The three toughest challenge in my life is number one, being a good Christian, number two, being married and number three, having kids and teaching them. While these three things are the toughest things they are also the most rewarding and satisfying to do when done well. If one is a good Christian, one is a good husband, if one is a good husband, one's a good dad & quite a teacher to children. I wish I do these things well but I'm trying and I have Christ as my strength. And that's sufficient. If I don't, I think I don't even stand a chance.

Today had been a real excellent day. There's so much that I can do without Christ but only so little things worth doing. It's an excellent day because all that happened was in the power and glory of the unseen. More of God and less of ourselves is more and more the only way to live. It's no longer an option, its a necessity, its the only way of life I know that is worth waking up for. After an excellent day, with the kids retiring early, Mag and myself talked and snacked on sunflower seeds, almond chocolates, papayas and milk while watching channel news asia (a documentary on Hanzhou). It could have been fried chicken, chocolates and tiger beer over some meaningless chinese series. I just got well and some could have been really bad decisions. It was a perfect way to end a real excellent day. Tomorrow we are taking leave to host some relatives who just came from Canada. It will be another good day depending on how much of ourselves and of God is involved.