Ever since I started this 365 Days of Love project “to do one act of love each day for 365 days” it has really centered me. What I mean by centered is that each day I come back to appreciate what I have been given. It’s crazy, but each day I somehow manage to find some way to serve another human being. By doing this each day I am able to take the focus off of myself and on to another. Whereas before, much of my day was focused on what I needed to do, what I needed to get done, what did I need to accomplish to meet the goals I had set for myself. As you can see, there was a lot of “me” in my days before.
Yet now, even for just 5 minutes or 1 hour each day I can take time out to help somebody else in need. To do an act of kindness or a simple gesture of love and it has made all the difference in my life. I’m starting to recognize
Many of my readers know that I am an advocate for the promotion and culture of LIFE. I know that it is only by grace that I am alive today after almost having my life taken away from me multiple times. For me, human dignity and life must be protected at every stage and every level. Whether that is protecting the life of an unborn child, or protecting a young girl from being sold into child prostitution, or making sure that every child in this world has food to eat and a loving family to grow up in, life must be protected. In that sense, I don’t see myself as only pro-life which has become a political divider in North America between those who believe abortion is wrong and those who believe that abortion is within the choice of the mother to keep or not keep, rather I see myself as whole life. Whole life meaning, if I advocate that abortion is inherently wrong because it takes away the life of a human being who has no will to choose, then I can not just say it is not right, but I have to be able to
When I was 18 I walked the streets of China and saw something I will never forget. I saw streets filled with disabled children begging for money. Some of them had no legs, others had cleft lips, and many were mentally or physically impaired. That image of children suffering has been stuck in my mind till this day. As a Chinese American who had grown up in middle class suburbia for most of my life, I was totally shocked to see what I saw when I walked the streets of my homeland, China. Yet, this shocking reality of deep poverty is a reality that billions of people must face on a daily basis.
More than one billion people in the world live on less than one dollar a day. In total, 2.7 billion struggle to survive on less than two dollars per day. Every year 11 million children die-most under the age of
A prayer in unison throughout the world on the 4 month anniversary of their imprisonment…
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As many of you know Euna Lee and Laura Ling were sentenced by the North Korean government on June 8, 2009 to 12 years of hard labor. The two journalists were captured and detained in North Korea on March 17, 2009.
The details of their capture and trial can be read in numerous articles and websites. The purpose of this blog is to ask all of you to join together on July 17th at 8:00pm PST to say in unison a meaningful and heartfelt prayer written by Jaeson Ma especially for this event.
We realize that many of you are already praying for these two brave women and are grateful. We believe a worldwide prayer being said at the same time will bring overwhelming strength and courage to Laura Ling, Euna Lee and their families, and clarity to the North Korean and United States governments to resolve this situation quickly to bring the woman home safely.
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