So this is Christmas...

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So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun

And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong

And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun

And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over over
If you want it
War is over
Now...

- John Lennon

A Little Angel and a Kitten 小天使和小貓

 

 

Dear Din Din:                                                                    

 

點點, 你雖然是一隻貓, 卻帶給我很多歡笑和淚水哦!

我雖然不知道你現在在哪裡, 過得怎麼樣; 但我相信你一定在天堂過著幸福快樂的日子.

現在, 小點點已經變成大點點囉! 點點, 你看我幫你想了好多個名字, 有笨點, 呆點, 可愛的點, 大點, 小點, 大笨點, 花花 ...

 

若我喊一聲點點, 你會回答我嗎?

時時刻刻陪伴我的點點, 我真的好想你, 也好愛你啊!

點點, 我希望你現在是在一個讓你很快樂的國度. 我用我對你真誠的感情和愛來告訴你…

我又想起你洗澡洗到一半, 跑出來還滑壘的模樣了...J

“You would never die on my mind or in my heart." 

  - by Sophie (age 11)
 

耶穌說、讓小孩子到我這裡來、不要禁止他們．因為在天國的、正是這樣的人。(馬太 19:14)

Jesus said, Let the little ones come to me, and do not keep them away: for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matt 19:14)

 

More than enough?

As usual, this is a true story and it just happened over the last weekend.

I was lucky to meet a family of four.  I call them by their nicknames. The father is SA (Senior Angel,) the mother MA (Mature Angel,) the uncle UA (Uncle Angel) and the daughter LA (Little Angel.)  They are our old time friends.

About six months ago my wife and I began a charity drive to offer that all my book sales are turned into the scholarship for the needy students at the Dept. of Theology, CJCU.   Many friends sent their money in whether they got a copy of the book or not.  A check here and a direct deposit there – all are to be used for the scholarship.  These acts drove up the total scholarship rather quickly and often earned our tears as well.

A week ago we updated a total donation of NT$448,993.00 on the website just to show the kind of closing amount.  All the books were gone.  Then I got a call from the United States.  It was MA.

“I just looked at your website, and we would like to make the total donation to 500,000.  Could we?” MA asked.

“Well, you have done more than enough,” I said, “We ran out of books.  The charity drive was actually closed.”  The MA family surely did more than enough, and the charity drive did close.

“But we wanted to…” She insisted.  You know how it went.  The conversation went on and on for a few more minutes.  Nobody won.

Last week, I received two more donations of NT$2,007,

Just last Saturday, I received a call from UA.  He said, “We saw the total amount grew to 451,000.  Now we are making it to reach exactly 500,000.”  (That was a statement, not a question.) Softly and politely he added, “Donations can never be more than enough, right?”

How right the MA and UA and all the anonymous angels are!   
And how wrong I have been! 
Who am I to say that one’s donation to the charity is more than enough?

Most tears are grace. 
Money does talk. 
Love just touches deeper.

The Heavenly and human angels sing and shine over the Christmas season.

They sing and shine all year long!