SUSHI LOVE RICE: Thankfulness

Just got off the plane from a one week get-away with the family. What a great trip it was. It was always rare to be able to spend time with the family since mum has been working away from home since I could remember and that now the family is seperated by the South China Sea due to studies and work purposes. Being able to just do things together again was amazing despite the flares and sparks ignited through gentle brushes over one another's shoulders. Dad being cranky sometimes, us being impatient or lazy, and mum going on and on about petty things etc.

But oh well, it doesn't have to be perfect, it isn't. But that's perfectly alright because there's where loves has a chance to come in to compel the gives and takes over each other's shortcomings and rough edges. Love you all. Mum and dad, thanks for your sacrificial love that may or may not be evident to the eyes. Maybe we're still too young to be able to fully appreciate all that you have done. Forgive us for that. But we know you want and mean only the best for us. Truly deeply, I pray for the greatest things imaginable for you all.

Sometimes I wish the family could just be together at all times where I would get to say "Dad, I'm home" every evening and have dinner at the same old familiar places with the family each night. I guess that's not always the case. However being away really thought me to appreciate every moment I have with the family, everyone of them.

Away from the biological family and being look after by the spiritual family really cradles the soul and spirit from the waves of emotional cravings and the need of feeling belonged. I was amazed at how well taken care I was from being toast a minute from the coziness of being with my immediate family to the comfort and fellowship of my spiritual brothers and sisters the next, never having a split chance to feel lonely and all that unnecessary emotions. For this I give thanks and rejoice!

Above it all, I just know that God is and has always been watching over me wherever I go, whomever I am with. Knowing that your Creator and source of being watches over you gives such radical assurance to my perplex-prone heart with such anchored and solid protection that I shall fear nothing in the face of change and lack. There will be absolutely no room for regrets, sorrow and ill-feelings for the God that watches over me fills my heart with joy and assurance. That everything is being taken care of better than I could imagine and all I have to do is trust in Him.

Thank you Lord for taking care of me, my family, and everything else that ticks with time.