I shared thought to my students on the New Year's Eve

On the New Year's Eve of 2008 (December 31, 2008), 10 students gathered at my residence to reflect and to share the inspirational thoughts for 2009.

The inspirational thought I shared with my students are two words: courage and honesty. I further shared a hymn note, "God does not promise" (The text in Mandarin is attached.) with my students.

The hymn notes say: God does not promise that sky will always blue and life will be all smooth. However, God does promise that we shall live a respectable life and will have nothing to hide. God also promises that when life challenge comes, we shall have the strength to endure it.

I told students that I was not there to preach the Christianity (None of my students in the party is a Christian.). But I told students that with these two characters of courage and honesty, we will live a respectable life and will have a strength to endure any challenge in the life. I also stressed that courage and honest do not necessarily guarantee our life to be smooth all the way. I was short to say that the current Ma's government is cowardly, dishonest, and put every Taiwanese with conscious into shame.

Photos show copy of the hymn note, and students gathering at my place for the New Year Eve's party.