by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 10, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
There are one or two pluses about being a widower. One key one is having the privilege of being able to walk with other widowers in their grief — assuming that your life doesn’t fall apart the first few years after the death of your wife, that is. I was on...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 29, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose, Suffering
I really wasn’t in the mood to see Matrix: Reloaded. I had just heard that someone close to me had a growth in her colon. Never good news. It’s just that cancer had visited that family twice before. And each time had taken a life. I found myself...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 15, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
In these days of daily scientific innovation, it’s hard to remember a time when battery-powered toys first appeared. I recall a toy tank I had that ran on batteries. It had a very cool feature. When it ran against a wall or any immovable obstacle, it would pause...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 13, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues, Suffering, Violence, World Issues
I lost a wife to lung cancer. After been touched by pain and tragedy I can never again be glib about the pain of others. On the anniversary of September 11th I look afresh at the impossible pictures. It is too much. The pain represented there is way too much for me to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 2, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
You’ve seen the pattern before. First God gives you a strength. So you learn to make full use of it. You get used to it. You polish it. You begin to count on it. Then God has to wean you off it. Take Jacob, old heel grabber, aka the deceiver. He survived all his...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 18, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
She was surprised. It had been a very hard year. One by one, key members of her family had been stricken. She was exhausted. She had nothing more to give. And then there was the matter of the members of her small group. Many were going through incredible problems too....
