Thursday, 9 June 2011
Family Of Love
Entry By Yvonne Ng, Week 4.
Kelsey, Joelle and I were having our devotions this morning and I shared about how I felt that I am not doing enough for the people here in Africa. There is no concrete evidence to show that I have been doing something. Somehow, Kelsey felt the same way as I am. Simply because we have been in a culture where we are so task orientated, where we need to do something and see the results. So is a choice between being in the culture or godly? What do you think?
So God has convicted in all of our hearts that, relationships building with the people is all He wants for us. It doesn’t matters if I do not see any physical results right on my table. It doesn’t matter. All it matters is to be able to connect with the people, building relationships with them and growing strongly in Christ together.
Being in Africa for 1 month, the strongest things that I felt in my heart is Adoption. The American family that we stayed with has adopted 4 kids. Throughout my stay, I see the selfless and unconditional love in Amy and Dave that they have for them. Love that is so strong that it does not allows anyone or anything to penetrate and destroy the relationship between them. Isn’t it just the LOVE that our Father has for us, His adopted children? Through them, I see and felt the love that our Lord has for us, His children.
Why is it that in America, it is so common to adopt but not in other countries. Even most Christians in Singapore don’t adopt. In Singapore, I find myself in the cycle/trap where people’s opinion matters to me. So having an adopted child in the family will definitely creates a gossip topic among people and unfriendly sights from the public especially when you know, if the child has a different skin colour. Accompanying with the numerous questions and worries of WHAT IF? What if I show bias or favoritism? What if I could not love the child wholly and unconditionally? What if my biological child feels that I love the adopted one more than he/she? What if my own relatives do not share the same views? WHAT IF? WHAT IF? WHAT IF? And the list goes on and on.
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But it brings me back to the point- aren’t I an adopted child in Christ too? Is it really so difficult to adopt a child? God didn’t think thoroughly or a thousand times when he adopted me to His kingdom. Every child in this world should be entitled to a family like this. I myself would love to be in a family like this. Don’t we? We have been talking about influencing lives. Finding out how we can be a great positive influence over people’s lives and even blessing them. And now right before you is an opportunity for you to have a great positive influence over a child’s life. What would you say?
Amy has certainly influence me about adoption through her actions.
So maybe you might be wondering why I feel so much for adoption.
I grew up in a family of five with an elder brother and an eldest sister. So yes, I am the youngest. I was blessed right from the start when I entered this world. Lord has blessed me and my family with a wonderful
housekeeper from Philippines. As far as she is concerned, she is like a 2nd mother to me. Her name is auntie Wen. I was brought up in a single handed family by my birth mum. My mother is the greatest person on earth. She took up the sole responsibility of being the sole bread winner of my family. When I was young, Mummy has been working hard to provide for us. So she doesn’t really have time for us. So I spend a lot of time with auntie Wen. From what I could remember, I would only see my mum during the weekends. As we were both not expressive people, we didn’t interact much.
housekeeper from Philippines. As far as she is concerned, she is like a 2nd mother to me. Her name is auntie Wen. I was brought up in a single handed family by my birth mum. My mother is the greatest person on earth. She took up the sole responsibility of being the sole bread winner of my family. When I was young, Mummy has been working hard to provide for us. So she doesn’t really have time for us. So I spend a lot of time with auntie Wen. From what I could remember, I would only see my mum during the weekends. As we were both not expressive people, we didn’t interact much.
So If you were to ask me what is one incident that I would remember. I would tell you that was when my mum held my hand while we were crossing the road when I was in primary four. Why holding hands? As from young, there wasn’t much communication and we barely had any quality time together. So that’s like the only incident that I could remember clearly. It was also an incident that I felt a mother’s love. So when Amy shows her love through her actions and words, it stirs the emotions in me. And I could clearly understand how love could make a difference in a child’s life.
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| Yvonne is learning from Amy how to be a great mum at adopting children! "Somehow, i could stand in an orphans’ point of view on how wonderful life could be with loving parent" - Yvonne Ng                        Here come the start of our Iron Chef Series in Africa 2011!! Cheerrsss!!! First to start off with Team A and their Final Dish!          Here come Iron Chef Team B and our Final Dish! :)          In the end, there's no winner i guess..hahahaa!! Cause there's no really a judge for us :(( and nobody want to bear the bet of washing dirty plates and bowls for 1 week, still too dependent with our house helper. HAHAA! BUT WE REALLY HAVE FUN!!!! :D messing up the kitchen! Or..Why not you guys be the judges for us by just looking at our end product photo from each team, leave us an comment on facebook :) Last but not least, this is our entry for the week..There's more to come next week together with photos and video! There's really too much to blog about but didn't want to lose the main focus of this week topic that we are going to share. So! yup! As counting down by our dear friend, Candice Chai, we are going to be back to Singapore in another 64 days? hahaa! Really missing our friends in Singapore! Nonetheless, Stay tune with us on facebook and blog! To Primers: All the way for NDP 2011 and Famine Camp! :D Wishes and prayer from us! |
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