Category: Footprints
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Pleasing the Father
Other than usual my kids couldn’t wait to get up early this morning to get their gifts ready for my wife, because today is Mother’s Day. Yettheir excitement ended up making a fuss around the house so that “early birds” receive some rebukes. It is a reminder to Christians that how we please our Lord depends on…
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Paying moms
With Mother’s Day approaching on this coming second Sunday of May, people start to get about to thinking how they could show gratitude and thankfulness to their moms such as sending gifts, flowers or even having dinner together. But as we are honoring our own moms on this special day, what do you think of motherhood?…
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The most ‘influential’ person
The latest issue of Time Magazine has listed its 100 people whose talents, strengths and morals are shaping and transforming the world, so to speak. No doubt that each man or woman on the influential list has his or her own story which can be so extraordinary that we may learn a lot from them.…
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Entertain strangers
In my Myth class this morning, one of my students reported on the story of Baucis and Philemon which reminds me of how as a believer should show hospitality and kindness to strangers. The Bible says, ” Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing so some have entertained angels without being aware of…
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先左腳, 再右腳
Book Title: 先左腳, 再右腳 (Now one Foot, Now the Other) The following book description made by School Library Journal – Bobby is named after his grandfather, Bob. Bob helps Bobby learn to walk, teaches him to build a block tower, and tells him stories. One day Bobby comes home and his grandfather isn’t there. Bobby’s…
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Dusty heart
My family has moved in the currently remodeled house just over eight months. We are all pretty excited that we have everything brand new, of course clean and tidy as well. This morning when I work around the house, mopping the floor and cleaning the windows. They are covered with dust and dirt. I started to ponder…
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Pass the buck
While people around the globe are still grappling with the Virginia Tech massacre, NBC released the gunman’s manifesto mailed to the TV station just in between the two shooting incidents. It was expected that we could find the motive behind the shooting spree of how he did it. But the answer is as common as you and me could offer…
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Happy and blessed
We live in a glitzy and commercialized world where we are unconsciously tempted to buy what we usually don’t need. We are told if we own or possess something, then we can be as happy as a sandboy. So we are seeking happiness by pursuing wealth, power, and fame. But what is true joy and happiness?…
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Close-knit but lonely
The shooting rampage taking place at Virginia Tech is considered the deadliest campus carnage in US history. The gunman was reported to be a loner, studying in a so-called close-knit school, a community of which ironically never felt a part. In a family in which we’re supposed to know and care about each other well, but…
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Faint faith
My daughteer asked a pair of overalls she would put on for her arts class this morning while my wife and I were praying together. Receiving no response she kept asking and crying without doing things she’ s supposed to every morning. Oftentimes we Christiansare like my a little daugher. We know God is faithful and always…
TJ Gong 