letters to my son

Dearest Joash,

In our search, we found that Joash means God is my strength. The Chinese characters of your name - Yang Leig - actually means gracious strength - or strength from the grace of God. Your brother, Emmanuel [ a reminder of God is with us ] was more than a bundle of energy to handle. So we asked the Lord to grace us with a gentle child imbued with inner strength and steadiness.
We have watch you grown into a fine young man and we are very proud of you. You do not spread yourself thin in multiple relationship and friends. You treasure quality friendships and you are loyal and faithful to the few whom you have cultivate that kind of relationship. You are subdued in your temperament and that allows you the space for clearer observations and deeper reflections.You are slow to speak and you naturally are a good listener even when others are not aware of your attentiveness.

You do not care for small talk or superficial engagement, not withstanding you know just the right place to put the punchline for your humour. You walk very gently with Jesus and you passionately desire to do the best for Him. You do not care to waste time, energy or resources on worthless things..you do not care for the latest gadget among your peers, or trying to be in the cool with the lastest fashion. You are just comfortable with the person you are inside. Yet you sense such a magnetic draw of the Holy Spirit call towards the unique destiny He has for your life. A God-chaser is what you took upon yourself a few years ago and you are continually running with a God-given dream...not just for yourself but your generation.

You are gifted with a calmness, a steadiness, a maturity of heart and mind, a simplicity of appreciation and gratitude in very ordinary offerings. Thank you for enjoying all my experimental and liberal cooking and cuisine.

I am missing you ...dad