A car "accident"

An incident happened when I was in Baltimore. One night, we went to a supermarket. While I was entering my parking spot, my car scrape the one in the next space. We got out and have a look, a scratch was made in the car (of course not mine). The car is a brand new honda. Oh......
I was in a kind of dilemma. "Big Big trouble!". "Even more, i am in a new place, rules may be different." "God just helped me in my talk, now he gave me something more." (by the way, the parking spaces in Baltimore are smaller than those in New York. )
To be honest, I did want to leave. Luckily, Stella said we couldn't.
We decided to wait a little while. A minute later, the owner came. We told her what happen. She was very upset (who won't? a brand new car), but she decided not to ask for anything.
We were relieved, but more importantly, we did the right thing.

a conferece

Stella and I went to the APS march meeting. The conference holds every year at march. We went there 7 year ago when we were studying our master degree. This is our first time since 1999. 7 year is really a long time. I tried to recall my feeling in the conference 7 year ago.
In terms of a researcher, I have improved. But in terms of a person, I have got older, and I felt difficult to digest the feeling.
The most valuable thing in the conference was, I met an old friend. We lost communication since we graduated. He came to US right after graduation, and he has just finished his PhD. I understood this as God's "plan", but again, it's not easy to swallow the bitterness. I sensed that he had gone through a tough time. We were good friends in christ, but he no longer goes to church. I was afraid to ask him...

Story of an mp3 player

Waiting is always difficult. For unknown reasons, I have been put in situations where all I could do is to wait quite a lot of time. Recently, I ordered an mp3 player online. On the day when it was supposed to be delivered, I got nothing, but the tracking record online said it had already been delivered.
"Whether I want to do something to improve my life, I'll put myself into stupid troubles."
"Instead of sit down and enjoy music, I have to make thousands of calls."
"I have many things to concentrate on, now I am distracted again."
Negative feelings popped up immediately.
I decided to pray, and forced myself not to be distracted. That's a point I learnt after so many times of waiting.
Life is good to me this time, the next day, my neighbor knocked my door and told me a package was delivered to her, hidden somewhere in her patio, so I got my player back.

Rest

Recently my work is driving me crazy. I have to prepare for a conference, finish a paper, and in I am in the middle of a busy project. For a long time, I keep thinking on fulfulling all the tasks. Probably. this is not the way God want. I was sick last week, fever for a couple of days, and was forced not to work. Once again, I realized I have to rest in God. The only thing I could be is to pray, asking him to in charge of my schedule.

"Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." James 4:13-15