Special cg night @ Settlers Holland V
Sometimes I just want to question this: What is our priority in life?
Your character, your beliefs, your behaviour and many other factors are actually affected by the values you have in life and how you prioritise them.
When someone proclaims they put God first in their prioirty list, yet whenever there is cell group outings, but it happens to clash with the time your boyfriend/girlfriend is around or work event that is optional to go, you choose the other over cell group . . . well . . . is it really true that God is in your first priority?
Perhaps if for once or twice, you have no choice. But what if it is almost everytime? Oh well . . . I really don't understand it then . . .
Or ridiculously you just don't want to go for fellowship because you don't like it. Does it mean that everyone has to adjust to your own likings so you can join in the fellowship too? Once or twice perhaps it can be done, but what is the meaning of fellowship when you don't even want to make your first effort to change?
God, what can we do to encourage the people to join the cell group for fellowship? It is not an obligation for sure and we are no kids to be nag at. I just hope to see people being more responsible and united as a cell . . .
Well anyway, last Saturday I just started my first First Hand ministry training course at CDC. This lesson covers mainly the history to TTSH and CDC, and how this ministry comes about. The speaker has taught us a bit on how to response to people when they questioned us about joining this ministry and helping such patients too. It is important for us to know how to answer to them as this ministry is one that truly needs compassion for all people, especially to those that others may outcast them and believing that they deserve what they have done upon themselves.
What impact me the most from the lesson that day is the sharing from some of the volunteers. Albert, a professor from NUS, shared about how he come to discover that one of his relatives is a patient when he did his visitation back then. He fell into his own depression for the first time as he has to bear the struggle to not to tell any of his family members. Yet, as a Christian, he realise God has probably put him there to serve for over 7 years before this incident happens so that he is well prepared emotionally for such tragedy to come about.
When we learn about serving, we would always think of "giving". Yet, sometimes, when we be a blessing to others, we are actually more blessed than them. One of the volunteer shared that whenever one of her patients passed away, she would fold a star in memory of them. She still teared whenever she think about them but by doing so, she learned to grow stronger.
I don't know what this ministry will bring me to . . . but . . . I believe my path will be brighten up also when I can be a lamp for someone else. :)
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts.
And we are never, ever the same."
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