Archive for August, 2007

The heart of a kid…

19th of August, 2007, by Cadu.

Who can understand the heart of a kid? Who can find out what is really going on inside his heart?

I love a book called “The little prince”, or “Le petit prince” in its original language. It is an amazing book. I don’t mean it is a perfect book with all truth inside. No, I don’t mean that. The Truth Book is the Bible, the Word of God. But there is something special in “The little prince”. It shows how funny we, the not-kids-anymore, are. It shows who we forget everything about being a kid. It shows some of the big differences (maybe not really accurate) between kids and adults.

Adults care about numbers, about facts. Kids care about experience, actions. Kids don’t care about how much money his friend has. They care about how much fun they have when they are together. They don’t make friends just to get a promotion inside their companies. Adults do that. That book shows how funny adults are: they were a kid one day, but simply forgot everything about their experience.

I’m not saying we should be childish. No! I’m just thinking about the big differences between kids and adults. I’m just wondering how good our memory is.

It simply breaks my heart to see one of the kids I really love crying “with no reason” (for the adults) and not being able to tell what is really going on. It breaks my heart. I feel like speaking another language. I feel like in China trying to take my brother to the hospital talking Portuguese with them. I feel I forgot everything about my experiences when I was a child. I can’t even guess what is going on. And it is not something that I can say “it doesn’t matter”. I CAN’T say that. It’s not my hamster that is sick and I don’t know what is going on. This is nothing. It’s one of my “little brothers” with his soul sick… and I feel unable to do anything. I feel trying everything I can and know with no success.

And guess what? I’m sure one of the reasons the kids have their souls sick on these days is because the adults they know (parents, teachers, friends) don’t understand their language and say really stupid and dumb things to them, trying to say something completely different. And I think it hurts a lot.

I just don’t know why we are so stupid to forget our first language. How could we lose the heart of the kid that still lives inside of us?

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Good books…

16th of August, 2007, by Cadu.

I’m reading some amazing books…

I’m sure they will change your life, and hopefully lots of lives and generations, through you!

How to really love your child
How to really love your angry child
How to really love your teen
The five love languages of children

All of them written by Ross Campbell, and some of them written together with more writers. But it doesn’t matter. They are really good!

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To be or not to be?

10th of August, 2007, by Cadu.

“for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame. And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are, so that no mortal man should [have pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God.”

1 Corinthians 1:27-29 (Amplified Version)

God is the best… This is the verse that explains why I am here, doing what God wants me to do, and being what God wants me to be. This is the only explanation… God deliberately chose what is nothing, I mean, my life…

And if God uses someone like me, e does great things through my life, this is a big encouragement, because there is no impossible situation for God… it doesn’t matter if you have problems, if you don’t have dreams, if you don’t have plans, if your family is disgusting, if your background is terrible, if you feel like killing yourself or whatever you can think about yourself… It simply doesn’t matter!

How Great is our God!!

“But where sin increased, grace increased all the more…” (TNIV)
“When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down.” (The Message)
Romans 5:20

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Praise the LORD! :)

5th of August, 2007, by Cadu.

“Praise the Lord!
Let all that I am praise the Lord.

I will praise the Lord as long as I live.
I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.

Don’t put your confidence in powerful people;
there is no help for you there.
When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
and all their plans die with them.
But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.
He made heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them.
He keeps every promise forever.
He gives justice to the oppressed
and food to the hungry.
The Lord frees the prisoners.
The Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down.
The Lord loves the godly.
The Lord protects the foreigners among us.
He cares for the orphans and widows,
but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.

The Lord will reign forever.
He will be your God, O Jerusalem, throughout the generations.

Praise the Lord!”

Psalm 146, NLT

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