Happy Few – 2011

Listening is rare. There are certain people we meet to whom we feel we can talk because they have such a deep capacity for hearing; not hearing words only but hearing us as a person. They enable us to talk on a level which we have never before reached. They enable us to be as [...]

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A Good Life

I went for the first wake of 2011 on Saturday, it was a wake of a 1 month old Thaddeus. This sad news came most unexpected, a baby whose life has impacted many during his short time on earth. Something that Pastor mentioned at the wake as he was reminded by a tombstone which he [...]

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Power of the Resilience…Tarry Until

When Pastor Khong spoke at service yesterday, he read from Luke 24:49 Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high. Many people and things came to my mind – past and present. The gist of it is [...]

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A powerful story that encourages

Khim posted this on her blog and I thought I’ll share it here. My heart is still pounding from the reading, deeply encouraged. A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light, and God appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to do, and [...]

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Me time…recovered

“We reach for God in many ways. Through our sculptures and our scriptures. Through our pictures and our prayers. Through our writing and our worship. And through them He reaches for us. His search begins with something said. Ours begins with something heard. His begins with something shown. Our, with something seen. Our search for [...]

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Life, and How to Survive it

An email sent by a dear mentor – A speech addressed by the author of ‘Teenage Textbook’, Adrian Tan at the NTU 2008 Convocation. Have a read and I pray that you’ll get something out of it. ————————————————— I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of [...]

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Chill out…

Missed service today for the last sea swim of this semester, still very slow in my cadence, guess that’s all cause I haven’t been making friends with the dumb bells. After which, some of us went for lunch and chat more about riding, swimming and tri. Most importantly, I’m really glad that I finally got [...]

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Do schools kill creativity?

Here’s something that one of our creative director showed us yesterday. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. In his witty way, he spoke about the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of many brilliant people. “And we run our companies like [...]

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Middle Child

Came across 2 posts that I subscribe to, and interestingly, the topic is about middle child syndrome. Being a middle child myself, this topic definitely attracted my attention. I do agree with some of what was written and here’s what the writer wrote. I like the one that’s written on the blog – positive side [...]

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"Spiritual" Rag Dolls – Part 3

She lived to complain. She complained about her grown children, who did not treat her right, about her neighbors, money, change, and life in general. When her church went through changes she would oppose them, not so much because she didn’t like the change as because changes might mean she was less in control. The [...]

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"Spiritual" Rag Dolls – Part 2

He is a Christian leader and author who views himself as a defender of truth. He delights in ripping apart other Christians who disagree with any of his doctrinal positions. He doesn’t just oppose their opinions, he caricatures their positions, twists their statements, maligns their motives. He wants to believe bad things about them. He [...]

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"Spiritual" Rag Dolls – Part 1

He was an angry man – angry toward his children, the people he worked with, the people he had gone to church with his whole life. He got into fights over points of doctrine, over what the sign in front of church should say, over what the church motto should be. His main reason to [...]

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The Roundabout Way

God is at work in the roundabout way of the desert, in ways we do not see and cannot understand.God’s way is rarely the quickest way. It is seldom the easiest way. But it is always the best way. – Love beyond Reason, John Ortberg

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Trivial Pursuits

Still on the same book after 1 month. When Bong gave it to me, I knew it is exactly what is needed. Just something from this chapter that I’m reading – the Contentment of Being Loved and the Author went on talking about the many trivial pursuits of life. Ecc 1:2“Vanity of vanities,” says the [...]

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Love pays attention

When you throw a stone into a pond, the stone will create ripples that reach to the shore all the way around – but only if the pond is still. When the pond is quiet and still, the arrival of the stone can be read over the entire surface. But when the pond is not [...]

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