I listened carefully and with much openness when the husband shared his heart about his dear wife who lay peacefully in the coffin. She had been a strong lady, faithful in all her ways … right to the final days. It was hard for me to contain myself (but I tried) – what does it…
Month: April 2007
Random Thoughts on Thursday night
Tomorrow will be memorial no. 4 this past month. That one visit, the conversations with had, the song we sang and the time of prayer is forever ingrained in my memory. How can I process all the sequence of events which I have walked through? There are times when the questions are in the “macro”…
Not a Chance Event
“The cross of Christ was not an inexplicable or chance event, which happened to strike him, like illness or accident. To accept the cross as his destiny, to move toward it and even to provoke it, when he could well have done otherwise, was Jesus’ constantly reiterated free choice; and he warns his disciples lest…
Random Thoughts after Wan Tan Mee
There are time when a good plate of Wan Tan Mee with Char Siew is heavenly … I just had one of those times a while ago … this 50days Easter season is kicking of with a glorious start in the food department. Managed to join two LiFe Groups in a row in a way…
Random Links 144
Ten propositions on being a theologian Let me pick one for meditation: “1. Actually, there is no such thing as a theologian, anymore than there is such a thing as a Christian. Theologians are not solitary creatures. Theology is the outcome of good conversation, the conversation of friends. Though – the rabies theologorum – you…
Random Thoughts Overload
Here’s a comment I left on another blog … “There’s a need to distinguish “intellectual masturbation” which lands up with no real life emerging to “genuine faith engaging with understanding” which gives birth to a healthier faith (mindless ranting about the church reflects more about our hang ups rather than real intellectual engagement at its…
Random (Easter) Links 143
Face to faith (HT: Si Johnston) Bishop Tom Wright always has a way to grab your attention … “When Easter stops being a surprise, it stops being Easter. … “ The Season of Easter This will raise some eyebrows and provide food for thought in terms of “contextualization” …“Easter is an English word derives from…
Random Thoughts after Easter Sunday
I’m glad I survived my “translation” assignment for my Bishop during the special thanksgiving church dedication and anniversary celebration at Sunway Lutheran congregation. Sometimes I felt my mind went blank or at least I wasn’t as sharp as I should me. The vocabs were getting jumbled up, I landed up doing some level of paraphrasing…
Good Friday Revisited
My heart was warmed tonight as I read a reflection from a new friend who came to our Good Friday service. These are his thoughts in Bahasa Malaysia from Upacara Tenebrae di BLC. For me, Good Friday has now become an important date for me to seriously be in an environment where I can re-look…
Holy Saturday
Thanks Maggi Dawn for the following … Some how I needed to hear this. “Today is the day after; the day we remember the dark, unfathomable depth of despair the disciples must have faced at the unbelievable loss of not only their friend and mentor, but the person who embodied all their hopes of spiritual…