Faith

Learning to love my imperfect cell group

Ah, cell group. I didn’t attend youth cell group as a Secondary School student unlike most people who start attending one after they graduated from Sunday School. From the outside in, this is...

Relationships

If marriage is not a game, why do we still cheat?

“My daddy warned me about men like you He said, ‘Baby girl, he’s playing you.'” (BeyoncĂ©, “Daddy Lessons”) When rumours of infidelity swirled around the power...

Relationships

Children of divorce, how will we win the fight?

“She’s okay what. Look at her. Does she not look okay?” When my parents’ divorce was finalised and the relatives were informed, I was a topic of discussion at the lunch table. Not fully...

Relationships

40 and forgotten: When will I be married?

I am a single in my 40s who is still hoping to get married. So whenever I read a piece on singlehood by someone under 30, my heart’s always tempted to say, “Wait till you hear my...

Faith

I tried to be an extrovert for years

I’ve only recently accepted that I’m introverted. Growing up, I wasn’t entirely in the dark about my personality. I remember recognising early on that I was a little bit different...

Relationships

A tender but strong heart

“Be tender-hearted, and be strong-hearted..” Those were about the last words my mentor gave me before our season ended, and one of the deepest lessons I am still learning in life. I find that the...

Health

Orphaned at 28, I wanted to commit suicide

I experienced my first anxiety attack right after my mum passed away in front of me — from a brain haemorrhage in a Hong Kong hospital. For once in my life, things had actually been going along...

Relationships

Where is God in my heartbreak?

You have to believe you’re going to make it, God said to me. There are probably as many forms of escapism in the world as there are people. I’m quick to recognise it only because it is one...

Relationships

I couldn’t move on after my break-up

One month after the passing of my mother in April 2011, I ended a year-long relationship with my boyfriend. The relationship had already been on the rocks for months. It was adding to the...