Some words for Daniel two marvelous brother Martin.
Today and yesterday are kind of little sad days for us, daniel two people. But maybe other people would take the next Friday as the most saddest moment when they see off Martin at the airport. But for me, today might be the last time I can see this good brother. He said after he return to US, he would start working and take PHD in the future. Some people said he would come back for Ray's wedding. :), should take a while till that time, I suppose.
Martin striked me as a very caring, gentle and devoted person for others, especially for his brothers and sisters. I remember the time I first came to church and got to know Jesus. He was the CDS teacher in our class where I learned much. He was always passionate about the teaching, and told us many stories of how he became a christian from a lazy boy. :) and so on, stuff. Then in the care group, he asked me if I had some Bible scriptures audio files and offered to give me that kind of stuff. I could see he wanted everyone like me as a newcomer to get to know more about God. So did Jimmie and Ray, and some other people. However it was a little hard for beginners to get involved so much as them. So afterwards, I did not get many chances to talk to him. Because I am kind of person that don't like to talk too much. I so regret about that. Because of that, I lost so many chances to get to know so many great people. Just on the way home today at night, I was thinking about this thing."If I took every chance to do what I wanted to do instead of doing nothing and regretting after that, it would be less and less regrets in my life". I have enough regrets in my life, and I don't want to have any more, expecially those I can change and handle at the first place. If I had chatted with them more, Martin, Jimmie, Ray, Izzac, and ...... things could be much different.
I planned to talk to Martin after church today, so I did. We had a good farewell chat, although I did not speak too much because of some emotional feeling coming up, I think he would understand. When somebody have spend many happy times with us, we probably find it hard to let them go. We get to know new people and have fun with them, then we get some people leaving us, we see off them. we miss them. Life is so full of good byes. How many times I said good byes to my friends, parents? Nobody likes good byes.
Just to write this down to say good bye to Martin. Farewell brother, God bless you a wonderful life! We are gonna miss you.
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Zhipeng Zhang (Alan)
currently at FIT, QUT
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
