there be a phrase " when you welcome a stranger, u welcome an angel" that casted an innocent smile to me.
sometimes, a simple handshake, a warm greet or friendly smile seemed to do the unspoken ushering langguage.
i try at least to be inviting towards the unknown, but after few incidents, it makes me ponder whether one's able to trust enough to even make a step of welcoming.
a helpful officer who demonstrate support upfront but having suspected motives behind...
a bubbly tell it all girl who turns out to enviably interested beyond her confinded " interest"
a conspiracy between friends
sigh*
no wonder chinese automatically barks at strangers...
...after all these ? being cautious is certainly not unfounded.
no wonder stories like the good Samarithan and the kind bishop in les miserable contrast our daily lifestyle like pearl in an sand-glazed oyster. To risk the vulnerability of self to welcome a stranger...in a world hidden with bandits and lurkers -who would knowingly choose that path ? amazing grace...
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to me,
i was asking ps ml lst nite whether we sd take precaution b4 opening our doors .. but he reminded me that it's better to risk believing in ppl than be a synical.
After all, the One who has seen all still chose to believe in mankind...no matter how we've failed, he continues to forgives and believes.
" Zaccheaus was a wee lil man and a wee lil man was he,
he climb up on the sycamore? tree n the Lord he wanted to see... " remember psalty's song ?
the wee lil man :
http://www.discoverers.org.uk/holiday_clubs/itwday4.php
I remembering telling Ps. Mal about how sometimes we choose who we allow into church... we don't want people who are "different" and we are acting no different than the world we live in... one which marginalizes gays and the mentally unstable.
And in doing that (choosing who not/to invite to church), we might have unknowingly closed our doors to our Savior.
His grace never goes out of fashion, everyone needs it. It's amazing how He welcomes everybody, and we are definitely not living as His body when we deny others the same grace bestowed upon us.
Grace is amazing indeed :)
rach
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