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On 25 February 2012, I experienced loss for the first time in my life. My maternal grandfather, or gong gong (公公), passed away after battling with pneumonia. I still vividly remember a gripping...
It was during a season of transitions that I fell into depression. It wasn’t a sudden fall. It was happening, but I just hadn’t realised it. At the time, I was in NS (National Service) and in...
It has been more than four years in my struggle with depression. In the first three years I thought to myself: “I just need to find someone to be there for me, to save me out of my misery.”...
Do you find it hard to take control of your thought life? Are you often besieged with negative thoughts, or do you find yourself constantly battling fears? Paul wrote to the Philippians church,...
My parents would always talk about my brother when we were very young. “Oh you know,” they would tell me. “Jonah is special. He only has one hand.” This only connected for me...
I come from a family steeped in ancestral worship. So when I became a Christian, my parents were understandably very upset and did not allow me to go to church. One time, my mother got extremely...
In 2016, my mum was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. When I heard the news, I couldn’t help but ask God why. There were many questions in my mind, and I couldn’t stop thinking about them....
What seemed like a calming tide after Jonghyun’s passing in December 2017 was broken on Monday with news of yet another K-pop idol dying by suicide. At 25 years old, Choi Jin-Ri, or more commonly...
In secondary school, my daily habit would be to pack about three to four slices of Gardenia enriched white bread in a zip-lock bag, hide it under my desk and pinch on them throughout the day. It may...