Sharing Life's Experience: Constipation can kill a weak heart

This is a true story.

Today is Wednesday. Two day's ago, on Monday, was Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.

A friend's mother was 77 years old. She cooked a big dinner for all her children and grandchildren to celebration this festival. The dinner ended around 8 pm.

About 9 pm, she went to the toilet. She had constipation and had to "nngggg" to pressure the stool to come out. Her weak heart probably could not take the strain and she suffered a heart attack. She was sent to the hospital and died just after 1 pm.

So, friends above 55 years old, please watch your health. Do you still want to work so hard beyond 65 years old?

Oh Numbers Numbers, Mesmerising Numbers !

The Bible is never shy of stating numbers. Examples:

-The exact ages of Adam's descendants were given in Genesis 5.
-The exact dimensions of Noah's Ark were stated in Gen 6.
-The exact dates of beginning and end of flood was given in Gen 8.
-The 7 years of abundance and 7 years of famine in Gen 41.
-The 1000-year millenium in Revelations 20.
-The 144,000 remnants of Israel in Rev 7.
-Forgiving 70 times 7 times in Matt 18.
-The number 666 in Revelations.
Etc, etc.

Now Now, some people like to play around with these biblical numbers. They predicted all kinds of things using these numbers. They think 7 years of bad luck will be followed by 7 years of prosperity. These numbers are so specific! It's so easy to interpret -- cannot be wrong !

But please please, stop using the numbers in the Bible or be mesmerised by them.

You will not be able to make any quantitative predictions from them.

Cultivate a personal relationship with the living God is most important. Not the numbers, no matter how real they appear to be.

Misinterpretation...

I was helping a nursery school girl write her name.  "You're like my daddy," she observed.
"Does your daddy help you write your name too?" I asked.
"No,"she replied.  "But he's got hairy arms."   (Just an anecdote)

I am guilty of misinterpretation too. We misunderstood people, we misinterpret the Bible too.

Haa Haa!  Better not assume we are always right !

Seeing is Believing...

One day, I told my son the story of Noah and the Ark.  I gave him the full treatment, complete with animal sounds and detailed descriptions of the beasts arriving two by two.  At the end, I asked him if he had any questions.
He had just one: "Where were you hiding?"
--------- From Reader's Digest April 2007 Issue

How many Humans on Earth?

Since 40,000 BC - the dawn of modern man - an estimated 58 billion people have died, according to a study by the Netherlands-based International Statistics Institute.
The current world population now stands at less than 6 billion, so the dead outnumbered the living by about 10 to 1.
Excerpt from Reader's Digest April 2007 Issue

Cannot Take the Bible Word for Word

We cannot read the Bible and interpret it word for word.
For a long time, I was very confused why the Bible said that there were Adam and Eve, and we all came from this pair.  I was confused that the Bible said that by just believing in His name, a person could become a child of God (so simple ?? John 1:12).  I could believe a camel could go through the eye of a needle.  (how can ?? doesn't make sense, Matt 19:24)

Now I know we must not interpret the Bible word for word, or word by word.  For two thousand years since the books of the Bible were written, language had changed and the understanding of words had changed.

It is better just to understand the idea behind the words that were written.