It was a carnival. Music was clapping through the air, sounds of basketballs looping through nets, small and big feet shuffling on carpeted ground and the voice of the emcee rang above all. Children and adults in bright orange, fuscia pink, lime green, pristine white and of course, the hard-to-be-sulky black spread out everywhere like streams coursing through the wide red plain. Camera flashes illuminate the Wall of Positivity, where people stood beside their cartoon selves to commemorate the birth of their penciled clones.
Check out mine!
I attended a Prayer Experience Retreat (PER) conducted by Catholic Spirituality Centre (CSC) earlier in September. Ever since I’ve begun attending retreats–this being my second one following Conversion Experience Retreat (CER) in May–I’ve been surrounded by so many of God’s wonderful graces. I’ve heard testimonials that go from sweet to totally astounding.
So my friends, I’ll be posting testimonials of God’s greatness and His unconditional love for us in this little cyber home of mine. Hope these stories will bring that iota of faith in you if you are feeling lost in your life, or to strengthen what you already believe in as you tackle more of life’s challenges.
Very timely, on a day that celebrates joy, laughter and hope, Health Promotion Board (HPB) launched their second and last installment of the Be Positive art campaign at The Cathay. So, I ‘toddled’ there on Children’s Day, 1 oct 2010 at 10.30am, exactly thirty minutes after the best timing–10am–to see the shadow effect of one of the slogans by the art sculpture: ‘worries fade away‘.
Why did I arrive late? Because my mind kept thinking that it was at VivoCity, where they had their first ‘SMILE’ there. See, this is what happens when we let our minds be preoccupied with worries and troubles! As a result, this was what I got:
I must be the last one to learn of Mrs Lee’s passing, I thought. With all the social commitments going on for the past few days, I didn’t have time to catch up on news. So, when I finally caught up today, I was shocked to know that Mrs Lee has passed away. A sudden pang of sadness shot through my heart. Yes, even though I barely knew her. Thank God I still had a chance to say my final farewell as today was the last day for her wake, and I went with my sister.
‘You have to be interested to be interesting.’
I stopped in my tracks, swished around to catch the lady saying this. She was a good-looking woman, in her early thirties, with long silky hair and a pointed chin. The smartly tailored-cut suit nicely shaped her fleshy body and gave her a flattering silhouette. I had the urge to swim up to her and ask: ‘Are you one of my clients? Or, if you aren’t, did you eavesdrop into one of my coaching sessions?’
Of course, she isn’t my coaching client, and neither did she overhear what I said.
He always amazes me. Really. Not only is he such a visionary leader, he is a family man. And now, I learnt another important lesson from him once again. There are certainly many reasons for MM Lee’s successes, and one of them is, I believe, taking action.
I had a sort of revelation this morning when I was praying. An anxious feeling just crept out of nowhere into my heart. So I prayed for God to take away my anxiety. At that moment, something just struck me.
You see, while I was praying, my mind had, once again, drifted away. This wave came out from my head and glided to my right at the two-o’clock position, where my notebook was on the desk in the hotel room. I felt little dots jittering in my notebook, bumping and shaking. I knew it was telling me that I had to write. I need to work. And I got anxious.
This friend I just got to know in Iowa has this dictum: “There’s no coincidence in life.”
Everything that happens in our life, every person we meet, every food we eat, every place we go all has a reason and a purpose. It’s not an coincidence, but meant to be. And that was how we met.
