Sunday, May 11, 2008

Guiding Hands

My first day of recess
They all laughed at me
When I fell off the swing set
And scraped up my knee
The nurse called my Momma
To say I'd be late
And when she gave me the phone
I could hear Momma say
I'm so sorry son
Oh I think you're so brave
And she was smiling when she said


When you come home

No matter how far
Run through the door and into my arms
It's where you are loved
It's where you belong
And I will be here
When you come home


(When you come home written by Mark Schultz)



I was but a newbie when you took me under your wings.
You remained at hand when I was out of the industry, out of a job. Encouraging, connecting, guiding.
When I came to the end of the road, you said, "You can take the dealer out of the market, but you can't take the market out of the dealer."
Your words rekindled the dying flames of belief in my heart. When the same door opened a second time, I resumed my seat at the desk.


Three years and six months on, I move forward with the surety and confidence that dealing is in my blood. The late Ayrton Senna believed that racing was in his blood. He knew what it meant to be one with the car, to live and breathe racing. To be the best that he could be. I read that when he was racing, sometimes he would transcend the physical realm. When he would lose himself behind the steering wheel and be one with the car.


Ma'am, thank you for your guiding hands. You have shown me that it is possible to have a big heart above the materialism and hypocrisy prevalent in the industry. Joshua stayed close to Moses. Paul built up Timothy. Barnabas did not give up on John Mark. And you kept an eye out for this stubborn mule.


Xiao Guo ",+


12/05/2008 07:52

Friday, May 2, 2008

Murmur of A Stirring Heart

My beloved is mine and I am His
How I long for Your love, long for Your kiss
The knowledge of Your love for me
Is the truth that sets me free
Kisses from Heaven, from Father God to me



Beloved - a person who is dearly loved. Knowledge - awareness.

Love - a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, arising from kinship, or a sense of underlying oneness;
an intense emotional attachment for a treasured object.
Free - to take away from a person anything uncomfortable, inconvenient, difficult, unwelcome, etc; able to act as one wants.



Beloved + Love + Knowledge of Love = Freedom.
Free because one is loved. The love of God liberates us from the shackles we place on ourselves and also by others.
Mistakes are forgiven. Weaknesses are accepted. Differences are overcome. Pain is released as healing is received. Shame wiped off. Hopes renewed.


The price of love is sacrifice, surrender. Love does not keep the beloved, love sets the beloved free. Love learns to let go.
The choice then rests with the beloved. Love given but not reciprocated returns to the giver void. Love received and returned nourishes the soul.
What God desires from us is relationship. What God desires amongst us is fellowship.


One cannot find or lose a religion because of one’s belief in God or the existence of a Greater Being.
I have known of a prodigal who left the father’s house in search of something else.
For years the father longed for the child to come home, for the child to know that he is loved, for the child to return to his family.


Finally the child decided to make his way home. And all the father said was, “It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found. Luke 15:32 NKJV. How do we know we are loved? Go back and find out. Return to the source.


Still tripping,
Sv “+



02/05/2008 17:14