Learning Life Skills
Natalie's Story, March Break 2009 (a student's perspective)
Yesterday we discovered life skills. We went to the Eaton Centre Mall. We were asked to simply connect with people. The sum of Living In Faith Everyday is to stay in prayer, and faithfully work to make someone else’s day. With this perspective, to serve people as if they were Jesus, social and cultural habits melt away.
An older gentleman sat alone in the mall - when we joined him, he told us everything in his life; the countries he's lived in, his work experience, his political opinions, his family and friends. He explained to us that he used to meet with 6 others at the mall every day, but now all his friends in Canada have passed away. He told us he was lonely, and hoped to move to his family in Australia. The cultural trend we are in to not approach others - to be individuals in a community instead of being a community - should be broken. We made Harry Pine's day because we broke it... and perhaps he made ours.







