2007年6月30日星期六

早上又大聲唱歌。其實從ICU內已經是這樣。可能想保持心肺功能(就算插住胃管都唱得很大聲)。哈!唱的品種很多;最近好喜歡唱一個我中四中五年代的歌劇。歌劇名叫Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat。那時我不知道是聖經故事,但愛它裡頭的兩首插曲,到現在仍可一字不漏地唱誦出來。當然很少機會唱給人聽啦。現在想同大家分享這兩首歌的歌詞。

Any Dream Will Do

Artist: Joseph & Children Lyrics
Song: Any Dream Will Do Lyrics
Joseph

I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain
To see for certain what I thought I knew
Far far away, someone was weeping
But the world was sleeping
Any dream will do

Joseph & Children

I wore my coat, with golden lining
Bright colours shining, wonderful and new
And in the east, the dawn was breaking
And the world was waking
Any dream will do

Joseph

A crash of drums, a flash of light
My golden coat flew out of sight
The colours faded into darkness
I was left alone

Joseph & Children

May I return to the beginning
The light is dimming, and the dream is too
The world and I, we are still waiting
Still hesitating
Any dream will do
Joseph

A crash of drums, a flash of light
My golden coat flew out of sight
The colours faded into darkness
I was left alone

Joseph & Children

May I return to the beginning
The light is dimming, and the dream is too
The world and I, we are still waiting
Still hesitating
Any dream will do

Close Every Door
Close every door to me,
Hide all the world from me
Bar all the windows
And shut out the light
Do what you want with me,
Hate me and laugh at me
Darken my daytime
And toture my night
If my life were important I
Would ask will I live or die
But I know the answers lie
Far from this world
Close every door to me,
Keep those I love from me
Children of Israel
Are never alone
For I know I shall find
My own peace of mind
For I have been promised
A land of my own

Children

Close every door to me,
Hide all the world from me
Bar all the windows
And shut out the light
Joseph

Just give me a number
Instead of my name
Forget all about me
And let me decay
I do not matter,
I'm only one person
Destroy me completely
Then throw me away
If my life were important I
Would ask will I live or die
But I know the answers lie
Far from this world

Joseph, Ensemble & Children

Close every door to me,
Keep those I love from me
Children of Israel
Are never alone
For we know we shall find
Our own peace of mind
For we have been promised
A land of our own

細心思想一下,知道點解我好想唱這兩首歌。其實就是因為想給病房外的醫護人員聽,要他們知道我戰友的渴望,他們的心情。

好想再欣賞這歌劇,相信感覺會不同。我知道近年有返做,但男主角已換掉。懷念Jason Donovan那一齣。

2007年6月28日星期四

7月1日的「見證主恩祈禱會」將順延至8月5日

各位親愛的團友 :

鑑於很多團友在7月1日也不在港,又或要返工,又或打算參加遊行,所以原於7月1日的「見證主恩祈禱會」將順延至8月5日,見證主恩當然希望各位團友都能出席。在這段期間,大家可以將過去半年感恩的事筆錄下來,一同數算主恩。

Cindy : 看看你在那天能否返來啦!

Fowing : 或者那天你可以現身分享了。

至於下次週會將在7月15日,應是生命之道最後一講。

主內
Yvonne (Calvin 代行)

2007年6月26日星期二

下午做完肝穿剌(即上年做的肝組織檢查),躺在床上不可動彈8小時,好辛苦。身傍的監察器顯示血壓有點高,心率115,抗排斥藥加到6mg,令人心情不安。本來約了以前在隔離床的黃叔叔傾談(術前術後他都常向我訴苦,有自殺的頃向),但看來我不行了。今日病房外人心惶惶,云明日有肝來到。他黃昏時向我表示正考慮開放自己的心,讓耶穌基督進入。我只好叫他肯定後,照我以前給他的四律小冊,決志祈禱。
不知道他現在怎樣?只好求天父感動他。

等肝的日子,真不好受。人的軟弱顯露無遺。在人感到自己極軟弱時,主你會接近人的心,拯救我們。

術後,好多個深晚都記念我的戰友。術後的我,受到醫護人員的優待,所以我用了不少辦法使等肝的好過一點。求主帶領,幫助。

請大家為這裏失喪的人代禱。

後記:2007/6/26,21:15,Peter叔(黃叔叔)決志信主。

2007年6月24日星期日

剛睡醒,正躺著床上打吊針。今天是出ICU的第七天,仍然十分興奮。我白天做了很多事,有點疲倦,但又開心不得已…

Ivy 和我在過去一年很多個晚上讀詩篇,其中有一篇,不必多講,一定是我們的支持,常常背誦,互相勉勵。就我個人現在的領受,想同大家分享一段寶貴的生/心路歷程。
"
各位,天父祂尋到我,一隻迷路的羊;祂說喜悅我。我又是一隻病了的羊,但可得到祂無時無刻的供應,因我稱祂為我救主,生命的主。

祂有次把我放在祂的懷中受呵護,帶領我到可休息靜待祂的地方(廣州)。

祂使我親近祂,要我靈更生改變;為要榮耀祂,去行一條專為我預備的路。

我雖然要經歷過面對死亡,非常傷心的日子,但也不怕傷害,因為你常與我同在,應許要安慰我。

在病房裡,生死爭鬥(肝源不足),有不少的競爭對手的環境中,你竟使他們成為我的友好,為我手術的成功而高興,一同慶祝。你又要用我這次出死入生,使我喜樂萬分,充滿祝福,讓人看見。

我定要在你多給我的日子裡,擁抱你的恩惠和慈愛。
我且要住在你的殿中,直到永遠!
"

針藥差不多滴完,應要入睡了,但又想起術前同一些弟兄姊妹分享…

我只可誇自己的軟弱,希望要變得剛強。心中想拔掉的這根刺(我的病患),原來可以榮耀祂。
這根剌,不是人人都會經歷,就
算要經歷每人都有不同。
但可分享…使我們的生命更豐盛!

2007年6月22日星期五






這幾天在家中休息,陪陪媽媽,跟『阿老黑』玩耍,享受難得的閒暇。雖然心裡有牽掛,但內心卻有平安,這是過去一年都沒有的。無聊中做起手工藝來,竟也弄得不錯,哈哈。(小熊和天使都是我造的,猴子出自我妹和她男朋友手筆)

2007年6月21日星期四

謝!

親愛的弟兄姊妺:平安!相信大家已經知道很多關於我的消息。謝謝大家的同行。現在是我術後第八天的清晨(6:00)。天氣非常好。有少許清風從窗邊送入病房。要謝恩!自從ICU病房出來後,天色十分美好。以往三個月從末在廣洲見到的藍天白雲,這四天每早都在我眼目出現。我身體康復得神速無比,我的心情更喜樂無窮。我天天都想見到你們每一個,是每一個。不單是為了說感謝,而且想知道你們的近況。有人話,換了肝的人,性格會改變??!!又有人話針藥會另我興奮不得已??是嗎?請大家在我的字裡行間,檢視一下我吧!哈哈!〈我從術後第三天起,不斷地想說話;這幾天就盡管由他吧!〉

其實我很清楚,應該比任何人清楚。( 生命不單是屬於我的了,金錢也不屬於我的了。非常輕散…我要愛惜自己的生命和健康;要愛靈魂的生命;要更愛主你!)

現在才是另一開始。在這我曾留下墓誌銘的階段,我要立下里程碑,寫上"天父,你多給我的日子,我要靠著你不枉過。"

2007年6月19日星期二

Fowing in GuangZhou

今天,扶風一家、Yvonne和我到廣州探望科榮。科榮已由ICU轉入普通隔離病房已數天,他身體康復情況理想,精神狀態不俗,與我們交談良久,但科榮講話比我們多,他說了很多神的同在、弟兄姊妹的禱告、支持,特別關心伯母及IVY的身體狀況。現在,科榮仍會留在廣州接受觀察,幸好科榮姐姐會留在廣州到27日,她和伯母可以一起照料科榮。現附科榮相片兩張 http://calcal.smugmug.com/gallery/3027460

Bible Study Fellowships (生命查經)

Dear brothers/sisters,

With an aim of fostering brothers/sisters' sustained habits of serious Bible study and personal relationship with God, our church is organising "Bible Study Fellowships" (生命查經) for us on the following four set dates : (1) 2nd Sept ; (2) 7th October ; (3) 4th November ; (4) 2nd December. As these four dates are the first Sundays of those respective months, Philippian Fellowship doesn't want to miss these four learning chances by incorporating these as part of our fellowship programme in the second half of this year.

Bible Study Fellowship is an international system (there are many classes following this system all over the world) of structured Bible study. The Bible Study System is highly organised and disciplined and it involves four elements :

(1) notes with questions given beforehand to encourage personal Bible study and participants are required to do homework;
(2) discussion groups (of up to 10 people) for sharing of personal answers to questions and communicating truth. For those who haven't done the homework (not encouraged to do so), they are not allowed to share answers but they can still participate. To encourage attendance, those who are absent for more than twice will be disqualified ;
(3) a lecture by our good class teacher (梁國權先生) covering the scripture with explanations of backgrounds/context being studied and applications for daily living plus responses to questions that may arise; and
(4) finally a set of reference materials reinforcing lesson from the class (plus a new set of notes with questions for the forthcoming class).

I am going to register for the following Philippian individuals (you are welcomed to tell me if you are not on this list but you are eager to participate) :

Alan
Angel
Annie
Antony
Billy
Calvin
Carmen
David
Doris
Elaine
Fowing
Iris
Ivy
Nicole
Rebecca
Ryan
Stephanie
Stephen
Winnie
Yannie
Yvonne

Mentor:
Denise
Kam Wah
Philip
Sue Keung
Susanne


Should anyone listed here anticipate unavailability of participation, please don't hesitate to inform me. Besides, Ryan and I are temporarily confirmed as team leaders of the two groups for the purpose of coordinating discussion. If anyone wants to be the team leader, please tell me and I will be more than happy to arrange it. Furthermore, the worship immediately before the four classes call for brother/sisters to do hymns sharing. As such, please tell me if you are moved to share hymns and indicate which session you would like to do so. Thanks a lot !

May we gain more and grow together spiritually !
Bible Study Fellowship message (生命查經) on our Philippian blog : http://hkphi.blogspot.com/

In Christ,

Antony Chiu

2007年6月15日星期五

Ivy will be transferred to another ward within Caritas Medical Centre

Dear all,

Alan has just told me that it had been confirmed to transfer Ivy to gynecology within Caritas Medical Centre at "懷信樓 10樓 A座" later today pending for some other specialised examinations. No need to transfer her to another hospital. Dunno the bed no. and Alan says it is OK to ask nurse there for the bed no. by giving the full name of Ivy (張慧卿). We can visit her during 5-8pm.

Address of Caritas Medical Centre (明愛醫院) is ”九龍深水埗永康街111號 “. Hospital Tel : 3408 7911

In Christ,

Antony Chiu

2007年6月14日星期四

Ivy is in Caritas Medical Centre (明愛醫院)

Dear all,

Alan says it has not been confirmed that Ivy contracts the illness of 盲腸炎 and doctors are still investigating the cause. Despite this, all the relevant check and scans have been booked at the earliest possible time. We can visit her during 5-8pm.

She is staying at "懷信樓2樓 B座 210號床".

Address of Caritas Medical Centre (明愛醫院) is ”九龍深水埗永康街111號 “. Hospital Tel : 3408 7911

In Christ,

Antony Chiu

'等'夠了,時間到了?

過兩小時就要動手術,望出窗外,仔細察看,一切都多美好。等了很久的心靈解脫,到了。這解脫是怎樣的,我不太清楚,但現在要感恩。'等'可以是恩典的。我十分肯定主會陪著我,大家也會守望著我。謝!

2007年6月13日星期三

Possible Liver Transplant Tonight

Dear B/S,

Ivy just called me saying Fowing's mother had just been called to go to the hospital which Fowing is staying immediately. It seems that there is a suitable liver for Fowing (but still not very sure if that is really for Fowing). Ivy is going to Guangzhou immediately in preparation for such possible transplant operation which may be carried out tonight or tomorrow.

Please pray for the safety of Ivy, relevant preparations and the possible operation. May our Lord give peace to Fowing, Fowing's mother and Ivy. Thanks.

In Christ,

Antony Chiu

2007年6月10日星期日

An afterthought from movie --- 舉自塵土 (Raised from Dust)

On June 3rd I went to see this movie with a few friends from church. The story from this movie, despite being very simple without many up and downs like many of the ones that came out from hollywood, is one of the most thought provoking movie I have ever watched. To be honest, I can't stop thinking about this movie the whole day.

This movie took place in the rural area of Henan province in China and narrates about the life of a Christian woman, Xiaoli and her relationship with her rural church. Despite living in poverty, she still participates in the marching band of her church, has to look after her husband who suffered from a serious lung disease plus her daughter who has to go to school. However, living in extreme poverty prove to be difficult as she can hardly finance both her husband's treatment as well as to pay for her daughter's tuition fee in school. The movie shows her tremendous faith in God during all these difficult life trials, even though at the end of the story, the situation remains helpless. Due to insufficient finance to meet her needs, she ended up giving up her husband's treatment and her husband died on her way back home from the hospital, and her daughter has to quit school due to the inability to pay her tuition fees. At the very end, it shows much sarcarsm as it portraits Xiaoli and her daughter siting at their dining table (as plotted many times throughout the movie), and singing the famous prayer of thanksgiving...

"Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, for the food, for the food... thank you for the blessing, thank you for the blessing, A-men, A-men."

(The music goes like this, 1 2 3 1 / 1 2 3 1 / 3 4 5 - / 3 4 5 - / 5654 3 1 / 5654 3 1 / 1 5 1 - / 1 5 1 - // )

This movie indeed portrait many of the life difficulties in rural China. The comparison of Xiaoli's life difficulties through financing the expense of both her husband's treatment as well as her daughter's tuition fee with that of the thanksgiving prayer song (in English!!!) is thought provoking. The movie director (Gan Xiao-er) could have round the ending up with a happy ending (for example, with God answering all their prayer and Xiaoli's husband recovered from her illness and someone sponsored Xiaoli's daughter's tuition fees, all because of the grace of God...), but instead he did not. The ending was just as helpless as the beginning...

One of the many "provoking thoughts" that this movie shows is how we view God's grace and God's leaderships towards our lives. Is God's grace always about giving us a happy ending? What is our faith in God bases upon? Is it only bases upon the fact that God will always give us a happy ending and meeting our end needs? This movie in fact, shows that it is not. In God's perspective, everything is being "raised from dust." It is only upon God's grace that we got to live our daily lives. As a result, every day we live is a grace from God.

Being able to live in Hong Kong, we really should be thanksful to God where despite how poor we can be, we can always meet our end needs. Comparing to facing extreme difficulties to meeting with end needs in rural China, the many problems in Hong Kong just didn't stand in comparison. It is sad to see how many of us from Hong Kong frequently complains about the lack of quality in life, standing too much during church service, food being too cold, too tiring to get up, classes being too boring, piano tutorial being too difficult to learn...

There are many things that we can learn from Xiaoli in this movie. To be honest, how is our faith towards God? Can our faith be like Xiaoli, whom despite facing extreme toughless in life, shows no words of complains, but only her pure trust that God will lead her life through? If someone from rural China can? Why can't we? (We should also add a heart of thanksgiving!)

廣州的一天


在科榮的幫助下,終於成功登記成為腓立比Blog的Publisher。最近發覺自己變蠢了,又容易受驚,單單今天就受了兩次驚。分別是因汽車響號及有婦人在我身後大聲說話,我就被嚇得整個人跳起來,連科榮也說我的舉動也把他嚇著了,開始懷疑自己是不是有病=.=

今天在廣州的教會附近發現了一家餐廳,有港式奶茶賣,味道ok,將來科榮做手術時,我在廣州的兩星期就有奶茶飲了^0^

很久沒返禮賢會了,很想可以跟科榮一起上禮賢會做崇拜,返團契......

這陣子,科榮喜歡做一些手工藝品,當中有一隻用輕黏土造的「搞搞震羊」,很可愛的(話說回來,我又忘記帶走=.=),他很想大家欣賞一下(和想大家讚他:P)






My New Travel Blog

Dear friends,

I would like to invite you to view my new blog:

http://lonelytraveller01.blogspot.com

This blog will solely consist of my travelogues, and all my other writings will be back in my xanga page:

http://www.xanga.com/lonely_traveller01

My intention of separating my travelogues from my xanga page is to create my own travel blog, and hopefully travel enthusiasts will find it a pleasure to read. Currently I am writing my travelogues of my Baltic trip back in July 2006.

Please feel free to have a read as I will update this blog periodically and as much as possible.

Also, I have a new email address: lonelytraveller01@gmail.com

Enjoy!

Regards,
Stephen.

2007年度腓立比團週會內容及負責人名單



Click to enlarge. Please help to fill in the blanks, especially pianist. (email me at calvincwc@gmail.com. URGENT!)

2007年6月8日星期五

等了又等

又一個星期了。因醫生說不久就會為我動手術,所以我戒掉最喜愛吃的餃子,每日都吃得清淡。



不斷的再有希望又再落空,真令人洩氣。其實我只怕令人失望而已。常祈求神,請按你的時間為我安排這手術,預備適合的肝臟。因為我相信神知道怎樣為之最好。我會問,還要到什麼時候呢?我都很著急。衪曾對我說,心存感恩的心,開開心心的過每一日,繼續榮耀祂;那就是祂最喜悅的。神的作為實在很奇妙,現在可能未到時候,讓人去理解。是什麼原因,什麼結果,不是我們能想像。我心底深處確實有難以說出的感受。我好像仍能堅強績極地面對種種(這是思典,是你們祈禱的力量),同時間又有傷感,也感到軟弱。弟兄姊妹,謝謝你們與我一同去經歷,陪我行一段又一段的崎路。求主以時間作為恩典的加給自己,在生死之間看見自己、自己神,也看見你們與我身邊的人。

我會努力!求主幫助!

科榮

2007年6月6日星期三

走進曠野

每逢星期二,也會在九龍一帶穿梭。昨日,早有預謀地到訪錦華的書店。走進曠野,第一印象是很涼爽,與先前行走在烈日底下不無關係,若在冬天來的感覺就會不一樣;第二印象是環境很優雅舒適,裝修簡約帶點文藝氣息,尤其喜歡客桌椅旁有一排窗戶和小盆栽,地方小小但沒有油尖旺區二樓書店的那種侷促感,是閱讀的好地方,客人不多時更是三五知己相聚閒談的不錯之選,不過當然希望有多些客人啦;第三印象是,藏書量雖然較我預期中少,但仍有不少作品引起我的購買欲,在這裡慢慢逛會發現很多平日在大型書局不被察覺的好書,我也買了好幾本。

不得不提的是,在曠野偶爾會發現新驚喜,或許一般人會認為沒甚麼特別的,只是我偏愛看細微細眼的東西吧。其一是付款處那掛場的大招牌和桌子上的小招牌也是人手製的,是錦華一位朋友的誠意之作,十分精緻!另一驚喜是發現了兩部扭蛋機,扭蛋中當然不是我們平日所見的小玩意那麼簡單,至於是甚麼就先賣個關子,下次到訪記得要扭扭看。不過我又想,不是人人也像我般有興趣的...算了吧!

在此謝謝錦華送上無限期的會員咭,團友們快快入會啦!

2007年6月5日星期二

詩歌

Suddenly I want to get some 詩歌 play in my second home (I mean my Stream). I found out this website: http://www.cmidi.net/frontpage.html , you can listen to most of songs there. I think Stephen can play most of the songs. Take a look there!

My colleague got a new baby boy

As I mentioned in previous blog, my colleague is taking 3week leave for his new baby. Today, he got a new baby boy, 6.5lbs. Congras! My worklord seems ok these two days. But, the climate makes me sick. Even I turn the air-con to the highest power at home, I am still sweating. Poor me!

2007年6月2日星期六

各位親愛的弟兄姊妹 :

今早收到科榮的來電,醫生跟他表示下週會有肝源供應,而他能接受手術的機會很大。希望各位團友繼續為他祈禱,求主為他安排合宜的時間進行手術、預備合適的肝臟,亦期盼他有一顆平安的心去面對一條他不知道應怎樣走的路。正如他所言,在走進手術室的時候,可能只剩下他獨自與上帝對話。然而,在手術室外的我們,其實可以同心為他守望,因為我們與他是同行的。科榮說當他知道做手術的時間會立刻通知大家的。此外,Ivy最近身體較虛弱,近日病倒了,這兩天她還會留在廣州陪伴科榮,也請弟兄姊妹為她有力照顧科榮祈禱。


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Yvonne