Above all else

I have a terrible fear of cockroaches and lizards.  So here's how things work in my home, as I once shared on Facebook: *Nat, Dan and me coming home from grocery shopping* Dan:  Aaargh!  Lizard!  Lizard!  Lizard! Me: (fleeing to the kitchen) Nat! Deal with it!  Daddy's got food in his hands! *BAM!* Nat:  Got it Daddy!  Gonna wipe it off the slipper into the dustbin OK? Well played, Daddy, well played :) =============== So what does this have to do with God using the cockroaches?  Patience, I'm getting to it. This year, it will be 20 years since I stepped into a Varsity Christian Fellowship talk, heard the word from Revelation 3:16 that God would rather that I be hot or cold, but because I am lukewarm, He is about to spit me out of His mouth!  That day changed my life.  I heard God speaking to me, I put my hand up and started walking, really walking with Him. At this week's service, the pastor was asking us -...

So I've read with interest the spate of news surrounding the mobile game Pokemon Go - from the rant that led to an unceremonious sacking in Singapore, to the hordes of people converging on New York City's Central Park when a "rare" Pokemon spawned there, to the woman who actually found a dead body while searching for Pokemon! For those of us who don't know what Pokemon Go is, it's an "augmented reality" mobile app game, where the players walk around in real life, trying to find Pokemon (sort of like digital pets) which the gamemakers have placed in real locations.  So for example, if a Pokemon spawned in the middle of the Padang, you'd follow the map in the app, walk to the middle of Padang, and actually "see" the Pokemon superimposed on the camera view screen of the Padang on your phone.  Make sense? At some point, I imagine someone will be able to superimpose not just a Pokemon on our view of the real world, but actually layer...

Change.  Some of us like it.  Some of us are more resistant to it than others.  Some of us choose it.  Some of us have it imposed on us.  Some of us change when staying the course is too hard.  Some of us refuse to change even when we ought to. The recent Brexit vote was an interesting observation of change.  Much of the Western media have characterised the vote as one which turns Great Britain inward, and is in a word, foolish.  Perhaps.  I do not pretend to know how it will turn out.  If indeed it is as foolish as the media make it out to be, it would seem that the British people are so determined to change the status quo and spite the Europhiles that they would cut off their nose to do just that. What I do know is that sometimes people, including myself, behave this way.  We are so determined we are right that, even when presented with evidence to the contrary, we go ahead to do something to change our lives for the worse...