Occasion: Lunch and Church Camp Meeting after GG
Atmosphere: CHAOS.
Our meeting intensifies, with ideas, arguments, reasoning, clarification, confusion thrown over nasi lemak and noodles of all sorts. I guess that’s what inspired Unc Hoi Meng to pen this poem for Episode 6 of our GLOP announcement. Being one of the quieter of the lot, he must have thought: “What is this hoo-ha over a camp?”
Year in year out, why Family Camp?
So much need to do and so much need to plan,
I remembered Helen says can ah…and I said.……can can,
Now I wonder whether I am in a frying pan!
To have meeting……..good-lah over makan,
Yum, yum, talk, talk…….can still work and plan,
Young and old, never mind we are all part of the band,
For all in the GG ever ready to give a helping hand.
God’s Love, Our passion……this is the theme,
To evangelize, we need internally Christ driven steam,
Furthermore, to evangelize, we also need to work as a team,
For
His people, His creation…..Our LORD seek out with full compassion,
For you, me & the whole world, He last prayed before his crucifixion,
In His grace……we are all now saved from eternal damnation,
COME to CAMP & find out His passionate love for His Creation!
…..AND DARE TO DREAM FOR GOD TO CLAIM THIS NATION!!
SO WE NEED TO PROCLAIM & BE FAITHFUL FOR IT IS NOT AN OPTION……
THEN, BRING LAH OIKOS FOR THEY TOO NEED GOD’S SALVATION!
Honest poetry writing indeed.
Let’s ask God to give us specific oikos to bring to the camp, and act by faith. If you are feeling obliged to come yourself, maybe you are your own oikos! Challenge yourself to rediscover God’s love – the original lover, the only truth, the one creator.
And let me end by Hoi Meng’s compilation of chewable quotes from Mother T.
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?”
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”
“There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.”
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
“At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made or how many great things we have done. We will be judged by ‘I was hungry and you gave me to eat. I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless and you took me in.’”
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ya..... it was so LOUD... i can hear them talking now....
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