Thursday, November 10, 2011

Grade 7 Speech

Hello teacher and fellow students. My topic is:
Why is ‘family’ the most important people in our life?
Family…… I believe everyone here knows what family is and you must have a lot of experiences. In a dictionary, ‘family’s definition is: A group of people that were related by blood. To me, family is not only a relationship of blood. But more about emotions like love, happiness, influencing and supporting.
First, they are very important that they gave us love and we are able to receive love from them. Love, we can never live without it. It is very important to everyone! A person who doesn’t receive love or can’t feel love is very sorrowful and sympathetic. A person who doesn’t receive family’s love is even more sorrowful and sympathetic! There’s a very famous Chinese quotation. Basically, it is like this: “Mother’s love is the source of peace of the whole world.” It makes a lot of sense. Primarily, a person who doesn’t have family’s love is not peaceful. A person who doesn’t receive love from family would never give love to other people.
For example, if our parents forward love and happiness to us, I am very sure that we all would give love and happiness to other people too! Therefore, everyone receives love from others and passes the love to even more people! So the whole world would be so peaceful and faithful. Once everyone’s family is peaceful, the whole world would be very peaceful too! I believe you can see how strong family’s love is and how influencing to the world is.
Family is important because you get a lot of supports from them. Sometimes, friends might not be very reliable. They might betray you at any moment but you never knew. However, family would never ditch you or forsake you for any reason! Family relationship is like a truth that no one is able to change! NEVER! Family is always supporting you in the behind. Even though we all would grow up and move out someday, it doesn’t mean they don’t love us or we aren’t their kids anymore! They still loved you a lot, and will always love you, support you and care about you.
Family is also our mainly influence, people always say: Parents are children’s role model, children are parents’ mirror. It is very obvious to understand. It means: if parents do something and children would learn to do the same thing! Just the way parents did. When children learned to do something, it is probably because their parents had influenced them.
Sometimes, parents didn’t actually teach or tell their kids to do it, but their behaviors taught them and told them to do it already! Some parents may be addicted to smoking and drinking or they always get mad easily. Therefore, their kids always start smoking, drinking since young age, always fight physically for some reasonless daily things, always bully small kids and is always mean, sensitive and irritable. If parents want their kids to be perfect, they should start to be perfect first! Consequently, parents are always their examples; it is really hard to avoid the bad behaviors on kids unless the parents start to change and therefore set up a good model for their children.
Family loves you so much. Therefore, do you think you should love them more too? Family is family. You don’t want to lose your happy family relationship. No one does. So you should treasure it more! You should always be dutiful to them, because they always deserve it. Remember to always love them with your loving heart!
Thank you!

Sharing (Back from Junior School Retreat)

Good morning fellow sisters and brothers, ­
      Our topic for this year’s Junior School Retreat is: THE PURE IN HEART
      Man was specially created for God’s use. All the things God created are for man. But only man is for God. We need to contain him, or there’s no meaning being a man. We want him to dwell in our spirit first. Eventually, spread through all of our soul and body – our whole being.
Heart is the only gateway that connects our spirit and our soul. A pure heart means a heart without mixture. Our heart is the loving organ. God wants to make His home our heart. There should be nothing more important than the Lord. So He can come in us and fulfill Himself within us. He purifies us through our heart. Jehovah God is the light, and in him there’s no darkness at all. When we open our heart, the Lord is shining in us as the light. We started to love him and experience him after we open our heart. He expends Himself in us. Therefore, the veil is taken away.
We need to confess to Him in order to let Him in. Once we confess, He forgives us and cleanses us from all unrighteousness, because He is the light, he is the life giving spirit, he is faithful! He is the only one who can save us from Satan, because He is God, because He forsakes himself and died for us on the cross. His blood cleansed us from all the sins forever and ever as long as we have a pure heart. At the same time, we loved God even more, and we forget all the other things in the world.
We need to take care of our conscience. Our conscience is what God is trying to tell us to do or not do. Consequently, our conscience is God Himself. God is always standing with our conscience. God never tells us to ignore our conscience, only Satan the devil does. We don’t want to listen to Satan. We need Him to help us take care of our conscience by talking/praying to Him more.
During cabin reading, I also learned we need to love our brothers and sisters. If we hate one of our brothers, that means we don’t love our God, because saints build up God’s body. If a brother can only judge and condemn but has no sadness, it proves that he doesn’t know anything about brotherly love. Hating brothers proves that there is no love in him. I also learned to pray to God to give me more love to the brother. Sometimes, man’s love isn’t always enough for everyone. So we need love from God, because God’s love is always abounding. God is the loving God.
I learned a lot from the Junior School Retreat. I really enjoyed learning the Lord. God is so amazing and so precious. I feel like being filled. I encourage more Junior School sisters and brothers to go next time! So you can love the Lord with your pure heart!
Thank you!