It was the fall of 2003. I had just started my university studies in Canada and it was approaching midterm examinations. I remember the professor for one of my management class offering students to review past year management midterm papers in order to help them prepare for the upcoming examination during his office hours. This was entirely new to me – I hadn’t learnt the concept of...
The formation of our faith very much like how a rock would be formed. We are often told that we need to develop rock-solid like faith if we want to be close to God and get through the storms of life in confidence by trusting in His mercy and plan. But forming this kind of faith doesn’t happen overnight. I have been pondering about this for sometime, in light of everything that I have gone...
In an about an hour I will be writing my exam. All around me I can see students hunkering down and going through their notes. Not sure if they are writing the same exam as I am. As I sit and wait for my MBA exam to start you would think that I would be furiously going through my notes reading some last minute nuggets of information as I prepare myself. But I am not. Instead I am sitting here...
A good friend once told me “if you want to make God laugh, just show him your plans”. There is something about our God that is infinitely good and mysteriously generous. I would envision God’s hotline switchboard blinking red for all those who are praying for help and a miracle, those in green giving thanks and praising him and those in different other colors just needing to...
Imagine if all you could see was a blotch of point. A spot or a splat. No shape or form to tell you what you are truly seeing. Just some random fudgy patch of colour. Does it make sense to you? Probably not. Sometimes that’s how life is. We see in blotches, spots, splats. Sometimes we see more than just that – we see a theme, a pattern. Sometimes we do see patterns but we don’t...