Play it forward…(in music AND in life)

June 19, 2011

Something my guitar coach (who is an awesome guitarist and will be playing in my concert!  YAY!!) said the other day really struck me.  He said from the first day we learn music we have been taught to think in terms of “bars”.  You start at beat 1, and you play to beat 4 (assuming [...]

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Concert 2011!!!!

June 13, 2011

 A few years ago, a little girl by the name of Taylor Love was diagnosed with a dangerous form of childhood cancer called neuroblastoma and was in the fight for her life.  Her 12 year old friend Abby decided to take matters into her own hands. Taking her little guitar, she started playing and singing [...]

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Full Circle

May 17, 2011

It’s funny how things come full circle in life. I was in a meeting today and someone mentioned a “Newcomer’s Club” for new immigrants. I was trying to think of when I had heard that name before. Then I remembered. The first year I came to Canada, I felt there needed to be more support [...]

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Love Wins…Rob Bell’s new book

April 26, 2011

As part of my preparation of speaking at my church this coming Sunday, I have been reading Rob Bell’s new book “Love Wins”. Who would have thought that a book with such a warm and fuzzy title would generate the amount of controversy and heated (and sometimes hateful) debate among Christians, of all people? The [...]

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Moments…

April 14, 2011

Yesterday was a crazy day. I had a ton of meetings lined up at work, and towards the end of the day my phone rang. It was my mother on the phone: “Can you come right away? Dad is not feeling well…” I rushed to their place to drive Dad to find a doctor. Turned [...]

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“I Saw the World…and I changed”

March 23, 2011

One of the best things about my job is that I get to work with and meet people from all over the world.   In addition to making our communities more colourful with their foods, customs and cultures, for me the true treasures that they bring to us are their stories.  Literally every time I sit [...]

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Thank you, Queendy (again)

March 14, 2011

I am sitting in Destiny Tea House, enjoying a (rare) day off.  Yesterday we entertained different options as far as what to do today, but after tossing around a few ideas, Anna said to me, “You need to write again.”  So here we are I was flipping through some of my old entries and I [...]

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Some Thoughts on Change…

February 5, 2011

A couple of years ago Barack Obama won the presidential election riding on the momentum of a single word: “Change”.  The word seems to have the ability to capture our hearts and imagination while at the same time evoke fear and skepticism.  Recently our church began a new series on Christians involvement in government as [...]

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She Danced

January 30, 2011

Here is the song I wrote and sang at the funeral of my dear friend Queendy Lee.  Please click on the link at the bottom of the lyrics to hear it. She Danced Words and music by Alfred Lam “We played the flute for you, but you did not dance…” (Matthew 11:17) The Sun is up [...]

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給Q姐…

January 22, 2011

Q 姐 (我知您很討厭這“名字”, 但我始終喜歡這樣稱呼您)﹕ 今天醒來﹐多麼想作天所聽到的只是一場夢。拿起床邊的Blackberry﹐心中很焦急的希望見到您sign in。但漸漸清醒時﹐這個很不願接受但無法改變的事實終於hit我﹕您真的走了。  兩星期前我帶worship﹐聚會前見到您很疲倦。我還“貪得意”幫您“拉筋” 但當我們開始唱歌時﹐我見到您閉上眼﹐身體隨著節奏搖動﹐帶著微笑地唱。當時我有一個感覺﹕您很“at home” 。您是活在旋律和節拍中的人。有音樂﹐有舞蹈﹐有節拍的地方﹐您就能找到屬於您的空間。相信您今日已經回到您的家。  其實想起來﹐我們也是在音樂中認識。在一年多前我請您在我的concert擔任stage director。當時您精神也不是太好﹐但您一口就答應了我。在concert的籌備中幫我打點一切台前幕後。您記得嗎﹖那個concert完了之後您答應了在下次﹐即是今年的concert中您會跳舞。這一年來我不斷的期待這機會。但想不到…  我好遺憾沒有機會跟您同台演出。但我相信這機會終會再來。我唯有繼續的等。 明天我又再帶worship…不如您告訴我您喜歡唱甚麼歌﹐好嗎﹖ 我真的很希望再見到您being lost 在音樂中但又很at home 的樣子。 Q姐﹐我好掛住﹐好掛住您….

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