In other words, in the journey of life, who has not gone through the four seasons? When it comes to the most important Spring Festival of the Chinese, the whole country celebrates together. In hindsight, I seemed to understand that the Chinese New Year was a major festival that every Chinese child cared about. Since the New Year is a sign of the years, it must also be the starting point of a new life. When the firecrackers to welcome the spring sounded, the Chinese descendants were full of excitement and enthusiasm, and they would also emerge from their hearts with a sense of pride that "Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now we are stepping forward from the beginning". Looking back on the past and imagining the coming year, spiritual people have to think carefully about how to recite beautiful psalms in this festive time.
The Spring Festival is the "New Year", which is the oldest and most solemn festival in the folk history of the Dragon Nationality, which originates from the primitive beliefs and nature worship of the early Chinese people, and can be traced back to the religious totem of "praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year" in ancient times. This is a primitive sacrificial ritual in which the ancestors held a celebration at the beginning of the Lunar New Year to pray for good weather, abundant crops, and prosperity for people and animals in the coming year. Over time, it evolved into a variety of celebrations, and has become a legal holiday today. In particular, respecting the old and worshiping ancestors, praying for blessings and thanksgiving, family reunion, reforming the old and making the new, welcoming the spring and praying for a good year are the specific contents, with strong national characteristics. The content of the Spring Festival is lively and lively, including sweeping dust, pasting New Year paintings, pasting Spring Festival Lian, pasting blessing characters upside down, worshipping Vesta, drinking Laba porridge, eating dumplings, observing the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve, greeting the New Year, sending money for the New Year, visiting temple fairs, etc.
In the one-way journey of time, human life is obviously very short, like a white horse passing by, fleeting. Everyone has this strong feeling that the years pass too quickly, and time is really like an arrow and never returns. In the past, I worked in a state-owned enterprise in my hometown, and I had to make a routine summary at the end of each year, look back at the world that has passed, and review what achievements have been made? What are the shortcomings? How to think about it? How can we go one step further? Experience success and failure, gain encouragement and criticism, and how to win the jackpot and forge ahead in saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Everything starts in the New Year, and standing on the platform of the New Year, the descendants of the dragon will continue to strive for self-improvement, hoping that God will bless the spiritual people and live a happier life next year!
The New Year is an equal opportunity for everyone, because the Spring Festival has a festive atmosphere, just like taking a tourist high-speed train, which fairly allows the children of the dragon clan to appreciate the excitement on the way and the joy of arriving at the station. This is not only the beginning of the rotation of the four seasons, but also the precipitation of a period of time, as if to prove a truth, the New Year is an extremely important era, warning the descendants of Yan and Huang must strive to be the first, the pursuit of their own dreams and aspirations. The New Year has different aspirations and hopes for all people, praying for a smooth career, looking forward to family safety, and looking forward to good health, this kind of good blessing shows that we are full of confidence and hope for the future. In times of joy, don't forget to shake up your courage and make your life more meaningful or worthwhile.
In the old days, I loved to listen to songs of joy and sorrow, sit and wait for death to survive another year, and live quietly and indifferently for the rest of my life, meaningless and a waste of precious resources. However, according to the conventional experience, it is possible to do a review and liquidation, "if a person is not a sage, who can do nothing", reflect on the past, and dabble in many dangers, including luck and bad luck. If you describe it from the front, it will naturally leave many unforgettable memories, after all, there are still scars of injuries. It is these joys and sorrows that cannot hide the fact that they can make spiritual people more mature and stronger. Therefore, we should cherish the process of success and failure, and learn valuable experience and lessons, so as to ensure or motivate ourselves to sound the alarm bell and be prepared for danger in times of peace in the future.
At the beginning of the new year, spiritual people choose a positive and elegant attitude, and no matter what difficulties and challenges they encounter, they must bravely face the battle and believe in their own strength. If this is the case, Fang Hao wrote his own wonderful paragraphs in the article. I would also like to be grateful for all the encounters or companionships, whether it is the love of brothers, the sponsorship of friends, or the teaching of spiritual people, it is a rare good wind in the journey of life to send me to the blue sky, and my wish is fulfilled. Be sure to cherish these encounters and accompaniments, and also use your own way to feed back or ** beauty. Our Jiangxi old cousin Wang Anshi has a poem of "Yuan Ri" seven laws, which is really a festive boutique, he wrote: "In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu." Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one. ”
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Li Yu's eternal swan song "When is the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon", made me feel a lot of emotion: "When is the spring flower and autumn moon?" How much do you know about the past? Xiaolou had another east wind last night, so the country could not afford to look back at the moonlight. The carved fence and jade masonry should still be there, but the face has changed. How sad can you be? It is like a river flowing eastward. "In the dark and cold night sky, I can barely see my fingers, and the desperate wanderer prays for God's mercy, whether he can reward a little light, otherwise he will not know how to move forward. Not to mention loneliness, I am afraid to see the tired face in the mirror, the broken heart and the repentant spirit, hidden in the eyes. Self-created "Untitled Poem" Ming Xinzhi: "The sea is lonely and the moon is tearful, and the Lantian farmhouse is full of smoke." This situation disappeared into a memory, but I was flustered at the beginning. Mo Dao changed the poetry merchant Yinle, and laughed that he was crazy about the tiger's beard. After all, the carnival was lost, and the sadness and despair were only for a moment. "I will definitely be able to wait until the sunrise of Yunkai to dissolve that frozen snow-capped mountain. How many times have I gritted my teeth so hard that tears would not pour out; Fantasy spreads its wings and paints a new blueprint from the enlarged smoke ring; Breaking the melancholy and oppressive atmosphere, I let out a hearty laugh. Outside the window, the bloody wind and rain, crackling and knocking on the tempered glass, as if that hazy dream had already been broken in the thousand-year-old imperial capital.
At a new starting point, spiritual people should let go of the regrets and regrets they have carried in the past, wash away their impurities and faults, and embrace life with a new attitude. A spiritual person is a ** disciple, who has the spirit of God in his heart, so he becomes a spiritual person, and a non-** disciple cannot get the spirit of God, so he is not a spiritual person. In Romans 8:5, the apostle Paul divided people into two categories: "followers of the Spirit" and "followers of the flesh," because those who follow the flesh are attentive to the things of the flesh. Those who follow the Spirit are considerate of the things of the Spirit. On the occasion of the New Year, it is time to make a plan for ourselves to implement the "plan of salvation", send greetings and blessings to family and friends, and offer loyalty and blood to our nation and country. I hope that the sons and daughters of China will welcome this joyful Spring Festival together and write a brilliant and brilliant chapter in history together.
A spiritual person with good ideals and faith strives to become a person with a certain value to society. Venerable Bishop Yang Yikan of the Dawn Ward testified to the latter-day disciples: We are blessed to read the four palace-level textbooks of the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price for everyone to study, understand, study and apply, so that we can have a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the glorious image of Jesus ** loving his neighbor as himself and the sacrificial spirit of atoning for the sins of the world. The reason why the Dawn Ward holds the traditional festival of the Chinese is because the disciples can also celebrate this Spring Festival Gala in a unique way, experience the reunion and warmth of the essence of oriental culture, share the family and friendship in the world, reflect on the successes and failures of last year, and pray and pray for God's blessings and blessings for next year. Re-establish a strong faith, motivate yourself to work hard to complete the ministry, share the gospel message, and spread God's love and salvation. To sum up, the later disciples were free to appreciate Chinese civilization and traditional entertainment, and at the same time spread God's light and knowledge.
This year, I continued to participate in church activities and celebrate the Chinese New Year with members of the Hagang Dawn Chinese Branch. The bishopric has already noticed: "Dear brothers and sisters, this year's Spring Festival is different from previous years, because of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the ward, two happy events are combined, so I hope that everyone will be together to celebrate the farewell and welcome the beautiful moment." The ward arranged a rich entertainment program, prepared a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, prepared six dishes, and invited everyone to contribute their cooking skills. It is expected that 200 people will come, and each chef will make 20-30 servings. Brothers and sisters with good cooking skills source their own ingredients, and please bring cooked food to church at 5 p.m. on February 10. We need curry, braised pork, cold fungus, etc., the seasoning can be prepared by ourselves, and the receipt of groceries can be kept for reimbursement. "The siblings who volunteered to process the dishes were: Eva Hsu, Tina Chao, Marymo, Jessie, Tom Song, Helen Haiyan, Rowland Heights, President Xu, Felix Mao, Ella Feng, Milly, Whansha, Judy, Jennifer, Sallyyu, Kitt, Ycocowang, Ritawang, Sister Wang, Steven, Brother Hu, Kelly Sun, Ellie Welker, Shu Di Zhao.
It has been four years since I was baptized, and I have been blessed to receive the priesthood, and I have gone from knowing nothing to becoming a faithful saint without the Church. Successively called by the bishop, I baptized converts in churches, baptized the dead in the temple, ministered to the homes of elderly members, devoted to sacrament prayer, served as the secretary of the elders quorum, the teacher of the elder group, a member of the preparatory working group for the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dragon, and served as a ward evangelist assistant. In the third week of January, Elder Lee, a white preacher from Utah, invited me to accompany Brother Cao in Anhui Province, who had just joined the church.
When he learns of the patriarch's blessing in online Sunday school class on Thursday night, the patriarch fasts for one day. I am blessed by the highly respected Imam Lai Jianju of the Hagang Alliance, who is 84 years old this year and has been a member of the Church for 60 years, and he was the founding president of the Dawn branch 40 years ago. It is said that only the two families of Lai and Li formed the Chinese branch at that time, and now it has more than 100 members after being converted into a ward, making it one of the largest Chinese units in Los Angeles. I actually blessed twice, the first time I made an appointment for almost half a year to line up, but for some reason I didn't make a delay, so I made a second appointment, which was equivalent to inadvertently causing Imam Lai Jianchen to fast twice. Although I don't blame those who don't know, I am very remorseful! I think back to Brother Lai who arranged for me two years ago on my birthday and invited the brothers and sisters who served in the church to spend a happy time together. I suddenly felt a flash of inspiration, and I had a heart to extract a seven-law poem "The Way of the Teacher", which was clumsy: tragic and benevolent, peaceful and peaceful, justice to the right and fixed world. Visiting the virtuous and seeking knowledge is not slack, and filial piety and loyalty are not enough. The heroes of the world live and die, and they return to the spiritual saints. The Year of the Dragon is blessed with a new year, and the feast should be honored for the spiritual.