There's a new Starfield album out and I've been obsessed with one of the songs.
There's a live version where they're like "The enemy destroyed" and the whole crowd cheers...soooo cool
Monday, May 10, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
My mom
My life started in 1988 and my journey to Christ did not consistent of milestones that showed me He existed. As a person I have never been that much for taking concrete stances on issues and I am learning the occasional necessity of that. I wish there was some moment in time where I prayed that Christ would enter my life and I could now look to Him as Lord and Savior but really gradually it just came to being in my life that Christ was there. So my testimony isn't about the events that changed how I lived my life and how Christ justified me but rather me looking back to the past and seeing that despite how I felt at the time Jesus was in my life all along. Since it is Mothers day soon however I will simply talk about my mom and how she is an example of Christ's shining light in my life.
I was born in China in a nondescript city somewhere. My mom wanted me to be born in Beijing however so her solution was to move me a few hours after birth to Beijing so my birth certificate would say that. I'm more shocked she was able to just get up after giving birth and go to another city, my mom is a strong women.
"No fear can hold me down, nor darkness steal my joy" -Starfield
When I was one my dad passed away from a brain tumor and my grandparents raised me for a few years. My mom had gone to get her masters and PhD in Canada. She actually came back after her masters to raise me while still studying because she wanted me to stay with her. I remember that this was during the times of 19 cent McDonald's hamburgers and I would always get them. We were pretty poor at the time and as I recall my mom often would just get me happy meals and nothing else herself. I'm really floored just by the amazing love that she showed during this time, even when I was pretty bratty she would still go out of her way to make sure I was fed well and generally doing alright. I used to reflect on these times as how I had suffered but in reality it was my mom who had to bear alone the burden of these things.
Christ's love works in amazing ways. In order to support me while getting her degree, my mom took on a couple extra jobs as maids on the weekends. By some 'coincidence' our family became very close with them and they were actually the ones who taught me English. It was also by that chance that one of them was Christian and that is when my mom started going to church. I'm not really sure of how my mom progressed in her faith then because I don't understand Chinese that well. All I know is that we started going to church here and there, never consistently but my mom would still go. People ask the question 'If God is a loving God, why would He allow such sufferings in this world?' and my mom who went through this sufferings still found Him to be a loving God. That in itself is a great testimony to me that Christ is actively working in our lives. That in these things we are constantly stretched so that we can grow. That our testimony saves others, that our lives are there to show others what Christ has done and what He is doing.
I'm reminded of a scene from Bruce Almighty, where God is talking to Bruce at the end about miracles and one of the things he said was "A single mom who's working two jobs, and still finds time to take her son to soccer practice, that's a miracle" I played soccer as a kid....''
More to be done later
I was born in China in a nondescript city somewhere. My mom wanted me to be born in Beijing however so her solution was to move me a few hours after birth to Beijing so my birth certificate would say that. I'm more shocked she was able to just get up after giving birth and go to another city, my mom is a strong women.
"No fear can hold me down, nor darkness steal my joy" -Starfield
When I was one my dad passed away from a brain tumor and my grandparents raised me for a few years. My mom had gone to get her masters and PhD in Canada. She actually came back after her masters to raise me while still studying because she wanted me to stay with her. I remember that this was during the times of 19 cent McDonald's hamburgers and I would always get them. We were pretty poor at the time and as I recall my mom often would just get me happy meals and nothing else herself. I'm really floored just by the amazing love that she showed during this time, even when I was pretty bratty she would still go out of her way to make sure I was fed well and generally doing alright. I used to reflect on these times as how I had suffered but in reality it was my mom who had to bear alone the burden of these things.
Christ's love works in amazing ways. In order to support me while getting her degree, my mom took on a couple extra jobs as maids on the weekends. By some 'coincidence' our family became very close with them and they were actually the ones who taught me English. It was also by that chance that one of them was Christian and that is when my mom started going to church. I'm not really sure of how my mom progressed in her faith then because I don't understand Chinese that well. All I know is that we started going to church here and there, never consistently but my mom would still go. People ask the question 'If God is a loving God, why would He allow such sufferings in this world?' and my mom who went through this sufferings still found Him to be a loving God. That in itself is a great testimony to me that Christ is actively working in our lives. That in these things we are constantly stretched so that we can grow. That our testimony saves others, that our lives are there to show others what Christ has done and what He is doing.
I'm reminded of a scene from Bruce Almighty, where God is talking to Bruce at the end about miracles and one of the things he said was "A single mom who's working two jobs, and still finds time to take her son to soccer practice, that's a miracle" I played soccer as a kid....''
More to be done later
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