The Gifted Ones

Hello y'all,

What a cool way to connect with every one from Samuel fellowship! This is my very first post on the blog. The reason I waited this long to blog is because I haven't encountered anything inspiring enough for me to put much thoughts on it. But today, I finally came across something that was so invigorating and powerful that I felt the urge to share it with everyone.

I was randomly flipping through the channels when I landed on channel 36 (yes, it's the Chinese channel). It was a documentary on a family of six. The parents are highly educated - actually both of them received their Ph.Ds. Their four kids ( I believe one older son and three younger daughters) are very gifted.
[Detour: a little background information for you on gifted children, gifted people have an IQ of at least 130. About 3-4 children out of 100 are gifted in the general population, but to have all the kids in the same family to be gifted is a ratio of 1 : 1 million in the whole world. ]

So, the parents of this family are faced with challenges that average families would never face. For starters, they have to raise their four gifted children very differently from others (their son attended university at the age of 9). The parents have gone through all the parenting books, however, they are not exactly helpful since the books were written for the general population with average IQ. After having read many books and guides on how to raise a family full of gifted kids, the parents finally settled on ONE book that they believe their kids should study wholeheartedly - the Bible. And the moment I heard "the Bible", I was thinking "are you serious?" Maybe Bible wasn't exactly the book I was anticipating, because I've always thought gifted people would read mountains of books on rocket science or something not so popular among the people. But the Bible, it is relatively accessible to the general public and the content is comprehensible to average people.

So why this book out of millions of other published books? The Ph.D parents explained, the kids have to know why they are alive on this earth and realize that there is a Great One who created ALL things on earth. All humans are created differently with their own uniqueness and there is a reason behind every existence. Gifted or not, we should simply appreciate what we have and make use of our talents/strengths to serve the Lord, carry out His plans. The Ph.D parents are now nearly 70 years old and are touring around to give presentations on how to raise kids, especially gifted kids. They truly felt the blessings from God as they tasted the fruits of their labour. All of their kids are apparently successful in their careers and have their own families. I am convinced once again that God is the guidance for those who believe in Him. So it might take a few decades to truly experience God's work in plan, but don't ever lose faith in the One and Only who unconditionally loves us as we are.

{L. Wen}