I’m a runner. I run from problems. I’ve come to realise that I instinctively put up my walls as defences. I distance myself and turn away from hard times. It’s so easy to run when things are...
A current trend in Christian circles is to put popular worship songs under the “theological microscope” and come up with a list of songs to cull from services. Most of these...
I used to watch Mulan every night after dinner. It was 1999, a year after Disney released the animated version of the story I’d grown up with in Chinese classes. Arguably the most well-known female...
Maybe you’ve seen this appeal on your Facebook feed: Please help me bring my father home. You may have trouble accessing the link, possibly due to heavy traffic to the site. In short: The...
Some years back, I watched The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. While many had said that it felt like a feature-length “Just Do It” advertisement, the constant theme of “stop dreaming, start...
Sigmund Freud once proposed that the mind seeks to avoid pain and find pleasure. In this life, we will get our hearts get broken. People might say mean things to us. Something or someone beloved...
Have you ever felt a pain so great that it pounds through every fibre of your being? I have. My mind goes back to one night some years back when I’d gone to see a volunteer counsellor in one of the...
“I am so blessed to get these pair of new kicks for my birthday!” “I received the promotion that I’ve been waiting for … I feel so blessed!” “I got an ‘A’ on the test even...
How am I going to survive this?, I found myself thinking one recent afternoon. It wasn’t just the exceptional heat from the morning sun making its way down my face and soaking uncomfortably...