Illness

Marriage

Jacob and Jaclyn: Extending hospitality amidst pain

It was two weeks before the wedding and everything was running like clockwork — just as how Jacob and Jaclyn Lau had expected. Renovations for their new home were underway. Jaclyn’s elder sister,...

Illness

What going (almost) blind taught me

At the end of July last year, I underwent an operation to halt vision loss in my right eye. In crude terms, the operation involves the surgeon cutting a small slit in my eye to reduce its pressure....

Real Life, Real People

What hope remains when your life is turned upside down?

Earlier this year, Christian lifestyle brand Jacob Rachel (JR) began an intimate and wonderful little series called “Community Stories” on their Instagram page. There they shared personal...

Illness

For weeks I struggled to breathe, until it all changed one night

Four years ago, I began an intensive jogging programme in an effort to improve my fitness and energy levels. But instead of becoming fitter, I became increasingly short of breath. In a cruel irony, I...

Illness

Living with pain that doesn’t go away

Not many people know about this, but I struggle with chronic pain. It’s mostly deep in my neck and back. A combination of injury and poor posture. And that would be bad enough as is… But...

Family

A father’s love: All his 3 children have a rare genetic disorder

Every one of us has our fair share of family problems. We may even say our loved ones have caused us some form of suffering. But for one father David Lang, even the diagnosis of a fatal genetic...

Health

“I was blind but now I see”: Finding God amid diabetes, blindness and kidney failure

When I was 10, my mother noticed ants crawling around the toilet bowl after I had used it. I had also suddenly become prone to fainting spells, and could not put on weight no matter how much I ate....

Disabilities

A close brush with death left her without hands and legs, but she’s never felt more alive

In 2018, Carole Ann was admitted to hospital due to a sharp abdominal pain. It turned out that a ruptured ovarian cyst had put her in a life-threatening condition. During the month-long coma, her...

Health

When I found out my mum had cancer… again

5 March 2017. It was a Wednesday evening, and I had decided to take a GrabCar home from school in order to make it back on time for dinner with my parents. Mum hadn’t been feeling well for the past...