At the pantry

At the pantry during lunch time, an intern whose leg was injured when he played the foot ball joined us for lunch. It was a serious injury as he has to go through 2 more major operation to get the leg fixed.

As collegue A heard of this, she said: “Last time, when i go and watch my husband play football, i'll always cheer “run away, run away” because he once had a serious injury. What for you play and get injure and suffer. And now, when my children say that they want to play sport like netball, basket ball and volleyball, I'll say “no”, so dangerous, will get injure. And i told them that if you want to play sport, you can play badminton, ping pong or bowling. Bowling better still because it has air-con. These are sport that you'll get less injury.”

As i thought about what she said, i can understand where she come from. As a mother who want to protect and give comfort to her children from a very practical view point. She's is such a singaporean. I can identify with her because i'm a plegmatic, every thing that i want to do will go through a series of careful calculation. Not that it's wrong to calculate and know the risk involved.

But i think that by what my collegue has calculated, won't her children missed out a lot of fun? It's fun to learn and play sport and at times you may get injured.

Then the Lord draw me to Hebrew 11:6 “without faith it's impossible to please God..” Being too plegmatic has no place for faith to growth. If i'm alway thinking of having a good and comfy live, there will be no adventure and the need to trust God. Lord, this carnal self of mine is so prevailing, please help me to keep watch of this mindset and constantly lay it down at your feet.