RZ's Daily Spark of Life

"RZ, stop talking to me." o_O

RZ's Daily Spark of Life

"RZ, your idea is terrible! No, i mean it's brilliant. It's brilliant in a terrible way. Okay, it's terribly brilliant." o_O

RZ's Daily Spark of Life

Few people know the secret of success, because it always disguises itself as hard work.

=) =) =)

I waited five and half years for today. Do you have any idea how much i have suffered in the last five and half years? Well, today marks the end of that.

Praise the Lord! 

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I am taking a week off not to think about life. Daily Spark will resume after spring break.

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Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Period.

Many people knows Matthew 6:33, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, all these things will be added to you." Whenever people cite this verse, I would like to know where their heart is.  I am not better than anybody. I have to confess that sometimes my heart is on the second part. The first part is just the mean to get to the second part. What's the way to get these things added to me? Oh,  I need to seek first the kindom of God and His righteousness. This is true, but this is not what God wants.

Our goal should be just seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Period. If the Lord adds these things to me, praise the Lord! If the Lord does NOT add these things to me, praise the Lord too! I am content. It's all good.

Thu@n and Tin@'s wedding

note: I use @ to replace a to prevent internet search.

I just got back from Thu@n and Tin@'s wedding today.  Tin@ is in my small group. I am so happy that they are married. I am REFRESHED. Praise the Lord! 

Thank You Lord for Your love that sought Thu@n and Tin@.

Thank You Lord for Your blood that purchased Thu@n and Tin@.

Thank You Lord for Your grace that led Thu@n and Tin@ to the flock.

Bless them for the church!

It's interesting that during their testimonies, I found out that Thu@n had the exact same view of marriage as me. I am kinda surprised. =) My view on the matter of marriage is: On that day when the Lord comes back, many young people won't be married. Many would never experience marriage. If such be the case, so be it. Cuz we have something much much better. For our human marriage is temporary, but our divine marriage is eternal. 

My only prayer, "Come, Lord Jesus!" =)

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Always move forward in life. If you stop in the middle of the road of life, you will get run over.

so many happy things happened yesterday

It's rare that so many happy things happened yesterday. =) =) =) One of them is that I finally decided to accept an offer at a company at Emeryville for the summer. I will decline all other offers today. Thank you for all the prayers.

Having a good mood makes me want to cook, especially trying new and exotic dishes. I am in the mood for catfish tonight. The brothers in the front house, be ready!

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Know it. Love it. Appreciate it.

Someone earlier asked me why does a stock formula work? I explained to him. I told him that don't just memorize the formular, but "Know it. Love it. Appreciate it!"

Yeah, same apply to life. Know it. Love it. Appreciate it! =)

Death cannot hold the resurrection life

RZ's Daily Spark of Life:

Death cannot hold the resurrection life, the more interred, the more it multiplies!

1 Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

  The life of God eternal manifest;

  ’Tis uncreated, indestructible,

  ’Tis Christ Himself, unconqu’rable, expressed

2 Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

  Though all its force against it may combine;

  Death only gives it opportunity

  To show the boundless pow’r of life divine.

3 Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

  The more interred, the more it multiplies;

  All kinds of suff’ring only help it grow

  And fruits of life abundant realize.

4 Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

  Thru every block and barrier it breaks;

  Conqu’ring the pow’r of darkness and of hell,

  It swallows death and victory partakes.

5 Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

  All of God’s fulness it will manifest;

  God’s righteousness and holiness it yields,

  His glorious image by it is expressed.

6 Oh, may I know this resurrection life,

  In every kind of death its pow’r outpoured,

  In my experience ever realize

  This life is nought but Christ my living Lord.

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You can never understand the faithfulness of God by taking the short-sighted view. =)

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Life is like "Chutes and Ladders", sometimes you go up, sometimes you go down. Don't give up, roll the dice and try again. =)

Tonight after college meeting, a bunch of us watched intensely as a five-year-old playing "Chutes and Ladder" with a sister. We can relate because our lives are not much different from it.

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In theory, the early bird gets the worm. In reality, the second mouse gets the cheese. =)

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When the Lord delays, He delays. When the Lord moves, He moves fast. Quite amazing, actually. =)

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If I understand, I need to follow the Lord. If I don't understand, I still need to follow the Lord. I need to gain the understanding of the things I don't understand as I follow the Lord. =)

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I am satisfied and thankful that the Lord has brought me in, where His pleasures and His riches flow so free. =)

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There are two kinds of happiness: the happiness of ignorance and the happiness of enlightenment. Jubilee is the happiness of enlightenment. =)

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"Puppies!!!"

Government agency drama episode 4 (finale)

APPROVED
DONE
FINISHED

finally....

Government Agency Drama season 1 is over with a happy ending. =)

In about 30 days I will file a different application in the same department. Hopefully there is not enough drama to produce the second season. =)

Praise the Lord!

Government agency drama episode 3

Today I got to talk to the supervisor. He said he would find out what happened. He said that it has to be done by today. (yeah, right...not again)

So uh I just called a hour ago and the case is still pending. I call the receptionist and she said the supervisor is out of work for today! Why is he leaving so early from work? Fortunately I finally got a hold of the case work. She said that she lost the additional paperwork that I sent her last month. WTH? She asked me to fax the paperwork to her again, and she will absolutely make a decision by tomorrow 12pm.

How can they lost my paperwork? Why didn't they let me know earlier that they lost my paperwork?

I am so anxious. ARGH to the utter most. =/

Episode 4 tomorrow. Lord, I really don't want to see episode 5.

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So today i fell asleep in class and the professor handed me a pillow. =)

Government agency drama episode 2

Dude, today they didn't even pick up my calls. Today I have been calling them in a hourly interval using different phones. They didn't pick up! Why???!!!

So I called the receptionist. The receptionist doesn't know anything. All they do is tranferring calls.

Here is an exchange receptionist:

RZ: "Hey, I am calling about...."
Receptionist: "The application is still pending. Do you want me to transfer you to the case worker?"
RZ: "No, no. I already have their extention numbers. I tried to call them several times. They didn't pick up their phones! Are they at work today?"
Receptionist: (pause) "yeah.. Let's try one more time, okay?"
RZ: "Please please don't transfer me, it would just go to their voice mail...."
(transfering....) "Hi! You have reach the voice mail of ...." =(

The state law requires that they make a decision on my application within 45 days. I submitted all the paperwork at the end of Dec. It has been two months!!! Of course i don't want to irritate them or piss them off by citing the law. But it's just very frustrating. How can they act so irresponsbilly and not keeping their words? This exposes how ineffecient and bureaucratic the government is. Sign...

Tomorrow I am gonna do the episode 3. Hopofully it doesn't go beyong episode 3. Hopefully this doesn't drag into the retreat and bothers me for the whole weekend.

Looking forward to a good happy finale tomorrow.

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Today I shall conduct myself in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. =)

Government agency drama episode 1

I have been calling a government agency to process my business's paperwork everyday for the last five days. Everyday i get the same exact response: "it will be done by today." They have been saying "it will be done by today" for the last five days! Do they even understand what "today" means? I am gonna call them first thing in the morning tomorrow and sort it out.

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Some people just have the innate ability to make the awkward situation even more awkward. I am amused.

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United States must guarantee basic health care for all Americans.

Health care is basic human right. We cannot wait. We must not wait. We will not wait!