NetZero Down

I can’t even believe it!

Next to the computer I sit,

Trying to go online,

And it’s bothering my mind,

To discover that my hours are gone!

That’s forty hours gone!

So many stuff I need to do,

I hope I don’t go through,

A Summer time blue!

Gone are hours for the month,

Yet it’s only midway through the month!

What am I left to do?

Will I be bored without a clue,

Or will I be able to past the time,

Without any Internet time?

Imagine that: No AIM,

No email checks or ability to send them,

And no sharing Christ to people,

Unable to preach the Gospel!

But in all and all,

There’s a good to it all:

Having Net Zero down,

Allows me to slow down,

And turn my attention to Jesus,

Worshipping Him more serious.

By Jimmy Li

     One of the biggest factor to my boredom during the latter half of June was the fact that the Internet Service Provider I used, Net Zero, had a limit on the hours used per month and I was out on those hours!  Personally, I felt it was my sister fault from using most of the hours.  But what can I do?  Boy was I bored!  Didn’t know how much I was dependent on the Internet.  And one of my favorite activities when I’m online is being on AIM witnessing Jesus to people and being open for others to have prayer requests or ask questions.  But one of the lesson that came from Net Zero down during June was the reminder I had from God that sometimes, God takes away the thing that captures most of our attention so that we may come to God and give Him our attention.  Maybe God has been trying to grab your attention in your life.  If so, I would really recommend you go towards Him and be reconciled with Him.  Oh yeah—be sure to read the poem titled, “Luminous”.

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Ennui

Oh how boring it could get!

I’m sitting here tired of staring at a fret!

The boredom is so loud!

It’s obnoxiously loud!

Could someone tune it down?

Is there anywhere I could hang around?

Beat this boredom and all,

Or at least put it in a stall.

Sometimes it gets to a certain point,

Almost like a breaking point,

Where you just want to feel mad,

You’re just feeling so bad!

Oh man, what can I do?!

Could only write a poem and complain to you.

It’s so boring!

It’s so annoying!

But again, what can I do?

Am I also boring you?

By Jimmy Li

     I think this poem is self-explanatory.  Sometimes, the boredom could really, really get so bad that the only thing to do is to respond to it just like the mood that is carried in this poem.  When you are feeling bad like this and hanging on the ends of the rope, there’s only one thing to do: Hang on with Jesus Christ.

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Luminous

I hope this would be a light for you,

I hope you’ll remember this when you’re blue.

May the poem shine like a light,

That’s so bright,

You’ll walk away remembering,

That One’s life came forth to be redeeming,

For the sins of many who deserved wrath.

But because of Him, we now have a path,

In which we can be saved truly,

A gift from God Almighty.

So let us pray to Him and thank Him.

May we accept this gift and serve Him.

May we all not forget this,

But rather in trials or bliss,

 Praise be to His name,

Praise be to the one who’s not a shame,

To receive the punishment for you and me.

To Him be the glory!

By Jimmy Li

     I wrote and prayed to God that in this poem, God would speak to someone’s heart out there that is reading this.  That is what I want more than anything else out of all these poems.  Just for God’s light to shine on someone’s heart and let whoever is reading this know that Jesus Christ died for our sins so we can have God in our relationship in our life would be such a blessing for me.  God’s love for us indeed is wonderful; Jesus Christ had to come down and die for our sins, which is very real in order for God to look at us not as a child of wrath, but His children, ones that would call Him Lord and Savior and more importantly, be saved forever.  So to all those who  read this, I just hope you really think about this in your life, and come to Him.

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When You Are Bored Again. . .

Well, the next time you are bored,

And you wonder what’s in store,

Maybe you should think about this:

What could you do to glorify Jesus?

 It does say in the Bible,

To work and not be idle.

So what can you do for Christ?

Well, remember the price,

He paid in full for your sin,

In order to have you forgiven?

Well you see, you could tell people about it!

And do pray to God about it!

It’s simply to tell the Good News happily,

And do it for God’s glory!

Yeah, I know it might be strange,

“Hey Jim, are you kinda derange?”

“What’s this business of God’s glory,

“Jim, aren’t you kind of crazy?”

But hey, at least in the moment of boredom,

I could stop for a while and preach the Kingdom,

And have a treasure for eternality,

To tell others His love for you and me.

By Jimmy Li

     Well, boredom isn’t a one time thing we defeat for good.  But hey, when it does pop back up again (and it will), I hope you remember this poem that you read.  Stop for a moment and think about it; when you are really bored, do you usually try to search for something you could do?  And boredom usually does occur when we feel like there is really nothing you can do!  But just simply sharing Jesus can be a great way to pass dull and idle moments.  Yeah, there might be thought such as, “I can’t…my friends would think I’m weird” or “I’m afraid…” but hey, you want to know something?  It isn’t that scary if you actually do it after awhile.  Of course, I’m not saying we should all be yelling on top of our lungs outside some friend’s house; tell it normally and with love to that person.  Most of all, that dull and boring moment would have been put to use by telling people about Jesus!

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Wired -The Yearbook Theme

I sat down with the yearbook on my desk,

A yearbook like a memory chest,

And I read the beginning opener,

“It’s a new millenium, a new age, a new culture.”

I read on till something caught my attention,

Something I’ll quote for further mention:

“More and more people find they cannot live without…”

Then it listed techno things some couldn’t live without.

Cell phones and pagers,

Heck, I’m surprise they didn’t mention CD players.

The world we live in today is “wired”,

One who’s not “in” with it might get fired.

But after awhile I stopped and wonder,

Is this all the world has to offer?

Electro gags might be cool,

But who’s the fool,

To believe materialism is the point to this world?

Is Macintosh Power book the thing to be herald?

As a Christians I thought to myself these things,

And wonder about what the world is missing,

Without Jesus Christ, how much are you “connected”?

Without Him, life’s purpose is vain and hectic!

So I close off the yearbook with a sigh,

I’m so glad Jesus didn’t pass me by.

By Jimmy Li

     Mark Keppel High School’s yearbook for the 2000-2001 school year had the theme of “Wired”.  It was probably three weeks after getting my year book that I started to stop looking at it…after all, I’ve been going through it randomly for days even before I graduated.  Well, I decided to look at it one night to understand the reason behind the theme, “Wired”.  But as I was reading the first couple of pages in the yearbook, a thought came to my mind about the real “connection” that we really need in our lives: That of being “connected” with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our lives.  Well, even though I was bored during that time in June, my mind wasn’t completely gone!  Somehow the thought penetrated my mind that perhaps materialism is a big factor to many of our dull and boring moments in life.  For some reason, materialistic values dry us all up and we become unappreciative.  But I think that something more than another Sony Play Station or a new DVD player can fill this emptiness: Jesus Christ, the Son of God!

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