Mum not looking too good..

Dead tired. Whole day on duty for Open House but quite fun with student helpers around to cheer me along the way. Just came back from NUH visiting mum. Mum not looking too good. Fever is still persisting at 38.4 since sunday. More tests follows and just can only wait and wait. Nothing much can be done now except to pray.


The bus 95 is a nightmare....waited for a whole 1/2 hour and finally it turn up with bus load full of passengers. Fortunately, MRT not too crowded. Reach home so hungry and tired. Tomorrow on duty again but will start late....whew.!

Never mind its ok.....anyway today I read a page from the autobiography of St Therese (i am reading this book for the 2nd time) and she says that suffering is part of God's deep love for us...I am still trying to understand this but I believe that this is true. The more you suffer in God's name, the higher the chances that you will go straight up to heaven. In the book it says: Time is a mirage (wah..chim man!) The more the little and unknown you are, the better your chances are in getting to heaven. I shall share with you more on what i read on the train this morning next time. Bearing what I read this morning, I don't feel so down and out seeing my mum suffering. Tonite, as I sat directly facing mum, all her suffering images crosses my mind all these 5 years (since 2002) and I said to myself , well, mum will be a saint in heaven.....when she is called home to be with the Lord one day..In the book, The Story of a Soul, St Therese has mentioned this many times and I believe that this is must true. To embrace God's love, one must be able to take whatever sufferings (no matter how extreme they are) that comes along in this life.. In short, we must not be a 'fair weather catholic'. St Therese has gone through it all and so is St Bernedette Soubirous and many more other saints. We must be instead be an "All weather catholic".

Good nite!

albert