有多久我们停止说话了？
有一阵子连他电话号码都没了，有时正面碰到也有点尴尬。。。

几天前，心中有个感动，送他一份礼物吧。。。
是来自自己吗，还是上帝？有些人大概会不理解或不太赞成吧。。。
念头还在，但没行动，后来也忘记了。。。然而我心里知道如果是来自神，他一定会提醒我的。。。

几天过后，念头又回来了：送他一份礼物吧！因太忙碌还是没行动。。。
昨天念头又来了，这次还加一句：马上行动！。。。不只是为了祝福他，也释放你自己。。。
我顺服了。。。

过后传个简讯给他说我寄了个礼物给他，他非常讶异的回我简讯说：牧师，为什么还对我这么好？我都做错了那么多。。。
我回答：爱是不死的。。。
然后，我忍了一年的眼泪终于掉下来了。。。我知道我心中有爱。。。

今早醒来，扭开手机，另一个意想不到的人传了简讯进来。。。
这人祝福我一个我没预料的礼物，价值至少有我昨天送出去的四、五倍吧！
怎么会这样？我很不好意思赶快回短讯说：那很多钱耶，我会很不好意思，你做工辛苦，你让我我既难为情又很感动。。。
他说：小意思，请容许我祝福你。。。

我望着天，感觉上帝在对我微笑。。。

How long have we stopped talking?
At one stage I did not even have his number anymore, sometimes it was kind of awkward to bump into each other  face to face…

Few days ago, there was this conviction in my heart: Send him a gift…
Is this from God or myself? Some people probably would not understand or agree…
The thought continued but I did not act and forgot about it later… But I knew in my heart if it is from God, He will certainly remind me…

Few days later the thought came back: Send him a gift! But because I was too busy I still did not do it…
Yesterday the thought came again, this time with another instruction: Do it straight away!… Not only to bless him but to set yourself free too…
I obeyed…

After that I sent him a text message informing him of the gift, he was very surprised and replied: Pas, why do you still treat me so kind… after what I did…
I replied: Love does not die…
Then the tears I had controlled for a year dropped… I know I have love in my heart…

I woke up this morning, after switching on my handphone, another unexpected person sent me a text message…
This person blessed me with an unexpected gift, the value must be four or five times the amount of the gift I sent out yesterday!
How come? I felt embarrassed and quickly replied: That’s a lot of money, you work so hard to earn a living, I will feel so bad though I’m very touched…
He said, it’s only a small token, please allow me to bless you…

I looked at the sky, I could feel God smiling at me…

我一直都很欣赏这位女生，以前都一直觉得她是我心目中第一美女。。。
你们看看，毫无打扮，不造作，自自然然，却是那么可人。。。

I’ve always adored this lady, used to think she was the number one beauty in my heart…
Look, no make-up, no pretence, so natural and yet so attractive…

很清纯美丽吧？知道我这自然美女是谁吗？哈哈。。。
所以不一定要花枝招展，打扮多多才会美丽的。。。
Very simple and pretty, right? Do you know who this natural beauty is? Haha…
So you don’t always need to be extravagant or have heavy make-up to be beautiful…

那天我邀请两位稀客到我家吃饭。。。
其实已注意到他们来教会一段日子了，所以想更认识他们，也让他们感觉古晋人的温情。。。
That day, I invited two unique guests to my house for dinner…
Actually I have noticed them coming to our church for quite a while, so I thought of getting to know them more, and also to let them feel the “warmth” of Kuching people…

他们抵达时我很讶异，因为都穿西装领带，而我短裤和T恤。。。很不好意思，我赶快跑上楼去换衣。。。
他们解释说在他们国家很难那么近距离接触牧师，所以听到是来牧师家吃饭，一定要穿最好的衣服来。。。哇！真的很尊敬神的仆人！
When they arrived, I was astonished because they were all suit and tie while I was in shorts and T-shirt… feeling embarrassed, I quickly ran upstairs to change…
They explained that in their home country, it is very difficult to have such close contact with pastors, so when they heard they were coming to pastor’s house to eat, they must put on their best clothes… Wow, talk about honouring the servant of God!

他们来自尼日利亚，在古晋求学。左边的叫回忆，右边的约翰。。。
他们真的比我们华人还有礼貌，我发现他们一直站着没坐下，原来是我还没坐下，他们就不坐！而我其他的“古晋”客人却早就坐在桌子旁等开饭。。。
然后，我还没开始吃，他们也不敢动汤匙，真的是等牧师先吃，他们才吃；哪像我们的年轻人，嘴巴说“牧师，吃！”，牧师还没动手，他们已经吃几口了。。。

They are from Nigeria, studying in Kuching. On the left, Memory and right, John…
They are even more polite than us, Chinese. I realised they were standing all the time because I had not sat down, so they did not sit down too! Where as my other “Kuching” guests were already well-seated getting ready to eat…
Then before I started to eat, they would not even touch their spoon, they were really waiting for me to start first; so unlike our young people who would say “Pastor, eat!”, but before I even move a finger, they would have already eaten a few mouthfuls…

那一天跟他们沟通分享，学了好一些功课，也看到我们自己的偏见，常以为非洲人就很穷，没饭吃，等等。。。
人家穿的西装还是网上订购，从美国寄来超过千多令吉的名牌货呢！
我们砂拉越人不是最讨厌别人说我们住在树上吗？回忆和约翰说他们在这里也经历很多人的鄙视，和对非洲的偏见，求主赦免！
我希望有一天能拜访他们家乡，你们呢？
While talking and sharing with them that day, we learnt many lessons and saw our own prejudice of always thinking that Africans are all very poor and lacking in food…
They were wearing branded suits ordered via internet and sent in from the USA which cost more than a thousand Ringgit!
Don’t we, Sarawakians hate people saying we still live on trees? Memory and John said they also experienced similar despise and prejudices about Africa from people here, may God have mercy!
I hope to visit their homeland one day, what about you?