10,000 Reasons - Willy Lau

Thousands of starfishes were being washed up the shore and dying under the scorching sun. In a distance, a boy was frantically picking up the starfishes and throwing them back into the sea. A man, laughing at the boy for being silly, mocked, ‘Boy! What you are doing is not going to change anything. Please, just give it up!’ The boy turned around and held one starfish in his hand, retorted, ‘But it matters to THIS one!’ With that, he threw that starfish back into the sea.

Thank you. Thank all of you who made it for this programe. Thank God for all the speakers who made themselves available to teach us!

Each STEP we took, I could only say it was God’s grace. He was the one who made it all possible. Each of you, precious in His sight, all came to bless me. A programme like this? Not through human efforts. We are mere instruments! We just need to open our hands and receive. Tears shed, lives touched, love shared. 

Thank God for friendship, co-workers, old relationships rekindled, new relationships formed, and all the many eureka moments! Indeed, like the little boy in the story above, I knew it mattered to each one of you and all of you experienced something that is so precious in this programme that may you even remember to tell it to your grandchildren when you sit in that old rocking chair.

Where do we go from here?

The show must go on. Let this not be just an emotional high programme. When the music fades, the curtains draw, the clown goes back to the backstage and everything is forgotten. We laughed and played, we saw and heard. Was that just a dream? Just some nice memories to keep and store it somewhere in our memory bank? Let not the passion die. Let’s build this dream together.

Pr. Willy Lau

Synod Youth Executive