My Best Friend

Had a great time with Peiyuan last night. It's amazing how good friends can just share anything and pick up from anywhere they left off the last meeting. It's kind of sobering to realise that we've been good friends for at least 13-14 years. Sure, we've had our fights especially during the early years (mainly due to my insecurities) but it's really been God Who has kept us together all these years, despite attending different churches and all that.

We went to the club for dinner as well as a drink after that. Really enjoyed the feeling of chilling with my best friend. I shared my heart regarding certain challenges in my life and I was just so at ease sharing it. I knew that though he would not be able to help very much, he would not judge me and he would always be the listening ear I so need at times in  my life.

He is not the kind who could hold conversations very well (neither am I :D). He can be pretty quiet at times but when he does speak, very often he speaks straight to my heart. We were chatting about our churches during dinner last night. I as usual was voicing out my disdain for what is currently happening in my church and the leadership. He then said something to the effect of if we put our eyes on man, we will be disappointed and that we should put our eyes on God. Simple yet at the same time profound. So cliché yet at the same time powerful. I realised that I as much as I claim to be someone who minds my own business when it comes to church "politics", I am pretty much involved still at the back of my mind. So insidious.

Still remember the time when I was in dire straits financially at one time some years back due to a very bad investment decision. When I told him about it, his first question was "You need money?" He started to calculate how much he could pass to me. What touched me the most was that he was soon to go to Australia to study and he definitely needed the money more than me. Yet he was so ready to help this friend in need. Thank God for such a friend...... And by the way, the 'Grasshopper' cocktail sucks big time!