Daily Archives: Sep 19, 2021

What To Do? (2)

Early past week an organization called Wall-Fare (石牆花), which was established 9 months ago to help the pro-democracy detainees/prisoners, officially disbanded under political pressure. I was down for a couple of days. Under the imposed national security law, many pro-democracy members were detained/imprisoned for months (even year) without given public trial. With the disbandment of Wall-Fare those of us outside the prison wall will be very difficult to offer our already scarce support for those inside. How much more injustice and inhuman can our city get before God steps in and bring forth His justice? I feel helpless and depressed witnessing the continuing downfall of our once beautiful city. Sigh.

Once again I ask myself – What To Do? What would Jesus do?

Since I officially got back to work after my self-directed (half) Sabbatical, I got in touch with a few different groups of people, many of whom have visited or shown interest in visiting my somewhat cleaned up studio. Most who visited find my R&D work very interesting and would often times suggest ways for me to make money from it. Some of them also entrusted me with some of their precious resources like handmade paper and upcycled plastic sheets to experiment with. A good friend also decided to hand me down some of his old digital fabrication machinery for free since his studio location will be closing soon. My studio neighbor also found an old 3D printer and asked me to fix it and help him make some 3D models of the yachts his workshop makes. Just when I was giving up on pursuing any long-term meaningful work in this dying city, I found myself being appreciated and needed for what I do through the many serendipitous interactions that seemed like God’s plan. Seems like God is telling me in His roundabout way that my work in this dying city is not done yet.

Oh God, I’m seriously dying inside witnessing the continuing decline of my birth city, but I see hope in the many people You allowed me to cross path with. Can You tell me a little more plainly what You want me to do here? How can I help to shine a glimmer of hope in this darkening city?

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Sketch… Sunday Service

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