So.. it’s Monday and im back in the office. As usual I can’t concentrate. HK was totally fun, I have always loved travelling alone!!!! Woots! Church camp was not entirely great, but the time I spent with the youths is soooo precious to me. i can now say I know them! And I feel a part of them.
Lappie is down and somehow my office computer can’t read my camera. Sigh..
Can’t upload photos yet. But here are all my thoughts on church camp and my trip to HK.
It was definitely enriching, fun, tiring, insightful, mad, crazy, stressful etc..
Theme for church camp was ‘ behold he comes’. Book of revelations. I was struck by the seriousness of my crimes. Have covered this topic before, but had lotsa doubts and questions. This time round, rev heng really put sooo much light into me! Of course he is luvena’s uncle. They call her Qi Ting. Her aunt is great too! Cool folks. I’ve got rev heng’s album and I just can’t wait to finish my work now so I can fix my lappie and listen to the CD he gave me. And also the CD Nita gave me this morning.
Had a blast! I had such a great time with the family at church, especially the youths. We sure talked a lot, opened up to each other a lot. Planned night walk in the jungle trail, did stupid things at the campfire, got into some trouble when we scared a little girl. Ice cream treats in that ‘natural’ place. A.k.a. mosquitoes, ants, leeches, dirt, gravel, etc.
Someone got a leech bite, together with a few others, he came telling me about it, and to me, it felt like I was finally one of them. Even though I couldn’t join them for the jungle trail, I wasn’t unaware of what happened.
I felt I was accepted into this family of God. I didn’t have to put up a front of any sort. I was being myself for all 4 days.
I couldn’t remember much of church camp. But I can say, the camp was so slack! Not much activities, a lot of free time, and nothing significant happened except for the ones mentioned.
KW is such a great person to be around! It seems we had more than expected things in common. I could almost read his mind and definitely was finishing his sentences while he was constructing them in his mind. We realized we had common soft spots for some Yfers, special thoughts relating to others, and something KW’s been wanting to find out all these years.
We also had a 2 hour long heart to heart talk, about church, and why I left, and his views on all the things that happened to my family whilst in shalom. Finally, someone who knows the real reason, and knows it was not for some stupid quarrel, I left. He was shocked to find out that there were more than he knew about. He tried also to explain. But I told him, we never once blamed anyone for anything.
The rest of the time, we spent it on talking about both of our past relationships. Spoke about almost every aspect of life! Work, church, youth ministry, friends, money, travel, character etc. Tried foot massage, shopped, ate, shared the same roof, tread unfamiliar ground, got lost etc.
On a serious note, Of course we had the same direction for the décor of his apartment, and it didn’t take much convincing from me.
His I mac is totalllllllyyyy cooool! And the big plasma TV and the nice furniture he was going to get after his HK credit card which can get him 12% discount came. The furniture stores there definitely had a larger range than Singapore. and was generally cheaper. The stores we planned to go, we didn’t get anything from them. It was those shops we chanced upon that had the cool stuff. Want to know how cool?! Join me as I head back there tentatively 25th to 28th October. 28th is a public holiday in Singapore la.
It was definitely tiring, I spent almost all the free time and nights I had trying to do some work. Was crazily stressed up, but all worked out well when I came back la, things just worked out well because of God. Connie helped me around, pushed submissions, got people to help me. Although I have this feeling she asked me and Vin to ‘help in this project’ and it’s only so I can take ownership of this project with Vin later on. But at least this ‘ helping in another project’ caused all my current deadlines to slide.
Hai…. Dunno la, just gotta keep trusting the Lord on this one.. I’m lukewarm I know… and im sad about it. I have lost the joy of salvation.. sigh..
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