Children's letters to God

I went to the wholesale venue of English books in our office complex today, and bumped into 2 little books, one called "Children's letters to God" and the other "Kids talk about Heaven".

In the first one, there is one entry by a little girl called Nora. She wrote thus:

"Dear God,
I don't ever feel alone since I found out about you."

Do I feel alone even after I found out about God?
Well, to be frank, I do.
I always feel lonely, but look what a little girl has to say about loneliness. She never feels lonely again ever since she knew about God.

This is probably part of what the Lord was talking about when He urged us to be like children. They have a very personal way about this whole thing. It's not books, not beliefs, but it's their reality, their life.

Do we feel lonely? Let's learn from the children.

聖誕澳門紙醉金迷中之基督教尋根之旅

在聖誕期間去了一趟澳門。

跟我上一次到澳門的時候，實在發展了很多，根本不可同日而語。

永利酒店的賭場，其紙醉金迷的程度，套句朋友的話，真的會是令人一點都不覺得在罪中，反而有自己擠身在上流社會的錯覺，實在令我大開眼界。

隨著經濟的發展，澳門的服務業也開始跟香港的茶餐廳的速度和態度看齊。澳門昔日的歐陸情懷，怕只能在還沒有那麽開發的氹仔及路環才能重溫罷。

其實這一次去澳門的主題是到各教堂“朝聖”的。重點當然是有馬理遜墓的基督教墓園啦。看那些墓誌銘，就可以想象當時來東方傳教是多麽艱難的事。馬理遜有一個小孩是兩嵗以内就死了，另一個在母腹中隨著媽媽一起死去。他能長成大人的兒子也是死在東方。一起並列的馬理遜一家，就佔了四個墓。

我們現在在香港，要傳福音的話，代價可能只是被看成是傻瓜，說我們是“講耶穌”，但兩百年前西方的宣教士付的代價可是家散人亡哪！