It was really bad news to read on Rev Dennis Brice facebook on our friend Jone Cheng in Taipei is suffering from cancer. Jone Cheng and her sister Eve were once our good friends, my wife and I used to lunch with them after the Sunday service in Presbysterian church Taipei near to the National University of Taiwan. She drove her Fiat car and brought us around and we really enjoyed the fellowship and the warmth that they demonstrated to us as foreigners in this metropolitan city. I always remember the warm smiles and the generosity that they demonstrated to us. It lasts a life time for us to remember good friends like Jone and Eve. Jone is always in our prayer and we plead to God for her complete healing!
It is a devastating and agonizing moment to learn about friends suffering from cancer. It was heart wrenching experience for me many times. Not to mention those painful time we had gone through with our own elderly family members, I had personally witnessed on how my colleague Jeremy Tan and good friend cum coursmate Seah Joo San suffered and eventually succumbed to the illness. A few others of my coursemates include Tee Yee Sam and Ng Wah Heng also passed away from cancerous diseases. It always brings me tears whenever I remember all those deceased friends and beloved ones that had once crossed path with me in one way or another. We must always be thankful to God for whatever difficulty in life we face as long as we do not need to lie in the hospitals waiting to recover from critical illness or just waiting for our days to be numbered! While we are all happy and peacefully living our everyday life, amidst an occasional busy schedule of our daily chores and work, do remember to pray for those people who are in the hospitals seeking treatment. May God watch over them, console them and heal them according to His will!
We wonder why after so many years, with the wisdom bestowed upon human beings that could even invent space exploration equipment, super computers and make great medical discoveries that benefit the human kind for centuries, still could not find a solution or remedy to cure cancerous diseases till these days! God, why so many people have to suffer from this illness? Why we human kind could not be spared from this? We already have more than enough heart attacks, diabetes, aids, high blood pressure, kidney failures, bird flus, H1N1 and even human accidents, terrorism and warfares etc. that could easily take away many lives from this planet earth. And we really do not need cancer anymore!
It is also extremely demoralizing for us all especially when we watch helplessly God loving and dedicated church workers like Madelene of former FGA Kulim and Jone have to battle with all those treatments and life-threatening moment. We could not understand why God's people have to be put through this hardship and trial, though we understand God has never promised a smooth sailing life for us all for being His followers!
I pray that God always has mercy on us all. We know that birth, aging, illness and death is a definite cycle that we all have been destined for, let your kindness be upon us that we could all age gracefully to the end of our days. Amen.
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