Love has spoken and we believe,
Saturday, August 8, 2009 @ 11:39 PM
Really tired today since I slept rather late yesterday night. Watched 命中注定我愛你 and 200 Pounds Beauty!! Hahah, this is my 2nd time watching 命中, since it's a really awesome show and it's currently showing on channel U (weekdays, 10-11pm). Yep, yall should go watch it too! :-) Lol, so I was kinda in a dreamy mode today. But still enjoyed service a great deal, especially sermon which rly reminded me to do life with an extraordinary friend, Jesus (: Yup, & celebrated many people's birthdays today: Eline, Mingjang & Jolyn! Hehe, hope all of ya grow wiser and continue to love God love people :D
Anyway, I encountered smth interesting this morning during my bus ride to town. I missed the bus and had to wait for quite some time for the next one. When the bus came, it was almost full but I still managed to get a seat. I noticed a English-speaking lady with white hair. She caught my attention cos she was occupying 2 seats (1 to put her bag) and was reading out the bible. Soon, an Indian woman boarded the bus. She also caught my attention cos uh she was very fat and sweating alot. After awhile, 2 old men made a comment on smth about the white-haired-lady being selfish and occupying 2 seats. She was rather agressive and very ready to defend herself, insisting that she didn't see someone had no seat. Soon, the conflict escalated to a heated argument. The old men kept on scolding the lady was selfish and it wasn't the 1st time alr blahblah whereas the lady was shouting that she didn't see and threatened to sue them cos 1 of them scolded her in hokkien which she didn't understand. The people in the bus either looked on or faster alighted, except for the Indian woman. What she did changed my perspective of her and helped me to look @ her in a different light. She went up to calm both parties down, explain to them how their quarrel was affecting the bus driver & passengers and mediate between both of them. She took quite long before managing to calm both parties down and resolve the issue. After that, I took some time to reflect. I'm quite amazed by the Indian woman. Being of a different race, she probably didn't understand 1/4 of the quarrel. Yet, even though nobody tried to help, she took the 1st step, risking getting scolded as well (angry pple are unreasonable pple lol). Yea, rly admire her courage & iniative (-: Another thing that struck me was the actions of the lady. I think as christians, we should try our best to protect God's image and be mindful of our speech/ actions (she was reading the bible). Lastly, I'm amazed @ how quarrelsome people can be! I really wonder how you can scold or pick a fight with strangers, pple you hardly know. I mean, I think it's rather weird/ awkward to scold/ quarrel with pple I don't know well.
Matthew 22:37-39 (NIV) Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
