Heartened by SFC

Today is a Wednesday. This meant that I would travel to SAJC, as always, for our weekly Saints For Christ (SFC) ministry time. I met my unofficial mentee and got to know a few more people, namely Charity and Kendra, as well as to know Jonathan a little bit better. I was moved when everyone worked together well, regardless of which cliques they belonged in, and the clique-less mingling when going home together. I was heartened by the intentionality displayed among the J1s to know one another better. I hope they can enjoy what I didn't–a united SFC–and they really support one another with Christ in the centre as the year progresses.

-Joel Kindiak

Hurt

On Instagram, I have a goal—to encourage and to help people look at life from a Higher perspective. Yet, let me, in this post, simply be vulnerable.

Sigh.

Alright.

It hurts when my supposedly close group of friends, ones whom I spent a whole year growing close to, forgot me in two significant events, simply because I moved on from Ablaze to NS while the rest, as much as they should have followed me, chose to "stay back". I question their reasons, but that is irrelevant here. Even last Friday they held a birthday celebration for our junior, and apparently I was not notified. It just so happened that all the non-NS people were there. Of course, by then I've already learnt to accept exclusion and move on with life, and while I'm nonlonger hurt, I still remember the time that I was.

Childish it may be, it is not something I'll easily forget. This has made me erect yet another wall in dealing with people, to guard my heart maybe too much at the expense of trusting people. Is there any human I trust, aside from Jesus?

He who has ears, let him hear.

He who has eyes, let him read.

He who has a mind, let him think.