A Father’s Diary (14) – Don’t let the moment passes by Last week, we heard about Gurmit Singh’s resignation from the Media Corps. This has given me much thought about the children’s growing years. As a sole bread winner, much of the focus is to ensure that there is food on the table. As a son, you do much to take care of your mother. As a staff member, you do your best for the students and colleagues. As a member in the church, you give as you have received. My daughter, Gracia, has bugged me over the weekend to coach her to ride a bicycle. Besides the baggage of not being able to help my eldest on riding the bicycle, there were always urgent matters that demand more attention than to satisfy her deep seated cry of unmet attention. No doubt, I have written about not to neglect our family, I am too suck into the rat race. (We do have other moments of playing board games together as a family but it is another ball game) On Monday, I decided to put away other important things and my personal doubts and brought her to the void deck to learn how to ride a bicycle. I was pretty determined to want to see her do her rides through my guidance. Not so much because of pride but the great joy of seeing her satisfaction and achievement. Gracia was fabulous on balancing and in less than twenty minutes, she was on her way to cycling and making brakes. We were excited that she made it. The joy that filled my heart was indescribable. I caught the moment! We moved on to the badminton courts and Gracia was able to ride around the courts for a few rounds. She was able to make good stops and turns. I caught the moment again! The moment when she felt that she has made it! Riding high on the adrenalin of success and pride, the youngest, Elisha, also wanted to learn to ride. However, it was not so successful. We agreed to do it on Tuesday. With much anticipation of something good going to happen, Tuesday 5pm came very soon. It was another moment that I knew that I do not want to let it slip through my hands. Learning from Monday’s experience and also tapping on the experience as a cyclist, I found the way to help Elisha. By God’s grace, the young man also managed to pick up the skill. We repeated the same steps that we took on Monday and he was able to ride pretty well in the badminton courts. I was totally satisfied at the outcomes. These moments are pretty additive. So when my eldest was doing his usual piano practice for his grade examination, he came to a point that he was pretty bored. He was trying some chords on the piano. Initially, it was pretty annoying. But the right chord came, he played a chord a couple of times and I thought it sounded like one of my favourite “How great Thou art”. I thought to myself, “Here comes the moment, it is not to be missed!” I went to him and explain how certain Christian chords work and we tried playing the chorus of “Stronger” by Hillsongs. I was so glad that he tried to play the chords. I nudged him a little and he tried to figure how to play chords and melody at the same time. It was another great moment that I have seized. We went on to try the oldies like “Jesus, we enthrone you”. Though it was not harder to play, he took his manuscripts and started to figure out and write down the notes. The sheer determination to master the chorus delighted me greatly. Two great days filled with many moments that left a mark in the children’s lives. I am more than thankful that I was there with them. Here are my thoughts: Unmet dreams will only draw them away from us. Only these shared moments will knit our hearts with the children and draw each other closer. Don’t to let the next best moment passes by.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:00:49 +0000
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