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Monday, June 19, 2006

Is God a Christian ?

Have been in Singapore since last monday.Just managed to get online.

Have to get used to being addressed as 'granduncle' [ kowkung ] by children of my niece and nephew. This is my conversation with my grandnephew - Noah - 6 years old.

Me: I am so happy to see you..you know why?
Noah: Why?
Me: The last time when we met, you are not able to talk yet. Now you can talk and answer me. I am happy that you can understand what I am saying to you.
Noah: I am also happy, kowkung.

I did not ask him why. We spent quite some time together as it's the school holidays and his parents are working.

I took him out to visit other relatives. I was thanking the Lord that we managed to be on track. { You know how Singapore housing all look so similar.} Noah quickly expressed "God is good". of course I echo " all the time'. Then Noah said: "God is good hoh..and He is a Christian." I was stunned for a moment.
Is God a Christian? What does it mean?

Thot:
It is so wonderful to be loved as you love.
But sometimes we can stop loving when our loving is not wonderfully responded.
But loving is not for our own sake. Loving is for the sake of the other. Loving as Jesus loves is to bring healing to the other, whether we are blessed are not.Even if feel wounded in loving, we can come back to the Healer and we can continue to love.
Henri Nouwen: "The feeling of love is beautiful and life-giving, but our loving cannot be based in that feeling"

Does living an invitational life reduces the space inside one's heart? When we choose to love others and they enter into our hearts, does our heart get crowded? Or does it actually enlarge the space within us because it includes the space of the heart of those loved? How can one continue to love as He loves?

Henri Nouwen: " To love is to think, speak and act according to the spiritual knowledge that we are infinitely loved by God and called to make that love visible in this world"