God Meets You Where You Are Even though God is always calling us to constant conversion and growth, and even though we are imperfect and sometimes sinful people, God loves us as we are now. As Fr Anthony de Mello, SJ said, “You don’t have to change for God to love you.”…you are loved even…
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Nature, Places, Posts
The Fragile Forest
Fauna of Singapore – At the Singapore Zoo and deep within it – The Fragile Forest And the beauty this week on Nature’s Trail in Singapore
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This Week on Nature’s Trail
The beauty of nature was everywhere in Singapore this week. To be part of God’s nature and with family. A New Year’s Blessing!
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On The Trail
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The Thousand Turtle Mountain, Liming, Yunnan
We climbed up the Thousand Turtle Mountain in the district of pastoral Liming, on a late and wet afternoon after several hours’ drive from Lijiang, Yunnan in late 2009. After our guide selected a live fowl for a home-cooked lunch (& dinner), we set off for this beautiful mountain the resembled the back of a thousand turtles at its peak.…
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Come Be My Light – Reading Mother Teresa’s Autobiography
The mission and life work of the Catholic saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta can be summed up in a few succinct comments after reading her posthumous (‘unauthorized’) autobiography. It is not a book that one can simply put down once you have started. She started her mission for the poor, the dying and the infirmed, in…
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Stairs 3
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Stairs 2
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Tsukiji, Tsujii, and Resilience
This is the fish market at Tsukiji, Tokyo, the busiest fish market in the world. The highly specialised world of the fish traders and their chefs are also featured as a revealing side-story in the documentary on Jiro Ono (Jiro Dreams of Sushi, 2011, David Gelb, Magnolia). Here, there is the unmistakeable scent of the pride…
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Bleak House, Saint Jack and Telescopic Philanthropy
The Singapore Writer’s Festival in November 2014 was an interesting experience because one of my favourite travel writers, Paul Theroux was featured in a few of the programs. Here, at the National Museum, the panel forum was (nominally) on Humanitarian Missions and the Third World, and I was reintroduced to the work of Charles Dickens by Mr…