己。

人算什麼，你竟顧念我？

實在太幸運，能成為主的小羊，以生命指引生命，領導方向。

若這都是我應得的，就不會是恩典。

主沒應允過天色常藍、花香常漫；卻應許我們生活有力、行路有光亮、作工得息、試煉得恩助、危難有賴……

有主的愛護，幸福得如小嬰孩。多麼剛強有力，卻又多麼柔細親切。

我能拿什麼獻給我喜愛的主？亳無配得的，一件都沒有。

只有整身又卑微又自大的污穢。

不配。什麼都不配。

我喜歡主耶穌，因為祂很偉大。

祂大得像大象、獅子、像海、像空氣、像天……不，祂創造世界。

就如瞎子描述夕陽，即使盡力也形容不了。

實在不能用屬地的事來形容，祂就是那麼的大，很大很大。

我卻是很小很小，這麼的小。

我喜歡主耶穌，祂竟愛我。

有了祂我再不欠缺、永不欠缺。

本很污穢，祂卻從不介意，更為我捨己，叫我重得生命。

我怎能不愛祂？

祂是我的主，我的王。我喜愛主耶穌。

Leaf Insect

Leaf insects use camouflage to take on the appearance of a leaf. They do this so accurately that predators often aren't able to distinguish them from real leaves. In some species the edge of the leaf insect's body even has the appearance of bite marks. To further confuse predators, when the leaf insect walks, it rocks back and forth, to mimic a real leaf being blown by the wind.

(wikipedia)

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I once watched a TV programme about leaf insect.

This is a part of the story :

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Leaf insect gets the perfect dress in the habitat on top of the tree -

the fake leaf costume in absinthe-green.

By fault it falls to the ground, full of brown leaves.

And suddenly everything shows.

Predators cannot be happier with its attractive colour.

It tries best to hide under the leaves.

But this doesn't help.

So it runs to the gap of stones.

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A praying mantis is coming.

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In this story, it succeeds to back to the trunk, and back to its heaven.

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God has given all of us our own prettiest dressing.

It might be wine-red, dodger-blue, light-salmon or forest-green.

We are all beautiful.

But sometimes we are not glad to be beautiful.

"Every sibling around is yellow, yet why should I be grey ?" said ugly duckling.

We fall into the world of brown leaves, and are somehow annoyed with our blessed colour.

We believe we owned the most shameful colour,yet it is in fact the prettiest, the most favorable one.

We are just like colour-blinded - not able to distinguish between.

And the world is going to become monochromatic. We consider this as prefect.

As predators are there, we put off our blessed dressing and put on the other one.

It is for survival. And it is much prettier we thought.

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Turn our eyes.

What God promised is He must give us the best rather than good.

What we choose may be good but must not be the best.

Only God know what is the best, as His wisdom is higher than our wisdom.

Our colours are all as pretty as the costume in absinthe-green.

We are already the prettiest by His hands.

Though we may be in the unfamiliar state, we still look great in the gratitude from Him.

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I like leaf insect since it persists.

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photo from

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/tutorial/Ecology/mimesis/pages/leaf_insect.htm

from my EIE professor's forum

I can still rememeber in the first lecture, he made me scared. Loud voice but femiline eyes, providing well-prepared ( yet too much ) materials together with continuous (yet what we all hate ) assessments.

This is copied from his forum , and because of it I am appreciate for being lucky to be one of his students.


Paulo Coelho: The Story of the Pencil

A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter.

At one point, he asked:'Are you writing a story about what we've done? Is it a story about me?'

His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson:
'I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil I'm using.
I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.'

Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil.
It didn't seem very special.

'But it's just like any other pencil I've ever seen!'

'That depends on how you look at things.
It has five qualities which, if you manage to hang on to them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.'

First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.

Second quality: now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he's much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.

Third quality: the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.

Fourth quality: what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Finally, the pencil's fifth quality: it always leaves a mark. In just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action.'

Dr_Leung
@ EIE forum

:)

假如路會走得很順暢，就不能建立金銀寶石在天上。

TBC ...