What is your purpose in life? I’ve discovered that for many people finding their purpose in life can be a daunting task. The Chinese believe that you won’t get clarity of your life purpose until you are fifty years old (五十而知天命). But, does it really have to be so difficult to know your purpose in life that you have to wait until you are fifty? That’s sounds disappointing!

Maybe that’s just for the general population, but there are some special people like Joseph of the Old Testament that apparently knew his life purpose since he was as young as seventeen. He envisioned that one day his family—his parents and all his eleven brothers would bow down in front of him. Of course he didn’t know why and how it could happen.

Living a life without consciousness of God's presence is like a ship drifting in the ocean without a sail. In this message, I will teach you how to make 2012 the year of blessing by being conscious of God's presence, and how to reenter and stay in God's presence using a simple breathing method that I learned from the late Bill Bright.

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One thing I like about Christmas is that it comes right before the New Year. It helps me end the year with a positive note--no matter how hard the year had been—and enter the New Year with hope. I know for some people, this Christmas might not be a happy one, especially for those who have lost their loved ones. Still, the true message of Christmas can lift our spirit, melt our sorrows away, and fill our hearts with hope for a better New Year.

When we were young, the primary reason of joy at Christmas time is the gifts we received. Our expectation of gifts becomes bigger as we grow older. Maybe men are weaker on this aspect, as I heard women say, “the difference between a boy and a man is the price of his toys.” Hopefully, sooner or later, we all become mature enough to look for gifts beyond material things.

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If life is like a song, what would your song be and how would you sing it?

I have an older cousin, Aaron, who went abroad to study since young, and he was often talked about in our family as the model of our generation. My grandparents and parents always asked me to imitate him. As I grew up I found most of the teachers, mentors, and professional trainers saying the same thing—model after the successful people. As a result we often end up becoming copies of someone else.

Today is the tenth anniversary of 9/11. All this week, we have seen the stories of 9/11 being told on the news media, evoking different emotions in different people. Some of you don’t want to see it, others feel very sad seeing it, and still others find a lot of questions in mind as you witness the extent of evil human beings could commit. 9/11 is a defining moment for this generation, just as the assassination of John F. Kennedy was the defining moment of the previous generation.

A couple of the slogans you hear frequently these days are “Never Forget” and “United We Stand.” Have you ever thought about what these slogans really mean to you? How do we never forget 9/11? In other words, how do we remember this day so that it will honor the lives of the innocent victims, the lives of those who died heroically in the attempt the rescue those who were trapped in the towers—the firefighters, civic leaders and law enforcement officers, and the sacrifices of our service men and women in the subsequent wars against terrorism.