True Wisdom

I join the Chinese church service, not because my Mandarin is any good but somehow when I use English, I connected mostly on the logical plane. I feel more emotionally and spiritually when I use Mandarin.
Recently, I heard a very touching story during one of the services and I would like to share with you. Pastor Zhou was from Shanghai on a mission trip to Northern Thailand. One late evening, a child from a nearby village became seriously ill. His mother, a non-believer, approached the church for help because the church is one of the few in that area that has transport.
However, the journey to the hospital after dusk was too dangerous. It was decided to give the child some fever medicine and they would go to the hospital after the morning prayer.
Pastor Zhou led the morning prayer, in the mid of it, a terrible cry echoed the hall -- the child died in his mother's arms. It was a terrible blow to the mother. The pastor was at a lost too. His years of training deserted him; he could not master the words to comfort the lady.
Near the village where the tribal lady came from was a little rundown church building. The pastor would preach there week after week. The lady would sit quietly on the last row. One day, the pastor suggested to renovate the church building. As usual, there was silence. Then the lady stood up and volunteered to contribute the pillars. Her effort was infectious; others started to come forward too.
As the pastor work with her, he realized that she had accepted Christ as her savior despite the church 'failure' to save her son. That to the pastor is true wisdom.