Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2016 -- Great start

Yesterday I was attending Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2016. It's very exciting to see the community there with international participants from different part of the world and to see IBM and Microsoft's representatives there. Click the above link to learn more about the schedule and the topics.

 

I used to be very embarrass using Window OS in a open source community and it's great to see Microsoft move to the open source direction as well.

As in other conferences, the informational is high. I really appreciate the conferences as open source community seem have altruistic mentality and friendly atmosphere. I see a lot of young people and very energetic community of innovative mind. I love it and glad to be part of it.

I hope to connect more like-minded people in the community for partnership in GOSP4EL. I certainly would appreciate your networking and prayer.

How has God comforted in your pain? Presence with God Day 32 of 50

Pain is to live without the presence of God. One of the issue is that we have or we think we have pain killer to suppress to suppress such pain.


Is this a valid question? I am would like to spend more time be with God. Do I meet God or does God meet me? How do we meet? God's comfort to me usually through His Word, sometime through His people.
As I was trained in pastoral counseling in Bible college and being counseled about 30 years ago, one key thing that I learned is about self-counseling. At that time I don't think we use the term of EQ. Emotional-rational therapy seems work well to me, not necessary to other. I may need to update my self-counseling strategy. I have a question in my mind is that do professional counselor creating dependency of some kind of technique, knowledge, professional.

What is pain/suffering? What is the source of pain? How can it be handled? Who handle the pain? Why do we need meet God in our pain or God met us in our pain?

My family came across Rick Warren's sermon about how can we serve with those in pain. I think there are some good guidelines. How has God comforted in your pain?
Why did he have to comfort us in pain? He understand and care our pain. What's wrong with pain? He collect our pain/tears in a leather bag.

How has God comforted in my pain? He care, for that's His nature.
Pain is short and will end for His children.
Pain is misunderstanding and one day everything will be clarified.
Pain is conflict, and one day there will only be peace.
Pain is injustice, and one day the only rule is absolute justice and fair.

Psalm 126:5-6
We should have little concern, if we sow in tear. But what if we are sowing and caused other's tears of pain. Our moral rule and ethics is not merely cause-effect, but love, grace and truth. These are the nature of God. There we and God meet each other whether in pain or not should not be matter.