SIM Friends Get Together

It’s been another tiring day for me, but I’m thankful that I still managed to muster enough mental & physical strength to enjoy a happy & fruitful time to catch-up with my SIM ex-project team mates at Bugis Junction.

Strangely, after having worked with this group of SIM friends for almost 3 years, even though we rarely meet up, there seems to be a sense comfortableness & minimal pretence, compared to when meeting up with some colleagues, clients, church friends or long lost friends from elsewhere.

I had always enjoyed being with this group of friends. We are a group of people so different in personality, background & preference… yet there seems to be a relatively good sense of acceptance of each other’s quirks. Perhaps it’s because we have already seen quite a bit of each other’s strengths & flaws, during our 3 years of hectic project life during our SIM days.

And for these, I’m thankful to still have this group of friends whom I occasionally meet up with to catch-up on what’s going on in each others’ lives. Some are more open than others, but it’s a natural part of our group dynamics.

It made me wonder though, about how much easier it could be sometimes, for other non-Christian friends to accept & tolerate our quirks, compared to when we open ourselves to become vulnerable to our Christian friends.

I started to wonder if that is one reason why some non-Christians prefer to shun away from Christians, coz Christians are quite often seen to be more judgmental than the non-Christians. I do not mean this as I condone all sorts of willful thoughts & behavior, but I find this rather true.

Perhaps we Christians should stop judging for awhile & stop to assess the situation before jumping to our own conclusions or become to firm & forceful in what we believe about the Bible, until we annoy others who do not yet the Truth.