May You Be Blessed--- Roy Lessin

May you be blessed with—

Peace when you are troubled;
Grace when you are needy;
Courage when you are afraid;

Strength when you are weary;
Faith when you are doubting;
Hope when you are uncertain;

Tenderness when you need to be assured;
Wisdom when you need to know the way;
Endurance when you need to continue on.

“God shall bless us; and all the ends
of the earth shall fear Him” Psalm 67:7 KJV

50 maxims on leadership

I came across a book by John Wooden and there's a chapter on leadership maxims,50 altogether as follows:

Ability may get you to the top,but it takes character to stay there.
When you are through learning,you‘re through.
The journey is better than the inn.
If you're not making mistakes,you are not doing anything.
Do not let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.

Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.
Little things make big things happen
The best way to improve the team is to improve yourself.
You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.
The force of character is cumulative.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team
Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.
Don’t mistake activity for achievement.
Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.
Love is the greatest word in English. Balance is the second-greatest word.

A leader has one team, not starters and substitutes.
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
If you have done your job in preparing the team,the team is prepared to do its job in playing the game. So let them.
Be quick,but don’t hurry.
No written word nor spoken plea can teach your team what it should be.

Perfection of relevant details is silly to some,but’s it’s not funny to me.
The infection of success is often fatal.
More often than we ever suspect, the lives of others we do affect.
Define normal as abnormally high.
Play to win,but play fair.

The will to win means nothing without the will to work.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
Fear is short term; pride lasts.


There is no such a thing as an overachiever.
Do not be vulnerable to praise or criticism from outsiders.
If you don’t have time to do it right,when will you have time to do it over ?
I will get ready,and then perhaps,my chance will come.
Be more interested in finding the best way, not in having it your way.

Make sure those under your supervision feel they are working with you,not for you.
Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or long-lasting
Time spent getting even is best spent getting ahead.
There is nothing stronger than gentleness.
Be slow to criticize. Be quick to commend.

Much more can be accomplished when no one is concerned about who gets the credit.
Agree to disagree without being disagreeable.
You must earn the right to be proud and confident.
Give credit to those who do little jobs in a big way.
You can’t make up for poor effort today by working harder tomorrow.

Heed this observation : “ Others, too, have brains.”
Don’t measure yourself by what you’ve accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your abilities.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
The smallest good deed is better than the biggest intention.
A leader must have courage, including the courage to change.

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

Much,More,All

I received this short but powerful quote from Arthur Burt today through Roy Lessin's Meet me in the Meadows

“God can do MUCH with LITTLE; MORE with LESS, and ALL with NOTHING!”


Arthur Burt
"Surrender is the Key to Spiritual Success."

Arthur Burt resides in Gwynedd, North Wales. He has traveled all over the world to bring the Father's word of challenge and encouragement.He describes himself as "a piece of paper blown by the wind from one place to another", but more often as simply a vessel of God's mercy. "If you ask me who I am, I will tell you. I am nobody, and the message I bring today is that every somebody will now have to become nobody. We must lose our identity in the body of Christ, because Father will not give his glory to anybody but Christ."


Arthur Burt's message presents an antidote for failure and the key for spiritual success. What does it mean for Jesus to live His life in us? The expression of the heart of Jesus was, "Father, glorify thy name." Arthur shows us that when the glory of God means to us what it means to God, then we will be one with the Father and that only happens as we surrender to Christ.

基督徒幸福的生命

讀唐崇平牧師論基督徒幸福的生命一文，說及美國幾位心理學家經過多年探討鑽研，對快樂人生秘訣作出下面七個結論，要有快樂人生必須要有七重點：

(一) 要有人生的目的；
(二) 要有生命的意義；
(三) 要有新奇的異象；
(四) 要有忍耐的心境；
(五) 要有和諧的生活；
(六) 要有良好的環境；
(七) 要有自我的定向。

此七點建議不過是今生人生見解，但惟具永生盼望的人才能承受。新約希臘文對happiness 這個字有三個不同字：

(一) hedone，譯作宴樂或快樂，指今生與屬世的外來宴樂 (路8：14；多3：3；雅4：3；彼後2：12-13)
(二) makarios，譯作歡樂或福樂，例如：“施比受更為有福”(約13：17；彼前4：13-14；徒20：35)
(三) chara，譯作喜悅，這種樂趣是不受時空的限制，也不因環境而變遷，那是屬於屬靈與內心的喜樂與福祉(約16：20；羅5：3-4；雅1：2；徒5：41；羅12：12，15：13)

基督徒幸福的生命，是指上述第二與第三個字所說的，是屬靈與內心的喜樂與幸福的來源

Quotes from reading these few days

You can stand tall without standing on someone, you can be a victor without havng victims. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and flight restored. Hellen Keller (1880-1968)

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. Ivy Baker Priest (1905-1975)

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by loving.
Anais Nin (1903-1977)