Above all else

Some of you might have heard of this one before,so bear with me. I just heard it again this Sunday at service.  So let's try this as you read this post. Hands up if you believe exercise is good for you.  OK, so like me, you probably raised your hand.  Most of us accept that exercise is good for us. Keep your hand up if, at some point in the last month, you have managed to put in some time to go for some form of exercise.  OK, I suspect that a fair number of us probably still have our hands raised.  Me too.  I went for a treadmill run on Wednesday. Now, experts tell us that we should exercise 3 times a week, for about 30 minutes, while achieving an elevated heart rate.  Hands still up?  Nope, mine just went down. On a really really good week, I exercise twice a week (unless you count the walk to the MRT station lah).  I don't think I've done thrice a week since University days. So if you still have your hand up, then I present to you...

I heard this said recently.  It's a terrible thing to be lost.  Do you remember ever being lost?  Maybe when you were a kid in a shopping centre?  That awful creeping horror when it slowly dawns on you that you don't know where your Mum or Dad is?  And that you have no idea how to find them? Yep.  Pretty terrifying.  And oh, the sweet relief when Mum or Dad finally find you! But there's one thing worse than being lost.  And that's being lost, and no one is looking for you .  The word for that, is abandoned .  Right now, MH370 is still lost.  As we read in the papers, all sorts of resources are being applied to find it, and I truly salute the determined efforts of all the search teams who fight on in the face of challenging conditions and witheringly thin odds.  But imagine how you would feel as a passenger or a relative if instead you realised no one was looking for you, or that the search had stopped.  Awful.  ...