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Jumat, 30 Agustus 2013

My Journey to East FLores Dec 2005 - Nov 2007 part II : Learning about mistake

After I learned to adjust myself how to live and adapt in the first month, next the real challenge come.
First challenge I had was how to make a difficult decision.
It should be easy right, just see what is the right thing to do then make that decision.
My problem is after graduating frrom Environmental Engineering at 2000, I never work at that field so about 6 years. So theoritically I knew what is the right thing to do, but being lack of real experience, there's something I have to carefully consider.
I remember I discussed with my friend from university about the problem and how to solve it and what is the main impact for every possibility.

Then finally I made the decision on this problem.
And BANG! next problem is how to communicate that if your decision is not a popular decision among your fellow friends.

Besides lack of experience working in water project, another lack of experience is I never work in the field before. So I didn't know what reaction I had if I told the community my decision.. and I understand that my fellow staff were also unsure on how community will react if the decision will cause them to rework the pipe installation...
I really think hard about this, because I just felt all alone in this decision and I felt really depressed.
Just remember one night, my roommate just told me... Just leave it to God, if this is the best decision for community although it will be hard to do for them, God will help to give understanding to community's heart
I followed  her advice and suprisingly for me, God grant me peace at that night after few of sleepless nights.

Yes, if your life is in smooth way, you just feel prayer is a regular thing to do. You know God answers prayer but just feel like everday pass by as ussual. If you have problems, then you realize that God truly is able to help you get through your problem. It's the first lesson I learned the hard way, how to surrender to God and let Him do His way and I can say professionally.

Next step, God moved me to talk to one of the staff who has influenced to talk to community. Because I know some fellow staff are questioning my decision, so I'm afraid how to communicate wisely, how to make him join my decision so we could all in one voice to talk to community. But that night, I was amazed on how God worked. I try to talk about my decision and my fellow staff agreed with the reason and finally support my decision... and after we talked to community, they understand and were willing to work together for it..What a relieve... A sweet ending story....Never thought in my mind that after my surrender, He open the way one after another...

Until now, I can never forget the feeling the moment I was told to pray by my friend and the relieve I felt right after the prayer. and not because of my prayer has been answered right away but because I believe whatever happen next, God is in control, not me.

Challenge by challenge came during the first 6 months... It was really crazy.. sometimes it just how to communicate with community, but the scale of challenges were getting higher and higher, but because the first lesson I had "Do your best and let God do the rest", I was able to walk from one challenge to another.
and today what I can say is during this first 6 months were my biggest school of life lesson and exam to move to another level and I'm glad to have that opportunity... :)

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