Yu Ruoling squinted her eyes as she looked at the bright sun outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and the curtain of chaos grass-green in her right hand fluttered gently in the breeze.
Three days have passed since the graduation ceremony, and she still has some unrealistic feelings - she actually graduated from junior high school, or in other words, she actually survived that she peacefully graduated from junior high school without committing suicide... um... committed suicide and succeed.
It was God the Father who prevented her from dying, she had always believed that. Because if she dies, it means that her work on earth has completely ended. In addition, suicide cannot change the current situation, and she's afraid it will make the subsequent development even worse.
Therefore, in order to avoid trouble, and things that neither she nor He would like to see.
She lowered the curtain and listened to the whirling melody of the piano coming from the living room downstairs. Li Qiao got up early in the morning to exercise. Her mother must have come back and had breakfast, and then in half an hour her mom would call her to get up and have breakfast.
In the past three days, Yu Ruoling changed her usual routine of automatically woke up at 6 o'clock in the morning, and planned to sleep until the sky was dark and the earth was dark and thunderous. Unexpectedly, she woke up naturally only three hours late, otherwise she would have really wanted to try the feeling of being able to sleep until 2pm before getting up.
...But she always feel like it’s a waste of time. She thought, taking off her pajamas and putting on a T-shirt. Today she made an appointment with He Wanying for one-on-one discipleship training, which will be held by the window on the second floor of Louisa Cafe.
The time of appointment is 12:30 noon. Maybe after finishing class, they will go to Lin Xinyong together and drive the gospel car to Costco to prepare items for the summer short-term missions - basically all food, 95%.
This short-term mission, if there are no accidents, should really be the last one at Tianliao Fuzhen Elementary School. Originally, she heard last time that the teacher who organized the short-term missionary meeting was to be transferred, but unexpectedly it was postponed to October this year.
What’s also special is that there are two levels of short-term missionary work. The first echelon was held on its own within the Erling Church, which was the idea of the pastors. The second is at Fuzhen Elementary School.
Although most of the services in the church are with Sunday school children, at least they can help them. Many of the children she knew were raised by a single parent or across multiple generations, and there were even orphans who had lost both parents. She hope these children can feel the love brought by brothers and sisters like her and her co-workers during the short-term mission.
At least their childhood life will be less regretful. As for the rest, they can only leave it to God.
If co-workers cannot empathize with them, God can definitely do it.
Thinking about it this way, she was indeed too fortunate. Compared to the situation in a rural village, she as a quasi-urbanite who is only 5 kilometers away from the city is really lucky.
Yu Ruoling sighed and lowered her eyes to hide the sad look. Ever since she attended the Pioneer Discipleship Training Camp during the summer vacation of her second year in junior high school, it seemed that the empathy of “standing in other people’s shoes” in her heart had flourished. Next, she came to understand the difference between empathy and sympathy. Probably something along the lines of "I need your empathy, not your sympathy."
Only by truly taking on the role and experiencing the ups and downs of the other person can she be qualified to say "I understand you." Otherwise, this sentence must not be said indiscriminately.
The second is that empathy feels like "seeing one's own responsibility in the other person's needs." She suddenly felt that she understood the true meaning of "love", and she also vaguely felt why Father God wanted her to experience something that most people of her age had never experienced at once.
Perhaps she, who has a cold nature, must bear enough feelings before she can fully experience the inner world of other people who have walked through these stages（not her one-time experience）.
Understand the suffering and pain they have suffered or are suffering now, and then she is qualified to comfort them with instructive and wise words without stepping on the other person's landmines.
In any case, Father God transformed her to a great extent, and although she herself was in a trial that was full of difficulties, looking back, she was only filled with grace.
There are certainly unfinished challenges to be overcome. However, Yu Ruoling sincerely thanked Father God for doing this, which may reduce the number of people in desperate situations. Even if she couldn't do it, at least she could pull one.
Just like these kids.
Because her childhood was basically never happy for more than three days at a time, she paid special attention to the physical and mental development of children.
For individuals, families, and society, this is an important part that cannot be ignored. But Yu Ruoling doesn't want to be a teacher. After all, teachers are bound by too many rules. In addition, the entire social atmosphere still puts grades first.
"Are you going to have lunch with Wanying？"Li Qiao asked while helping her daughter unlock the car.
"That's right！I'll probably go to Costco with her and brother Xinyong after eating."
"Okay, then go to grandma's home after you finish！"
"Ok~, "Yu Ruoling looked at the rearview mirror before opening the car door and getting out of the car, saying, "Byebyr~(๑˙❥˙๑)"
Li Qiao also said, "Byebye~(๑˙❥˙๑)"
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He Wanying took a bite of the bagel like a princess, picked up the blue ball pen and made a few sketches in mid-air.
"So what does Jesus say about Himself in Matthew 11:28？"
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“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
"Yes~, the Lord Jesus is the source of living water of life. As long as we are willing and come to Him fearlessly, He will surely let us find rest~"
"However, "Yu turned over the Bible she borrowed from the church before and asked with a frown, "I don't know which version of the Bible it is in, but I have read the verse 'all' after the 'give you'. Also add 'there are original texts of ancient scrolls: you all', why is there not one here？"
"Huh？This should be due to a different translation. "He Wanying took out her own Bible and compared it. After the word 'you', there was indeed the phrase 'original ancient scroll: you all', and said, "because the so-called original ancient scroll is written in Greek, and there may be a slight error when it is translated into English and then written into Chinese. However, the meaning is the same as the ancient scroll, so it will not mislead others~don't worry~"
Oh, Yu Ruoling nodded, took a sip of Thames milk tea, and thought to herself.
So for some revelatory or incomprehensible parts, she really need to go back and read the English version of the Bible. After all, there seems to be no difference in Chinese grammar - such as present tense and present continuous tense, past tense and past perfect tense.
It's just that "you" and "you all" in English are of the same type. If she wants to confirm again, then she have to ask the priests - because she can't read Greek.
When pastors take courses in seminary, they study Greek and Hebrew. But she wonder if there are any differences in singular and plural pronouns in Old English？
"By the way, Wanying, "She suddenly said, asking the question that had been pressing in her heart, "did Jesus go to the 'hot place' between the time he died on the cross and resurrected？"
"Of course！He bore the sins of all mankind, fought with satan in that 'hot place', and finally won！"
That's it. Yu Ruoling felt inexplicably uncomfortable. Is it really worth doing this for the rebellious people？The conditions of life and death were restricted from the beginning. Now that it was broken, how can He allow them to continue to exist？Why not cut them all off instead of making a decision that is simply unreasonable in common sense？
That is the only Son of God the Father, the Holy Son, the royal priest with all the authority and keys in heaven and on earth, the King, and God.
Yu Ruoling, whose wisdom was stuck in a black hole, suddenly wanted to ask him why he was so 'somthing else' that he risked his life to bear the sins caused by mankind.
After waking up that day, she said a few more words to him, but what mattered to her the most was what she asked.
Does it worth？Is all this really worth it？
He gave mankind the opportunity to choose freely. Some people wanted it, some rejected it with contempt, and some people simply did pretend never hear it.
Originally, they and she should have suffered the consequences of the sin, so was it really worth it？
In this way, free tickets to enter eternity will be scattered in large quantities in the world, and He will also have to face insults, unfair treatment, and unjust punishments. All without regrets -
- ...This is far beyond the level of pampering. Why is He so kind to humans？
'Why are you so kind to us who are willing to fall for ourselves？'She still remembers that day when she talked about it, she almost became angry, but she still looked straight into his eyes and asked, 'Is it worth it？'
'It's all worth it. 'As a result, he answered like this, with a pitiful look on his face, but still showing his indescribable love, which was so hot that it almost melted her.
So why exactly？
Yu Ruoling sat on the chair, her head almost growing with grass from irritation, and He Wanying, who was facing her deep frown, had already begun to show a worried look.
"Ruoling~？Are you okay？"
"...I still don't quite understand."She said meaningfully, but He didn't catch it.
"It doesn't matter~, "The sweet voice said, like honey covered with honey again, "slowly walk along this road, and you will eventually find the answer！...Oh, brother Xinyong called me.”
"Shall we go downstairs now？"
Yu generously expressed her little expectation and excitement. She admitted that she had never been to Costco in her entire life and had heard there were a lot of cool things.
She can try... um, or can... well, something delicious won't be too much, right？
"Let's go~, the car is waiting for us at the parking space opposite~"
*
Yuan Junfan, hello.
Hello, Gu Rong'en.
Hello, Huang Yinke.
Hello Zheng Wenhuan.
Hello Long Junxi.
Long Junyuan, hello.
Lin Tianmo, hello.
Hello Lin Tianzhao.
Hello xxx
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There are so many people...
Yu is a bit shorter among many people, even though she is carrying a black, mature-looking backpack and wearing dark orange short boots that are at least five centimeters higher.
All to no avail.
Oh, at least Huang Yinke is almost as tall as her. But can so many people really fit into a gospel car？Even if it can be stuffed in, won't it be overloaded？Must know that the gospel car is set to have a maximum speed of 80km/h, can it really be driven in such a crowded situation？
In other words, who made the gospel car have an engine that can only drive 80 kilometers per hour？It is completely incomprehensible. Yu groaned inwardly.
Off topic.
"Wow, there are so many~！"He Wanying shouted.
"You've all seen each other, hey, who are you？"Lin Xinyong pretended to kick the young man whom Yu Ruoling called xxx, "Who are you, man？Do you want to believe in Jesus？"
"What's the matter with you！"xxx shouted in authentic southern mandarin dialect, "Don't come to that way, Lin Xinyong, you see Lin Tianmo and Lin Tianzhao are laughing at you."
"Hehehehehehe. "The young consultant, who had not yet finished his childish period, laughed a few times, turned his head and explained to Yu Ruoling and He Wanying, "His name is Fong Zhiting. He was originally from Glory Lighting Church. Now he is with Tianmo and Tianzhao moved their positions together."
"Huh？May I ask this..."Fong Zhiting want to ask.
"Hey！Do you want to ask who the two big beauties are？！Come on, Yuanshi News Channel will do it for you..."
"Yuan Junfan, please stop answering randomly！"
"...Beautiful lady？！"Fong Zhiting coughed a few times in response, looking up and down at a candy and a ice cube opposite him with a shocked look on his face, "Then... who are you the beautiful ladies...？"
Yu Ruoling was so embarrassed that she didn't even wanna talk.
"I know this！Don't make any noise y'all！"Yuan Junfan crookedly got in front of the Long brothers from behind and shouted, "Look at this person, her name is He Wanying. She is one of our fellowship's consultants, and she is currently... What is that name？...Oh！One of the beautiful pianists in the current new worship band in our church - the Telephone Booth Worship Band, am I right？"
"And this one！Truly I tell you, "Yuan was so excited that he was as excited as if he had taken marijuana, heroin, or amphetamines.
His whole person showed an extremely weird smile and posture, "This one！Oh... I accidentally broke my voice. This one is our genius！She is also one of the pianists in the Telephone Booth. She is known as the mobile version of the Bible and the living dictionary！The most important thing is that she is super powerful, right？！”
"..."
"..."
It's really embarrassing... A drop of cold sweat quietly flowed from the genius's forehead, and she just felt that there is nothing to love in life...
Yuan Junfan spoke very enthusiastically, but no one seems agreed with him. She was so embarrassed that like she rather being thrown into the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Easter Island or Greenland.
Even though, not enough to describe the level of humiliation.
Could it be that he did it on purpose？She thought for a moment and immediately rejected her point of view. If that person is Yuan Junfan, then even if the world ends, there will be no chance for him to deliberately embarrass others. After all, Yuan is a good person. And he has a very good relationship with her.
Based on her many years of experience in observing people's hearts thoroughly, Yuan would do this... unless he really hated that dude.
"Uh... "Fong Zhiting was stunned and couldn't bear to say that he didn't even understand what Yuan Junfan was talking about just now.
Yuan spoke so fast that he only had time to remember their names, but...didn't Lin Xinyong tell him that those who were going to go today were all junior high school students or senior high school students？
Then this one...
"Is this elementary school student a relative of Wanying？"
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Everyone turned their heads and stared at Yu Ruoling's expressionless face.
All fall into a collective silence.
（Elementary school student："...（I... what the fuck the elemantary school student you heck！And I promise you I will definitely take your head off your damn tiny neck！！！！）"