Squash - and helping someone

This morning I managed to drag myself out of bed on a lovely Saturday morning... lovely to sleep, that is. Anyway, went over to my buddy Kevin's place for some squash. Another good buddy, Marcus was there too. Had a few rounds just for fun.

I've only ever played it once before this in my life. Now I remember why! :) But it's ok, it's more of enjoying the company that the game itself.

Anyway, after the game I was coming home. As I was coming home, I saw this guy with only one leg hobbling along on crutches. I wasn't able to stop in time, so I kept on going. Then I felt that I should just make a u-turn, go back and see if I could help him. Maybe give him a lift somewhere.

So I turned around, pretty big u-turn. When I came to the spot, he was waiting. Perhaps for a taxi, I thought. I stopped next to him, asked him where he was going. He gave me a proud look and didn't answer. I asked him again. He looked into my car, and said he's waiting for a taxi. I asked him where he was going again, telling him I might be able to give him a lift. With another proud look, he said chinatown. Chinatown is a good 20kilometers from where we were. He looked away proudly as if to say he didn't want a lift. so anyway, I felt he didn't really want to get in, and I drove off.

It was quite a strange experience for me. No.1, in KL, you don't usually offer rides to strangers. So I thought it would be an appreciated gesture. But it wasn't... strange. And No.2, that he was so proud was another strange thing.

But as I digested it, perhaps one thing I could learn form this is...
Pride causes us to be blinded to Grace... yup, when you're proud, you don't see grace.

So a reminder to me, don't be proud. See grace in everything.

What warms my heart

Many things I guess. Here's one...
Last Wednesday, a group of girls from HELP University College here in PJ (you know who you are!!!) took me and my wife out for a movie. These excellent girls are part of the small fellowship group we have in HELP.

They've been wanting to take us out for a long time. Finally, we had the time!!!

So off we went to Cineleisure and watched Narnia 2. Ok, movie was ok, but I really loved the company.

I know they really wanted to just bless us, and we are so blessed just to see them having healthy and fun relationship as well as growing so much!

Girls, we're so blessed to have you as part of our ministry! Thank you for blessing us! I know God is gonna bless you too!

Marathon... wow...some time ago

Woah! Time has flown past! Just been so busy, haven't had time to blog in ages!
Let me just say a few more things about the marathon, and I'm gonna stop saying stuff about it... unless it comes up :)

I never felt so much pain in my life... every part of my body was in pain. Muscles had cramped up during the run. Muscles were now torn after the marathon. Walking was tough. After the marathon, everything was inflamed. I had mild fever. Couldn't walk properly for a few days. Couldn't even bend properly to get in and out of the car. One of my toes even had a blister underneath the toenail. A few toes had bloody toenails due to blood breaking out under them. Just thinking about it hurts.

What makes a person push himself? I think it's really determination and passion. Having run this, physical toughness if very important, but even more, mental toughness got me through the marathon...

That's the thing I learnt most... mental toughness. Perhaps, if you think you can... then you can!