A New Vision

God is good. He gave me a vision. The vision was born last evening at the HKU Centenary dinner, to which I had been invited since I was a postgraduate student representative on the Faculty board. The dinner was an unfamiliar experience for me in that I was surrounded by the older, powerful generations, the established figures in HKU's academia and very important people in Hong Kong.

I was thankful to be a part of this celebration because I could observe carefully how these generations celebrated together.

This morning I was thinking about what I had witnessed last night; I was also contemplating the brokenness in the system about which I had been complaining last week what with my marking of students' examination papers and my hearing significant complaints from HKU undergraduates; and I believe God spoke to me then.

Broken people lead broken systems. Whole people can transform systems. Be patient, David, and you will be placed in a position to transform the system. This may be realized many years from now.

I humbly accept and obey my Lord's commands. I will go where he leads me. For now I pray to prepare and to persevere here, to pursue excellence for my Father in the way I research and in the way I love others.