Wounded Healers

I quickly browsed through one of my favourite sites, and this quote came up which is sooo true, especially to me recently. Like there's so many things I looked back at, little things, and thought Simone you made a fool of yourself, but then I think about it, it could have been worse, and so what!?, what am I going to do about it now ? . . . 

Nobody escapes being wounded. We all are wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually. The main question is not "How can we hide our wounds?" so we don't have to be embarrassed, but "How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?" When our wounds cease to be a source of shame and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers. Jesus is God's wounded healer; through His wounds we are healed. Jesus' suffering and death brought joy and life. His humiliation brought glory; His rejection brought a community of love, As followers of Jesus we can also allow our wounds to bring healing to others.

Henri Nouwen

So yeah. And yesterday I spent the afternoon hanging out with Eman in the city. It was awkward at first because I never really hanged out with his him in Sydney, but we were with him everyday in Auckland. And its weird that I feel like we've known him forever, when I had just me him a week before OLC, at the NSW Delegation Party.

Anyway, I didn't really need to get anything in the city. I guess I just wanted to hang out with people, especially people in YFC since I know its just a great community, and I just want to get to know as many people as I can.

So yesterday we basically went to St. Julian's in the city, then had Hungry Jacks, then went to QVB to the Hobby/ Toy Store, then the Apple Store, then back to the Toy Store.

I asked him a lot of random questions, like how he got to be so close with Kuya B. And goshh the way he spoke about Kuya was like woahh. Hahah it made me feel really lucky to be related to him LOL. But yeahh apparently they became real close back in the last OLC in Nz 2006, then they caught up again last year in Canberra. I think they spoke to each other a lot, as in online and stuff. Apparently they were leading a camp both at the same time so he talked to Kuya a lot, and I’m guessing he also talked to Kuya about his mother’s passing. But yeah I felt really touched by his sharings, and the same goes with all the other ones I heard at OLC. He really sees Kuya as an idol, someone who gives such great inspiration. And when I think about it, I don't blame him, because it's so true. And it probably isn't obvious at first, because the way Kuya goes on about it, he just so cool, laid back, easy to talk to and just so so so .... humble! Everyone should strive to be, or well even just live, like him! I'm sure everyone single person who has ever met him would agree that Christ really does shine within him!

On Tuesday we’re going to have a UTS Hangout at Parramatta (because its central to everyone except me of course! No one leaves in Sydney East !?!). And yeahh I dunno, but I’m kinda excited for that. I’m excited to share my experience from OLC. For some reason I also have a feeling though that they are going to talk to me quietly about leadership, since they’re both graduating like really soon. It’s kinda a scary thought because I still feel like the new one, but I know if I’m given this opportunity, it’s because of Him, so he will be guiding me throughout the whole thing. So yeah.

I’m also considering having a party at my place for my 19^th. I dunno who to invite though, coz there’s so many people who I feel like I should invite, but I only met them like once. So we’ll see.

And yeahhh I can’t wait till the 1^st of August so that we will have our internet back!!! And I’ll upload some of the photos. But for now, that’s it.