A tissue says a thousand words

It was just like any ordinary Sunday in the Youth Room. Feeling tired, trying not to think about Monday, wondering how I should spend these last few hours of the weekend… But interestingly, somebody added some colour into my life that day.

I wasn’t really expecting anything out of this boring Sunday, yet God has His way of speaking to me. In fact, I didn’t learn anything from the sermon that Sunday & in fact started to draw cartoons which made Rebecca laugh. But God is an interesting God. Even when I thought that it was a wasted time at church, God used one of the simplest person & one of the simplest thing to teach me something that day.

Her name is Flora. Flora? Does she look like a flower? Well, not really… but she does smile like one quite often. In fact, I must say that its one of the rarest time that I see a smile like that. An honest & open smile. How many people have that nowadays?

Rebecca motioned me to come sit & chat together with Flora before YM started. So I went over. Somehow it seems to be a little more refreshing watching Flora express herself with words & actions. She’s quite old, I think above 21 years of age, yet she still remains very childlike in nature. Watching her always makes me wonder how un-childlike most of us are nowadays.

During our short chat, suddenly a white coloured Tic-Tac sweet flew at us! I was shocked, but picked it up & threw it away at a dustbin nearby. Ok, so what’s the big deal of all these long-winded sharing? Hahahaha… I’m not at the crux of the story yet… Heh heh heh…

When I walked back to sit down next to them, suddenly Flora took out a tissue paper & gave it to me! I was stunned (more shocked than when the Tic-Tac flew at us). In my mind I was wondering – “Aiyah, its only a small sweet & it didn’t really dirty my fingers… Don’t need to waste tissue paper lah…” But despite that thought, I soon began to realise that its not about the tissue paper, but the heart of the person who gave me this tissue paper.

Flora is a bit slow when it comes to learning & understanding things, unlike most of us who are quicker, yet end up becoming mischievous & playing prangs to tease others, rather than be better friends with them.

But in this aspect, Flora is faster than most of us. Not because she has a lot of tissue paper to spare, or she’s trying to curry-favour someone, or she is just trying to be nice since she’s at church. None of the above. She did that solely because she cared… & most importantly, took that initiative to care, even for someone whom she doesn’t really know.

This reminded me that we don’t need to know someone to feel comfortable about helping someone or just being that person’s friend. We don’t need to think & reflect & consider & draw up some plan listing the pros & cons, before we should act to help someone or just offer something. Why do we need to consider so much? Do good things must feel paiseh? Then do bad things don’t need to be paiseh?

Flora’s act of kindness & generosity added that colour into my life that Sunday. Imagine – it wasn’t the pastor that spoke to me that day, neither was it a fellow CGL or YA… it was the most innocent & bubbly girl in YM – Flora. Her kindness really shone that day. Praise God.