last night a friend (adam) called me and asked if i could help him and his family move house today and/or saturday. i told him i was in and he gave me directions to his house. this morning as i parked my car outside his house another friend (leka) pulled up. soon after we started moving boxes into the uhaul, another friend (jim) showed up.i had no idea who adam had called or who was going to show up, but together we stuffed that uhaul in between wisecracks and jokes and a few waterbreaks.
at some point during the move, i'm not sure exactly when, i took a step back from the situation and... i know what it was! i was thinking about how great it would be if i had my camera so i could post some photos here. anyway as i was imagining a photo op, i realized how odd the picture would look. adam is a hefty hawaiian man in his 40's, leka is a 29 year-old tongan, jim is a white mainlander in his 50's, and i'm me... skinny and asian.
after i got over the oddness, i began to appreciate God. see, we all go to church together. i realized that before i started going to church i was pretty judgemental... i pre-judeged folks based on what was on their outside and was closed off to relationships outside of what i thought was cool. it was pretty shallow. so i would never have met, let alone hang out with these guys, but there we were, busting our butts together and having a blast doing it.
if not for God i would have never had a day like today. a day of servanthood. appreciation for peoples differences and commonalities. good times with good friends. and best of all self-realization and gratitude towards the Creator. hopefully i can post a photo someday... maybe at the house-warming bbq we kept hinting at.
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