Thursday, May 08, 2008
it's that easy-just walk across the room.

today after tamar's birthday surprise,
i was terribly late for home.
and i was left with a total of 7 mins to reach home.
from town to clementi.
if God can make me fly, i pray He'd show himself real.
but He had other plans for me,
and perhaps,
for him.=)

i hopped onto a random cab,
"clementi ave 1 please" *panting*
i guess uncle could tell i was rushing,
so he quicky drove off to my home~

and soon, he asked me,
"do you listen to this radio station? 93.8fm"

"nah, i dont." smiled politely=)

"theres a very good presenter,
Deborah xxx (i couldnt remember the full name=p),
she talks about health,
and updates, speaks really well!
and today she was reported R.I.P!!"

"heh heh"
(it took me quite awhile to figure out what was R.I.P),
and when i finally did,
i literally jumped up,
"FOR REAL??!!!"
he got a shock n we nearly got into an accident.

"yeah, lifes really fragile right"

ooh ooh,
i could feel it i could feel it,
it's a chance to turn it into a spiritual conversation..

"God! help me help me! give me opportunity to share about you!"
my heart desperately cried out,
yet trying to remain calm.

"yeah"=)

"my wife eh, got lung cancer you know..
third stage already,
under kimo now, and at first we still didnt know man,
she was about to go through an operation then the doctor discovered the cancer."

"oh~"

"come on God, how to direct it there?
i just ask if she knows God?
ask if she goes to church?
ASK IF SHE'S GONNA DIE SOON??!!"

"luckily we discovered it earlier,
if not it will be the fourth stage already..
fourth stage no cure already right?"

"hmm. yeah~"

"ok come on, go, tell him perhaps it was God working in this"

"yeah, then you know kimo one time 4k,
one month 4 times then 16k you know~
hai heavy burden, fortunately the company's paying 70% of it,
if not where to get the money.."

"yeah, thats very expensive."

"ok, ask him if she has any support group
to like go through it with her, and then give him the example
of like in church people really support each other through difficult times, okok go!"

"yeah but its really a miracle know,
that my wife survive.
that time she fell back, and hurt her spinal cord in church (oh my gosh oh my gosh did you say church? really? church?!=D=D=D=D)
so she had to go for an operation know.."

"oh! so thats when the cancer was discovered?"

"yeah, really miracle u know"

"yeah! perhaps it's like a blessing in disguise?=)"
(if your were there watching my heart it was jumping and leaping for joy like a mad woman. oh, no, like a mad heart.)

"yes yes, our lives in God's hand ah." (uh huh! gotcha! so we've been doing the exact same thing ever since the beginning! trying to direct the whole conversation to God!! exposed exposed!!) haha

"yeah its true its true! does she still go to church now?"

"yup she does." (i bet he was thinking what i was thinking! like oh great, you're a christian too)

"then yourself? do u get to go church too?
cause it quite tough right, to find time and all.."

"yeah i do, as much as i can lah,
cause like you know arh,
the taxi rental 180 a day u know,
we have to earn alot just to break even..hai very tough very tough.."

"yeah, its true, not easy yeah."

and then we went on and on talking about many many things,
he asked me what course i wanna study,
so i told him i wanna study psychology and give my best to point people to God,
and he went on talking about cancer research and everything..
i was just listening and nodding,
but that smile on my face didnt for a second fade away.

and then it was clementi ave 1(somehow i felt that he was driving pretty slowly during the second part of the journey and conversation, esp after we exposed each other. haha)

"thanks uncle, keep the change.
and i'm very encouraged by you.
keep sharing to your passengers about God."=)

he just smiled. blushing.

it was that easy, and that natural,
for him to direct people to God.
it guess,
it came from a heart overflowing with God's love.
i went on the cab wanting to plant a seed of faith in uncle's heart,
he drove me home, having the same intention. (and obviously he was more skillful in it! look at the amount of struggle i went through, ahah!)
but we both parted with great joy overflowing in our hearts.
i know,
we were both encouraged.
and we will both continue taking every opportunity to reach out to the lost.

reaching out,
is really that easy,
just like walking across the room.



Soared at 5/08/2008 01:13:00 AM