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Wallis's Testimony
Name: Wallis Wong
From: Hong Kong
Before really knowing God, I used to have an emotionless face. I didn’t know how and when to smile/laugh and I wasn’t fond of talking. I could be depressed and irritated as I got up in the morning without any reason. It was very difficult for such a person like me to make any friends.
In the ninth grade in HK, I told myself that I could live without a friend. After that year, I concluded that it was impossible. However, it was too late. Due to my personality, most of the classmates didn’t like me.
Later I got to come to the US, I told myself, “Good. Nobody knows me here. I can have a fresh start.” The first year I attended in a High School, I mindfully and constantly reminded myself to smile, to greet, and to talk. But after that year, I didn’t make friends.
The next year, I transferred to a college. I told myself again, “Good. Nobody knows me here again. I can have a fresh start once again.” Like before, I mindfully and constantly reminded myself to smile, to greet, and to talk. But after that freshman year, I didn’t make friends.
In my sophomore year, I took a Japanese class which I was forced to practice conversing and interacting with others. Finally, I met a friend who invited me a fellowship. There I saw all are smiling and happy. They could converse with anyone.
I asked, “What is the difference between them and me?”
I observed that they had love in their hearts. Their happiness comes from the fact that they were first loved. That was why they were full of joy. They could smile and share.
During that year or two, God gently spoke to me and revealed Himself and His love to me through various incidences: His arrangement of academic study, part-time jobs, and relationship with others. I was gradually changed, like accumulating sand.
I later found that I smiled and laughed much more than the smiling time summed up in the past 10+ years. I made much more precious friendship than the sum of the past 10+ years. Even my mother would ask when she found that I was mostly with my friends, “Do you really have so many friends?” She also had a hard time believing that her unapproachable, unfriendly, unsociable daughter could now have so many friends.
I realized that it is because of the establishment of a relationship with God, I then can build up relationship with others; thus, my heart can be joyful and my face knows how to smile.
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