I copy this phrase from Economics, but I experience it from the real life when I suffer from chronic liver disease, and decide to have an early retirement. I suddenly find that some of my friends have stayed away from me. Will it because I am now become an unemployed person? My age tells people that I am too young to be retired. Are they afraid that I'm too poor to be their friend? I wonder if we're no longer have any value in others' eye, do we still worth to be somebody's friend? As a Hong Kong's Chinese, we see things from a practical perspective. Anything that has no value, besides we can dump it into the trash bin, it seems that there is no place for this kind of trash, no matter these things has life, or has no life. How poor we are?
I remember when I still struggle whether I should resign in August 2007, one of my friend advise me that I should take a good rest. But once I submit my resignation, he asks me what will be my next plan. It sounds like I must get something to do, or otherwise, I will have no value. Hey, he is the one to ask me to take a good rest. Then, I tell him that I've got no plan at all. The only plan is to get enough rest. My foregone pastor also asked me to join another christian publishing house where the Executive Director was his former pastor and he was looking for a Chief Editor. As usual, my personality didn't like to reject other people, but I really didn't feel like to accept the invitation. I eventually tell him that I want to take a good rest before I'll have any future planning.
From the Bible, we learn that we all have value. Jesus comes to earth because we all are treasure in His eyes, so that He dies for us to rescue us from sin. When we are weary, He sends His angel to comfort us. I was once suffered from depression. I see myself has no value, I only see the dark side of my life. I can't stop weeping whenever I encounter anything which I think that is negative. How poor am I? I pray to my Lord. He then sends His angel to me via my good friend to tell me that I'm precious, I have value. I start to walk out from all the darkness. It takes me almost half year to walk out from depression. During the period, I can't watch any movie, program, book, and even music if it will trigger my negative emotion. Now, I'm a free man, although I only earn HK$3,000 after I left my job, I can choose the life-style which is suitable for my health and my value of life.
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakeness or danger or sword? As it is written: 'For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.' No, in all these things we are loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither......, nor anything else in all creation, will be able separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:35-39)
2008年4月8日星期二
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