Passed by City Plaza yesterday and went in to take a look, might have been more than 10 years (or 20?) since I last visited. I had a simple lunch there and finished some paper work after lunch at the cafe, and I decided not to go ther that often from now on.
Why should I put myself in a situation where all I hear is "you need more"?
This is exactly what I feel the keenest since coming back to HK to live and I cannot but compare it with how life was last year, in Palestine.
I remember the anticipation I had when my Arab friend told me she'd take me to Shadi's Market one day. "It's a great place, where you'll get all that you need," she said.
Then one afternoon, when I passed by a grocer's on the street next to mine, I noticed the crowd inside. "This must be a pretty good shop, let me take a look," I thought to myself. But boy, what shock and disappointment I got when I saw its sign--
Shadi's Market !
"How on earth can I survive this year here when the best shop is but this?" I sighed as I looked at the shop, the size of like, two 7-11 shops.
My dear friends, let me tell you life IS better when the shops are small and few. I miss the simple life there where I could easily feel life's richness with its many blessings. And how I hate the "poverty" imposed on us in a city compelled by enterprises which keeps telling us that we need more!
"Is it OK to want more?" I asked myself. I can't deny that I would like to move to a bigger apartment. I would also very much like to get a job where I can invest myself in. But for now, I do want to protect the space in my heart where I can enjoy all that I've already got, for I am already living in a world of MORE, lest I forget--
Romans 5:1-5
Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God's glory! 3 We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, 4 endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope. 5 This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to us.
