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 [...]

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 are [...]

All I need…

Do you worry about what you are to eat or what you are to wear? Probably not for most of us living in Taiwan.  Few people are indeed struggling to make ends meet in modern Taiwan. Yet, many of us are not satisfied with what we have.  We are seeking a prosperous life, with gourmet food, [...]

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 Ecclesiastes [...]

Knowledge itself is power

In Hosea 4:6 it says that my people was destroyed for lack of knowledge.  “My people” here represents God’s people, the Israelites.  They reject God’s commands dictated by Him through Moses; therefore, they were captured and exiled to Babylon, a pagan nation.
Today, people are learning all the time in order not to fall behind the [...]