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 | 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....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 7, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
Tonight Bernice and I will be meeting up with some old friends for dinner. Well, they are more my old friends. They came to know Bernice only since she entered my life but we are all good friends now. I first knew this couple before they were married. We were all...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 30, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
I was senior pastor of a growing church. I had just lost my wife to cancer. He was one of my church elders. And he told me, “You need to get back on the horse as soon as possible.” I believe he had my interests at heart. He was definitely concerned for the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 5, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Happiness, Life Issues
If I had remained in Melbourne, I would have been happy and that is all I would have been. We were having dinner with a new friend a few evenings ago. A Malaysian, he shared about his time in Melbourne. It was a significant time. He went to university there. He found...
