Monday, August 31, 2009
Merdeka Day
Today is our national day in Malaysia and we celebrate 51 years of independence.
My work brings me to a lot of places each month and especially in places like Taiwan or China, and the locals will be guessing where I come from. I have small slanting eyes so most of them will say I am from Japan. Some say I am from Hong Kong when I speak Cantonese. I may then speak a bit of Hakka and say I am from Meizou in Guangzhou. Sometimes I tell them I am an Aussie to confuse them :-).
Some say home is where the heart is. Some say the world is my home. There may be some that may have not lived with their parents for a while, and do not find it hospitable at their 'childhood' home anymore, even if it is just across the street. Their comforts are all in their new home - be it their sofa, hi-fi, bed. We are all creatures of comfort. At this moment, my comforts are all in my parents' house and I will always call it home till God's next plan for me is rolled out.
I do not know where the Lord will lead me to settle eventually, but the truth is that HOME is where God is. If God wants you in a certain place, His anointing, presence and blessings will be with you.
On this national day, I pray that Malaysia will be a peaceful place with racial tolerance, progressive with fair opportunities for all.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Living deliberately
We are put here on earth for a purpose. We are a spiritual being having a temporal earthly existence. Use our time here wisely to achieve your God given vision, purpose and goals in life. I believe the sentiments shared by the great philosopher Henry Thoreau as below are insightful; "living deliberately" and not just floating around in life.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
Henry Thoreau.
