This past weekend a friend and I went up to the Country side, it was gorgeous. The greenary, being able to walk around Kampot city. There weren’t much to do, but it was beautiful to just sit by the river and read a book- which is exactly what I did for part of the time! We dropped by the zoo on the way back to Phnom Penh and here’s a funny story that happened. Ok, well I think it’s funny anyways.

We were strolling around the zoo and walked by a lady with a dozen bananas. I didn’t think much about it until my friend stopped her and took two bananas out of her hand for us. They exchanged a few words to each other, laughed, and we went on our way. I was confused and a little thrown back from the whole situation. I laughed and asked my friend whether it was normal to just take bananas from strangers?? Don’t we have to pay for them? He nodded and laughed.

We would get punched if we did that in Hong Kong!

I kept on walking and smiled because I knew that was the exact reason the Cambodian people holds such a special part in my heart. They are so friendly, in fact, I don’t even think “friendly” is enough to describe how they are. They are able to strike up a conversation with each other in a matter of seconds though they have never spoken or seen each other. In otherwords, strangers.

They continue to make me laugh day after day, it’s pretty incredible.

This is such a powerful verse. We all know this scripture, but how many of us read and think about it on a daily basis? I know I don’t anyways and I haven’t thought about it in a while. Re-reading it has left me speechless and left me in many pondering thoughts. What do you think?

1 Corinthians 13

If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

You are my strength when I am weak
You are the treasure that I seek
You are my all in all
Seeking you as a precious jewel
Lord to give up I’d be a fool
You are my all in all

Though I had to wake up a little early to meet up with a few friends for breakfast at a coffee shop, it was worth it. My day has been started better than usual being able to sit and eat breakfast with good friends, chit chat, joke around and have a good laugh. Oh and can I just say, coffee?

“Dudeeeeeeeeeeeee” – Finding Nemo

We made it in time for devotions. While waiting for the room to be unlocked, we were standing around outside and a few of us started blasting out in “Blessed be Your name”. It put a smile on my face and left me in awe of the Love that God gave us. I love hearing more and more people join in the singing praising God.

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This is a struggle we all have. It’s part of our human nature. We judge things, we judge ourselves, we judge others. We judge others based on the environment that we grew up in, we can’t change that others might be different from us but what we can control is how we act and what we say.

I am guilty of judging others, I am guilty of back talking about others and I am also guilty sin myself. We judge others based on the environment that we grew up in and we can’t change that, but what we can control is how we act and what we say towards others. This week, I have done things and not done things that have frustrated others.

All those times I back talked, judged, and tried to change someone… “take the speck out of your eye”, I did not look at myself and how I’ve been acting. What a hypocrite. I have a long plank in my eye and I have to work to take it out of my own eye before wanting someone else to change!

¹“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. ²For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

³“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? ⁴How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? ⁵You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

– Matthew 7: 1-5

Blessed be the name of the Lord.