hosanna

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me

Break my heart from what breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdoms cause
As I go from earth to Eternity

Love in the bible

1 Corinthians 13:5
“[Love] keeps no record of wrongs”

I think I’ve always had a trouble with that. I forgive somewhat and I don’t forget at all. I think it’s because part of me doesn’t want to forgive entirely because I want the person who hurt me to be hurt in return. I think also, when someone apologizes to me, I take the apology and forgive them…somewhat. I’ll be friends with them again but I’ll always remember and at certain times, even if its way in the past, I’ll still feel a bit of anger. I keep a record of all the wrong things people do to me and I have a hard time really, truly forgiving.

And now on with Sunday’s sermon.
Love for Enemies (Matthew 5:43-48)

-Christianity is a religion of “do’s”
-3 things that Jesus tells us to do for our enemies to show them love is to 1. do good for/to them 2. bless them 3. pray for them. Yes..show enemies love.
-Motion makes emotion. If you act first, then the feelings that you want to receive will come. Show love and love will be returned to you.
-Love your enemies through action
-Blessing consists of 1. touch (like a hug or pat) 2. words (kind words) 3. a special affirmation
-don’t react in anger
-pray for those who mistreat us
- a woman named Elizabeth Elliot said “treat your enemies like how you would treat Jesus”
-The theme of sermon on the mount is to “be different” and you cannot be more different from the world than if you love your enemies.

peter wrote this for nine months

Things about 9 months:
1. Learning how to drive a train = 9 months
2. Birth = around 9 months
3. 273.931649 days = 9 months
4. 9 months the movie came out in 1995
5. babies usually learn how to stand up at 9 months
6. babies ususally say mama and papa at 9 months
7. walden university special program for disabled people usually lasts 9 months.
8.a person ususally breaths from 27900 to 55800 times in 9 months
9. and last it takes 9 months for peter to say happy 9 months and do something fantastic and not be like… this sucks -_- XD a;lsdf;alskfj;alsdjfa;sldfkja;ldfkjasdfla;dsfkjas;dfkja;sdlfkjasdf lol

=)

Lots of the things that i’m gonna do today is gonna revolve around 9

this is now the 9 reasons I like susan lu=)

1. because whenever she sees me she smiles REALLY BIG
2. because she eats my food even though sometimes i don’t like what i cook, and she is happy with the food she eats and goes this is REALLY GOOD=)
3. because whenever i do anything wrong she’s still able to forgive me and ends up making the day a lot better.
4. because she sings really well even though she sings really soft
5. because she talks a lot  =P and is able to get a conversation stable
6. because she likes to do a lot of things i like to do
7. because she’s really smart O_O (side note it is now 4:44 as i am writing this)
8. because she’s on my side most of the time and backs me up and pushes me forward even when i can’t push myself
9. because she’s not lazy…. most of the time =P

but wait!!!!! doesn’t this seem really lame and stupid, i mean only 9 reasons why i like the love of my life…. nooo this can’t be
that’s why we at corporation peter loves susan we’re adding 8!!!! more REASONS why peter likes susan =) because susan’s favorite number is 8! so on this extraordinary day june 19th 2008 we are offering 17 reasons for the price of 9! at the low cost of going out on a date with peter chien. I think it’s worth it, the whole corporation peter loves susan thinks it’s worth it, and we LIKE IT!

so let’s get on with the show the next 8 reasons

1. she always wants my attention
2. she always gives me attention
3. she has been with me for 9 months even though we had many problems
4. she is really understanding of my faults
5. she makes a mean alfredo chicken dumpling
6. she swims really well
7. she knows how to have a lot of fun
8. she makes my parents happy =)

what did you say? 17 is just not enough for you!? what? you want an aunchor? okay… here we go we’re gonna give you 7!!!! more reasons why peter chien loves susan, butttt these are suppose to be very deep, and if this doesn’t please you…. then i have failed here as the administrator of corporation peter loves susan and i will give up on life. BUT WAIT i’m not done yet, i’m still gonna give you these brilliant reasons for why peter chien loves susan. So hold onto your horses, and hold your checks read this before you ask for your refund because it ain’t over till the fat lady sings…. or in the case, when the skinny lady squeals. (audience laughs)

1. even though i don’t have anything fantastic about me she cares about me and likes me and loves me, even though i’m not super funny she still laughs even though i’m not really good looking she thinks i’m great looking even though i’m not that smart she thinks i’m a genius even though i can’t sing she thinks i’m very harmonic and calming even though the food i make isn’t that great she thinks it’s a chief’s recipe.
2. even though we fought so many times and there are many times she could have left me she’s still here and she’s closer to me then ever instead of moving farther away
3. She can turn any situation into something that makes me happy, she makes everything seem really fantastic, and beautiful
4. she can look at anything and see the good parts and be really positive for me, even though i’m so negative she makes everything + =)
5. she likes all the little things i do i don’t have to do something big for her to see it, she enjoys it all big or small and makes it big inside her heart.
6. she’s got eyes on me, not eyes on 2 places or 3 places but eyes on me, even though she could go after other people instead of me she’s right here with eyes on me, and she wants my eyes on her.
7. i love her cause she loves me =)

hope you enjoyed this sumo, i have another surprise for you when you come to my house. =) haha this was kinda stupid wasn’t it? i tried to make it funny but i failed misersably but yea=) hope you enjoy our 9 months.

and then he gave me another letter and we went to banana bay for dinner
<3333

The Seven Levels of Intimacy-Chapter Five

 this post is taken from Roxanne’s facebook note.

The Seven Levels Of Intimacy- a self-help book
By. Matthew Kelly

CHAPTER FIVE
p. 100-102

While I was writing this book, a young man approached me after one of my seminars to seek my counsel. He was twenty-seven years old; he worked hard,
loved his wife and was faithful to her, and had three wonderful children whom he loved very much. Two weeks earlier, his wife had told him that she wanted a divorce.

When he asked her why, she told him that she didn’t love him anymore. He asked her whether there was someone else, and she said there wasn’t. Then he asked her whether it was something he had done, and she told him that it wasn’t his fault, that he was a good father and a good husband, but that she just didn’t love him anymore. It’s a sad situation, and a common one.

Love is not a feeling. From when we are very young, through powerful mediums such as movies and music, we are conditioned to believe that it is. The result
of this conditioning is that we allow our actions to be dictated by our feelings. Rather than asking ourselves whether a particular person is going to help us become our best self, we simply allow our feelings to take us wherever they will at any particular moment. And I don’t know whether you’ve noticed it, but feelings are one of the most inconsistent aspects of human person. (<- how true is that)

Love is a choice, not a feeling. Feelings comes and go, and if we choose to base our most important relationships on how we feel at any particular moment,
we are in for a rough and rocky journey. Love is verb, not a noun. Love is something we do, not something that happens to us.

Stephen Covey tells a great story. On this particular day he had been presenting a series of talks about pro-activity: the idea that as human beings
we are responsible for our lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.

After his presentation, Covey was approached by a man who said, “Stephen, I like what you’re saying. But every situation is so different. Look at my marriage. I am really worried. My wife and I just don’t have the same feeling for each other we used to have. I guess I just don’t love her anymore and she doesn’t
love me. What can I do?”

“The feeling isn’t there anymore?” Covey asked.
“That’s right” the man reaffirmed. “And we have three children whom we’re really concerned about. What do you suggest?”
“Love her,” Covey replied.
“You don’t understand. The feeling of love just isn’t there.”
“Then love her. If the feeling isn’t there, that’s a good reason to love her.”
“But how do you love when you don’t love?”
“My friend, ‘love’ is a verb. Love –the feeling — is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her.”

fergie :)

must be the weather.
but today was sunny.LOL

That this has nothing to do with you
It’s personal, Myself and I
We’ve got some straightenin’ out to do
Its time to be a big girl now
And big girls don’t cry
Don’t cry
Don’t cry
Don’t cry
…
I need to be with myself and center, clarity
Peace, Serenity

100 years nap

I don’t deal very well with sleeping within the day.
Actually, I hardly nap at all.

Today seemed like the longest, most boring Monday in history!
I’m not sure if it was the weather, the sun, and if the big fire had anything to do with the mood
but everyone seemed tired and sleep deprived.

Woke up this morning to my dad barging into my room yelling “Susan! Wake up!”
Then followed with “OH Shlfskglsahglh it’s 7:20″
I really wish school would start later.
I wish I didn’t have a first period.
My warm bed is so much more tempting than that french classroom.

I napped in T.A.
yes, again.
No, my teacher doesn’t mind..
at least I don’t think so/hope not.

Then afterschool, after finishing homework, I hit the sack at 5 (:
And my oh so wonderful sleep was cut short when my dad yelled at me to come down to dinner.
I’m quite out of it right now.
I keep yawning.
My eyes keep watering
I can’t think right.
My only thought: sleeeppp

This is why I dont’ deal well with naps.
Every time I take a nap and I wake up, there’s this thing that lingers in the air until the next day.
I can’t get rid of it.
It’s almost like a smell but it feels more like a touch and a feeling.

So much to do…yet, every part of my mind and body is calling for bed.
Why am I most tired when I have the most things to do?

I wonder what it would feel like if I could sleep for 3 days straight.
Friday afterschool til Monday morning.
Not bother with eating, homework, anything.
Ohhh mannn.
that sounds so good right now.

rainrain&into my own- robert frost

 rainrain go away come again another day.
what a captivating picture.

Into My Own

One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

I should not be withheld but that some day
into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.

I do not see why I should e’er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him they knew–
Only more sure of all I thought was true.

-Robert Frost