The other day I went up to a local Christian bookstore and saw a “honk if you love Jesus” bumper sticker. I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting, so I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper.

Boy, I’m glad I did! What an uplifting experience that followed! I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good He is… and I didn’t notice that the light had changed.

It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn’t honked, I’d never have noticed! I found that LOTS of people love Jesus!

Why, while I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, “For the love of GOD! GO! GO! Jesus Christ, GO

What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus!

Everyone started honking! I just leaned out of my window and started waving and smiling at all these loving people. I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!

There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a “sunny beach”…

I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air. Then I asked my teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant, he said that it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something. Well, I’ve never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign back. My grandson burst out laughing… why, even he was enjoying this religious experience!

A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me. I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed. So, I waved to all my sisters and brothers grinning, and drove on through the intersection.

I noticed I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed again and I felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared, so I slowed the car down, leaned out of the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away.

Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!

Grandma

“Love is an emotion, not a deity.”

~Bumper sticker responding to “God is Love” stickers

Mommy, I don’t want to grow up, getting old and later dead. How can you love me then? I don’t want you to dead too. I still want to love you!

- Calvin Wu on his 4th birthday

Seeing her like that bring big smile, joy and warmth to my heart. To exaggerate, I can almost have my tears at the corner of my eyes. Rejoicing her happiness was happened back there.

Rejoicing to see what “yours” is common, like parents to their child. Rejoicing to other that entirely not related to you when they are happy is the a whole new level. To rejoice of your enemy’s joy is supreme. To do that, you require universal and altruistic love that became part of your nature.

Most of humans are, of course me too, have egoistic attitude towards all aspects of our lives. Shifting to the universal and altruistic attitude requires practice and letting go our ego. Many social activities are manifestation of such a practice. You won’t be able to change your point of view and your ego in one night, it requires gradual practices.

Conflicts are clash of egos. I don’t know whether conflicts are still there or not if we all able to rejoice to other’s joy. But I have deep confidence that at least the will be less conflicts exist.

When we all have such an attitude? Will we start? Why don’t we start small by each of ourselves first? Will you?

She was planned to get her wedding next month. Yesterday, one of her best friend — let’s call her S — asked her to talk. She thought S wanted to have a regular girls chit chat but she was wrong.

S said to her in desperation that S is pregnant — S wasn’t married. S said she was pregnant her-husband-to-be’s child. Let me clear this, S was having sex with her-husband-to-be and S is pregnant now. She said she was shocked and together they went to the her-husband-to-be’s apartment to clear things out.

Things went complicated. S is her best friend, she was devastated that her-husband-to-be having affair with her best friend all these time. He said he clicked just right with S after a year ago she introduced S to him.

She doesn’t want S to undergo an abortion and yet her marriage is just within a month with all preparations and invitations worked out. What would you do if you were in her position?

I’ll share mine first. I’ll let them go and make him marry S. I’ll go on my way. I can’t trust such a man anymore, soon or later he’ll do it again and the baby need a father. Life goes on.

Your thought on this?