Singapore Chicken Rice
11:54:00 PM
What‘s your favourite food? Have you tried eating
your favourite food 3x a day, seven days a week for the whole month? Would you
dare?
Have you fallen in love with the same person for a
couple of years and came to flat line that you can no longer feel an intense
emotion and the “kilig” feeling is gone?
In Chemistry, it is a point at which a solution pf a
substance can dissolve no more of that substance and additional amounts of it
will appear as a separate phase (as precipitate if solid or as effervescence if
gaseous).
In Physics, it is a state reached
when an increase in applied external magnetizing field H cannot increase magnetization of the
material further, so the total magnetic field B levels off.
Thank you Wikipedia!
Nosebleed! Tugsh!
I am not a philosopher not close form being a theorist, but in my simple world filled with complex roller coaster
experience, I call it Point of
Saturation Phenomenon
Point of Saturation phenomenon – A state wherein after a long period of euphoria,
extreme joy and flow of strong desire; you experienced a period of boredom and
blandness. The things that thrilled you became the things that left you
lifeless - flat line.
I am a nurse by profession who answered the call of
the Lord to be a fulltime missionary. I have an extreme passion for the
mission. I wake up each day excited to fulfil the mission that I am called to
do. It’s euphoric to witness the power and love of God unfolds right before
your very eyes.
But after countless of mountain top of Glory and
after overcoming a number of storms by the grace of God; I became less
passionate, less thrilled until I came to a point saturation. Trivia: one thing
I disliked about working as a Nurse is that everything will eventually be a
routine. Later that I realized, even in
missionary work, it will eventually become a routine. Household on Wednesday
and Monday, Core Meeting every first Friday, conference preparation on Feb –
April for ILc, March – May for
Provincial Leaders Conference, August – October for Regional Youth Conference,
one to ones with sets of people; the list continues.
I felt like eating Cebu’s lechon (cebu’s must try delicacy) over and over
again for quite some time. Though it sometimes served as fried lechon, baked
lechon, sautéed lechon, lechon paksiw, tinolang lechon, sweetened lechon; it is
still lechon!
I became tired. Bored. Lifeless. Unthrilled.
The Lord; my ultimate Lover pursued me, took me from
the pit of saturation and encapsulates me with His overwhelming and captivating
love. I don’t know how He did it, what I knew was that I only have a little yet
I was able to go to Singapore for a 13-day mission trip. I did not ask for it,
but His providence just came knocking on my doors.
I was never
thrilled to go to Singapore, what I was so thrilled about is the fact of going
to other country doing the mission that I am called to do. It was a break from
my daily routine, a forced vacation for me. My Singapore Cross Culture
experience is overwhelming, not because it’s Singapore but because the Lord
revealed His greatness to the extremes in Singapore! In a nutshell the Lord
simply showed that in my nothingness, He reveals
His greatness.
Singapore was not just a plain mission trip but it
was my renewal of vows with the Lord. It was his sweet pursuit. I went home
filled with so much love and passion for the mission. I am reminded of my great
love, with my extreme longing to be in communion with the Lord. He captivates
me in Singapore.
People don’t fall out of love but we
fall out of commitment. I’m grateful that even in a point of
saturation; I still choose to remain committed with what I used to love. When
you are certain with the love that you have, you remain committed to that love
unless you decide to stop and choose to love another. Pursue your love and
allow yourself to be pursued.
There is nothing so very special with Singapore
Chicken Rice. It is plain chicken and plain rice. But, there is something in
Singapore Chicken Rice that a very ordinary dish delights your palate with its
unique flavour.
There is nothing extraordinary in my Singapore
mission. We conducted activities that we used to do in the Philippines (youth
camp, household, leaders’ assembly, etc). But there is something in my
Singapore Mission that made everything remarkable – the Lord brought so much
flavour on it and transformed it to be extraordinary.
Singapore mission is my Chicken Rice experience.
Ordinary things experienced extraordinarily.
How about you? What’s your Singapore
Chicken Rice experience?
“But you have given my heart more joy than they have
when grain & wine abound”
–Psalm4:8
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