I was at a house dedication today. Somebody donated a piece of land and another donated the money to build the single storey bungalow. It is a nice and serene place, quiet in the kampong, with fruits trees around. Today’s sky was especially beautiful; blue with white puffy clouds, perfect place to get away from the suffocating city life.
Anyways, as we were singing praises and worship today, the experience and just being a part of it, brought tears to my eyes. Not wanting to be overly emo, but I felt it was just a beautiful sight of God’s perfect unconditional love. People of every kind coming together giving praise to our God. And that include people with intellectual disability.
I saw them clapping and lifting their hands, singing “Praise God, praise God”. Trying hard not to stare or laugh at their antics, sincerely, I think they must have brought a smile to their Father’s face. He too must have been smiling down from Heaven seeing His children enjoying themselves. I bet the boys did, seeing the way they danced and excitedly holding the mic, definitely they did enjoy themselves.
The Elder who shared the message today commended the lady who started the home. He said many of us can give money and our time, but that lady, she gave her life to the cause of caring and trully living together as a family with these adults with intellectual disability. Wow.....
In my mind, teaching and caring for these children were easy, 'coz they are so cute, adorable and funny. But these adults? -_- extra dosage of grace and love and lots of grace and love. Imagine living with them, till the day they die..... in like 40-50 years time....... whoa.......
In ending note, I am glad the community and fellow brothers and sisters in Chirst have responded to the needs and offered any help they could. It is great to see the body of Christ coming together meeting the basic tanglible need of a home.
I pray that the home will achieve its vision of living together as family, helping one another to live meaningfully and purposefully with dignity and self respect. God bless and protect them. Bless every resident and staff and volunteers and bless the home. Amen!
