Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Hello Everybody!!!
I'm exploding with excitement and joy now as i just return home from a GREAT VISITATION! It really was a very cool visitation... it's not the super "chop chop" style of visitation nor the constant enquiring from sis shumei if we're coming to our last house, how many more houses to go that was cool... no no no.. But it was her bubbliness and the very enjoyable conversations with her that I found really very enjoyable. She didnt talk anything like super spiritual or mind breaking you know that sort of thing, but her simple talks and pleasant looks and good countenance really eases all the fan2 nao3 away.. hehe.. cool! I'm looking forward to the next few visitations with her.
Of course i seriously hope my actual visitation leader bro cheong wai will be well soon and come back. I'm praying hard for the family and him. God please protect and bring healing.
Anyway! Yes! A new revelation! Wow.. I totally love it everytime I hear God speak something to me! Awesome! Way cooler! Wow! hahaha....
Yupz... so i was making my way home from visitation ( hmm... that was how I received my revelation in another past entry.. hehe), and was just thinking suddenly," gladys, what's the difference between you and a social worker?" I mean, both of us do visitations, speak to households, give things, do some counselling blah blah....
And as i was thinking and walking home, God just gently put it into my ears, the difference is you. I was like.. huh?
me?
what is that?
Then I saw it... Yes, yeah! the difference between a social worker and me is ME!
When a social worker is doing all his/her stuff, he/she is representing who? => an organisation.
When I'm walking and visiting, who do I represent?=> MY LORD JESUS CHRIST! WOW!
Yes! the difference is that when I'm doing visitation, it is ME, GLADYS WONG that is doing it! Not a miss so and so or mr so and so from whatever charitable organisation.
You may say... big deal, what kind of revelation is that?!
but when I realised that God has placed ME ,not somebody else at this place at this time to visit the kids, it really got me impacted. Like, that means I'm given the authority from Christ,placed in this region of the country to impact and make a difference! This ME is not perfect, far from perfection. BUT BUT BUT!!! This ME has a particular SOMEONE in her that is BIGGER than ANY PERSON OR ORGANISATION, so this ME has a GREATER AUTHORITY than ANY OTHER CHARITY SOCIAL WORKER to make a difference!
YUP! So what must I do to make a difference? I realise, the first thing: build relationships. If you're not in ANY position in a person's life, in a person's mind, then when the person is in trouble, sorrow or joy even, that person will not even remember or recall your existance, much less call you to share his/her troubles and joys.
So how to build relationships?
1) whatever language of love you most readily express, use it. Simple things like a card, or a sth small in a normal day makes a person feel like "wah! it's a normal day and that person still remembers me. Perhaps it really shows that she cares and I do matter!"
2) of course spending time is impt in building relationships... but if you dont have much free time then how? So I think it's very impt on how you spend the time that you're together.
3) Just do it! yes... pple who have fear of man, just do it! sometimes we have too many concerns, too many fears.. scared she will think I crazy la, scared he will think I llike him la... blah blah blah... Of course we must be wise and cautious in our actions and behaviours so that it will not be interpreted wrongly, but the bible says that the ways(actions) of the pure will be pure. Once pple know our stand, they will receive as such. I guess what Im trying to say is that amidst all the considerations, we must not let all these cause us to stop sowing into pple's lives. No sowing=no harvest lor! hehe.. simple huh.
4) anyway, get out of your comfort zone!!! I'm screaming that to myself too! Yeah.. when you want to do sth, anything, anything that you've yet to accomplish, of course you need to take an extra NEW step right? Otherwise, old steps will only bring you around your old course of path! Ok, I'm so saying this to myself... YEs I'm taking steps!!
I cant wait to see how Gladys Wong grows by the end of 2006.. my report card at the end of the yr! hehe... cheers!=D
what i look forward to, 7:41 PM.
