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The Most Valuable Lesson I Learnt This Year |
 By Jasmine Yow -
Faith asked me that at dinner today, and I could answer it immediately without thinking: it was about family, spiritual family.
I grew up with church services, not with spiritual family, and that's one heck of a difference. My first spiritual family was Every Nation Singapore, and without the support of my family there I would never have made it out of Singapore alive. Never.
But these 1.5 years at Eaglepoint have taught me so many more important lessons. Eaglepoint has taught me the difference between friends and family: you can pick your friends all you want, but you cannot pick your family members--you learn to love them; it has provided fertile ground for me to grow, challenged me out of my self-pity to live a larger life, and just made my heart come alive again with new vision and passion.
When I came, I just wanted my time in KL to be all about 'recovering'. Living the minimum. Hiding and hibernating. My face had a sign that said "not interested". My idea of healing would never have included the kind of stretching and character molding that has taken place this year.
I've learnt how to relate to people I don't naturally click with, and I've come to love them. I've met with frustration, and learnt how to resolve it. I've gotten mad at people, and talked about it honestly. I've learnt that serving sometimes means sharpening 100 pencils and doing stuff you don't like. I've become a better leader. I've learnt that I can be stubborn and proud--and that sometimes I need to learn to let people help me. I've learnt to let people into my world. And I've learnt that all these lessons about doing would be meaningless without first learning to accept Grace.
I've been a part of exciting dreams...and the painful process of turning them into reality which is incredible but can be not so fun. :)
Looking back at the 1.5 years in KL, most of my highlights were never far away from Eaglepoint and its people. The Heavenly Gift...Change Your World. It's all been so important to me, because I needed someone to challenge and inspire me, and Eaglepoint gave me that. I needed some place where I could offer my brain my physical strength my talent...all of that, for a purpose that I recognized as meaningful. The world, with all of its attractions and good stuff could never offer me something that real.
I don't know how I would have lived without that inspiration.
I will miss the vastly different people I've come to know at Eaglepoint. They are just like Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. People from different countries, with different capabilities, different talents and interests, different mother tongues, different personalities...all bringing something different to the table, all teaching me different things in their own small ways, either through their servant heart, their insightful remark, or their practical capability.
I will miss Pastor Tim and his leadership...and I pray that the Pastor I find in Australia will have a vision as huge, and a heart as large as Pastor Tim's. (Or larger).
Yes I feel afraid of leaving the family that reminds me week after week to trust in God and live large.
But Eaglepoint has also taught me well to trust God to provide the spiritual family I need wherever I go. Or the kind that needs me. :)
So thank you Eaglepoint. Thank you so, so much.
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