Busyness and Burdens, Grace and Friends

My last post was in June, and so much has happened since then. It is not an understatement to say that this has been the most significant time of my life… for one, I got married! And this has changed my life in beautiful ways.
There have been so many moments in the past five months, [...]

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Facing Uncertainty

There are lessons about our relationship with God that we need to learn repeatedly. It seems that God throws us different problems just to see if we have learnt our lessons well. Do we really trust Him? Does He really care what happens to us? Can we really depend on him, even if we cannot [...]

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The Crucial Difference in Activism

The hardest thing about activism is seeing people suffer, and not being able to stop it.
I felt that way this week when I found out that a refugee woman I know got arrested, despite the fact that she has already be accepted for resettlement to Australia. Her arrest caused great sorrow and anxiety amongst other [...]

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Public Appearances

Its funny to see yourself in the newspaper. I don’t remember ever appearing in the news before, but the Migration Working Group has held a few press conferences recently, which thankfully, got reported in the papers. These are some articles that have appeared in the past few weeks.
The most recent is Refugees Plead for Kinder [...]

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Jars of Clay

The grace of God is summed up in this: He can use someone who can’t figure out how to enable the scan and fax functions on her HP Officejet Pro L7580.
I firmly believe that we are called by God. I am convinced that He has a destiny for each of us. But most of us [...]

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RELA Raids: Futile Exercises of Power

This is the full text of an article I wrote which got published as a letter to the editor on Malaysiakini on 12th May, as well as in The Sun on 13th May.

RELA Raids: Futile Exercises of Power
May is terrified. A RELA (Ikatan Relawan Rakyat, Malaysian Volunteers Corps) raid is happening around her. They are [...]

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This is how I feel sometimes…

And then God reminds me of where I am.

Taken from Sivin’s blog, with thanks

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