Blessed Birthday Joel!

Joel is 18 years old on 17th April 2007. We had a movie, Japanese lunch and then a cake for him from Secret Recipe!

May God bless Joel with many years of God's blessing and be with you all the days of your life !

Psalm 23 (New Living Translation)

A psalm of David.

1 The Lord is my shepherd;
I have all that I need.
2 He lets me rest in green meadows;
he leads me beside peaceful streams.
3 He renews my strength.
He guides me along right paths,
bringing honor to his name.
4 Even when I walk
through the darkest valley,[a]
I will not be afraid,
for you are close beside me.
Your rod and your staff
protect and comfort me.
5 You prepare a feast for me
in the presence of my enemies.
You honor me by anointing my head with oil.
My cup overflows with blessings.
6 Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me
all the days of my life,
and I will live in the house of the Lord
forever.

Of Accident and G12 Conference

I did not blog for some time, this is my first post after the accident.

On the fateful morning of 1 March 2007, I was going to PJ to post a document at the DHL office, near the traffic lights of Union Garden , I decided to turn right in the last minute and a car from behind rammed into my scooter, I was sprawled on the floor. When I managed to get up, my left hand was dripping with blood! Suddenly I had a glimpse of the image of Christ as portrayed in Mel Gibson's passion of the Christ...the excruciating pain caused numbness in my palm and fingers. Multiply that by a hundred and thousand times; that was what the lord had suffered for us! The palm was swollen, the wedding ring needed to be cut, otherwise the blood could not flow and I might lose the finger. I called my spiritual son Alex on the phone, he took me to his friend in Balakong to have the ring cut and removed. In the evening, Alex took me to the Chinese sinseh who applied herbal wine on my injured legs and hands. He also gave me half a cup of the wine to drink to clear any blood clot internally. When the doctor took an x-ray of my palm that morning, he said after looking at the x-ray, there was no fracture. Just as the scripture said in Psalm 34:20 [NIV] "He protects all his bones,not one of them will be broken."

Thank God that I was able to walk with a limp when I went to the G12 Conference in Singapore with Mary from 15 to 18 March 2007. God is so gracious. Pastor Lawrence Tan put us up in his apartment and transferred us to the venue to and fro, that's a great help. G12 and indeed Christianity is about relationship. By attending the G12 Conference together, our relationship as husband and wife had greatly enhanced and although she did not attend the encounter weekend, I wished she did. I benefited greatly from it.