Had fun going out for lunch with Sherry. The soup was sooooo good ( got a funny long name that I cannot even remember) and the cookies, yum....
She told me the instructor had taught and given out Phonics in Action to teachers of 70 schools in India. They were so happy. May be they can find printers to print their own in the future. Already some schools for the Dalit children are building good standard and reputation of teaching English to the children more so than the ones that charge fee. One parent even beg the Dalit school to take his child who attend grade 5 in a different school. When he was told they do not yet have grade 5 in the Dalit school, he then said, 'put him in grade one, for you are doing a better job than the other'. So, what do you know? God's way is mysterious.
While I was sharing with her my spiritual journey, Sherry commented that she had problem talking spirtual things with a certain group of Christian women. So I used the example of Irene, who likes to talk about 'God Moment' which inturn reminded me of my own experience recently.
There were two particularly hot days in the beginning of July. I happened to go to Richmond to pick up something from this other Montessori school and of course, whenever I am in Richmond, I do not forgo the opportunity of bringing home the Chinese grocery, especially Jared's favourite BBQ pork buns. Since he likes it for lunch sometimes, I bought extra packages. By the time I came home and stuffed them all in the overdue defrosting freezer, it is close to bursting from the seam. I ignored my common sense because I didn't feel like dealing with it. The next day, when John went down for some icecream, he was alarmed that lot of stuff are 'going soft'. I had my own agenda on that day. So I just quietly wished it away. By the evening when I went down for icecream. I saw the reality and ran upstair to ask John to think of some device for the problem. Whereby he said,' See if you can keep the stuff in Laura's freezer'. My first thought was, Laura (my ex-neighbour) had been dead for 2 years. Though her children have not sold her house but why would they wanted to keep the freezer running. I said to John that no one lives in that house and John said,' Phone her daughter ( who lives in a different area). I thought, what kind of suggestion is that? I hardly know her daughter, I wouldn't in a million want to trouble her. It is just a easy opt out of John to pass the bucket to someone else instead of working out the problem on our own. I was totally frustrated. So I tromped back downstairs, pulled out all the coolers and stuffed most of the food in. Then unpluged the freezer, laid a thick towel and two pails on the bottom shelf, hoping the garage floor won't get flooded by the morning.
As I signed a relief and sat down infront of the TV, the program happened to have a print out on the screen which said,"IF THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM IS TOO FAR FETCHED, THERE IS HOPE". It came to me like a bolt of lightening. I know right away it was God speaking to me through the media! Oh my God, I couldn't believe how real you are to me. That is one of the perpatual problem I have with John when he always give me his ridiculous ideas at crucial moments. Yet God said, ' There is hope!' Ok, I said to God, 'Next time, I will try to look at it from a different angle'. I was tickled.
The next morning. I went down stairs fearing the worst. The floor was not wet (which was a relief), the tubs are filled and the ice had all melted. That was a perfect situation. I remembered in the previous times, I had to spend hours hagging the ice away. Until later on, John pointed out the water runs out from the back of the freezer. That was fine with me because I can just let it dry itself! Ha, ha, ha.
She told me the instructor had taught and given out Phonics in Action to teachers of 70 schools in India. They were so happy. May be they can find printers to print their own in the future. Already some schools for the Dalit children are building good standard and reputation of teaching English to the children more so than the ones that charge fee. One parent even beg the Dalit school to take his child who attend grade 5 in a different school. When he was told they do not yet have grade 5 in the Dalit school, he then said, 'put him in grade one, for you are doing a better job than the other'. So, what do you know? God's way is mysterious.
While I was sharing with her my spiritual journey, Sherry commented that she had problem talking spirtual things with a certain group of Christian women. So I used the example of Irene, who likes to talk about 'God Moment' which inturn reminded me of my own experience recently.
There were two particularly hot days in the beginning of July. I happened to go to Richmond to pick up something from this other Montessori school and of course, whenever I am in Richmond, I do not forgo the opportunity of bringing home the Chinese grocery, especially Jared's favourite BBQ pork buns. Since he likes it for lunch sometimes, I bought extra packages. By the time I came home and stuffed them all in the overdue defrosting freezer, it is close to bursting from the seam. I ignored my common sense because I didn't feel like dealing with it. The next day, when John went down for some icecream, he was alarmed that lot of stuff are 'going soft'. I had my own agenda on that day. So I just quietly wished it away. By the evening when I went down for icecream. I saw the reality and ran upstair to ask John to think of some device for the problem. Whereby he said,' See if you can keep the stuff in Laura's freezer'. My first thought was, Laura (my ex-neighbour) had been dead for 2 years. Though her children have not sold her house but why would they wanted to keep the freezer running. I said to John that no one lives in that house and John said,' Phone her daughter ( who lives in a different area). I thought, what kind of suggestion is that? I hardly know her daughter, I wouldn't in a million want to trouble her. It is just a easy opt out of John to pass the bucket to someone else instead of working out the problem on our own. I was totally frustrated. So I tromped back downstairs, pulled out all the coolers and stuffed most of the food in. Then unpluged the freezer, laid a thick towel and two pails on the bottom shelf, hoping the garage floor won't get flooded by the morning.
As I signed a relief and sat down infront of the TV, the program happened to have a print out on the screen which said,"IF THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM IS TOO FAR FETCHED, THERE IS HOPE". It came to me like a bolt of lightening. I know right away it was God speaking to me through the media! Oh my God, I couldn't believe how real you are to me. That is one of the perpatual problem I have with John when he always give me his ridiculous ideas at crucial moments. Yet God said, ' There is hope!' Ok, I said to God, 'Next time, I will try to look at it from a different angle'. I was tickled.
The next morning. I went down stairs fearing the worst. The floor was not wet (which was a relief), the tubs are filled and the ice had all melted. That was a perfect situation. I remembered in the previous times, I had to spend hours hagging the ice away. Until later on, John pointed out the water runs out from the back of the freezer. That was fine with me because I can just let it dry itself! Ha, ha, ha.
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