Unity

The night before, the topic was discussing on the meaning of the unity and disunity during the youth activity in the church. While they were sharing their retrospects, I found myself enthralled intently by my deep thoughts about my family because my family are still in disarray due to the past irrational conflicts. I wished that I would not be confined and affected by their delusions when I was young. But I reaffirm that I believe that they will come to understand the love, truth and joy of God in their hearts one day.
I excused myself and headed for home while my church friends were going to catch the world cup match in one friend's home. As my habit, I had a meal, watched television and played online games on my laptop at the same time. The television displayed the midnight Chinese movie, Money Not Enough 2. Although I was usually nonchalant at a plot of that movie, this time, I contemplated its whole story. It is about three brothers showing filial piety to their mother during good times. But suddenly, they were plunged into the bad financial situations altogether. During their bad times, they treated their mother callous and frivolous while receiving the financial assistance from her. As the result, the mother was grieved and fell sick, admitting into the hospital twice. This time, she was in the critical condition. Meanwhile, one brother's sister had an accident and was in grave danger. So she needed the blood transplant. The mother seemed to empathise the situation and decided to sacrifice her life in order to give her granddaughter blood transplant.
When I saw her lying on the bed with the tubes all around her face, suddenly it struck my heart hard, forcing the memory replay. In my mind, I saw my late grandmother lying on the bed with the tubes piercing her body. I could recall resisting hard against the tears till they overwhelmed my strength and started flowing down my cheeks as I felt a warm feeling sensation of blood rush on my face. I wished that I could return to the past, learnt Chinese language and spent more time with her. But at least, God is showing me what love is as I understand it now. Love does not need a reason nor a word. I can remember vividly the time when my eyes met her eyes, I saw a tear in her eyes. No word had exchanged.

"Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop." - St Augustine of Hippo