The Beauty of Enormous Things: Bosco's Photo Blog

Bosco Tung's Photo Blog: "My eyes are small but they have seen the beauty of enormous things, Which leads me to believe, there's light enough to see that, You make everything glorious" - Everything Glorious by David Crowder Band

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Siying Rainbow Bridge in Penghu, Taiwan.

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Sorry, been too busy to post new photos....but this....this is gorgeous.

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"There are not enough good things said about the people that put themselves in harms way every day for us. What does that say about us?" - Julie Hébert, television writer, director and producer

Location: Dufferin and Bloor, Toronto, ON

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"The art of temporary vandalism with dry-erase markers." - http://windoodles.tumblr.com/

Try it if you have a window!

http://windoodles.tumblr.com/post/10369011776/via-bosco-tung

(from 18 September, 2011)

Location: Yonge and College, Toronto, ON

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“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." - Mark 8:34b

http://www.acts17-11.com/cross.html

Location: St.James Cathedral, Toronto, ON

(Oldest Church in the city of Toronto)

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"Love one another with brotherly affection. Out do one another in showing honor." - Romans 12:10

(From TreeHouse Chilli Run back in Jan 2013)

Location: Treehouse, UTCCF House, Toronto, ON

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"God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies." - Hudson Taylor

Every now and then I'll feature a few photos I've found and gathered that I find fascinating and insightful from past history.

Today's Featured Missionary: Hudson Taylor James Hudson Taylor (Chinese: 戴德生) (1832-1905), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM) (now OMF International). Taylor spent 51 years in China. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who began 125 schools and directly resulted in 18,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 500 local helpers in all eighteen provinces. Taylor was known for his sensitivity to Chinese culture and zeal for evangelism. He adopted wearing native Chinese clothing even though this was rare among missionaries of that time. Under his leadership, the CIM was singularly non-denominational in practice and accepted members from all Protestant groups, including individuals from the working class and single women as well as multinational recruits. Primarily because of the CIM's campaign against the Opium trade, Taylor has been referred to as one of the most significant Europeans to visit China in the 19th Century. Historian Ruth Tucker summarises the theme of his life: "No other missionary in the nineteen centuries since the Apostle Paul has had a wider vision and has carried out a more systematised plan of evangelising a broad geographical area than Hudson Taylor." Taylor was able to preach in several varieties of Chinese, including Mandarin, Chaozhou, and the Wu dialects of Shanghai and Ningbo. The last of these he knew well enough to help prepare a colloquial edition of the New Testament written in it. From 1865-1953, China Inland Mission (CIM) missionaries worked throughout the country of China. It was a difficult, tumultuous time in the Middle Kingdom. Those years saw events such as the Boxer Rebellion, the fall of China’s last dynasty, a civil war, World War II and the founding of the Communist government. Through it all, the CIM persevered to become one of the largest and most respected mission agencies in China. Missionary work in the 19th and 20th centuries laid the foundation for the revival of the Chinese church in recent decades. Pray for China: http://www.operationworld.org/chna

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“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!" - Matthew 6:22-23

(yes, this is my eye. you can email [email protected] to join their study as they still need more participants)

Location: Anthropology Building, University of Toronto

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"A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library." - Shelby Foote

Location: Gerstein Library, University of Toronto

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“You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.” - Nury Vittachi, Hong Kong: The City of Dreams

I miss "home" :(

(taken Oct 2011, you can flip through the photos by dragging them)

Location: Around Hong Kong

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"Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue." - Dilbert [Scott Adams]

(you can flip through photos)

Location: Tsim Tsa Tsui Harbour, Hong Kong

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"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute." - Gil Stern

Flying photos from my return trip from HK -> Shanghai -> Toronto back in Oct 2011

(you can flip through photos by dragging)

Location: Shanghai Airport and air of Hong Kong and Toronto

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"In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it." - Emile Zola

Location: Han Residence, Toronto, ON

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For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’" - Matthew 25:35-40 (ESV)

Location: Old City Hall, Queen and Bay, Toronto, ON

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"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." - Chinese Proverb

"The early bird gets the worm." - American Proverb

Location: Kensington Market, Toronto, ON

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"Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these." - Matthew 6:29

Stunning.

Location: Spadina Flowers,Toronto, ON

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"What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight. What is whispered in your ear, shout from the rooftops." - Matthew 10:27 (NIRV)

Location: Jesus Culture Concert, Church on the Queensway, Toronto, ON

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"We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them."  - 1 John 4:16

Happy Vday darling :)

Location: Toronto, ON