Category: Footprints
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Casting the bread upon the water
A six-year-old Japanese girl set loose a red balloon with her handwritten letter inside at her elementary school. Fifteen years later, a fisherman found the letter stuck to the side of a flatfish he hauled up from 100 meters below the surface of the sea and it is still legible. “Cast your bread upon the water for after…
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God-consciousness or self-consciousness?
In his new book “The Third Jesus” Deepak Chopra describes Jesus as a three-person figure, “a sketchy historical figure”, “a abstract theological creation”, and “a highest level of enlightenment. The term “The Third Jesus” has been coined to reflect the highest level of enlightenment for humanity. In Deepak’s description, Jesus is not a savior, nor…
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Saving less, losing more
With enviornmental awareness in mind the Canadian government has urged its citizens to conserve water. But it has turned out that the less water the citizens consume the water department gets stuck in tight budget. Burdened with rebuilding an aging water infrastructure with declining revenue, the government has decided to raise the water prices by 9.4 percent.…
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When it’s all been said and done
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist who made his fortune by inventing dynamites and other powerful explosives used as weapons. Years later, when his brother died, an local newspaper accidentally printed an obituary for Alfred instead. He was described in the obituary as a man who became rich by encouraging people to kill each other in…
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Whom do you follow?
The early days of March in Taiwan will signal election time, when the presidential hopefuls from two major parties maneuver for votes and the people cast their ballots for their favorite candidates. And, like it or not, for the next four years we are stuck with whoever wins the presidency. If it’s not our kind of…
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Rest in the Lord
Early yesterday morning a hired worker came to clean my apartment’s water cistern (tank). The moment the cleaning of the tank was completed my tap water stopped running. I tried to figure out how to fix the water problem as I kept running upstairs and downstairs checking on the tank and the taps. I couldn’t do anything about it. Later…
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If He is with me…
In my hometown a large graveyard lies behind my house. As I was a child, every summer my brother and I would fish frogs at the rice field which was adjacent to the burial ground. Out of fear we would sing out loud while walking to the field checking on the fishing rods at night. We…
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Better is a funeral than a party
Many leading academics and scholars yesterday attended Dr. Wu’s funeral service, former education minister and Academic Sinica research fellow. They offered their condolences and praised Wu’s contributions to Taiwan’s education reforms — creating and promoting multilateral channels for admission into the colleges and universities for high school graduates, and reinforcing vocational education. We read in…
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Meet with masters
The 2007 Asian Science Camp wiil be kicking off this coming Sunday on Aug.5. The camp organizors has invited the speakers or lecturers who are all internationally renowned scholars and scientists. The participants mostly comprised of high school graduates and college students must meet strict qualifications, e.g. having a good command of English. Acoording to the…
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Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
A young Korean pastor who led a team of Christian workers on a humanitarian aid mission to Afghnanistan was shot to death after several days of kidnapping in the hands of Afghan fighters. Afghanistan is a Muslim country under the Taliban; namely it is illegal to spread the Gospel. One will be put to death…
TJ Gong 