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上主知道你的為難和擔心，他一定与你同在，以恩待你。

你媽還年輕，(即使她是60+，當生命有盼望之時人就會年輕) 會。我外母86+，上月四次進出医院，還說要多活十多年看孫几結婚生仔。有什么可挑旺妳母親求生意志呢?  是子孫嗎?  是未完成心愿嗎?  能治療总比不治療好。  治療的痛是已知的、是可承受的，是家人可支持鼓勵的。不接受治療的痛，只能自己承受。

我外母的求生意志，是家人因她的病比平時更多時間陪伴她，讓感覺被重視、生命有价值、而明顯有所改變。我們發動所有人為她禱告，在她面前為她開聲祈禱，引導她也一句跟一句開聲祈禱，在主及眾人愛裡她被醫治。她還要說信耶穌呢!   妳母親情況也可以因愛而改变嗎?   誰的愛對她最重要?   她平時最關心的人除了你還有誰呢?    她最關心的人可以怎樣支持她呢?

你陪伴她到東京完成了她一次心愿，這很重要。如可以帶同她喜歡的子孫同去更好。老人家在子孫面前，永遠能感到自己的重要。願神堅固你的愛念，使你所講所做的，充份表示你對她的愛心和支持。完成一次愛的連結，愛的旅程。如她不反對，可沿途開声為她禱告代求，也讓圣灵為她代求，領受祈禱的力量。

多言了。作為你的生命成長的禱伴同工，深感你的擔心，就是我們眾人的擔心。一定會在每天禱告中記念你。

神讓我們有此經歷，必有深恩美意。承載親人傷痛憂患，是神給我們的属灵操練，這也是我們成長的時候。

主祝福你!

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Augustine

5-18-2009 12:50 pm

“Oh, Gracious God

Please accept our prayers to you….

We pray to you to give us a pure and humble heart, for us to realize we are nothing.  We can’t walk, we can’t sleep, we can’t learn, we can’t even live one more day on earth without your grace.

God, we beg you to open our eyes, lift up our souls, warm our hearts, and turn our focus not on our needs, but on the needed whom you brought to us for our attention and care in our M Div studies.  We are sure you have a purpose for everything we experience in our M Div study.  We submit ourselves to your plan, your teaching, and the life-encounters you brought before us.

God, help us in our faith to you.   Dip me into your ocean of love, so that we can love.   Shock us with our impotency, so that we realize we need to depend on you in everything we think, we feel, and we do.    Speak to us when we feel lonely and restless.    Teach us on the skills and knowledge we need to build in our M Div study so that we won’t appear to be naïve and ignorant when we preach your words to others.  Touch our hearts so that can touch the hearts of others with your words.

God, during this period of exam, beg you for our physical fitness, intelligently readiness to hear your Words, and our humble and submissive acceptance your teaching when we prepare our answers to the research papers and examinations. 

God…

If we can learn, or

if we cannot learn,

if we can produce good answers to exam paper, or

if we cannot produce good answers to the exam papers,

if we feel empowered, or

if we are shamed and frightened….

God, help us full submit our true bodies and souls to you.   Turn us to you for comfort, and for joy.  As we true believe the source of comfort and joy is from you.  God you are our help.  You are our destiny.

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.”

Augustine

16 May 2009 2 pm

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Thank you for your caring words.  You asked how come I was able to do so many things in life?   This is a good question. 

In fact God is fair to everyone.  Everyone has 24 hours a day, and 365 days a year, no more, no less.   I do have some secret belief in life that motivates me to walk the extra miles, take up the next task….

1)      I take every day is my last day in life, so I won’t miss anything important and regret.   To say thank to the one you want to thank, to meet the ones you want to greet, to do things you want to do so that you will not regret as if this were your last day in life.

2)      I take every day is a new beginning in life, so that I will not carry any luggage of my past.  I feel easy, enthusiastic, and excited for the next tasks and events in life.  I will strive to do exciting things in life.

3)      Every night, I review my day in life, reflecting what I learnt and understood from the fate of life.  Adjust the attitude, and ways of doing things in life;

4)      In every moment of time I am waiting such as waiting for my MTR train, sitting in a bus, ready to eat my meals, etc, I pray and thank God for the guidance and direction in my life.

From these I feel the grace of God in my daily life, feel charged for the work I need to do for Him to reciprocate his grace to me.   I give everything to His hands, trusting what I am going to experience (no matter in pain, in sickness, or in happiness) will be the best suitable for me.

Raymond, ask what grace God has given you from your birth to this dates.    Life is too short for disagreement.  Life is too short for complaints.  God has given you a marriage and some children.  It is a treasure in life.  Choose to live in an appreciating life looking at the positives from your marriage and your encounters.  Choose to  live in a shared life with your spouse as your faithful companion in life. 

Accept the shortcomings of yourself and your spouse as her beauty.   Choose to live a life of no regrets.

Do everything possible when you have the breath to do so.  Thank your spouse.  Express your love to your children.  Pray God for a new and beautiful day of life everyday.

Augustine

May 10, 2009

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一位同學的母親面对腫瘤的威脅。求主纪念他的需要，让我与他共同经历，一起面对，求主憐悯。

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「多謝各位近日的問候、關心、支持和代禱。今天和媽媽一起見肝膽外科醫生後，對她的病情知多一點點。首先已確診她的肝有一個約7厘米大的腫瘤(屬擴散類的腫瘤,腫瘤科醫生說是第四期) ,另淋巴腺約有一個2毫米大的不知明的東西,有可能是腫瘤,可能要進一步化驗。

前兩星期,媽媽的心情是非惡劣,感恩的是她現在較穩定,只是我們現在不知如何面對治療方法,原因是腫瘤科和肝膽科有不同的意見,昨天腫瘤科建議不做任何手術,只做十二次,每兩星期三天住院24小時吊針化療,為期約半年(可怕),只是這種治療屬於舒緩作用,非能徹底醫治。今天肝膽外科卻建議先抽取淋巴的內不明的東西,確診後後再切除肝腫瘤,最後才化療。現已排期抽取淋巴內的不知明東西的組織,兩星內便得知可日進行手術。

兩邊醫生的建議令我們感到非常困惑,一是媽媽懼怕化療的副作用,畢竟十年前已做了一次化療和電療,去年又切除直腸腫瘤,這次又再化療,對她來說是滿有壓力和幸苦,第二又怕做任何手術會否加速癌症擴散,這亦是我所顧慮的。當然還有一個方法就是順其自然,不過這實在最難決定的事。

請各位為我們有一個較好的決定,並求醫生們最後有一致的決定,以免媽媽受更多的苦。」

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