just passing through: NY City Tour

17 December 2009

NY City Tour

It's the second leg of our city tour. This time we covered midtown to downtown Manhattan.

From NY Presbyterian Hospital, my sister's workplace, we purchased day pass subway tickets. Ride all you can in one day...

NY Presbyterian Hospital, Macy's

Madison Square Garden, Empire State Building

At the 86th floor, Empire State Building Observatory

Chinatown, Battery Park (the sculpture used to be in the open space in front of the World Trade Center)

Battery Park (Liberty Island in the background), World Trade Center Memorial

Sail On

"Life here on earth is a temporary assignment." - Rick Warren

They say that we are just like passing ships. Wherever we go and drop anchor, we learn something that makes our lives never the same again.

Life may have brought us disappointments, failures, discouragements, broken hearts and other negative thoughts and emotions but life goes on.

Along the way, we meet people who touch our lives one way or the other. Some become true friends. Most of them just acquaintances.

We are here in this world temporarily. We are not yet home.

Whatever happens, the Lord will never leave us nor forsake us. He always knows what's best for us.

Everything happens for a reason.

Quotable Quotes

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, and then be willing to live for them and die for them.
- John Piper

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln