Archive for November, 2008

尋找媽媽的味道

Friday, November 21st, 2008

媽媽巳經離開了我已經半年多,身邊的人和事都改變了。媽媽離開後,我們五姊弟每月都會聚餐一次。最初的幾個月,我們還會談到媽媽生前的種種事;媽媽如何愛我們,留下給我們很多美好的回憶。但是,最近我們見面的時候,談及的都是各人自己的事,已經沒有再提及媽媽了。隨著時間流逝,回憶會被沖淡,這是人知常情。不過,我嘆息的是,我們對媽媽的思念真是如此短暫嗎?我的心不禁有一種突如其來的失落感。 

媽媽離開後,我開始要自己煮食。每天站在同一間廚房煮食…一間長時間媽媽活動和閒人免進的禁地…現在我終於可以看清它的神秘面紗後的真面目,但是媽媽的魔法已經不在,所有烹調出來的食物都好像失了味一樣。魔法消失了!!我惱恨自己沒有好好的記下媽媽生前教過的烹調心法,現在後悔已經太遲了。

這段時間我不斷向身邊的人,包括家姐,哥哥,嫂嫂,及認識媽媽的朋友,問他們媽媽有否教授過她的烹調心法。靠住零零碎碎的資料,我勉強可以將媽媽的番茄湯、豬肉煲等,弄得有點像樣,但是還是失去了一些媽媽的味道。上星期六,我邀請了太太的哥哥來我家晚飯,我特意買了幾只蟹做菜,我打算做「薑蔥炒蟹」,這是媽媽的獨門名菜,亦是我的最愛。我打電話給我的家姐及二哥問了他們是否知道媽媽這道菜的秘密,終於家姐回覆我,媽媽陳經告訴過她這道菜的做法。

當晚,我站在同一間廚房,用著媽媽留下的廚具,我做了這道媽媽的獨門名菜。當我第一口咬下去的時候,我的眼淚禁不住流了下來…我終於找到了妳…妳的味道了!!

媽媽…我好掛住妳呀!…我好想當面同妳講:「我其實好愛妳呀!妳知道嗎?」

Never argue with an idiot

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Never argue with an idiot: They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. 

What happens in Heaven?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, ‘This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.’ 
 
I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section. 
 
The angel then said to me, ‘This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them. ‘I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth. 
 
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. ‘This is the Acknowledgment Section,’ my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed ‘How is it that there is no work going on here?’ I asked. 

  ‘So sad,’ the angel sighed. ‘After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments .’ ’How does one acknowledge God’s blessings?’ I asked.
 
‘Simple,’ the angel answered. Just say, ‘Thank you, Lord.’
 
‘What blessings should they acknowledge?’  I asked. 
 
‘If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.’ 
 
‘And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity.’ 
 
‘If you woke up this morning with more health than illness … you are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day .’ 
 
‘If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation … you are ahead of 700 million people in the world.’ 

 ’If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world .’ 
 
‘If your parents are still alive and still married …you are very rare .’
 
‘If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you’re unique to all those in doubt and despair.’
 
Ok, what now? How can I start?

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all. 
 
Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you want, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are. 
 
ATTENTION:
 
Acknowledge Dept.: ‘Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share this message and for giving me so many wonderful people to share it with.’ 
 
If you have read this far, and are thankful for all that you have been blessed with, how can you not send it on????  I thank God for everything, especially all my family and friends!!