The Christmas Tree--a significant feature in our lives

It is the time of the year to take down the Christmas tree. We bought our Christmas tree when we moved into our present home in December 1998. Setting up the tree and taking it down were part of our ending of the year and beginning of the year activities. We set a goal to get different Christmas ornaments for the tree from different places that we travelled to in December. Though it has been difficult for me to set up and take down the tree alone by myself these past two years, I just count my blessings for the many wonderful Christmases that we shared together. I suppose everyday is Christmas in Heaven where the love, joy and peace is experienced at all time.

Remembering the Day I was united with Bonny 16 years ago

"O Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will praise Your name; for You have worked wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness" Isa. 25:1. A verse on my wedding bulletin 16 years ago on 16th Dec 1995. Tho my beloved has left for a better place to be with the Faithful One, the verse continues to stand true. He is faithful! I will exalt You and praise Your name!
Taking time off today at Botanic Garden to count my many blessings, looking through our wedding pictures and thanking God for every precious moments with Bonny that God has so graciously blessed me--moments of incredible love, tremendous joy, unbelievable strength and encouragement, unwavering faith and trust. God's unfailing love and faithfullness allowed us to enjoy so many moments of victories and success, and also many challenging times and struggles. Through it all, He plans all things with perfect faithfullness!

Remembering Bonny at Malacca

Updating this blog while on a short break at Malacca with the Pang Family. We were at the Red Clock Tower this morning and remembering the time Bonny came with me for the Church Chinese Camp in December 2008. My mum reminded me of a picture he took with her at the Red Clock Tower. This is the picture taken on 7 Dec. 2008. Though he may have gone before us to that happy land with our loving Father, his bright cheerful smiles and joyous character remain forever in our hearts.

A restful Bonny by the sea at Cebu, 25th April 2005

This picture was taken at Cebu when Bonny and I visited his brother, Richard, and his family. I have set it as my desktop background. Every time I use my laptop, this picture serves as a reminder to me of how restful and peaceful he was and he is right now. Looking at him grinning at me in his picture, I could almost hear him telling me not to be sad or worry about him and that he is now very happy in heaven--resting and trouble free. It is as if he is waiting with a smile for me to join him some day when my work on earth is done.

Bonny's Collection of Boats

I didn't update this blog last month as I was taking a vacation in Hong Kong. While I was there, I saw a Hong Kong junk boat that reminded me so much of this one collected by Bonny.
Bonny loved to collect stuff. My house is full of his collections from stones to boxes, from souvenir spoons to souvenir eggs, from drawings and figurines of horses to that of eagles, last but not least boats like junk boats to sailing boats. I never have a chance to ask Bonny the significance of his each collection, but he did said that the joy of this hobby of collection came in the journey of seeking and discovering and the end result of seeing the collection being cleaned and displayed. Wonder if he is still collecting any stuff in Heaven or he may be too busy worshiping and interceeding....

Bonny at Prayer Mountain Indonesia

One of the places that Bonny wished to go was the Prayer Mountain in Korean. Though he was unable to go there, an opportunity opened for him to have a prayer trip to a similar place in Indonesia. He was pretty excited about that trip and had a wonderful time of praying in small prayer room as shown in the picture.
In this season of 40-day prayer and fasting in Singapore, it is hard for me to pray without remembering those wonderful moments of praying with him.

Watch and Pray

This July marks the 15th season of LoveSingapore's 40-Day prayer, a season that Bonny loved though he had some difficulty of keeping up the fast the way he preferred in the past few years of his life. In the earlier years of LoveSingapore Movement when Bonny was the prayer coordinator of the church, small round stickers with the word “PRAY” on them were given out for believers to paste on their watches as a reminder to “watch and pray.” Bonny had a few of his watches with these stickers.
The one on the left is the watch that I gave him as a wedding gift and the other on the right is the watch that he last wore when he was admitted to the hospital a day before he was called home to be with the Lord.
I wonder, besides having much fun in heaven, if he requests Jesus to let him join Him in interceding for us.