Food Teaches Me

Week 5 is over and 6 is looming around the corner. It is Saturday and I spent most of the day by myself. It is really nice actually hiding in the bedroom. More of it tonight perhaps. Waiting for Laura to come and hang out in the meantime. I am so excited to get to know her better.

This week I cooked twice for the base! One level up. And I am overseeing the weekend meals. Erm, I do not have a clue whatsoever about that, and no one has called for SOS. Okay, these are quite surface things. On the whole though, I am learning a lot. Constantly being challenged about the way I relate, the way I should, and that it is okay to come out of my shell.

Yes, you wouldn't believe that I am really mild here. Hahaha...Very. But working in the kitchen, being in the pressure cooker constantly has meant that my mildness and measuredness gets thrown away, and hello Grace Yong! Only because I need to speak forthrightly if there was a fire going on somewhere, otherwise, I go back to my observer mode.

I am very glad I am working in the kitchen. God is teaching and moulding me through food (and the management of it), one of my most favourite things in the world. It is fun and challenging at the same time. I have grown heaps - sideways and inside. LOL.

I am being told and have also been affirmed to come out of my shell more. Yes, that was almost the theme for me this week - people want to see you! They want you to lead! They want you to share you, because withholding that is withholding blessings from them. Pray aloud, speak out, share out.

I am also learning to relate while working. I find myself, often, very focused on what needs to be done and forget to relate. It is ironic because I am a very relational person, and not relating for a day would make me feel awful as a person. I am learning not just life skills, but God-skills. I love this community, it is becoming more of a family to me now although I do think some family ways needs to be rethought.

It wasn't just another week. I am glad life is as such.

gracey