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I’ve not read a biography of Hudson Taylor until now. I borrowed this book from Bonnie.

Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret by Howard and Geraldine Taylor is apparently a fairly brief version of Hudson Taylor’s life, less than 200 pages. With the full life he lived, I can imagine how big a book his life story can fill.

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I find it hard to measure success without counting numbers. 

Graphs, Dow Jones, number of sales, dollars in revenue, number of homeruns, scores on a test. We seem to always measure performance by some sort of counting. 

What I am saying is, I think I’ve lived a good life, I am happy with my life, but I don’t feel successful because I don’t have any numbers to show for it – no income, no account balance, no fans, no significant number of visitors to my website, no one calling me to ask my advice.

When I was doing well in real estate, I felt succesful. I can count the number of sales, the amount of money I made, number of clients I had. I was stressed, but I felt successful.

Now I am totally happy, but I feel I have to make money. I don’t care about money per se. I just want to have a measure to say that I am successful. I want to make money and give it away. 

I don’t normally go to mission conferences because I always respond to any appeal for help.

I know if I hear of a need, I’d want to volunteer to help. So before I went to the OMF conference, I made myself promise not to sign up for anything.

I was itching to sign up for their Bridge Asia volunteer program. I am considering being a mentor.

My sister lent me the book Falling Leaves, The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mah.Â

Adeline tells of her life growing up in a prominent Chinese family with wealth, but not love acceptance. (I hesitate to say she lacked love because love could’ve been expressed in ways that she didn’t see. However, acceptance was definitely lacking from her family.)

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When we say Christianity is a relationship, not a religion, what does that really mean?

How can you have a relationship with an invisible and infinite Being?

I had an insight at church today.

From what I read, all other religions require its followers to adhere to a set of standards, a system of worship…

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