Category: Meditation

I take refuge in God the Father I take refuge in God the Son I take refuge in God the Holy Spirit I take refuge in the One Triune God For many of us, our relationship with God tends to be viewed in terms of "transactions", he gives us this, we give him that.  Or…

" …We worry, fret, and sweat!" So much of our energy is used on the above when we are facing "perceived" locked doors. Then we feel drained and tired.  The cycle is repeated again and again.  But maybe just maybe, too of of this energy drainage is due to our own "prisons" we’ve constructed in…

We lose sight of our true worth so easily, and slip into self-condemnation or self-congratulation in unhealthy dosages when we measure ourselves, either in isolation from others or in comparison with others.  This is an ongoing battle within us. Perhaps in our Malaysian context, we tend towards being hard on ourselves, and sometimes just "feeling…

"Presence" is more important than "presents".  Presents catch out attention immediately and brings a surge of happiness for a moment but the presence of a loved one warms our cold hearts, and plants a deep sense of joy.   Presents costs money, presence costs time. Presents leave the other alone with their new toys, presence glues…

Years ago May Chin and I got lost in a place called Dart Moor in England during our honeymoon.  We had a simple map, but maybe a wrong turn took us to the wrong direction.  It was scary.  We pushed further and further away from the fields into the forest.  When we arrived looking down…

JESUS CALLS US to enlarge our circle of companions, to expand compassion beyond the boundaries of our present awareness. Jesus ate meals with misfits and outcasts as well as with his friends. Jesus healed the daughter of a Gentile woman, even as he claimed that his main mission was to save the Jews. When I…

One of the things I find myself drawn back to again and again is the relational and personal dimension of our faith.  That we first and foremost relate to God as a person, friend, father, Lord and so on.  When we talk about believing .. it’s more than just about our ideas and doctrines of…

ALMIGHTY GOD, in the midst of the violence of war, help us to be gentle with one another, and ensure that our struggle for righteousness doesn’t become self-righteous. Help us respect one another’s pain, conscience, and our shared humanity. Let those of us who still possess the precious gift of life hold the dead of…

THE STORY OF FAITH … has a narrative arc: a beginning, middle, and end. We do have a sense of where this whole thing is headed, even if we can’t prescribe every stage of the journey for each unique individual. Being formed in the image of Christ is the process and goal of spiritual formation;…

WHEN DISTRACTING NOISES come, don’t fight against them, do not elbow them out, but accept them and weave them by prayer into the silence. Does the wind rattle the window? Then pray, “So let the wind of the Spirit shake the Christian church into life,” and absorb it into the silent listening. Does a child…