Interesting day

Yesterday was one of the most interesting day I had so far since I been in Vail. Let’s start with work:

I went to work like usual yesterday, and my boss comes in late as usual. Sometime during the day, my boss out of the blues asked me: “Are you Malaysian or Chinese?”. So I answered him, explaining I am both, nationality I am Malaysian, and racially I am Chinese. From there he explained that he was just curious, even though it is illegal for an employer to ask this type of questions (discriminatory law or something). I told him, “Steve, we’re past the point of employer/employee relationship, we’re friends.” Then we went on explaining that he doesn’t know what he is. He does not have a genetic history because he was adopted. He said he looked for his biological mother, and also tried contacting her, but she refused to talk to him. Due to the fact he was adopted, he has a very strong view on life.

He was explaining to me back when he was a child, he would mess around with worms and blowing them up with firecrackers. And one day his uncle came to him and said “Don’t you have any appreciation for life?”, and later that summer, the very same uncle gave him a poster with a bloated African kid on it (due to malnutrition), and at the bottom of the poster, there was a caption that says “God does not make junk.” At this point when he was telling the story, he actually shed tear. He went on explaining that he thinks God made him for a purpose, and that he is very grateful for his life that God gave him (which ties into his adopted background).

He then from there told me the story back in the 90s when he ran for the Colorado state senate. Even though he was running for the democratic party, he was pro life (again back to his adopted background). I dug in deeper to see his background. He told me he went to a Catholic school for the first 16 years of his schooling, and that his adopted mother is very loving and taught him a lot about life. So I asked him more about Catholicism, and he is disappointed at the way the religion has gone (scandals and stuff), and people are missing the point. The point is life! He really appreciate life, and he thinks that that’s the fundamental essence of spirituality/God/religion…

He also mentioned about muslim,buddist,hindu… whatever the religion is, the fundamental is life. Which I find really interesting. He said he thinks it’s good to go to church, at least once in a while. During the course of the conversation, customers would come in, phones will start ringing, but at the end of all that, he still continued telling me this story. Unfortunately the conversation later somehow turned into a geek conversation, and we talked about the evolution of operating systems, assembly languages, different types of databases.

Basically from what I gathered yesterday from talking to him. I know he is a deist (a person who believes there is a God), but not necessary understand the gospel. I am really intrigue of his character, and his story. And I am going to make it a point to be very intentional in talking to him more in depth, and hopefully share what Jesus had done for me.

Next interesting thing that happened was at church. I was responsible on leading a worship team. I think we did pretty well. From the comments I heard from other people after the service was over, they seem to think we did a pretty good job as well. So I am definitely excited where God will use my skills this summer in serving him. I am hoping for more opportunity to arise.

God’s hands are at work here in Vail, I am super excited to see the next 4.5 week unfold. Please keep my team and I in your prayers. Especially for intense conversations with our coworkers!