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The Power of the Tongue

I am just blown away!! I am just blown away!! Yes, I always know that the tongue is powerful, but this time, I am just soooo amazed by what sort of information about me that has been going around. It is funny yet interesting!!

Was catching up with a friend over lunch last week and apparently, according to what he has heard from another person, who apparently heard it from someone else, that the ulcer on my leg is a tumour and I have an issue of the blood in my body. AW.. MAN!! When I heard it, I was like ‘Eh?! Where did that come from???!!!’ I was laughing away and could not believe what I just heard. Not offended, but rather, I find it very interesting and just proven the point of Chinese whisper. What can I say?? Nothing I guess… continue guessing people. It is quite fun, I am entertained this time.

I am actually grateful for my friend who actually bothered to come up and ask me personally. It showed me that someone cares enough to want to know me, and to find out if what he heard was real. At least it gave me a chance to clarify what is happening. It also made me realised the interesting fact that people within my community of friends have been talking about me, spreading information that is not accurate. It is just like the ‘women’ in Ruth. They are not actually interested about me, but more of the gossips about me. Maybe that entertains them. Oh well, as long as they are happy, it doesn’t really bother me. It doesn’t change anything anyway.

On the other hand, I am actually quite proud of my friend who came to ask me. He has provided himself a chance to obtain the first hand information from the person involved and not just according to another person who heard it from another person. It took courage and a concern big enough for him to approach another person in confronting an issue. It is just like stepping out in order to obtain the truth, risking all that one has, risking trust, risking the relationship in order to gain something more beautiful and meaningful. Too often we are just overly contented with what comes to us, yet missing out the whole world of truth that is beyond our own world.

For all the ‘women’ out there, learn to ask the real questions – myself included.

Re-Experiencing Shower

Have you ever re-experience doing something that you have been doing for the past eons years (ever since you can remember) as if for the very first time again? Something you have been doing for years, then for some reason, stopped, and then able to do it again after a long long time?

Just a few days back, I rekindled the wonderful experience of showering with both my feet standing on the floor. No longer sitting down on the hospital showering stool and having a big plastic bag wrapped around my left lower leg. I was standing, without plastic bag and for the very first time, I showered standing up in my bathroom ever since I moved in 8 months ago. The experience was very familiar, yet strange. Familar because I have been doing it ever since I could ever remember, yet strange because I haven't been doing it for the past year, and never in this bathroom. It was a new experience and it felt fresh as the water trickles down and touches my skin once again. At least life is getting a little bit more normal now.

Not yet, the ulcer is not fully healed, but I was using the advanced 'Comfeel Plus' Waterproof ulcer dressing manufactured by Coloplast! So, goodbye to plastic bag in the shower.

The Valley Song

You have led me to the sadness
I have carried this pain
On a back bruised, nearly broken
I'm crying out to you

I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy

When death like a gypsy
Comes to steal what I love
I will still look to the heavens
I will still seek your face

But I fear you aren't listening
Because there are no words
Just the stillness and the hunger
For a faith that assures

I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy

Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia

While we wait for rescue
With our eyes tightly shut
Face to the ground using our hands
To cover the fatal cut

And though the pain is an ocean
Tossing us around, around, around
You have calmed greater waters
Higher mountains have come down

I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy

Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia

I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy

Oh, Lord sing of Your mercy,
Mercy
Your mercy

- Jars of Clay