Hannah's Child


Yesterday, I attended Ray-Ray's, a youth in our church, 18th birthday. Familiar faces were around including those previous church goers who are still friends with Ray-Ray's family. It's good to see them around. The program started by 8 (and you bet everyone was hungry) due to the rain. Anyway, the program started with a prayer and followed by special number by Ray-Ray's friends. Ptr. Bert gave a short message for Ray-Ray and he shared with us a little secret about Ray-Ray.

She was a miracle child! The doctors predicted that her parents Uncle Ben and Auntie Edna could not have a child but they prayed and prayed and out came Ray-Ray. Ptr. Bert shared a similar story in the Bible about Hannah, a woman of faith but cannot have a child. Her relatives and the women made fun of her so she was in despair and she cried out to God and prayed for a child. God heard her prayer and came out Samuel, one of Israel's greatest prophets and the prophet who annointed David as King. God is indeed a God of miracles!



Ray-Ray posing for this occasion


I'm one of the '18 cakes'


But other people ate it: Church friends: Crenzy, my brother Aris, Bryan and Love2x


The next part of the program is my favorite. Uncle Ben had prepared a 20-minute video of picture collage of Ray-Ray's pics from birth until she now. It was a wonderful video. It's like travelling back in time. Seeing good memories etched in pictures. Perosnally, the effect was nostalgic on me and I remembered the book my friend, John gave me, "Pictures Your Heart Remembers". It is about how pictures both tangible and those that exists in our memories make us who we are right now - we could use those pictures to bless or curse each other. Selecting those good pictures bring blessings to your life and to lives of other people. According to John Trent, the author of that book, it's up to us to throw away those "bad pictures" if we were to be blessings. We need God to burn those bad pictures and give us the grace to take new beautiful ones.

Anyway, it was 9 o clock already when everyone started eating and we had a really good time... eating, making fun, pissing Crenzy off (Hehehe) ... It was the nicest and simplest debut I have ever attended.