Not only that I was given the chance to meet such an awesome bunch of people but also it’s only the particular time and place where I did not only felt peace but also happiness, satisfaction, the presence of God and also the connection the we all established once we stepped into Paradise Community Church. I truly miss worship especially the people that I spent it with, it makes me wonder when I would be able to do it again, it may take a few years before I set foot in Adelaide again but I shall never lose hope and never give up instead take this opportunity as another experience that God has given me, I have no idea what he wants me to do from this point but I do know that “everything happens for a reason” and this experience may only be a start of something good and eventually into something better. Now, my main priority is to study commercial cooking and maybe work part-time in a call centre and then sometime soon I hope that I get the qualification that I need in order to come back to Adelaide, frankly I would say that I never felt as much love from people back in Adelaide. I did consider my friends in Adelaide as my true family after all.
The past few days, I haven’t been too happy with anything and it feels like everything is just doing my head in. I find myself avoiding everyone and always keeping to myself, looking through hundreds of photos that I took back in Adelaide, it somehow makes me feel that I’m still back there. Two days ago, I decided to go for a long walk and I found myself in the jetty where me and my cousins back in the days used to jump off and swim and catch small crabs from the massive boulders but I came to a place that I now don’t recognise, this place has changed a lot and instead of giving me peace of mind and the chance to reminisce my happy childhood years, it gave me the complete opposite. There are far too many people living near the beach now which resulted into improper garbage disposal, the beach has become really dirty and the place now has a very unpleasant stench, it seemed like this ones used to be a beautiful place has been taken for granted and it’s a shame to lose such a beautiful place where I always used to go to, to get away from the everyday life. But as I have been told by my grandma, these improper actions of people living around here has taken its toll, a couple of months ago whilst I was still back in Australia, a typhoon struck the beach side and chopped the jetty into almost half, mother nature had her revenge and has given a sign that she is not happy for what has been done.
After seeing this horrible scenario, I went for a walk again and this time finding myself in front of a net café and as I sit down in front of the Computer screen I find myself asking “I wonder who or what would make my day today?” I went on facebook and then on Skype where I was instantly greeted by my cousin from USA who I haven’t seen for almost 12 years. I was surprised as it would have been 4 o’clock in the morning in USA by that time, she told me that she had been waiting for me to go online, there and then found myself looking up and whispering to God “Thank you! This has made my day.” We chatted for almost three hours almost about everything, we educated each other about Australian and American slang words, talked about Will Smith rapping back in the days and Lady Gaga being a hermaphrodite, yes the weirdest things came up in our conversation but I found myself happy and contented. I went home and went straight to bed and there was a smile on my face, one that I could not stop doing. God is awesome and he will always be there to answer our prayers and this has been proven after having such a long and good chat with Peter last night. I just hope it all works out for him and I’m sure it will. Now I wonder if God would answer my prayers about that beach that has now been devastated, I guess it will all just take time.
And also I wonder what the next few days would bring, I think I’ll just have to wait and see. After all, “good things come to the people who wait.”
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