#56 Humility

Yikes...so how many weeks am I behind? I will just keep going forward.

I was really blessed by Jaeson Ma's post on Humility. I could really relate to his struggles dealing with pride. He wrote, "To practice humility, we need to think less of ourselves and more of others." This is a challenge, because friends have recently come to me sharing their stories and I quickly give them a list of "what they should do" and "what not to do" when all along, all they needed was a friend to listen and understand them fully...
how foolish and arrogant of me to see myself as the "know it all."
God is opening my eyes to see that we are all sinners, we are created equal..of course I know this, but do I live this out daily?
my friends don't need me to ramble on with advice and judgment, what they really need is love and support.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
-Ken Blanchard

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. -Proverbs 27:17

#6-7 Shopping and Farewells

Wow, I'm more than a week behind...but I'm determined to keep going and catch up. My internet connection hasn't been working so well so my posts may be brief!

#6 I was trying to recover from a cold and was in a real "moody mood." I think I made up this silly term, "moody mood" when I was a teen.. and you have to say it in a Chinese accent to get it right. Anyhow, it just means I was feeling cranky and anti-social, just wanting to stay home and mope around. Anyhow, a friend was successful in persuading me to go out for dinner, then say farewell to a colleague who was leaving HK for good. We had good food, yummy cake, blessed conversations- spending time with friends is love! I'm truly blessed by friends who have stood by me these past 2 years in HK!

#7 A shopping day in MongKok! I was on our way home when I was thinking about how my friend would return to HK from her trip in Singapore. (We had parted ways in Malaysia.) I would be going to Guangzhou the next day so I wouldn't be at home when she arrived. I decided to make a simple salad for her that she'd find sitting in the fridge!
She loved it and later said, " Blueberries and pineapples are my favorite fruits... how did you know that?" (I really had no idea- but I'm glad she liked what I made in like a minute!)