How sensitive are we to God’s timing? This question has been on my mind of late. I am not talking about the daily discipline where we pray and then we wait as we are reminded often to wait upon the Lord and not to fret. My reflection has been on…
If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent Van Gogh, painter (中文版：热带雨林的召唤） Finally, my personal travel drought has come to an end as the 2-year pandemic becomes endemic. International borders have started to open up but we decided to go domestic, and head for the jungle instead in search of Bornean…
In June 2021, that was when I last blogged. Within weeks I was scrambling to hold all my family members together and trying to stay afloat when the horrendous storms of life came upon us, one after the other. Today, as I am eventually feeling more settled, ready to revisit memories and putting my thoughts…
長得漂亮是優勢，活得漂亮是本事
這一年多的疫情，使我們在生活裏做出了許多大大小小的改變。有些改變是必要的…
I know it probably feels very funny if not odd that I am writing a travel blog now, in the midst of a year-long pandemic that we have yet to see the true end of it. Well, it obviously was a trip I made when it was still safe to do so and long before…
After my last blog “fan into flame the gift of God: my journey in the interpretation and translation ministry“, the preacher whom I mentioned in it shared with me that, although she was the one who encouraged me years ago to spur me on my journey in the interpretation ministry, this time round it was…
Interpreter: translates orallyTranslator: interprets written text After a year of living life differently, I am looking back at my one-year journey of serving in the bilingual (English and Chinese) interpretation ministry of our church. A ministry that I committed to after overcoming the initial apprehension and resistance. I am not new to the ministry as…
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成长的过程就是破茧为蝶，挣扎着褪掉所有的青涩和丑陋，在阳光下抖动轻盈美丽的翅膀，闪闪的、微微的、幸福的颤抖。— 无名氏
两天前收到一位远方朋友捎来的问候…
If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember that trees lose their leaves every year and they still stand tall and wait for better days to come. — Unknown It was almost this time last year that I made the decision to change the course of my life. After indulging myself in 2 carefree years…
Turning down the volume of the world to listen to the whispers of God… When my country went into a partial lockdown to contain the pandemic in mid-March, I entered into a season a rest. I was in the state of near exhaustion at the time after I mercilessly drove myself hard into my new…
To stay at home for one whole month and practise social distancing is something unfamiliar and absolutely unprecedented for almost all of us. The Movement Control Order in our country was enforced from 18 March 2020 and has since been extended from two weeks to one month until 14 April 2020. Today is the 19th…
Isaiah 55:8-9 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. It has been a long while since my last blog. Many things have happened and changes taken…
“Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” — Betty Friedan (1921 – 2006, American feminist writer and activist) I love soft lighting and I used to read or do my embroidery in soothing soft lights in the evenings. Things however, started to change when I reached one of the…
I was planning my solo trip to Thailand when I found out my friend Vivian from home was going to be posted to the city of Melaka (English: Malacca). Without much persuasion, I decided to change course and head south instead of going up north. The historic city Melaka is only 1.5 – 2 hours’…
Colourful Threads of Life 