Monday, October 20, 2008
Do You speak my language?????
Growing up in a Malay neighborhood and having friends who are Malays carved a Malay in me....on the inside...I know what inside joke they are talking about and what are the latest singer or actor in Malaysia, Indonesia and um...Brunei off course. XD Yeh that is how I am......I can laugh at their jokes from malay movies and um....lots more....but ever since I started going to YDM....and Church...I always feel inadequte because most of them would ask me this " do you know this guy???" or "do you know that girl???" either a famous writer or a singer from Hillsong or Planetshaker and so forth would come into the conversation...which will me in a BIG guess who that person is...and it makes the person I'm talking to feel like I'm useless to talk to....coz I usually say nope...and yeah I feel left out sometimes........


It got me thinking about why can't I fit in with the others....why do i feel like I can't communicate with them.....and it was until now that I found out that they don't speak my language.....what i mean is, it's not the language language thingy....it's the way I speak language....see because I didn't grow up in their environment like in St.Andrews school...they were brought up in a different "language" than me......


So yeah....I now am trying to learn fro them their "language" and their most fav topic like singers and writers and lots more......so help me in this journey to get to know YOUR language ......=)

Which reminds me that our relationship in Christ has a language too...for example....as a Christian we usually speak kindness, love, compassion in our daily lives....what I mean is not just in our conversation but in our lives, our character, our family and everywhere. Why? Because our God has a language which 'we' only know....so don't take it for granted yeah people!!!! We have a wonderful God and we should use this language to tell people of His LOVE and all the other precious values our God has installed for them and what our LORD has done for them.....


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