I smell desperation – Part 5

Mum: I book you for Hokkaido next year. Auntie wants to go as well.
Me: Ok.
Mum: So got anyone to paktoh (date) with or not?
Me: There are possibilities. But not yet.
Mum: Aiyoh, you’re so kelian. (pitiful) I keep telling you to stop hanging out with bachelor friends’ to avoid being a bachelor.
Me: ….
Mum: Aiyah, never mind [...]

I smell desperation – Part 4

Me: So what does the card say?
Mum: It says “Invitation to _____ and _____ marriage on Sun 25Oct 2009 at Pan Pacific Singapore Hotel. Hm…
Me: Ok…
Mum: HAI YAH! One by one getting married.
Mothers. They are so subtle sometimes.

En-courage-ment Part 2

“Hey. Am really really happy at what He is doing in our lives, esp yours. Just talking to you made me tear with joy. I can’t remember when was the last time I heard you talk so freely, without undue worry. Maybe when we were dating? Ah, a long time ago. Good for you, my [...]

En-courage-ment

“Greg, you have grown in leaps and bounds through your walk in God since I last saw you. You are His child. Don’t let anyone take that away from you.” – Soo Inn

Sacred space

Ezekiel 45:1-2
“When you divide up the inheritance of the land, you must set aside part of the land as sacred space for God: approximately seven miles long by six miles wide, all of it holy ground.”
Luke 1:18-20
Zachariah said to the angel, “Do you expect me to believe this? I’m an old man and my wife [...]

Passionate Waiting

The relationship between truth and faithfulness is oh so very very close. – Gordon Fee
I’ll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness,
the taste of ashes, the poison I’ve swallowed.
I remember it all—oh, how well I remember—
the feeling of hitting the bottom.
But there’s one other thing I remember,
and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:
God’s [...]

Where the good life begins

Hallelujah! I give thanks to God with everything I’ve got—
Wherever good people gather, and in the congregation.
God’s works are so great, worth
A lifetime of study—endless enjoyment!
Splendor and beauty mark his craft;
His generosity never gives out.
His miracles are his memorial—
This God of Grace, this God of Love.
He gave food to those who fear him,
He remembered to [...]

La Vita Nuova

In that book which is
My memory . . .
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words . . .
Here begins a new life.
- Dante Alighieri
Wow.