{"id":22,"date":"2012-02-14T06:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T06:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay2x.wordpress.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2012-02-14T06:16:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T06:16:53","slug":"its-more-than-about-me-about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/its-more-than-about-me-about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s more than about me & about us"},"content":{"rendered":"

then your heart be lifted up<\/strong>, and you forget the LORD<\/strong> your God, who brought<\/strong> you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, (Deu 8:14)<\/em><\/p>\n

Tomorrow is a little history in my life. For i will change my citizenship. It’s kind of a long journey till here. When I look forward, I see about buying a house, settling down, building a family…all with my own hands…<\/p>\n

And the verses above struck me…<\/p>\n

It’s so easy to forget….After a long and tough journey, acquiring a lot of successes, arrived at some points in life, growing up from zero to something……strangely, our hearts easily <\/em>lifted up.<\/p>\n

It’s true for Israelites, through 40 years journey in dessert, arrived in a good land, built up good houses, and dwelling in it….planting and harvesting, growing up flocks…..it’s so easy to feel……we have arrived here<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I was counting….I left home without money and anybody. Now, I have money, wife, and soon a family. Certainly it’s an achievement….\u00a02 years ago, in my moving out list, I still remember….26 boxes, that’s all our belonging. Today, probably there’re more….<\/p>\n

So, the Lord reminded me, lest I become like the Israelites… It’s the Lord who brought me out. It’s the Lord who preserved my life. It’s the Lord who gave me strength & power to do what I’ve done. It’s all because the Lord’s grace & mercy.<\/p>\n

With that, I remember all our friends who have helped us so tremendously. The joy they brought into our lives. The laughters & friendships that so essential to our lives. Then I remember their families too who also has blessed us with their love & generosities. A friend’s mum who brought food for my wife, friend’s aunt who brought another food, friend who brought yet another food (my wife craving for many food). Stranger who went extra mile to do my last min order…<\/p>\n

If there’re thing I can boast about…..life is more than about me & about us. Life is simply accumulation of God’s grace. He gives every good things. Out of His love….life is about all & all about Him.<\/p>\n

… who\u00a0led you<\/strong> through the great and terrifying wilderness,\u00a0with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water,\u00a0who brought you<\/strong> water out of the flinty rock, \u00a0who fed you<\/strong> in the wilderness with\u00a0manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you,\u00a0to do you good<\/strong> in the end. (Deu 8: 15-16)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, (Deu 8:14) Tomorrow is a little history in my life. For i … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deuteronomy","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1919,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/on-a-low-note\/","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":0},"title":"On a low note","author":"clay","date":"December 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Life isn't always a mountain top experience. Just like piano has low notes, so sometimes God used the low points of life to sober us down. An empty inbox, no new clicks, no change of status, no good news from afar, no happenings. Questions if not criticism, grumbling if not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Prayer"","block_context":{"text":"Prayer","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/category\/expression\/prayer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":170,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/righteousness-of-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":1},"title":"Righteousness of God","author":"clay","date":"April 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In my journey of knowing God, I was led to meditate on book Deuteronomy. One book which Jesus quoted few times, and one believed it's the book Jesus loved most...:) I've benefited a lot through reading and meditating of it. For some reasons, this year it seems like a new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Deuteronomy"","block_context":{"text":"Deuteronomy","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/category\/bible\/deuteronomy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":793,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/half-the-journey-crossed-not-forgotten\/","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":2},"title":"Half the journey crossed & Not forgotten","author":"clay","date":"June 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Just renewed my mom-in-law visa. Thank God so much... This morning brought her to the immigration. Listening to my wife's words to go there early. The journey took less than 1 hour, and our little girl went with us. There were already long queue. And she started to eat the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Encouraged"","block_context":{"text":"Encouraged","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/category\/emotion\/encouraged\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1059,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/new-york-city-toronto-journey\/","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":3},"title":"New York City – Toronto Journey","author":"clay","date":"August 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"It's another early morning 5 am we woke up, after a long nite of walking in Manhattan, NYC, Times Square & Broadway area to be more exact. After the beautiful show of Beauty & The Beast...\"who will ever love\u00a0a beast?\" So began the journey back to Toronto, to catch 5.45\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Brotherhood"","block_context":{"text":"Brotherhood","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/category\/lifes-stages\/brotherhood\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":549,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/for-better-for-worse\/","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":4},"title":"For Better For Worse","author":"clay","date":"June 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday would definitely a day we'd remember. As our usual routine, going for swimming nearby complex. Then the first big thing, penpen stuck in middle of the pool. I came to save her...but it's not successful. So then, 2 adults struggling in middle of the pool. I've tried my best\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In Relationship"","block_context":{"text":"In Relationship","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/category\/lifes-stages\/in-relationship\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1460,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/jesus-moment\/","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":5},"title":"Jesus’ moment","author":"clay","date":"May 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night we had a conference. 4 of us discussed a lot of things. We haven't arrived at final conclusion besides going through what needs to be done and covered. It was a mixed feelings. On one hand, I'm happy that my mum in law won't need to go for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Faith"","block_context":{"text":"Faith","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/category\/virtues\/faith\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}