Came back from skit rehearsal for the HopeKids camp.

Hong Teck, Wan Yueh, Kelvin, Yung, Shunrong, Hannah, Joey, Deborah, Soo Feng... gosh, they're all fantastic. And they're really a great team - very cooperative and better improvisational skills than the good guys on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?". I kid you not - when Joey did the crab walk with a deadpan expression, we died of laughter... when Kelvin did a falsetto... we died again... when Hong Teck pretended to be a muscleman, we died again... Wan Yueh running around like a chicken, Deborah acting nauseatingly cute-cute, Yung acting as a cat and Shunrong as a dog, Hannah doing silly stuff... Soo Feng jumping up and down like a little girl...

But it's their cheerful and joyful attitude that touched me the most. An uncomplaining spirit - more than that - joyfully uplifting and positive! :D Wow, I learnt so much from just observing their lives.

And not just so, but also their ready willingness to do really silly things - AND laugh at themselves so much - now that's humility in action! Not a spirit of 'bo pian I have to do this for the kids?', but a spirit of excellence 'let's do this for the kids - and have fun while we're at it!

And you don't have to be young physically - everyone in the cast is a working adult... some are long married... some are recent graduates... but ultimately, all serving God with a cheerful passion.

Actually I must confess I was taking myself too seriously and being too reserved to act silly enough... but the others went ALL the way. Whoa. Result? EVERYONE laughs and rejoices!

I think that's an attitude that I can carry back into Adults ministry. Not to take myself so seriously, but to be willing to be Christ's fool. To be able to laugh at myself, when I do silly things with a holy heart and mindset. Not to think of myself more highly than I ought to, but to be willing to lower myself to bless others.

That's the way of the Kingdom, that's the way of becoming a disciple - learning to be like a little child again, that we may enter the Kingdom of God.