Category: Meditation

A friend of ours met an accident last week.  Thankfully, she lived. Three weeks ago a young 20something year old girl crashed on the highway divider as she was driving home. Tragically, she died. Life is so fragile. Full of puzzles we cannot fully put together in our lifetime.  And yet, we are confronted again…

There is a "strangeness" when we study church history.  Especially when it comes to the early monks that reacted against the environment of their times starting the 3-4th century.  Whether as individuals like Anthony of Egpyt  or as monastic communities initiated by Pachomius, they took the passage about the Rich Young Ruler much more literally…

I always like our trips to Cameron Highlands even though it’s a long journey.  But once we have arrived there, we will be surrounded by trees and greenery.  The weather is cooler and the air is fresher. As long as it’s away from the concrete jungle and polluted air of Kuala Lumpur 🙂 It’s also…

HUMILITY, HOSPITALITY, and loving-kindness; simplicity and deliberation — all are God-shaped qualities of life. To have all the mind that was in Christ, however, means that these qualities flow from Christ’s holiness and righteousness in us through loving actions toward others. – Paul Wesley Chilcote A Life-Shaping Prayer: 52 Meditations in the Wesleyan Spirit (via…

FROM OUR BLINDNESS that cannot see the pain in others’ lives, from our fears that distance us from others, from our indifference that cannot relate to others’ suffering, deliver us, O God. Amen. – Richard Morgan Settling In: My First Year in a Retirement Community (via Upper Room Daily Reflections) It’s such a liberating experience…

    The problem with many of us is when we THINK we sees things as they really are when it’s really not what it is. Our vision and perspectives are easily clouded by baggage from the past, prejudice of the present and fears for the future.  And of course, the good old way of…

"My faith is something like my radio: God is always sending me messages, but I’m not always in the right place to receive what God is sending. Sometimes my mind and heart aren’t tuned well enough to hear what God is sending, and I need to follow Jesus’ example." I believe many of us can…

WHEN WE ADMIT our weaknesses …, we discover one of the greatest secrets of the spiritual journey — that in our weakness lies our strength. This is one of the most powerful spiritual truths that we will ever discover. Rather than rejecting us because of our weaknesses, it opens the door for God to come…

GOOD SHEPHERD, lead me to green grass and still water, feed me in the midst of horrible experiences, and bring me home at the end of the day. Amen. – Alive Now (via Upper Room Daily Reflections) I showed the video as a closing for last week’s message.  I love the phrase, "rearrange the contents…

* * * Before we had kids, May Chin and I had one memorable trip to Seoul during the Chinese New Year. I can’t remember whether it was because we wanted to avoid giving Ang Pows after the first year of marriage or we found a good cheaper tour package.  Either way we achieved both….