I need to...

... appreciate my dad more.

I know I've said this before. For the little things that he does for me. Like driving me to MacPherson so that I can take 151 to school and also nearby MRT stations occasionally when I go to town even though it means waiting for yours truly to "doll up", for 30mins downstairs in the carpark. And bringing me glasses of water from the kitchen when he returns home at 4am from work, for the time when he knew I was coughing. For waking me up because I almost always can't wake up myself for school/SOL lessons on Sunday.

He's the typical Chinese father who does not like to express his love for his children through words. A stern and strict father, whom I look up to. A man of strength. But more and more, he's opening up and revealing more of his weaknesses because of aging. I realize he's no longer the man of strength I used to know. He's no longer the father who uses the "rod" when I am disobedient. But somehow, I appreciate this change in him towards us, albeit a rather slow but gradual change. Haha. Must be God changing him. My dad has softened up the past couple of years. Hugging, something that I never used to receive from him except when I was younger, but last year alone, he has hugged me twice. Acts of service of love. A love language that I often fail to observe from people who love me.

I pray that in God's timing, he will come to realize how much God loves him that He has never given up looking for him for the past 20 odd years, just like in the parable of the lost sheep that I wrote to him about.

Luke 15:4-7
"Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep UNTIL he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbours together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent."