What is your dream house? When I was small, i so enjoyed going through the houses in Forbes Park whenever we visited my my 4th uncle, my…
May 2021
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Adrenaline rush… burnout… martyr complex… These are some of the stages of life. How often do we, you and I, go from task to task, challenges to…
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The COVID lockdown messed me up my mental and emotional health in the first couple of months. I struggled with anxiety and paranoia. In the initial days,…
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Question… is it easier to sing when you are happy or sad? Happy of course! When I’m sad, or when I’m worried, there’s a lump that’s stuck…
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Summer of 2019, after Mimi, my youngest graduated from high school, she and I went on a vacation to UK. This is my travel journal from that…
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In John 9:1-23, Jesus healed a man born blind. This miracle story is not only about physical healing to see but also an eyeopener; the spiritual lens…
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There is a stigma to depression as there is a taboo to death talk. Much more so in the Chinese culture.In an episode in the medical series…
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The traditional Chinese parents of previous generations (perhaps up to the present) set their life goal as storing up treasures for their children’s future even for their…
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In music, the fermata is much more than a rest. In a rest, there is a definite value where music stops for definite number of beats. In a fermata, how much longer it is held is up to the discretion of the performer or conductor. How much time to hold before the music continues is not fixed.
When I go on vacation, I know the vacation ends in a week and work resumes after. How about when God puts me on hold for a ministry? Does the music stop? In a fermata, the note is sustained even when the next note is not to be played yet. There seems to be something going on in the music even while on hold.
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From the pit to the prison to the palace… that about summed up the life of Joseph! Is that it? Nope… not quite… He was 17 tending…