Disclaimer: To the VCFers, the title of this post is NOT inspired by the musical! Read on and you will know!
I think to many of us in PMCYM, the term "serendipity" (or serend for short) is over abused. We don't really know what it means, so here is the dictionary defination of the word: (taken from www.dictionary.com)
Serendipity
-The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
-The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
-An instance of making such a discovery.
I think we've come to think of "serendipity" as a "mini-Bible study". But in fact it is more about making discoveries about each other within the SG setting; a little more each sunday. But more than that, it is about making discovieries about God that matters.
So to the SGLs, don't lose heart if your charges don't seem to pay attention and are talking all the time. You never know when they would make a fortunate dicovery about God that will change their lives forever. But one thing that does not fit that defination above is that I don't think it happens by accident. I think it's the will of God. So SGLs: keep on doing what is right and don't waver from the narrow road!
On a more personal side; spent some time looking through old photographs once again. But this time at Sophie's place. And we finally found something close to what we have been looking for the past few months. Childhood photographs of each other. Well, we finally found one of me (and my brother as well)! Unfortuantely she wasn't in that particular picture, but most definately at the same event! Photographic proof that we actually met when we were young.
God is really playful but at the same time amazing! That He can bend the fabric of time and bring 2 lives together in such an amazing way! I'm still in awe of all that had happened in the few days, may we never loose that awe! Was it serendipity? Yes and yet, not quite. It was God!
