by Soo-Inn Tan | May 15, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Hope, Life Issues, Media, Music
Nostalgia can gut you. I just bought Simon & Garfunkel, Old Friends, Live on Stage (CD+DVD). I am blown away every time I hear “Homeward Bound.” Happened again. All of us who live in the modern rock/pop era have our own collection of songs that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 4, 2006 | 2006, Afterlife, Articles, Hope, Life Issues
The distance between joy and sorrow is razor thin. He had come to help me celebrate my wedding. He and his wife were old friends. I had conducted their wedding. Their maid was away and the babysitter was not available and they had three young children. But they had...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 6, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Christian Living, Life Issues, Obedience & Faithfulness, Work & Vocation
He had been a Christian for less than a year. But the conversion was real. He was a new person. And it showed in the way he did business. First of all he began to see his employees differently. He began to treat his employees and their families as de facto...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 17, 2006 | 2006, Articles, God, God's Love, Happiness, Life Issues, Media, Music
I received a copy of The Very Best of Jim Croce for Valentine’s Day. Croce was an American singer-songwriter who died in an air crash in 1973 just as his career was taking off. As I played the CD I was reminded of two of my basic convictions: that everybody...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 10, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
I had the privilege of witnessing the birth of no.2 son. (No.1 son was born in a public hospital where fathers where not allowed into the delivery room because there were a number of mothers sharing a room.) I remember that from the time “the water burst”...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 22, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
Did you know that: *Men and women who felt the most loved and supported had substantially less blockage in their coronary arteries. *Men and women with heart disease who were single and lacked confidants were three times as likely to have died after five years....
