This Christmas, Teacher's teacher's wishes to focus on realities that truly matter and await the New Year (2012) with newness . . .
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Imagine 61 years old and soon - like July 1 - and Teacher's teacher with God's consent, turn 62. For elderly people, every moment in a senior citizen's life is a teaching moment. It is of the moment therefore that Teacher's teacher's wishes revolve around deeper focus on realities that truly matter and await the New Year - 2012 - with newness.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 teach us the importance in spiritual gifts for at the end, there are only three things that last: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love. In the earlier verses, it reminds us: "When I was a child, I used to talk like a child and think like a child, and argue like a child, but now I am a man (woman?, person? ) all childish ways are put behind me. Now we are seeing a dim reflection in a mirror; but then we shall be seeing face to face. The knowledge that I have now is imperfect; but then I shall know as fully as I am known . . ." Every word is a very deep reality that will take a lifetime to fathom. All other realities should be anchored on these truths that every reflector has a lifetime to ponder upon.
May this coming New Year (imagine 2012!) be faced with Newness, with greater candor and enthusiasm and with gratitude. Thank you God for this Christmas, 3 days more to go and thank you God for this coming 2012. The world can sometimes be a good place to dwell on and spend the rest of one's days but more and more, life teaches us that it is not this world that one should expect to life forever; it is a life that only faith can prepare one for, a life only God can give to a believer.
Again and again, while Christmas is not yet fully here, 3 days more to go . . . Christmas cheers from Teacher's teacher and then on, Happy New Year 2012!
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