by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 31, 2025 | 2025, Community, Loving Others
This year’s Chinese New Year family reunion dinner was special. We had the whole family together. The last time this happened was in 2020 in Penang. My mum was still with us. That was a special reunion dinner too for all sorts of reasons. But mum has gone ahead...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 24, 2025 | 2025, God's Love, Intergenerational
Lord I come to You Let my heart be changed, renewed Flowing from the grace That I've found in You (1) Last weekend we sang “The Power of Your Love” during worship service. I was surprised that singing the song unleashed vivid memories and powerful...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 17, 2025 | 2025, Death & Grief, Spiritual Friendship, Widowhood
Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve. — Dr. Earl A. Grollman Yesterday (15 Jan) I met up with a friend for coffee. He lost...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 10, 2025 | 2025, Community, Loneliness, Small Groups
A recent article on the BBC website reinforced something that we have known for a while — that one can be lonely in a crowd. … other people — counterintuitively — aren’t always the antidote to loneliness. They may even be part of the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 3, 2025 | 2025, Discernment, God's Will, Meaning & Purpose
I had bought some of the books 40 years ago. Most of them I had not read for about 20 years. They were stored in our office. But the time had come to move to another relatively smaller office. Much of our stuff had to be discarded. That included many of my...
