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行在主路上 楊景釗弟兄感恩見証分享(二)

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「我們一生的年日是七十歲,若是強壯可到八十,但其中所矜誇的,不過是勞苦愁煩,轉眼成空,我們便如飛而去。」(詩篇九十:十)	
	有了創造主,關於人生的問題不再向『人』尋問,而是改向『上帝』!首先,人在上帝眼中處於什麼位置呢?根據《聖經—創世記》,上帝用了五天時間以言語創造了萬物,包括一切的活物。然後,上帝用了一天,按祂自己的形象,以地上的泥土用祂的手,造了人的模式,並在他的鼻孔吹入一口氣,有靈的活人便是如此造出來。這個人具備了上帝賜與的智慧與能力,所以人能管理整個世界。
	世界樣龐大,自然需要大量不同的人,才能完成整個管理工作。事實上,所有人都是平等。
	那麼人為什麼活著呢?可以分為兩大類理由:	
	●人當盡人在世上的責任,每一個人生存在世上一定負有不同的工作;此外,在人生的歷程中亦不斷承擔不同的身份。 	
	● 作為神的兒女,在神的國度裡亦當盡人子的責任。那麼人如何方能達到上帝的要求呢?每一個人的能力與意願上帝都好清楚,所以祂的要求很簡單:就是敬畏神,謹守祂的誡命,這是人所當盡的本分。


盡本分 	
	「生老病死」是人的必然,無可逃避。研究『死』的人不少,追尋死後何處去的人更多。雖然我曾經看過這一類專書,或者他們的見解太深奧,超越了我有限的思維。
	上文曾提到我有閱讀有關人體結構的參考書,記得其中有一篇是談到血液裡的血小板,我節錄了一些資料:當一個人受傷開始流血時,血小板會聚集起來「塞住」破洞,然後「自體瓦解」釋出化學物質啟動凝血作用。很明顯血小板一定有個訊息接收器,所以當人體某地方破損時,而人體總中樞發出指令之後,血小板便去「塞住」那破洞。與此同時又會釋出化學物質去凝固血液,所以血不會不停地再流。另一問題,就是血小板的壽命平均是五至十一天,隨時由骨髓補充。
	當日,看完了該書《人,美妙的傑作》關於血小板的介紹,我不得不停下來想一個問題:「當我受傷時,我有向血小板下達任何指令嗎?」當然很清楚我沒有這樣做,因為還只是那一刻我才認識血小板多一點點而已。	
魂 	
	究竟除了我之外,誰下指令呢?而我更加相信我那異常複雜的身體,可能每天都有些變化,而管控血小板那個總中樞,一定同樣地肩負著發出指令的任務,讓身體作出正常運作。我發現了原來除我以外,還有另外一個我,而這個『另外的一個我』比諸『我』更加瞭解『我』。 	
	在神學書裡面,神學家指人是有「靈魂」的,其中「靈」是與造物主連系,而「魂」是管控人體的運作。靈魂之說,我自認識血小板之後便深信不移。原來,人的肉體必然會毀滅,但靈魂不屬肉體,所以依然存在。 	
天國居所 	
	人死後何去呢?耶穌在經上說:「在我父的家裡,有許多住處。若是沒有,我就早已告訴你們了。我去原是為你們預備地方去。」(約翰福音十四:二)	
有歷練人生的人,相信對下列描繪會有強烈感受:	
	●人生有如白駒過隙,轉迅即逝。 	
	● 經上說:「我們一生的年日是七十歲,若是強壯可到八十,但其中所矜誇的,不過是勞苦愁煩,轉眼成空,我們便如飛而去。」(詩篇九十:十)環顧世界各地,不是戰爭,便是隨時一觸即發的戰爭,又或是政治的鬥爭,凡此種種,用『勞苦愁煩』來形容,可謂非常貼切,而人的生命轉瞬即逝,亦確實如此!如此日子確是帶來異常灰暗的人生。
	不過,相信你曾經到過各地旅遊,無論你所去何處,住什麼酒店,你祗是一個旅居他地的旅客,最後還是要回到你的老家。原來,我們今天所在的世界,只是旅居之地。聖經常常提醒我們,我們不過是一個『過客』。你的老家就是上文耶穌為你預備的地方。
	『信』,是人渴望擁有,但不容易得到的東西,聖經對『信』是這樣說:信就是「對所盼望的事的把握,是還沒有看見的事的明證。」(希伯來書十一:一)	
 	朋友:當你相信上帝是創造人和萬物的創造主時,那麼你便應相信上帝所給予我們的一切。 	(全文完)
神與我同在	
     陳翠華姊妹感恩見証分享	
你要以你的訓言引導我,以後必接我到榮耀裡。除你以外,在天上我有誰呢?除你以外,在地上我也沒有所愛慕的。我的肉體和我的心腸衰殘,但神是我心裡的力量,又是我的福分,直到永遠。(詩篇七十三:二十四至二十六)	
	
	二○二○年十月十八日星期日,吃過午飯後,我的先生如常一樣出去散步,然後午睡,起床後吃了酸牛奶,一切很正常。下午三點半左右,先生突然覺得有點冷,於是就穿上毛衣,但還是覺得很冷,就再穿上一件薄羽絨服。	
	過了一會兒,他開始全身發抖。我深知大事不妙,一定是發高熱了。果然一探熱是華氏三十七度六,於是馬上吃「TYLENOL」退燒藥,並上床休息。但蓋了被子還一直發抖。到了晚上七點多,再探熱是華氏三十八度六,怎麼辦好呢?星期天家庭醫生不開診,去醫院覺得不安全(因為前段時間公寓裡有老人去醫院後,反而感染了新冠病毒而去世)。怎麼辦呢?	
	記起聖經中上帝的話語:「你不要害怕,因為我與你同在;不要驚惶,因為我是你的上帝。我必堅固你,我必幫助你;我必用我公義的右手扶持你。」(以賽亞書四十一:十)神的話給了我力量,改變了我過去對疫病害怕、惶恐的心理,就馬上打電話通知孫女,她和男朋友立刻去藥房買了一種效力較強些的退燒藥送來。先生吃了一次強力退燒藥後,在午夜時,高熱開始退了一些,再吃了一次「TYLENOL」退燒藥後,天亮時就退熱了。	
	第二天起床後,發現先生的尿液顏色很深而量又少,我猜想可能是他的泌尿系統有問題。早上九點後,便打電話到家庭醫生診所,醫生聽到先生發過高熱,不論退熱已否,一定要去做病毒檢測。
	於是女兒和孫女很快就找到了一個檢測點,我們便飛車前去。來到檢測點,只見到工作人員,沒有見到一個要檢測的人,我們覺得很安全,害怕感染到病毒的恐懼,頓時消失了,很快就做完了檢測。回到家後,我便立刻聯繫了先生的泌尿科醫生,並約好了星期二上午九點見醫生,一切都很順利。	
	在星期一那一天,雖然沒有見到醫生,由於大量喝水,尿液增多了,顏色也淡了很多。星期二早上,得知病毒檢測的結果是陰性。見過泌尿科醫生,吃了消炎藥,情況好了很多。
	我很高興在這裡分享,因為我真是感受到神的恩典!先生從發高熱到退熱,尿液從少到增多,從尿液從濁到清,檢測到診病,一切都很順利。這就是神的恩賜!一切榮耀歸於神!

	        二○二二年七月九日	
	
	

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  • Comment Link RobertTok Sunday, 30 March 2025 02:21 posted by RobertTok

    Look of the Week: Naomi Watts is twinning with her canine co-star
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    What’s white and black and red all over? Naomi Watts and her 145lb co-star, Bing, a Great Dane, taking a dog walk on the crimson carpet for the New York premiere of “The Friend.”

    Directed by Scott Mcgehee and adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel of the same name, the film — set to release in US theaters on March 28 and in the UK on April 25 — follows a solitary writer and teacher named Iris whose life is upended after a close friend bequeaths his giant pet dog to her following his death.

    In front of the cameras Monday evening, the “Mulholland Drive” actor and Bing looked like they were cut from the same cloth — both in temperament and in their matching black polka dots. Watts was dressed in a white gown with fur-tufted spots that bore a striking resemblance to Bing’s own coat, but the Cruella de Vil comparisons ended there. Instead, Watts and Bing were captured in the throes of lots of paw-shakes, puppy kisses and head scratches.
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    The look was styled by Jeanann Williams, who has also been working with “The White Lotus” star Leslie Bibb. Williams’ decision to coordinate Watts with Bing was a new take on method dressing — the thematic styling trend that has dominated celebrity red carpets since Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” in 2023. Since then, the sartorial trope, which connects actors to their on-screen characters through clothes, has become somewhat tired — with some observers claiming that the 7-month-long “Wicked” press tour, in which Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande became prisoners to the colors green and pink, was peak saturation.

  • Comment Link WilliamDip Sunday, 30 March 2025 01:37 posted by WilliamDip

    New design revealed for Airbus hydrogen plane
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    In travel news this week: Bhutan’s spectacular new airport, the world’s first 3D-printed train station has been built in Japan, plus new designs for Airbus’ zero-emission aircraft and France’s next-generation high-speed trains.

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    European aerospace giant Airbus has revealed a new design for its upcoming fully electric, hydrogen-powered ZEROe aircraft. powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

    The single-aisle plane now has four engines, rather than six, each powered by their own fuel cell stack.

    The reworked design comes after the news that the ZEROe will be in our skies later than Airbus hoped.

    The plan was to launch a zero-emission aircraft by 2035, but now the next-generation single-aisle aircraft is slated to enter service in the second half of the 2030s.

    Over in Asia, the Himalayan country of Bhutan is building a gloriously Zen-like new airport befitting a nation with its very own happiness index.

    Gelephu International is designed to serve a brand new “mindfulness city,” planned for southern Bhutan, near its border with India.

    In rail travel, Japan has just built the world’s first 3D-printed train station, which took just two and a half hours to construct, according to The Japan Times. That’s even shorter than the whizzy six hours it was projected to take.

    France’s high-speed TGV rail service has revealed its next generation of trains, which will be capable of reaching speeds of up to 320 kilometers an hour (nearly 200 mph).

    The stylish interiors have been causing a stir online, as has the double-decker dining car.

    Finally, work is underway in London on turning a mile-long series of secret World War II tunnels under a tube station into a major new tourist attraction. CNN took a look inside.

  • Comment Link Jameserype Sunday, 30 March 2025 01:36 posted by Jameserype

    Wellness perfectionism doesn’t exist. Focus on these sustainable habits
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    ou’re scrolling through your phone when you stumble upon the next viral trend: an influencer claiming that following their incredibly strict diet will help you achieve their jaw-dropping physique. Or you see a fresh-faced runner swearing you can run a marathon without any training — just like they did.

    Whether or not you’re actively searching for wellness advice, it’s nearly impossible to avoid hearing about the latest health craze making bold guarantees of transformation.

    As you wonder if these claims hold any truth, you might also question why people often feel motivated to dive into intense challenges — when seemingly simple habits, such as getting enough sleep or eating more vegetables, often feel much harder to tackle.

    Many of us are drawn to these extreme challenges because we’re craving radical change, hoping it will help prove something to ourselves or to others, experts say.

    “We always see these kinds of challenges as opportunities for growth, particularly if we’re in a phase of our life where we’ve let ourselves go,” said Dr. Thomas Curran, associate professor of psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an expert on perfectionism. “Maybe we feel that we need to be healthier, or we just had a breakup or (major) life event.”
    With social media amplifying these movements, it’s easy to see why people are increasingly drawn to the idea of achieving the “perfect” version of themselves. But before jumping into a new wellness challenge, it’s important to take a moment, reflect on your goals, and consider where you’re starting from.

  • Comment Link Lloydlic Sunday, 30 March 2025 01:27 posted by Lloydlic

    Tesla is bringing its electric cars to oil-rich Saudi Arabia amid falling global sales
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    Tesla will start selling its electric vehicles in Saudi Arabia, entering the Gulf region’s largest economy as the company’s global sales are sliding and CEO Elon Musk courts controversy with his role in the US government.

    The carmaker announced Wednesday that it would host a launch event in the kingdom on April 10, where it will showcase its EVs. Attendees will also have the chance to “experience the future of autonomous driving with Cybercab and meet Optimus, our humanoid robot, as we showcase what’s next in AI and robotics,” Tesla (TSLA) said.

    Tesla may struggle to gain market share in oil-rich Saudi Arabia as EVs make up a little over 1% of all car sales in the country, according to a report by consultancy PwC published in September.
    Tesla’s entry into the new market comes as the company fights battles on several fronts.

    Last year, it recorded the first annual decline in sales in its history as a public company, posting a drop of 1%.

    The company is facing intensifying competition in China, the world’s largest auto market. On Tuesday, BYD, a Chinese maker of electric and hybrid cars, reported $107 billion in annual sales for 2024, beating the near-$98 billion notched by Tesla.

    And last week, BYD unveiled an ultra-fast charging system, which it said was capable of adding 250 miles (402 km) of range in just five minutes, easily outdoing Tesla’s charging technology. Tesla’s Superchargers take 15 minutes to charge an EV, providing a range of 200 miles.

    Tesla has also suffered slumping sales in Europe. In February, the carmaker sold around 40% fewer vehicles on the continent compared with the same month in 2024, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association.

  • Comment Link Davidbug Sunday, 30 March 2025 01:19 posted by Davidbug

    While the Cumberland sample may contain longer chains of fatty acids, SAM is not designed to detect them. But SAM’s ability to spot these larger molecules suggests it could detect similar chemical signatures of past life on Mars if they’re present, Williams said.
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    “Curiosity is not a life detection mission,” Freissinet said. “Curiosity is a habitability detection mission to know if all the conditions were right … for life to evolve. Having these results, it’s really at the edge of the capabilities of Curiosity, and it’s even maybe better than what we had expected from this mission.”

    Before sending missions to Mars, scientists didn’t think organic molecules would be found on the red planet because of the intensity of radiation Mars has long endured, Glavin said.
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    “That’s the most precious sample we have on board … waiting for us to run the perfect experiment on it,” she said. “It holds secrets, and we need to decipher the secrets.”

    Briony Horgan, coinvestigator on the Perseverance rover mission and professor of planetary science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, called the detection “a big win for the whole team.” Horgan was not involved the study.
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    Dr. Ben K.D. Pearce, assistant professor in Purdue’s department of Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences and leader of the Laboratory for Origins and Astrobiology Research, called the findings “arguably the most exciting organic detection to date on Mars.” Pearce did not participate in the research.

  • Comment Link JasonBug Sunday, 30 March 2025 01:19 posted by JasonBug

    Arctic auroras
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    For getting around during winter, the Inuit here nowadays prefer snowmobiles, although they still keep their sled dogs. During winter they’ll offer intrepid visitors, wrapped up warm against the deep-freeze temperatures, dog-sledding jaunts. These can last either an hour or be part of expeditions over several days, sometimes with the added experience of learning how to build an igloo. Sisimiut on the west coast and Tasilaq in the southeast are active winter centers for dog sledding.

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    Staying outdoors, Greenland is developing a reputation among adventure enthusiasts: from long-distance skiing expeditions and heliskiing on the icecap to hiking the 100-mile-long Arctic Circle Trail from Kangerslussuaq, where firearms need to be carried for warning shots in case of polar bear encounters.

    Life is definitely changing here. The climate crisis is eating away at its icecap and Greenland may well end up as a pawn in a game of geopolitical chess. But for now, the bright glare of international attention should shine a favorable light on one of the wildest travel destinations on Earth.

    Travel writer Mark Stratton is an Arctic specialist who has traveled to Greenland six times and counting. He’s marveled at the aurora borealis, sailed to Disko Island, dog-sledded with the Inuit, and once got stuck in an icefloe.

  • Comment Link ByronRoowl Sunday, 30 March 2025 01:15 posted by ByronRoowl

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    “It was a bad deal,” Ali said in the BBC interview, but he has rejected the idea of unilaterally changing the agreement, which was signed by the previous government. He says the next contract with Exxon will be on different terms.

    An Exxon spokesperson said the contract is “globally competitive for countries at a similar stage of exploration” and said Guyana is averaging $1 billion a year in “oil profits.”

    Exxon has also faced a number of lawsuits over its potential environmental impact, many filed by Melinda Janki, a Guyanese international lawyer, who drafted the country’s Environmental Protection Act back in the 1990s.

    A big victory for Guyana’s people and environment came in 2023, when the court ruled Exxon should have unlimited liability for the costs of any oil spill. Exxon has since appealed the ruling and has posted a $2 billion guarantee while it awaits the appeal outcome.
    Exxon said this commitment supplements “its robust balance sheets … and the insurance policies they already had in place.” Janki says this isn’t enough. Offshore oil spills can be extremely expensive to deal with, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill cost nearly $70 billion to clean up.

    The push and pull between those who say oil offers Guyana a brighter future and those who fear the industry’s impact will continue.

    Exxon said it’s had a positive impact on the country, including employing more than 6,200 people, investing more than $2 billion with local Guyanese businesses since 2015 and spending more than $43 million on community projects.

  • Comment Link Jessebearp Sunday, 30 March 2025 00:39 posted by Jessebearp

    Josh Giddey hits halfcourt buzzer-beater over LeBron James to cap wild finale as the Bulls stun the Lakers
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    Josh Giddey hit a game-winning, halfcourt buzzer-beater over LeBron James as the Chicago Bulls stunned the Los Angeles Lakers in one of the wildest endings to an NBA game you are ever likely to see.

    Trailing 115-110 with 12.6 seconds remaining, Giddey’s inbound pass found Nikola Vucevic, who pushed the ball to a wide-open Patrick Williams for a corner three-pointer.

    James then fluffed the Lakers inbound pass from the baseline, allowing Giddey to steal the ball and find Coby White for a second Bulls triple in quick succession to put Chicago up 116-115 with 6.1 seconds remaining.
    Austin Reaves then made a driving layup to put the Lakers ahead 117-116 with 3.3 seconds left, but the game wasn’t done yet.

    With no timeouts remaining, Giddey inbounded the ball to Williams from the baseline, got the pass back, took one dribble and launched a shot from beyond halfcourt.

    Supporters in the stands seemed frozen in anticipation as the ball sailed through the air, and the United Center then erupted as it fell through the net. After the dramatic win, Giddey found himself being swarmed by his teammates.

    “Special moment to do it with these guys, this team,” Giddey said, per ESPN. “We’ve shown over the last month to six weeks that we can beat anybody. The way we play the game, I think it wears people down.

    “We get up and down. We run. We put heat on them to get back. A lot of veteran teams don’t particularly want to get back and play in transition.”

    Giddey later told the Bulls broadcast that he’d “never made a game-winner before.”

    The ending capped an incredible couple of games for the Lakers, who had themselves won their last game against the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday with a buzzer-beating tip-in from James.

  • Comment Link Jasonamams Sunday, 30 March 2025 00:38 posted by Jasonamams

    Water and life
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    Lightning is a dramatic display of electrical power, but it is also sporadic and unpredictable. Even on a volatile Earth billions of years ago, lightning may have been too infrequent to produce amino acids in quantities sufficient for life — a fact that has cast doubt on such theories in the past, Zare said.

    Water spray, however, would have been more common than lightning. A more likely scenario is that mist-generated microlightning constantly zapped amino acids into existence from pools and puddles, where the molecules could accumulate and form more complex molecules, eventually leading to the evolution of life.

    “Microdischarges between obviously charged water microdroplets make all the organic molecules observed previously in the Miller-Urey experiment,” Zare said. “We propose that this is a new mechanism for the prebiotic synthesis of molecules that constitute the building blocks of life.”

    However, even with the new findings about microlightning, questions remain about life’s origins, he added. While some scientists support the notion of electrically charged beginnings for life’s earliest building blocks, an alternative abiogenesis hypothesis proposes that Earth’s first amino acids were cooked up around hydrothermal vents on the seafloor, produced by a combination of seawater, hydrogen-rich fluids and extreme pressure.

    Researchers identified salt minerals in the Bennu samples that were deposited as a result of brine evaporation from the asteroid’s parent body. In particular, they found a number of sodium salts, such as the needles of hydrated sodium carbonate highlighted in purple in this false-colored image – salts that could easily have been compromised if the samples had been exposed to water in Earth’s atmosphere.

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    Yet another hypothesis suggests that organic molecules didn’t originate on Earth at all. Rather, they formed in space and were carried here by comets or fragments of asteroids, a process known as panspermia.

    “We still don’t know the answer to this question,” Zare said. “But I think we’re closer to understanding something more about what could have happened.”

    Though the details of life’s origins on Earth may never be fully explained, “this study provides another avenue for the formation of molecules crucial to the origin of life,” Williams said. “Water is a ubiquitous aspect of our world, giving rise to the moniker ‘Blue Marble’ to describe the Earth from space. Perhaps the falling of water, the most crucial element that sustains us, also played a greater role in the origin of life on Earth than we previously recognized.”

  • Comment Link RogerBialp Sunday, 30 March 2025 00:19 posted by RogerBialp

    Siham Haleem, a private tour guide for 15 years, says that Doha now has many world-class, modern museums — the National Museum of Qatar being a firm personal favorite. And yet he says that visiting Sheikh Faisal’s museum should still be on everybody’s to-do list.
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    “For those eager to learn about Qatar’s — and the region’s — heritage and beyond, the museum is an ideal destination,” he says. “Personally, I’m captivated by the car collection, the fossils, and especially the Syrian house, painstakingly transported and reassembled piece by piece.”

    Stephanie Y. Martinez, a Mexican-American student mobility manager at Texas A&M University in Qatar likes the museum so much she includes it on all of her itineraries for students visiting from the main campus in Texas.

    “The guided tours are very detailed, and the collections found at the museum have great variety and so many stories to unfold,” she says. “Truly, the museum has something to pique everyone’s interest. My favorites are the cars and the furniture exhibits showcasing wood and mother-of-pearl details. Definitely one of my favorite museums in Qatar, every time I visit I learn something new.”

    Raynor Abreu, from India, also had praise for the unusual and immense collection.

    “Each item has its own story, making the visit even more interesting,” he says. “It’s also impressive to know that Sheikh Faisal started collecting these unique pieces when he was very young. Knowing this makes the museum even more special, as it reflects his lifelong passion for history and culture.”

    It takes time and dedication to truly examine the many collections within the museum — especially since most of them are simply on display without explanation.

    Eclectic it may be, but it’s hard to fault the determination of Sheikh Faisal, who has brought together items that tell the story of Qatar and the Middle East.

    Sarah Bayley, from the UK, says she visited the museum recently with her family, including 16 and 19-year-old teenagers, and was won over by its sheer eccentricity.

    “Amazing. Loved it. It is a crazy place.”

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