I have not been ignoring the blog… a lot has happened. And good things too! :) I am embarking on a new phase of my career journey in the new year though it’s not exactly how I planned it. In some sense it is perhaps better than how I imagined it would be because I never imagined I would scale the next mountain with a small step. I didn’t even know if the small step would take me anywhere higher up the mountain but this is doing that… so as they say, when you think one window has closed, another one might just open… and the view might just be better if you take your eyes off what you wanted to see to what is really in front of you! :) I am pretty positive about where this step is going to take me… so hang on, dear reader, we are in for a ride methinks!

A new friend of mine invited me to go to the chaplaincy with her for some carol singing. At first my lazy self said a no, and then my mind popped up a story. I am not sure if I have mentioned this story on my blog before—I might have—but it’s a pretty popular one. A man seems to be drowning at sea and he keeps praying to God to save him. Three boats pass by asking him to hop in or calling out to him to help save him, but this man refuses each time, saying that God will save him. The man dies and goes to heaven. When he questions God as to why He did not rescue him, God tells him that he sent boats to his rescue three times. I suppose the moral of the story is that God might work in mysterious ways and we need to be open to the signs? I’m not really sure why I thought of this story in this context but it struck me that ordinarily I wouldn’t have visited a church or a chapel, so if this opportunity sort of came out of the blue, maybe I should heed it? The fact that there was the possibility of cake after the carol singing seemed like a not-so-bad side effect of the whole thing… hehe…