In God's Time, Not Ours

Dad shared with me the outcome of their SVP meeting on the Recycling Campaign. Initially, I ask dad to seek the parish priest whether can we extend the flyer to them to create awareness among the Chinese parishioners. Upon hearing his feedbacks on the meeting, I guess we better save our voices at the moment and to leave it to the parish priest.

The SVP of the Chinese Group voiced out his opinion. He is unhappy and against the English Group to start the Recycling Campaign. Reason to this because the Chinese Group started Recycling Campaign first way before and does not want the English Group to do the same thing as them and it will result in poor response for their own campaign.

On the other hand, it was the parish priest who allows the English Group to have their own Recycling Campaign. According to him, we are all free to do what we want and there is no such thing of conflicting each other. But beyond this point, we could not extend Recycling Campaign to the chinese parishioners.

When I look back, it's not easy to solve this community issues although it may seems small. I guess the parish priest knows what is going on but we can't change other's thinking in a day. The feedback from Father Peter was it takes time for the Chinese Group to change. I thought of a good friend's advice - in God's time, but not ours. Yes, sometimes I do feel so frustrated, to see all efforts a waste and then I was overwhelmed with a fighting spirit. At times, when things do not go my way, I felt helpless. But dad's reaction was totally different. He was all calm and just leave it. I do wonder whether did he fight for what he wants. So when I've got the outcome, it somehow struck me. I didn't pause and think. I reacted in my own human way, and not God's way of looking at things.