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.

Our engagement, Friday, 2 June 1995

Bonny proposed to me on our second date in January 1995 with a poet. I did not accept his proposal. How could I when I had just dated him twice? But we dated. After about 6 months of courtship, he proposed to me again and wanted us to be engaged for six months before we got married in December. As “wild” as he was before he met me, he was a pretty conservative man and had a set of tradition he wanted to keep. So he invited our then Senior Pastor of Community of Praise Baptist Church to conduct a brief ceremony with God as our witness and it was attended by some close friends. Even though he was not rich then, he bought me a diamond engagement ring and he was very proud of himself for being able to do that.
I still wear that engagement ring that he gave me and remember his smiling face beaming with pride and joy when he put that ring on me finger that evening, Friday, 2 June 1995.

Swimming Lessons from Bonny

Bonny and I loved to drive up to beach resorts in Malaysia, especially those in Desaru, for short breaks.
Bonny loved to swim in the pool and enjoyed seeing me struggle to float and swim. But he was kind and in those short holidays, Bonny helped me to conquer the fear of water and taught me to float on water. He did not succeed in teaching me to swim because I was a slow learner and he was not so good an instructor. Since last month, I have taken up swimming lessons and every lesson brings fond memories of our time together in the pool.

Bonny and the President S R Nathan

The recent meeting with the President on Mar 26th 2011 at the Official Opening of DaySpring Residential Treatment Centre where I am working now reminded me of this picture of Bonny taken on 27 Nov 2007 with President S R Nathan. That handshake and the certificate he received then was a demonstration of God’s grace in his life during a difficult time of transition for him. I remembered his kept his beard as a sign of his struggle then. Besides that ceremony where he received the certificate of affirmation, the word of God had also brought much courage and comfort to him. Isa. 49:9 “to say to the captives, `Come out,' and to those in darkness, `Be free!' "was a word from the Lord for him while he was spending time with Him and he shared with me that it would be the mission verse for him during that season of his life—one that would keep him going. I adopted this verse in my present mission, living it out to let those the Lord has sent me to come out of captivity and be free from the darkness that they are in.

Remembering Bonny as His Earthly Birthday Approaches

Though I remember my beloeved Bonny daily as if he is around somewhere near, the 5th of every month is a day I set aside to specially remember him by writing on this blog. As his earthly birthday approaches, I tried to remember how I celebrated his first birthday as my husband on 19th March 1996. No matter how hard I tried to remember, I just could not remember. Then I found the first birthday card I gave him on that day.
Yes, indeed I have fully shared my "yesterdays, todays and tomorrows" with him while he was on earth with me. I take joy to know that he had enjoyed those "yesterdays, todays and tomorrows". Though my journey with him on this earth has ended, the eternal journey we shall share one day is timeless:-). He had been such a wonderful gift from God to me that even though we have parted, every remembrance of him has and will continue to bring love, joy, peace, faith, hope and strength to me. I don't get to buy a present for him and celebrate his earthly birthday from now on, but I believe everyday in heaven is like a birthday celebration, surely it must be much more exciting and happy over there than here. "Sure;y goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the hosue of the Lord forever." Psalm 23:6