Melbourne Day 5

Today is Good Friday. We woke up quite on time today despite sleeping really late - The result of more than a few years of girl talk catching up all in one night. But it was a good night and strangely though we had little sleep we still felt refreshed.

We went for service today with amanda's family, matt's mum & margie, and amanda's family friend. It was full house. It was a simple service compared to what we have back home. As the service progressed I realised just how very much we take forgranted the church we have at home. At St Greg's (the church we went to) there was only 1 parish priest serving the community. He was very old and he was suffering from cancer and his hands were quivering as he was unveiling the cross. And yet at home sometimes we complain about our priest and we have the luxuary of hopping from parish to parish. How confession we can choose the priest when here confession is so hard because there is not enough priest.

We complain about the music when we already have so much, and here people have no instruments they just sing. I felt so guilty. I am going to appreciate my church community more.

After the service we had a little gathering, in a way to welcome all of us Singaporeees to Melbourne and also in a way to celebrate our engagement (shudder.. that sounded weird). We had so much fun eating, praising god with a short PnW session with prayer, entertainment (where Clement i.e Amanda's brother pulled out all these cool toys and did a demo with yoyos). Then Matt also did great card tricks. We all had a good time laughing and it was just a lovely warm feeling of family and friends.

Thank you dearest Lord for giving us the gift of friendship and family. Thank you especially for sustaining the friendship between me and amanda all through these years. Thank you for that gift.