Sunday, March 25, 2007  2:58 AM
A week in eternity
This week's been an emotional rollercoaster, up and down, upside down and inside out that sometimes you end up wishing you never had a heart at the end of it all. I had to have that devil of a wisdom tooth extracted, and it was undeniably the most excruciatingly painful and traumatising experience of my life. Although it was pretty funny at the end of it all, thinking back about how I asked the dentist worriedly whether he would do anything to relieve the pain after the most painful sensation ever in my mouth, which turned out to be the injection to numb everything. But the feeling of the dentist tugging using the scary extraction tool is one that's indescribable and I believe is unlike any other in this world. He pulls and pulls and my tooth just refuses to come out, then he goes ahead and does something weird, and pulls for another five minutes (it felt like one hour) and then you hear the sickening craaaaack.
I walked out of the clinic dizzy and faint, headed back to my room and immediately crashed into bed, waking up every ten minutes to spit out blood. I'm thankful for roommates that hold my hand with me squeezing her life out of it, watch the entire bloody process and tuck me into bed, and for good friends that tell a bunch of lies to bring me my favourite food.
Last week at church was amazing, we unknowingly sat next to a newcomer, and she turned out to be Singaporean and is married to a Hongkonger and has been living here for four years. Joni looks really young (I thought she was our age), but she's really 29 and even has a two-year old son! I remember sitting there and wondering if she was a new Christian and whether I should share the 4SL's with her. I think back about it now and realise how God chooses to bless me in ways I can relate to, because over lunch with her, she told us all about her walk with God and about how her life changed drastically ever since she got married right after graduation and moved to Hong Kong. She reminds me alot of the two lovely ladies I hold with high regard in my life and whom I really admire and respect, my ex cell-group leader Janis and my current YA mentor Shirley. And without that kind of mentorship here, it really is amazing how Joni just came along out of nowhere. The irony is this, every day we walk past this really posh salon at Festival Walk called Hair, and it's a famed hair salon where many celebrities go to. It happens that Joni's husband is the director of that place, and he cuts celebrities' hair there, and charges HK$1200 per haircut (like the David Gan of Hong Kong). She said if we ever want a haircut there to just ring her and she'll give us a discount - how unbelievable is that.
Time is a parenthesis in the eternal timeline. Today's sermon was thought-provoking, and that was the key line in the whole message to me. It was about understanding God's calling and timing for you, and I felt that that line really struck a chord. This short time we have here on earth is a short period as compared to eternity, and being carnal perhaps equates to one who thinks, acts and feels that this world is our ultimate home. I think the message came at the right time, and it probably is time to re-evaluate my life once more and remove that impulsive and stubborn nature I like to define as things going my way in my timing.
Two more months left in this bustling city, and I should stop moping around thinking about what I want best for myself, but really, what God wants of me in my remaining time here.
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