It was hard for me to accept the doctor’s diagnosis. I came back from Lanzhou. I had a sharp pain at the joint of my large toe on my right foot. It looked inflamed and sensitive to the touch. It was so bad I struggled to walk to the clinic. My wife had to support […]
This has been a satisfying and exciting year for me. If you had asked me earlier in the year, I would not have said so. Upon reflection, I see patterns that give meaning and joy to my journey. I read my journal leisurely, covering a quarter each time. After reading, I took notes of repetitions, […]
Pastor Rony Tan went home to his Lord and Master on the 16th of September 2024, aged 79 years old. He passed away peacefully after suffering from sciatic nerve pain for two years and a recently discovered complicated tumour. For the joy of meeting his Master, whom he served faithfully, he endured the pain and […]
I had to learn the lesson of accepting my limits the hard and painful way. Obviously I was a slow learner because this was not the first time I suffered thus.
A doctor with a heart for pastors and missionaries I have sometimes wondered what had happened to that wonderful gynaecologist who delivered all my children. Dr Lawrence Chan, a Christian elder in a Brethren church, was very gracious towards missionaries and pastors. He delivered their babies free of charge. If the wife was working, they would […]
Blessed with a severe beauty Western Australia is vast and flat, blue and cool. It is greatly blessed by God with a natural beauty. A rather severe kind: the dryness, the short trees, easily broken branches, insipid green leaves, wiry shrubs and bushes and sand, lots of sand. These form the dull backdrop for a […]