Well......many things have happened over this period of silence....or apparent silence on my blog.... mainly sad incidences....but also instances which deserves praise and thanksgiving.... lets count the many things that have happened since...
THANKSGIVING
- must always start with praise, right?
- well, i lost my work phone on my last night shift 2 days ago...was tired and worn out after a hectic shift with at least 3 resus patients and 2 waiting for my notes in the monitored area....only to my dismay that i lost my phone in the last hour of my shift!!!
- imagine the horror...what? I have to pay SGD 400 for that silly phone!! Arrgh...
- ended my shift 2 hours later due to the sickies that needed to be sorted out...and then spend my time searching for my phone...
- with a dejected spirit and thinking that it was a lost cause, i went home after reporting it lost to the nurses and security services..
- well, told God that 'whatever will be, will be' on my way home that day....upset but not crushed... ;)
- well, God is always faithful when I am not - received a SMS from the office that they found my phone on the shredder!! PRAISE GOD!!
- so, even when things don't make sense to me...I know that God is in control...
SAD HAPPENINGS
- on the other hand...had news of 2 deaths of close and beloved friends..
- one of my previous cancer patients died recently after almost of a year battling with cancer...she was only 23 years old.....she did not know Christ....wished we had more time with her..more time and courage to speak of Jesus to her....but she is gone now....to an eternity without Christ....makes me sad thinking about what could have been....whether I had impacted her for Christ.... sigh...i can only pray for her family...that they will one day see the sovereignty of Jesus.....
- then, there's Sue....a close and dearly loved sister in Christ.....she was like my spiritual mother in OCF during my years in Melbourne....received an email from her husband , Graeme of her demise on the 8th of March...must have been real hard for him...but at least we are comforted by the fact that she is home with Jesus....
- the finality of death just hit me this week...real hard...
- What does it mean? Where does it leave those who are left behind?
Yet, i take comfort in the scriptures which says - O death, where is your sting?
Indeed, because of Christ' redemptive work on the cross, we are not afraid....because we know where and how we will be spending our eternity...what a comforting truth!
