by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 8, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
Received an email from a good friend a few days ago. He had just made a visit to his home town. A large part of the visit was spent with three people with very serious medical conditions. Two of them were not expected to last long. All three were suffering severe...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 1, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Christian Identity, Christian Living, Remembrance
We were in Penang the last couple of days to visit my mother. It was a good visit. She seems to have shaken off the worst of the shingles that afflicted her earlier in the year. We took a drive to Balik Pulau. Had excellent laksa there — both the sour and the Thai...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 25, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Christian Living, Rest & Busyness
Life is full of ironies. Or God has a great sense of humour. Tomorrow (July 26) I am to run a workshop on sabbath-keeping at a small group conference. I have never been so tired and overworked in recent memory. Perhaps I will present myself as a negative model, as one...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 21, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Communication, Life Issues
Are you a good listener? I am not. I interrupt people before they finish their sentences. And after hearing one or two sentences I assume I know the rest of what a person wants to say. I then stop listening and am already marshalling my responses. (Yes, I am an ENTJ.)...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 10, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
I miss Roson more than I thought I would. (My cousin died on March 31, 2008 from pancreatic cancer.) In these past three months I have been ambushed often by memories of the good times we shared. I think of the trip Bernice and I made to Toronto the year before last....
