Missing the rhino days
While deciding to write this, and even now when penning this down, I can't help wondering if this entry will sound too much like a knell, a whine, a moan or even an orbituary. Nonetheless, this is for my fellow rhino brothers.
Lately, I've been reminiscing the rhino-days the 4 of us were blessed with throughout the first half of the year or so. The meeting up at forsaken hours of the night to go for Adoration at CSC, then supper, the "jam with the Lamb" sessions (as no.7 coins them), the holiday we were on together, the swims at Serangoon, the sharing of our lives and most importantly, the way in which God has led the 4 of us to expand His territories.
And that made me sad. Because I do think that such times will not come as frequently anymore. Not that we've not been prepared for this eventuality.
From the beginning, we knew that these wouldn't last, simply because God would definitely send us out in different directions to build His kingdom, like the way Christ sent out the first disciples in Luke 10, and similarly later after Pentecost.
However, we thought it'd be later rather than sooner.
But time flies. No.1 is serving the nation, no.7 is embarking on his commercial plans (for the glory of God, mind you), myself being called into another ministry within our parish, and no.69 going into University therefore automatically becoming more busy.
It's not that we've grown apart or anything. Rather, it's the necessity of kingdom-building that God gave us each other for edification and growth then, and now He sends us out to different places in which He wants His seeds to be planted. "The harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few." He knows that although we may work well together, it is also imperative that we get to share His love and His will with more people rather than to stick together and possibly hinder each other with, what a friend of ours coined, "group think". So all the more lonely the journey becomes, when Christ commands us to "cast our nets into the deep", and like Peter, we can only obey.
So, thanks Lord for all you've done for the 4 of us... thanks for giving us each other to journey with... and though we may not be ready to step out Lord, we know that part of discipleship is to heed Your call, do Your will and to move out of our comfort zones. At the same time Lord, guide us in whatever we do, and allow our bond of brotherhood to remain firmly in You, and that we will continue to be a source of encouragement for each other when the going gets tough. Yet in all things Lord, that You increase exponentially, and we decrease.
Rhino 5
Lately, I've been reminiscing the rhino-days the 4 of us were blessed with throughout the first half of the year or so. The meeting up at forsaken hours of the night to go for Adoration at CSC, then supper, the "jam with the Lamb" sessions (as no.7 coins them), the holiday we were on together, the swims at Serangoon, the sharing of our lives and most importantly, the way in which God has led the 4 of us to expand His territories.
And that made me sad. Because I do think that such times will not come as frequently anymore. Not that we've not been prepared for this eventuality.
From the beginning, we knew that these wouldn't last, simply because God would definitely send us out in different directions to build His kingdom, like the way Christ sent out the first disciples in Luke 10, and similarly later after Pentecost.
However, we thought it'd be later rather than sooner.
But time flies. No.1 is serving the nation, no.7 is embarking on his commercial plans (for the glory of God, mind you), myself being called into another ministry within our parish, and no.69 going into University therefore automatically becoming more busy.
It's not that we've grown apart or anything. Rather, it's the necessity of kingdom-building that God gave us each other for edification and growth then, and now He sends us out to different places in which He wants His seeds to be planted. "The harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few." He knows that although we may work well together, it is also imperative that we get to share His love and His will with more people rather than to stick together and possibly hinder each other with, what a friend of ours coined, "group think". So all the more lonely the journey becomes, when Christ commands us to "cast our nets into the deep", and like Peter, we can only obey.
So, thanks Lord for all you've done for the 4 of us... thanks for giving us each other to journey with... and though we may not be ready to step out Lord, we know that part of discipleship is to heed Your call, do Your will and to move out of our comfort zones. At the same time Lord, guide us in whatever we do, and allow our bond of brotherhood to remain firmly in You, and that we will continue to be a source of encouragement for each other when the going gets tough. Yet in all things Lord, that You increase exponentially, and we decrease.
Rhino 5
The Rhinos
posted by Rhino for God! at 2:30 PM
1 Comments:
how come you and dan say the same things one?
it's terribly lonely to be set apart by God, but it's so necessary for Kingdom-building.
St Paul wrote those letters moaning about missing his beloved friends and community.
things will never be the same again, cos you'll live with a gaping hole in the heart that gets bigger and bigger. but out of this woundedness and loneliness is the heart of Christ that expands to embrace and love all.
it's a paradox indeed. hard to live with yet impossible to live without as we are transformed more and more into the image of God.
xl:)
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