God Be with Us All

Between September 2011 and January 2013,

I was involved in the learning process with primarily 2 classes: 

1) A class of newly high school graduates; 

2) A class of the ordained ministers who enrolled in 

the advanced study of the theologies.

Almost immediately, I fell in love with both classes. 

Regardless the differences in ages, they are cute in spirit and fresh in the academic adventures.

I searched from both my memory and the up-to-date internet resources to challenge them, also to myself, over the differences due to the cultural and language gaps. 

After all, I have been away from Taiwan for 

some forty years.  

And we still had a lot of fun together!  

Recently I made a quick trip back to the school and  congratulated the graduating students of the class of 2015.  

I have learned that a few of them are going for

advanced study of either M Div. or M Th. program. 

How encouraging this is!

On my way home, I got an email from one of the 

graduating students (see the letter inserted below) 

It reminded me of the scripture from Exodus 3:14 

“…I AM That I AM.”  God said. 

And somewhere back in my mind a more complete 

translation could be: “I was that I was; I am that I am; and I will be that I will be;” to which the Chinese/Taiwanese translation may have expressed better:  “我是自有永有的/我是自然而然的.“ (出埃及記 3:14)

It meant that God would be with Moses 

- wherever he went and whatever he did.

It surely means, to all of us, 

that no matter where we’d be 

and whatever we would be doing, 

God is with us as well. 

Laughing, crying, singing, dancing, working...

God is there with us, a little scary, 

But mostly comforting.  

Always!  

That is, forever, a good news to us all! 

A letter from a student of the School of Theology, CJCU:

親愛的牧師

謝謝你特地從美國回到我們當中，並帶來祝福和巧克力

我們依然記得你在我們2年級時給予的教導

教導我們如何思考聖經中的問題

永遠對信仰提出疑慮

疑慮是要使我確信

我們的上帝與我們同行

我在你身上學到了一堂信仰課程

就是為主作工是何等美好

在談話中你輕描淡寫的講自己將飛到哪裏講道

但我知道這並不容易

一個地方到一個地方的距離很遠

一個年輕人都負擔不了的體力活

你卻願意負擔（我想你應該比年輕人還年輕）

在今年我們即將畢業. 我們每個人的目標也許不同

也許有人委身在教會, 當兵, 結婚…

但我們知道我們的老師教導的

也深知主耶穌與我們同行

讓我們在主裡為彼此代禱

並期待著下次見面

愛你的孫女 

宜庭

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