Soooo looong, tooo looong, man!

Phew, i thot i wld never be able to get back into this blog... after being 'poked' by our faithful 'social secretary' Hong, i visited it, and my, my, discovered i really hv bn away much too long - my last posting was 2006!! Goodness gracious, that's like 2 years, man... and then started a really frus time of trying to log back inside... thks Hong, for hanging on wit me in there past few days and doing watever it is you did ... and thk God He answers even the silliest of prayers i send up - like pls God, help me get back into the blog!
So, hey, its good to be back on line yakkety yak yak... you know God has a funny way of stirring things up in my life. 2 years hv zipped past, 2 very fulfilling years. Which saw me so buzzzy i didn't bother keeping up with this blog. Not that that's an excuse, but aiyah... always got other things to do....
I was enjoying myself so much actually coz I finally found God's calling for my life. 2 yrs ago, He touched my heart to serve in street work, ministering to the homeless in the heart of KL Chinatown in Petaling Street. Somehow things just fell in place; one thing led to another, and before i knew it, i was joining in this street programme , which was run by a group of churches working together to feed and minister to this particular group of people.

First time i helped out at the weekly feeding, i was amazed... we closed off a whole back alley with canopy, food was carted in to feed a crowd of at least 100 people, made up of all races, all genders (ya, even those 'in-between' sex), all ages, all religions... my eyes popped out literally... you name it, we have it... the drug addicts, alcoholics, exconvicts, HIVs, unemployed.. the whole array of society's outcasts , in short. My heart was like... God, there is so much need here... wat i saw was truly the love of God manifested in the team of volunteers chipping in to pack and distribute the food/drinks, the doctor and nurses tending to the sick, others sitting down to talk and listen to their stories... who else could love these unlovables, unloved and unloving??

I've since been going back to that back alley every Sat. except when really can't. Some people question why on earth would we spend our weekends feeding a bunch of no-gooders. Some people even condemn the practise becoz as rightly put, it's a rugi business - We spend time, money and effort on seemingly useless (even dangerous) characters. Worse such charity only makes them even more lazy. It's a valid point, i guess, if we want to count in terms of "good, useful" people, this group would never qualify. That's the way the rational human mind thinks, but thank God there is a God who values each and every human life as worthy to be saved, no matter how sinful, dirty or horrid that life is. This i guess is what love is all about. Whenever i look at them, i m reminded of what the bible says - If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? That's not difficult; the difficult part is to love those whom you'd rather not love... like dirty, smelly street folks who got 'questionable' habits and live goodness-knows-wat type of life. It's a world far far removed from what we know....