My new year’s resolution usually look like this: learning a new language, travel to a new place. But this year, the new year resolution – Psalm 131.
Calvin: wow, it really snowed last night! Isn’t it wonderful? Hobbes: Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new! Calvin: A new Year … A fresh, clean start! Hobbes: It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! Calvin: A day full of possibilities! Calvin: It’s a …
On this day, last year, I prepared for a new year’s eve organ recital, and an evening new year’s eve worship service. After work, a friend cooked delicious Chinese dumpling and we had dinner together. After that, last minute luggage packing for I was leaving for Bristol at 3a.m. And the fresh started year 2020 …
Saying good bye in 4 points: 1. The Farewell gift from the mentor and the choir The greatest realization of the year is I want to specialize more in playing and learning organ if compare to my other duties as church musician. It is neither that I feel like I am born to be an …
JK Rowling’s idea about “platform 9 3/4” might have borrowed from Eva Ibbotson’s The Secret of Platform 13. A book that I really enjoying reading it, first in German, then one more time in English. What do I like about the book? I will try my best to tell you without being a spoiler. 1. The unconventional …
Bookworm wrote a winter reading list not long ago, but the winter just started, she already finished reading more than half of the list. It is necessary and very urgent to draw an expansion to the reading list. Therefore, another 8 books had added in. And what are you reading? Winter Reading List (Original) …
Christmas Cracker Welcome to the Christmas lunch in the United Kingdom! It is lovely having you here, please take a seat. As you can see, the Christmas Cracker is on your plate. You may now open it by pulling both ends of cracker with sharp tug. Oh, how I love those festive explosive …
Well, there’s no forecast for any snow And there’s still so much that I’ll never know I should be full of cheer but it’s all so mystifying That Christmas, Christmas caught me crying As happiness hangs on every door And a children’s choir sings, “A King is born!” Tells me I’ve lost my …
Well for me that I have Jesus,O how tightly I hold himthat he might refresh my heart,when I’m sick and sad.Jesus I have, who loves meand gives himself to me,ah, therefore I will not leave Jesus,Even if I feel my heart is breaking. Jesus remains my joy,my heart’s comfort and essence,Jesus fends off …
I stand before Thy manger fair,My Jesus, Life from heaven!I come, and unto Thee I bearWhat Thou to me hast given.Receive it, for ’tis mind and soul,Heart, spirit, strength—receive it all,And deign to let it please Thee. Original Text (German) Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier,o Jesulein, mein Leben,ich stehe, bring und schenke dir,was …