LONG TUESDAY

Tuesday usually is a nice day for me but today was kinda different. I dropped by the new church premise in the afternoon. Everything had just been moved over and everybody was busy unpacking and shelving their stuff. So as usual, me being a helpful and kind soul, I offered my big hands. Initially, I was doing the easy job. I was labelling all the shelves and tagging the keys. After that was the 'xiong' one. I was to help sort out and shelf 10 boxes of books. The sorting out and shelving was not the hard part. The hard part was I had to deal with 10 boxes of books. I hate books. Worse of all, 10 BOXES of IT. I was doing it with Evigan. After done with the 3rd box, I summoned Denise, Joanne and Xin Ling to take over. I left to do other less traumatising job. Haha. I was helping Eleanor shelving her files, stationery and etc which was so much more soothing and enjoying. Along the way, i took a few or rather a dozen of couple of breaks, snacking around. Empty stomach is no good for a hard day of job. Without knowing, time sneaked by and was already like 6pm. By then the girls and Evigan had already done up the shelves while my side was nearly finished. I had to leave at 7pm for my worship practise just down at the Multi Purpose Hall in the church.

When everybody had arrived, we started to get our equipment up while the sound engineer start up the sound. The night was not very pleasant. The sound didn't sound well, we couldn't hear ourselves or it was too loud. We didn't know what the sound engineer was trying out. Some of us were frustrated not becoz of other people but rather that time was running short and things couldn't be put together. I guess everyone wanted to give their best to the Lord but then there are times that things don't go our way. Do we vent our frustrations and just be so engrossed with the problem or do we just do with what we have and continue to worship God? I guess everybody will give me the latter as the politically right answer but we are human and of emotions and expectations and it is hard not to go into the swing of mood. So let's not focus on ourselves or the problem. The sacrifice is good but the Lord delights more in the heart of worship.