The past 过去

Today is Good Friday.

I told my wife not going to office, but to follow Lifebook 2009's teaching: each day do something good to others.

I will do something good to make her happy today by clearing my files and books shelves. She has been bugging me to do so for more than a year.

Checking and sieving through documents and files, mostly are record and minutes of church activities, meetings, functions, courses and formations for the past 20 years or so.

There are the record of my "glorious past". There are meeting minutes, correspondence, plan when I was the president/chairman of Regia, Curia, PPC, PCC. Many meeting files of past grand events that I was involved - Marian Congress, fund raising carnival of the KL Chinese Language Apostolate Commission at the Putra stadium, fund raising dinner for our new church at Wisma PGRM........

Should I keep them for record purposes? for information? for reference?

I decided not.... not to hold on to the past. They have no values. I do not need to go back to the past, I am living in the present. It is more important to be who I am now, not who I was before.

In today's Good Friday service, I will place all these onto the Cross.


今天是星期五，耶稣受难日。

我告诉太太今天不去办公室，留在家里，依照生活之书2009里说的：日行一善，使别人快乐。

我决定做一件另她高兴的事，就是整理我的文件及书架。这个工作，她已经吩咐我去做也有大约一年了。

查阅及整理了所以的文件夹，里面都是我过去二十年多里，教会会议的记录，活动的资料，参加过的课程及节目的文件。

这可以说是我过去二十多年来的“光荣史”。资料记载了我 是圣母军区域团团长、区团团长、堂区牧民协调理事会、堂区牧民议会主席时的会议记录，来往书信，计划书等等。还有就是参加或主办过的大型活动，如圣母军讨论大会，吉隆坡总教区华文教务促进会，在武吉加里体育馆举办的嘉年华会，建新教堂于吉隆坡民政大厦举办的大型筹款宴会等。

我是否要保留起来做为纪念？资料收藏？将来参考？

我决定不。。。不要保留这些东西。它们没有价值了。我不需要回到过去，因为我是活在现在。最重要的我是现在的我，不是过去的我。

我就在今天耶稣受难时，把这一些都奉献在耶稣的十字架上。