Forgive so that you will be forgiven…
A simple thing that sometimes we barely able to do. But through God’s help and guidance, I know I’m able to do all things He has given me 
-lee-
Category: Inspiring
Lesson to learn folks… never wait until the situation around you is back to normal. Because what we face in our everyday lives is never a normal situation.
I read my daily bread yesterday and found how God has spoken to me (again) through His word to help me handle the situation I’ve been having recently.
The scripture is from Ecclesiastes 11: 1-7. Two important things that I finally realize are these:
Investasi yang kita tanam belum tentu langsung membuahkan hasil (ayat 1). Pemberian kita kepada orang lain belum tentu bisa menolongnya keluar dari musibah (ayat 2).
- The investment we put doesn’t always gives us the result in instant.
- Our offering as in help to others doesn’t guarantee that specific someone will help us to go through our troubles in the future.
Learn this: Be good, think good, act good without ever think about the repayment. Do it to make God happy! And let that be the only focus in your life. To make Him Happy and smile every second of your life.
GBU & Luv,
Lee
This morning I read my best friend sister’s note on Facebook entitled “My Parents Legacy.” It’s so beautiful and moved me so much.
Remind me of myself… What have I done for my parents during my living years with them *now that I’m married and moved out of the house* makes me wonder what else can I do to make my parents happy as long as they live.
My husband once told me that “the only time you can make your parents happy is when they are still alive.”
So, have you make your parents happy enough yet?
Don’t regret for the things that you have done, but regret on the things you haven’t done. Remember, you cannot turn back the time ^^
God bless,
–Lee–
HAPPY EARTH DAY! Let’s keep our earth healthy! Long live the earth
Thanks Google for the picture ^^
-lee-
It’s a book I read during my college years. I just kinda to remember it, because a friend just info some news about a mother who irons and hits her son with a pestle. Then I remember about the story of Dave.
The book sure made me cry. To think a child aged 5 would suffer that much, almost died because of the wounds. But God helped him. Through his teacher, Dave was able to survive. Glad he did
STOP CHILD ABUSE!!!
A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive is Dave Pelzer‘s autobiographical account of his alleged abuse as a child by an alcoholic mother, Catherine Roerva. It was published on September 1, 1995.
Surviving a childhood of not only severe abuse by his mother, but the apparent apathy to his plight by his father, Pelzer suffered one of the most severe documented cases of child abuse in California history.
The book starts with a normal day washing the dishes and Dave hopes he can get food. He is caught by his mother that he took his hand out of the water and is slapped. He was then late for school and he would usually run because he would have no time to steal food. So his mother had driven him as he usually would not. He was late so he needed to go to the office to place as late.
He would steal food from the kids’ lunch boxes and gobble down whatever he could in just a short amount of time, just because he was rarely fed. When the children started to notice that some of their food was missing, Dave was caught and the teachers called his mother, not knowing the effect that would have. At this point he began to be punished severely, made to do extra chores, and was banned from family activities.
The frequency of the beatings increased and they now occurred with his father present. That summer he was excluded in a family vacation. At first Dave’s father tried to stop the abuse but as time went on felt unable to intervene. His mother would never exclude his other siblings, who were treated well and never punished as severely as Dave.
The next year abuse intensified and he was no longer allowed to eat meals with the family. Dave was in charge of all the chores in the house while his siblings had few responsibilities. That Christmas, Dave’s mother showed him a letter she claimed that came from North Pole. It stated that Dave was a “bad boy” and would get no toys for Christmas. A few months later, his mother attempted to burn Dave on a stove. Abuse increased even more after that.
By the time he was in second grade, his mother began to make him go without food for extended periods of time. David was forced to sleep in the basement. He got an average of half a meal a day. When David was 10, she stabbed him in the stomach and did not take him to the hospital. The wound eventually became infected and he was forced to squeeze pus out of it himself. (though she did take care of the wound herself). By this point he was no longer considered part of the family and lived in the basement; he was denied basic contact, play, and food. His mother stated that she did not want Dave to interact with “her family.”
Over time the depth of the abuse worsened. David claimed he was forced to sit in the “prisoner of war” position (head bent backwards facing the sky, sitting on his hands). His mother stopped using his name and began referring to him first as “The Boy” and finally “It”. The punishments are reported to have evolved into “sick games” in which she made her son suffer. His little brother becomes his mother’s ‘Little Nazi’, who, brainwashed by the woman, enjoys watching Dave suffer.
Incidents cited in the book include forcing ammonia down his throat, sitting in a sealed bathroom while inhaling the fumes from a bucket of ammonia mixed with bleach (Gas Chamber), inducing vomiting followed by forced ingestion, smashing his face against a mirror while forcing him to say “I’m a bad boy”, lying in the bathtub naked with freezing water for hours, then made him sit in the shade while sunlight was just out of reach, rubbing his face in his baby brother’s soiled diaper, trying to make him eat his youngest brother’s feces, as well as starvation and general malnutrition, and accidentally stabbing him with a knife when he didn’t meet the time limit to do the dishes. Dave’s mother also attempted to force him to lie on a gas stove, saying, “Now sit on the stove so I can watch you burn and die.” Although she only held his arm over the flame.
In each of the sequels, the author reveals more forms of torture he did not describe in this book (e.g., his mother hitting his neck with a broom handle, causing his neck to swell so that he was unable to breathe).
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Child_Called_%22It%22
-lee-
Learn to grow close with God and live righteous for His Words then see how God will give you blessings over blessings to your life.
GBU
-lee-
It’s been months since the last time I wrote in my blog and many stories have past just like that 
It’s a debt for me to share those stories later on. As for today, I would like to share what I heard in the communion earlier. As a start, let me tell you a quick glance information about the company I worked for the last one year. Never in my life, I have stayed longer than 9 months *since my first job* in a company. I’m tired that’s for sure. To be able to move into one company and another, must adapt each time I entered a new company. Tiring but exciting. Cause each company has each unique style and atmosphere.
This is my seventh work place. The old building was in Roxy and earlier this year in January, we moved to a new and own building in Tendean. It has seven floor *minus the fourth floor :p* and comfortable I may say.
We have a small union called PD Hana and we held a prayer meeting every Friday at 12.00. Now, since we moved, the prayer meeting is on every Wednesday at 12.00. It’s a great honor God has given me to arrange the consumption for PD Hana and I had arranged it actively since February.
Each time, that many people came, I must be honest, I’m afraid the food would not be enough for everybody. But God is a Great God. We never lack on food ^^, He Provides.
As for today, the speaker’s name is Sinta. She, once again, took a verse from the Bible,
1 Corinthians 10: 13
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Amen to that
It’s simple and repeated over and over so that you should have faith in facing the giants in your life. That’s why I put the quote “Never Give Up, Never Back Down, Never Lose Faith” as the title of this post. It’s true that there are many many problems in life. Some people call them as huge problems. One thing they often forget is that there is God inside of you and with you all the way. If only you stay focus on Him only, there you will find a great strength to handle each of your problems.
There are three important things to remember to handle your problems:
- Invite God into your life;
- Be grateful in every condition;
- Grow close to God.
That way, you will able to see that your problems are nothing. Cause God is greater than Your problem. Stay focus to God and your life will be amazing! Amen.
-lee-
