Category: Random Thoughts

Potato chips . I think I had an overdose last week . but it was good! 🙂 Haven’t been in much of a blogging or writing zone the past week.  Perhaps it was the holiday season. But then I didn’t really manage to have a mental holiday, especially with a last minute meeting moderator assignment,…

Had some coffee so I’m not sleeping yet, and yet strangely I do feel a little sleepy.  Irony? I was told that I’ve been using the word “irregardless” when I should be saying “regardless”. Well, irregardless of what I have been saying, I might use it occasionally regardless. 🙂 for shock effect? or irritation? It’s…

I miss doing these random thoughts. Monday is better today.  I still have not done the weekly review yet.  But I’m moving there in small steps. Ambient Music has been helpful for me to reengage in more intentional centering.  Silence is good, but I realize for someone like me, I need to gradually enter into…

Piety is an aspect in our faith journey which is valuable. But when piety is the only quality we have or aspire, without the outward dimension of living it in a complex world, then it rings hollow. Zeal for change in society is lacking these days.  So, when we see it, we affirm it.  But…

I’m looking forward to the final class two  weeks from now 🙂 I love the picture above – it has a cute looking dog and two words which describes me .. addiction and potatoes. 🙂 When questions are asked to make a link between history and today, I get energized.  The creative juices gets pumping. …

  Resuming a daily rhythm requires an important component – the willingness to start again, and again, and again … it’s easy to lapse back into indiscipline or are simply distracted by the urgent. So, Rebooting is a regular experience and accepted fact. I had this funny little tag line floating in my head for…

The church needs to be a home and a hub for creativity.  Simple arrangements with smooth stones, and flowers plus candles does wonders to what could have been a plain altar. Of  course, for the creativity to have greater depth then one can dig deeper into resources from spirituality and theology – e.g. thinking about…

The "perfect" sermon, or article is always in the head … I wonder whether we are afraid to get started because the moment it leaves the abstract and enters the concrete whether it’s digital words on the screen of a notebook or scribbles on a piece of paper it loses it’s perfection and we’re down…

How does one survive a meeting which starts at 10AM and ends at 7:30PM?  🙂 After all we say and do, nothing beats a simple time of prayer – personal, as well as in support for one another. When one believes that God speaks through the scriptures, wonders lurk behind the feeble voice who reads…

"Wisdom" is on my mind today … How does one become wiser? How can we embody and practice wisdom in a way which relates to all spheres of life? Where is the presence of absence of God in this pursuit? Why is it we are so tempted to make conclusions about ourselves and our surroundings…