Hey yo everyone! I am here to share my experience of my visit to mdm Chua’s house to clean up her house on 14^th March! On that day’s morning, I met Gouyang and went over to the auntie’s place to help clean up her area. At first I thought that it was going to be super dusty and I have to think twice before I put on my white shirt, but when I reach there it was quite clean so I kind of heaved a sigh of relief! Haha! So we went in to help her to clean up her place.

She is 75years old this year, and has a daughter who married and a son who is a little mentally unsound. She have difficulty doing housework as her knees were not in a good condition and she had to visit the doctor regularly and there will be someone fetching her to our dialect church service on Sunday morning. The dialect church staff will normally go to her place on every Saturday morning to help her with the housework but they were not free for the past 2 weeks so we went to help her voluntarily. We swept and mop her place, clean her plates, wash up her kitchen including her wok (which is actually quite dirty as she did not wash it for 2 weeks), wash the toilets and also cleared the rubbish in the house. We swept up a lot of cigarette butts as her son always smoked in the house. The cleaning and washing took about an hour and then we went to have a chat with her before we left her house to go to church. Her Chinese wasn’t that good so we speak to her in Hokkien which is her dialect (and I wasn’t really good at it! Haha!)

My feelings are that we can go and help more of these needy elderly who needs our help. It is also in our church’s motto: to find a need and meet it and to find a hurt and heal it. When we meet the needs of these people, we are showing the love of Jesus who also serve those who had needs, just like in Matthew 22:39, “ Love your neighbour as yourself.”

Nice 'peek-ture' of a beautiful tree..my colleague took it in her park. Awesome!! Reminds me of this verse:

Jeremiah 17:7-8," Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is in the LORD. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; But its leaves will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit."

Every tree has roots, but not every tree will grow well.
Every believer knows God (or claims to), but not every believer will grow well. True?

Every tree has to make a choice, where it wants to grow its roots. Similarly,
we need to make a choice on where our roots should rest. Meaning....
where/who/what is our source?

When troubles arrive, trials set in, storms arise, who do we turn to?
What do we do? Whine...grumble....complain...pity ourselves...wellow in bitterness...?

Trusting God is a choice...a decision.
It's against our very human nature to believe something we dont see.
(But funny that people can believe there's ghost...but don't believe there's God...right?
Can't see both. Haha!)

So, let's make a decision to trust God, and put our hopes in God.
Do you know why Jesus resurrected? His resurrection not only shows that He is God,
but so that we know, He's a God of hope. When there's Jesus, there's hope. Something
is coming your way. A rainbow will appear after the storm.

To be continued....

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Matthew 3:14-15 (New International Version)

"But John tried to deter him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?" Jesus replied, "Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness." Then John consented."