I think I know why
My non-Hokkien speaking friends, forgive me okay. This post will have a lot of Hokkien. :)
I think I know why I'm a social worker now. There was a period of time I pursued compassion a lot in my life. I felt that it was a very important quality to have. It still is, but I think it has kind of changed over the years. As I told Rebby on the bus one day, now my pursuit in life is wisdom. I want wisdom, real bad. I want deeper and deeper insight into life and into humans, not just knowledge. Knowledge can be attained by going for a Masters' in psychology tomorrow, and a Phd after that. I don't want knowledge, I want wisdom.
Having said that, wisdom is what raises my competency in life, but I'm starting to see that compassion is the base of it all. What is wisdom without love? It is but a clanging cymbal. What is love without wisdom? That is naivete and foolishness. I need both.
And I think that despite the pursuit of wisdom, the seeds of compassion are still in me. I know it because whenever I see a demonstration of the fullness of human dignity, the tears well up inside me and I have an irresistable urge to say to God: 'Lord, truly this is life in its fullness.'.
Like this morning in church, a man who had a glorious past but lost much of his mental faculty due to a freak beating-up accident came to share about his life. He had once been a celebrity hairstylist but suffered brain damage after being beaten up at a party because he was mistaken for somebody else. The fullness of human dignity is demonstrated in those times, that when we are at our simplest that we are at our deepest. When we have all the riches in the world, we often live superficially, out of touch with our deep humanity. But it is when we are stripped to nothing, that we realise the greatest treasures we have are ourselves, our being. Which is why we are called human beings, not human doings or human achievings, because when we take away the doings and achievings, we are left with just our core.
And he sang this song which is one of my favourites. Pardon the quality, it's recorded with my SonyEricsson C902. :p Oh and by the way, that's me playing the drums on the song.
For another version of the song on which you can hear the lyrics better, here it is! :)
牵我的手，我的主啊，
请祢别离开我。
这条路我还要走，我需要祢来作伴。
牵我的手，我的主啊，请祢别离开我。
有时我会怕，有时不知怎样走，有时好像听不到祢声音。
牵我的手，请祢跟我作伴，给我的脚步又稳又定。
走到祢的门前，听到祢声音，跟我说：‘进来，我孩子。’
Perhaps, when we have nothing, then we realise that we have all we need in God who holds our hand.
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On another note, I love this video. We don't need our children to earn big bucks or do big things, we need to them to be by our side. I think most of the readers of this blog are more children than parents, so yea, remember, they need us to be with them. :)
I think I know why I'm a social worker now. There was a period of time I pursued compassion a lot in my life. I felt that it was a very important quality to have. It still is, but I think it has kind of changed over the years. As I told Rebby on the bus one day, now my pursuit in life is wisdom. I want wisdom, real bad. I want deeper and deeper insight into life and into humans, not just knowledge. Knowledge can be attained by going for a Masters' in psychology tomorrow, and a Phd after that. I don't want knowledge, I want wisdom.
Having said that, wisdom is what raises my competency in life, but I'm starting to see that compassion is the base of it all. What is wisdom without love? It is but a clanging cymbal. What is love without wisdom? That is naivete and foolishness. I need both.
And I think that despite the pursuit of wisdom, the seeds of compassion are still in me. I know it because whenever I see a demonstration of the fullness of human dignity, the tears well up inside me and I have an irresistable urge to say to God: 'Lord, truly this is life in its fullness.'.
Like this morning in church, a man who had a glorious past but lost much of his mental faculty due to a freak beating-up accident came to share about his life. He had once been a celebrity hairstylist but suffered brain damage after being beaten up at a party because he was mistaken for somebody else. The fullness of human dignity is demonstrated in those times, that when we are at our simplest that we are at our deepest. When we have all the riches in the world, we often live superficially, out of touch with our deep humanity. But it is when we are stripped to nothing, that we realise the greatest treasures we have are ourselves, our being. Which is why we are called human beings, not human doings or human achievings, because when we take away the doings and achievings, we are left with just our core.
And he sang this song which is one of my favourites. Pardon the quality, it's recorded with my SonyEricsson C902. :p Oh and by the way, that's me playing the drums on the song.
For another version of the song on which you can hear the lyrics better, here it is! :)
牵我的手，我的主啊，
请祢别离开我。
这条路我还要走，我需要祢来作伴。
牵我的手，我的主啊，请祢别离开我。
有时我会怕，有时不知怎样走，有时好像听不到祢声音。
牵我的手，请祢跟我作伴，给我的脚步又稳又定。
走到祢的门前，听到祢声音，跟我说：‘进来，我孩子。’
Perhaps, when we have nothing, then we realise that we have all we need in God who holds our hand.
______________________________________
On another note, I love this video. We don't need our children to earn big bucks or do big things, we need to them to be by our side. I think most of the readers of this blog are more children than parents, so yea, remember, they need us to be with them. :)
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there!
dunno if this is the same hokkien song..the following link is about the pastor who wrote the song.he shared about his life story and i thought it is quite inspiring =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgfxkcFWeLA (be warned-it is quite long ha!)