Waiting is such a strange discipline. It’s disarming because you are simply not in control. But we like to be in control, we want to set the pace for what we want to do. Charting sketches for an imaginable future is responsible. In fact, I’ve always been intrigued by our human ability to picture in…
Category: Personal
178: Waking Up
Random Thoughts on “gifts”
The nature of a gift is unsettling. A gift cannot be forced, it can’t be pressured into receiving it. The power of a gift is in present tense. It can have a past element but that is a mere memory even nostalgia. If we think of it in the future, I wonder whether it’s a…
174: Mortality
Random Thoughts with Ewan sitting on my lap before hospital visit
Once a while we have a chance to live in the air, we’re lifted up and look down with a fresh perspective. You don’t get that kind of view everyday, don’t you? But the fact is we’re not in the air but on the ground most of our days. It’s less transcendent, and most immanent. …
Random Thoughts after a full stomach in Sibu
The landing was a little bumpy. But that’s life. Sometimes we get a great lift off and less than perfect landing. Other times we struggled to fly, and then glides smoothly to the ground. The air con is REALLY cold in this room. It’s a little funny to watch the World Cup football matches on…
Random Thoughts before taking a 4am Bus
This is going to be really random. Sometimes we wonder what on earth did we get into. And yet we still need to plough through till the end. “The human heart” is such a complex organ – biologically and metaphorically. We can’t survive without it, and yet so unpredictable. Just when you think you know…
The Empty Self
It’s good to return to Parker Palmer’s book, A Hidden Wholeness the last couple of days. How often we start reading a book without finishing it and then return to it later to devour its treasures. What has been lingering in my mind since resuming my reading has been the whole idea of “the Empty…
164: Holiday Camp
Random Thoughts While Listening to the RM 5 “Remedy” from Glad Sounds
I was reminded of one of the early songs I heard David Crowder sang before they were known as the David Crowder Band. “All I can say” was one song that carried me when entered into a totally unknown territory 10 years ago. When some expected me to be the next hip mega church pastor,…