陀螺呀，你为什么旋转？

有一天，蜗牛看见一个正在旋转的陀螺。

陀螺旋转了好久好久都不愿停下来。

这让蜗牛很纳闷。于是，蜗牛便问陀螺：“陀螺呀，你为什么旋转？”

听到蜗牛的提问，陀螺没有停下来，一面旋转一面回答说：“我快乐的时候会旋转。”

陀螺的回答让蜗牛觉得很新奇，因为蜗牛从来没有听说过旋转也是一种表达快乐的方式，于是便紧接着问：“所以你现在非常快乐咯？”

陀螺依旧没有停止旋转，回答蜗牛说：“不是的。”

这回，蜗牛被陀螺搞糊涂了，听得一头雾水：“你不是说你快乐的时候就会旋转吗？既然你现在不快乐，那你又是为了什么而旋转呢？”

陀螺依旧旋转着，回答说：“蜗牛啊，我现在旋转，是因为不想让人看清我不快乐的样子。我旋转，是为了让人看不清我，就像你感到不安时会躲到壳里一样。”

 

 

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微风吹，
枝叶颤
苹果呢？
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混蛋杂菜档老板

话说，刚才我在某杂菜档打包晚餐~
由于顾客很多，老板七手八脚，非常迅速的把包好的饭盒传给收银员~
但是，收银员说出来的价钱和我预计的不符，而且差蛮多~
于是我就问：“这是我的？”
这时，站在旁边的老板也探过来问：“不是你的？” 然后一边打开饭盒确认~
那盒饭果然不是我的~ 是我后面那个小姐的~
接着，老板就问我：“不是你的你又拿？”
呼！！！很奇怪也！！！我什么时候拿了？？？
我就是怀疑不是我的，所以正在跟你确认啊！！！
真的是有够奇怪！！！！！！
在这种情况下，店主不是一般都会赶快先赔不是，然后再递上对的饭盒吗？？
奇怪！！！！
我不是要求一定要道歉！但没想到会是这种态度！！！
怎么会有人这样做生意？？？
莫名其妙！！！奇怪！！！！！！！！王八蛋！！！

 

 

那些拒绝长大的人们

昨天在其他部门办事时，那里的职员称呼我 “Ms. Lee”~
而我居然自然的回应~
好像真的已经习惯这个称呼了~
看来，我真的离小朋友岁月越来越远了~
怎么感觉有点儿不知所措，却又无可奈何~

不知所措却又无可奈何，是因为拒绝长大吗？
人们之所以拒绝长大，是因为在童年里留下了遗憾吗？
因为有未完成的心愿，
所以不愿意接受岁月已经流逝的事实，
所以驻足，不愿前行，
但却被无情的岁月逼迫前行

HIV test

今天发生了一件让人无语的事……

话说，新加坡的 Ministry of Manopower (MOM) 规定在新加坡工作的外国人都需要定期做体检才能更新工作证~
第一次申请工作证时，体检会验比较多的项目，之后就只验某几项严重的就好，例如艾滋病 HIV test~

上个星期呢，我就去做了体检~ 由于两年前才刚做了比较全全面的检验，所以这次 MOM 只要求做艾滋病测试就好~ 在某健康中心抽完血后，他们跟我说，一个星期后回去取报告就行了~

然后，一个星期过去了，我回去取报告~ 到了那里，我跟柜台小姐说：
“我是来取体检报告的~”

那小姐又问我：
“你是做什么 test 的？”

我不以为意，直接回答：
“HIV test”

瞬间，那小姐瞪大双眼，不可思议的看着我。因为她那仿佛遇到变态的眼神，我才意识到自己刚刚说了什么，于是赶快解释：
“for the renewal of my employment pass”

听到我的解释过后，她才松了一口气：
“o i see~ for e pass… okok… please wait for a while…”

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真是令人无语……
没想到会看见这样的反应~
以为他们在这样的单位工作~
一定常常遇到很多为了更新工作证而做这些体检的人~
怎么会那么受惊…… 真是令人尴尬又无语……
呀！我可不是那种人啊！
真是~ 但是回想起来还是觉得她的表情很好笑！
哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈！

Share：Become men and women of encouragement

昨天晚上翻圣经的时候，刚巧读的就是有关 Barnabas 的部分~
今天又刚巧看到这一篇~ 觉得写得很不错，就分享一下~

Barnabas’ invitation to Paul changed the history of the Church and the world. Our invitation of others may do the same.

St. Barnabas is one of the most important figures in the history of the early Church and among the least appreciated.

Early in the Acts of the Apostles, St. Luke tells us that his real name was Joseph, but the apostles nicknamed him Barnabas, which means “son of encouragement.”

It could have been because he had sold a field he owned and laid the proceeds at the apostles’ feet, an obvious sign of his total commitment to Christ and total trust in the apostles Christ had chosen to lead the early Church. Such a gesture, common among the first disciples, would have certainly inspired the other members of the burgeoning Church.

But the nickname was an excellent summary of his entire personality, for he was someone who gave others courage, who believed in them, who filled them to respond to God with enthusiasm.

We see this especially in his interaction with St. Paul. Without Barnabas’ intervention, Paul likely would have remained, lived and died a tent-maker in Tarsus. Instead, because of Barnabas’ interventions, Paul was able to become the greatest missionary in the history of the Church.

It was Barnabas who was the catalyst for bringing Paul out of obscurity, making him his collaborator, vouching for him with the leaders and members of the Church who didn’t trust him because of his murderous past, and launching him on the trajectory that led to his founding so many Churches across the ancient world.

As we saw in last week’s readings and reflections, after his conversion, Paul immediately began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, announcing that he was the Messiah and Son of God.

As he began to annihilate the Damascene Jews in debates, several of the vanquished conspired to have him assassinated, watching out for him at the city gates to murder him. Paul and the other disciples heard about the plot, however, and lowered him outside the city walls in a basket to escape.

So Paul went to Jerusalem where he tried to join the disciples, live the Christian life and help wherever he could. St. Luke tells us, however, that sadly “they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.” The disciples didn’t want to have anything to do with him.

They were all terrified of him because of the way he used to terrorize their community, presiding over the stoning of St. Stephen, ripping the believers out of their homes and bringing them before the religious courts, and even getting an order to go to Damascus and bring back the Christians in chains. They likely thought that his celebrated conversion was a ruse just so that Paul could infiltrate the Christians, get to know them and where they live, and finish the job of wiping them out that he had previously worked so hard to achieve

The members of the Church in Jerusalem, apostles and disciples, didn’t believe yet in the power of God’s amazing grace that could save a sinner like Paul.

They didn’t believe that God convert a murderer of Christians into a maker of Christians.

They didn’t believe that God could change someone who used to rip Christians from their homes to one who would help form Christian homes.

They couldn’t see how someone who had presided over the stoning of St. Stephen would eventually become someone who himself would be stoned because of his building his life on the stone rejected by the builders who had become the cornerstone of his life.

That’s the first time Barnabas, the son of encouragement, intervened. It’s not hard to imagine how abandoned Paul must have felt after the Jerusalem Church’s rejection: the vast majority of his own people likely looked on him as a traitor, some of his former teammates in the extirpation of Christians were now coming after him, and the Christians, whom he had hoped to fill with joy at the news of his conversion, wanted no part of him.

Seeing the situation of Paul the Pariah, Barnabas acted, for Paul and for the Church. He wasn’t going to let what the Lord had done on the road to Damascus go to waste. So he went to find Paul and then, St. Luke tells us, “took him by the hand and brought him to the apostles, declaring to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.”

Barnabas told Paul’s conversion story to the other members of the Church of Jerusalem – which shows that obviously he had heard it step-by-step from Paul before. He also passed on how Paul after his conversion was doing more to spread the faith than many of those who were timidly hovering in Jerusalem.

Because of Barnabas’ action, encouragement, and personal recommendation, the Church of Jerusalem welcomed him. From that moment, Paul started to do in Jerusalem the same things he had done in Damascus, and “speak out boldly in the name of the Lord.”

He debated both Jews and Greeks. Once again, however, the Jewish leaders plotted to kill him for persuading people to Christianity – just as the Sanhedrin had done to Jesus and Saul himself had tried done to Stephen and other members of the early Church.

So the disciples took him down to Caesarea by the Sea and sent him home to Tarsus. Fearing for Paul’s life, the Church in Jerusalem decided to rush him down to Caesarea and send him home to Tarsus. It’s possible that Paul was rashly looking for a quick martyrdom in expiation for all the lives he had taken previously, but the Church, especially Barnabas, didn’t want the one chosen by the Lord to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles to have his mission as a Christian evangelist cut short prematurely. It’s probable that Barnabas accompanied Paul down to the sea to send Paul home and he likely encouraged him to get ready for what would come later.

Later came rather soon. After the Church in Jerusalem had heard of how many converts were entering the Church in Antioch, they sent Barnabas to encourage them “to remain faithful to the Lord in firmness of heart” and guide them into a deeper grasp of the Gospel.

St. Luke tells us today that his preaching and exhortation only served to make more converts. They all regarded him as a “good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith.” Barnabas did not have the time to guide them all and needed other expert help. Rather than assuming the arduous task of training others to be teachers or going back to Jerusalem to find help, he traveled to Tarsus to find Paul and bring him back to Antioch. Barnabas knew Paul was ready. And so he asked him to leave his tent-making behind and come with him to make temples of the Holy Spirit. Paul agreed.

And they headed to Antioch where “for a whole year they met with the Church and taught a large number of people,” forming them in the love of the Lord in such a way that it the disciples for the first time were called “little Christs,” or “Christians.”

It was after that year’s worth of hard work tilling the soil of souls in Syria that the Holy Spirit spoke while the Church was worshipping the Lord and fasting and said, “Set apart from me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” And that’s when the two of them began the first of the great missionary journeys in Church history, implanting the Gospel across Asia Minor. The rest is, in a sense, history.

Little did Barnabas know that when he put his own reputation on the line for Paul before the Apostles in Jerusalem, when he went to Tarsus to ask for help, what the Holy Spirit would later do. All he did was encourage and invite. The Lord did the rest.

A similar thing happened with Andrew. After he met the Messiah, he ran to his brother Simon explaining that he had found the Messiah and brought his brother to meet Jesus. And when Jesus met Simon, he told him that he would change his name to the Aramaic word for Rock (Peter in English), and build his Church on him. All Andrew made was the introduction. God did the rest.

This brings us one of the central realities that we must ponder and live during this Year of Faith: are we men and women of similar encouragement, enthusiastically trying to inspire others to grow in faith, to come more deeply into their friendship with Christ, inviting them and facilitating for them to use the gifts God has given them to share in the work of spreading the faith?

The Church today needs many more Barnabases, men and women who aren’t afraid to encourage to share their work, to stick up for others when others don’t think they’re capable or qualified, to invite them to collaborate in the joyful duty of passing on the Good News to others. This is one of the most important things in the New Evangelization that is supposed to flow from the Year of Faith.

Just as in ancient Antioch, so today, there aren’t enough laborers in the Lord’s vineyard to attend to the ripe fruit on the vine. There are so many sheep in the Lord’s fold who need good shepherds to care for them, not to mention so many sheep who have wandered from the fold who need those acting in the person of the Good Shepherd to leave the 99 behind and go out in search for them.

It’s something that Pope Francis can’t do all by himself. It’s something that the bishops united with him can’t do by themselves. It’s something that all the priests of the world can’t do together. It’s something that all the missionaries, religious, and consecrated people can’t do. It’s something for which even all the catechists together with clergy and religious can’t do.

It’s something for which we’re all needed. Today Barnabas, that “good man filled with the Holy Spirit and with faith,” on behalf of God comes to us as he did to Saul in Tarsus to encourage us to get involved.

Let’s open ourselves to respond as Paul and Barnabas did, so that through us, as God did through them, others may hear the echo of the Good Shepherd’s voice and feel the warmth of his sacrificial love, guiding them to the verdant pastures where, as Jesus tells us in the Gospel, he seeks to give us eternal repose.

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Father Roger Landry is pastor of St. Bernadette Parish in Fall River, MA and national chaplain of Catholic Voices USA. His homilies and articles are found on catholicpreaching.com.

文章来源：http://www.catholic.org/homily/yearoffaith/story.php?id=50628

所以得到的结论是
If I do not do this, I am not worthy to be called your friend.

mak，kenapa tak keluar？？？

昨天亲眼目睹了一个滑稽的场景~

话说，在租屋楼下，我和一个马来妇女一起入了电梯~
我记得非常清楚，她进了电梯后按了7楼~

25秒过后，电梯来到7楼~
电梯门开后，我们看见电梯门前的走廊上有两个马来少男少女在调脚踏车的不懂什么东西~
他们看起来像是兄妹或姐弟之类的，总之就是一家人啦~
但奇怪的是，刚刚按了7楼的马来妇女不但不踏出电梯，反而在电梯里对那少男少女说话：
“eh, what are you both doing here arr???” （一副逮到什么的口吻）

我心想~ 这位阿姨好奇怪哦~ 到了自己的楼层怎么不出去，反而继续站在电梯里和电梯外的人说话？
她难道不知道已经到 7 楼了吗？我需要提醒她吗？已经到她刚刚所按的 7 楼了~

就当我在困扰时，那少男少女满脸疑惑的问该名马来妇女：
“Mak, kenapa tak keluar???” –>(妈，怎么不出来？)
那马来妇女好想被这问题吓了一跳，赶紧问：
“sini tingkat berapa??” –〉（这里几楼？）
那马来少年少女忍俊不禁，大笑起来：
“hahahahah… tujuh!” –〉（哈哈哈哈… 7！）

哈哈哈！ 真是太好笑了~
我都差点儿忍不住大声笑出来了！

小孩的大脑像海绵？

在路上偶尔都会看见背着海绵宝宝书包的小朋友~
觉得那书包真的好可爱~
如果我比现在年轻 20岁，那么我也要背~

看着那些背着海绵宝宝书包的小孩，
不禁让我开始想，在众多卡通中，
那家长为什么选择了海绵宝宝的书包呢？而不是其他卡通？
是因为有意识或无意识的希望孩子的学习能力像海绵一样吗？
也许是我想太多了，也许纯粹是因为小孩喜欢海绵宝宝~
但派大星也很可爱啊，怎么就不怎么看见小孩背着派大星的书包呢？
算了算了！还是不要纠结在这个问题上~

来谈谈所谓的“海绵般的学习能力”~
人家总是说小孩的大脑就像一块海绵，
有很强的吸收能力，
但，不知道是否有忘记一点~
就是~ 海绵的吸收能力虽然强~
但是，随便拧一下，刚刚所吸收的水分全都会瞬间消失~

hmm… 本篇纯属胡言乱语~

在此顺便附上海绵宝宝和派大星的玉照各一枚~