Monday, April 24, 2006
Hey I'm not sure if any of you here read yesterday's (sunday's) newspaper Life Section about this girl by the name of Joan Chan Shu Fang. She's from the same batch as yiu ming and I in RJC, though we didn't really know her back then. If you haven't read about her, she was diagnosed with tongue cancer soon after her A Levels Examinations. She's at her terminal stage now, at the age of 20. I found her blog and I would like to share it here with all of you, with her permission of course.
I hope that by reading her blog you would be inspired to look a life with a different perspective.
I hope that by reading her blog, you'll be touched by what some people of our age are going through and how fortunate we are to be healthy and strong.
I hope that by reading her blog, you'll be motivated to keep faith in this Lord, who has promised and IS still fulfilling the promise.... "..neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39)
I hope that by reading her blog, you'll be empowered to make full use of every moment in your life for the service of our Lord, because if a dying girl can decide to do so, why can't we?
I hope that by reading her blog, you'll be filled with the compassion and power of the spirit, and in one tongue together with her many many friends in Singapore and overseas, pray for a miracle to happen, pray for Joan's recovery.
Joan is now taken out of ICU because the medicine and treatment is not working anymore. The only way for her to live is if God is moved and a miracle happens. So financial donations would not be of much help.
Here it is by the way... http://onlyskindeep.blogspot.com/ (u need to scroll quite a lot)
By the way, when i Sms-ed her asking if i could do this on our YF blog, i was honestly quite scared. Coz it was the first time i sms-ed her, plus we never knew each other... n so naturally i felt it was quite a big request for a stranger to ask if he could publicize someone's else personal diary. I expected her to ignore me, or reply 'What's your problem? Can u be more sensitive?', or perhaps even blame the friend who gave me her number.
But her reply was....
"Sure, but I don't regularly update it. Will your YF mind? Will it really help them since I don't have the energy to regularly blog and share?"
At that moment, my eyes were filled with tears.
Dear Joan, If you happen to have a chance to read this, I want to really thank you for showing us the love and the power of Jesus Christ. When I look at you and Christ when he was facing death, I see similarities. Thanks for teaching us that even in our worst of times, we can still be an instrument for the Lord. God has worked wonders in your life. You might not blog regularly, you even know you might never blog again, but look at your blog, look at the number of lives which were changed, the number of souls which were touched, the amount of faith which was rekindled! You have been his Faithful Servant indeed! Our prayers are with you. We pray that you recover and God will continue to use you to tell this touching story. All the best! :)
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@ 10:15 PM
