Do you know of friends or family with unhealthy cholesterol levels?
Do you know if they are on prescription statin drugs?
Do you know if they’re aware of the many side effects of statin drugs?
If you know of a “clinically-proven, patented, safe and natural alternative to statin drugs for cholesterol reduction”, wouldn’t you share this information with them?
I would. I am.
Please consider the following facts:
The Problem - an epidemic
Heart disease is by far the single biggest cause of deaths in the world.
According to World Health Organization’s latest statistics, cardiovascular disease claims 17 million lives in a year, accounting for 30% of all deaths worldwide.
In comparison, All Cancers account for 10%, Injuries 9% and HIV/Aids 5%. Other communicable diseases account for 27%, while other non-communicable diseases account for another 19%.
The US is no exception. Cardiovascular disease is the No 1 cause of deaths there, accounting for 1.3m deaths every year. That means heart disease claims 3,500 lives every day in the US.
Heart disease is a silent killer with little or no advanced warning. Often, the first sign is death by heart attack or stroke.
Unhealthy cholesterol is the leading risk indicator, causing around a third of all cardiovascular disease worldwide.
The Solution
Prescription statin drugs is the most common treatment for unhealthy cholesterol.
The 2 top prescription drugs sold worldwide are cholesterol drugs, namely, Lipitor (estimated to exceed US$13b in 2006, and growing by more than 20% p.a.) and Zocor (US$6.2b). Other brands include Zetia, Vytorin and Crestor.
The market size for cholesterol drugs continues to skyrocket, from US$25b in 2007 to a projected US$30b in 2007.
The Problems with the Solution
Owing to the epidemic proportions of heart disease, and thanks to a hefty multi-billion-dollar advertising and marketing budget, statin drugs sell well despite dangerous side effects such as these:
Ø May change, weaken, damage or destroy muscle
Ø May induce sudden total memory loss
Ø May increase eye cataract risk
Ø May suppress immune function
Ø Have been linked to cancer
Ø Have been linked to liver and kidney damage
Ø Are linked to muscle pain
Ø Deplete CoQ10 levels in the body
Ø May cause sleep disorders
Ø May cause erectile dysfunction
According to the Statin Effects Study of University of California, San Diego: “Muscle symptoms are common with statin drugs. “Myopathy”, involving actual damage to muscle tissue, can be very serious.”
A class action lawsuit is brewing over Pfizer’s LIPITOR®, the Kahn Gauthier Law Group is investigating possible legal actions against Pfizer, Inc., the manufacturer of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, to recover for liver or kidney damage suffered by patients prescribed Lipitor.
AstraZeneca studied its Lipitor® look-alike, Crestor®, for cholesterol reduction in 24,000 patients, hoping to prove superiority. But the only dose of Crestor that clearly beat Lipitor turned out to cause kidney problems and never won FDA approval,” according to a Forbes report, May 8, 2006. Yet, Crestor’s ad slogan claims: “When Crestor performed in a head-to-head test, its lowering effect was clearly the best.”
For all the risks that they entail, do prescription drugs work?
In 2002, 100 million cholesterol prescriptions were issued in 2002! With this kind of coverage, why are we seeing an ever-increasing incidence of cardiovascular disease - more strokes and heart attacks every year?
“Our drugs do not work on most patients,” said the chief of Glaxosmithkline.
A senior executive said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them, reported The Independent, London on December 8, 2003.
A Better Solution – safe, no side effects
Is there a better solution for Cardiovascular Disease than Statin Drugs and their negative side effects?
Yes, Bios Life - “the ONLY clinically-proven, patented, safe and natural alternative to statin drugs for cholesterol reduction”.
While statin drugs address high cholesterols with only one mechanism, i.e. by inhibiting the production of cholesterol by liver, Bios Life lowers cholesterol via 4 mechanisms:
Blocks re-absorption of cholesterol in gastrointestinal tract
Blocks absorption of cholesterol from digested food
Reduces cholesterol produced by the liver
Enhances enzymatic breakdown and removal of bad cholesterol
Clinical studies show Bios Life can, within 8 weeks:
Reduce LDL by as much as 31%
Increase HDL by as much as 29%
Used in conjunction with statin drugs, Bios Life can also help break through the “statin floor” – or the lowest LDL level that statin drugs can achieve - and provide an additional decrease in LDL of an average of 20%.
So, What Next?
Talk to me. Introduce me to friends and family who are on prescription drugs for cholesterol, are nervous about their side effects, and are open to at least check out “the only clinically-proven, patented, safe and natural alternative to statin drugs for cholesterol reduction”.
By the way, what are your numbers?
Here are some benchmarks on healthy cholesterol levels:
Healthy Total Cholesterol: 200 mg/dL or lower (consider 100 or lower)
Healthy LDL Cholesterol: 129 mg/dL or less
Normal HDL Cholesterol: 40 mg/dL or higher (consider 60 or more)
Acceptable Triglyceride Level: 150 mg/dL or lower
Yours in Wellness,
Eng Hai
Monday, May 29, 2006
Monday, May 22, 2006
"Don't you work?"
"Don't you work?", a neighbour asked me just now as we crossed each other's path on the stairs up to my home.
"Oh yes, I do," I responded readily, and merrily, adding that "I work from home, which gives me time during the day to "kaypoh" around the place." Kaypoh is Hokkien for being a busybody :)
Given the home-based nature of my Internet-supported Unicity enterprise, I have more flexibility than the average person in his/her 40s to attend to voluntary community affairs like serving on the Management Council of the Pandan Valley condominium.
I had just come back from spending some time with a key management staff, talking through some of the many little improvements we are making and can make in future to improve the look and feel of the estate and upgrade the amenities.
For example, we have a good number of facilities spread out over the sprawling Leisure Hub in one of the 7 blocks in this 623-unit condomnium. From the outside, these facilities - the Clubhouse, the Lounge, the multi-purpose room, the reading room - all look officious, unwelcoming and "no fun". So, I thought, why not label each facility nicely and brightly. At least, residents will know what they are passing up when they are passing by.
Simple things that can do a lot for many. That's what I like to do.
That very much describes my business, my work, too: Doing simple things that can do a lot for many.
Like what? Keeping in touch with friends, listening up for problems where I can make a contribution; sharing with whoever may be looking, the better health that my products can offer, or the independence, freedom, security and future that my home-based franchise can provide.
Often, I need not spend too much time talking, at least initially, for there is always a website, a product catalog or a book I can point them to e.g. that book on How To Make $4000 A Month Working From Home. Yes, that's what I do :)
When anyone decides that they really want to do something about their wellness, or start being their own boss by learning to build and building a business of their own, that's when I will spend a bit more time talking. Actually, it's more like getting them to do the talking, engaging them in conversation. I call that coaching and for that reason, I call myself a Coach.
As Coach, I help people get in touch with their core and inner-most desires, discover and decide what's most important to them, then encourage them to look into their inner strengths and latent capabilities to break through psychological barriers and their long-established "lack conditioning".
How do I get paid? Absolutely no coaching fees. Purely performance-based. I get a 5-20% cut of the profits they make. Good money, and I do mean GOOD.
Now, don't you think that I work?
Well, it depends on how you look at it.
Did someone say, when you enjoy what you do, you won't have to work for another day of your life?
My life and work has indeed become one.
In a few minutes, wife Chris will be back with the two kids, Jia Wei and Yan Ting, and a takeaway lunch. Pan mian, Chris said when she phoned home just now. Hey, we will get to have fun eating together, before I go out in the afternoon to meet a partner and a prospective customer.
Oh yes, I do work, and I do go out when I need to. I am home-based; not home-bound ;->
"Oh yes, I do," I responded readily, and merrily, adding that "I work from home, which gives me time during the day to "kaypoh" around the place." Kaypoh is Hokkien for being a busybody :)
Given the home-based nature of my Internet-supported Unicity enterprise, I have more flexibility than the average person in his/her 40s to attend to voluntary community affairs like serving on the Management Council of the Pandan Valley condominium.
I had just come back from spending some time with a key management staff, talking through some of the many little improvements we are making and can make in future to improve the look and feel of the estate and upgrade the amenities.
For example, we have a good number of facilities spread out over the sprawling Leisure Hub in one of the 7 blocks in this 623-unit condomnium. From the outside, these facilities - the Clubhouse, the Lounge, the multi-purpose room, the reading room - all look officious, unwelcoming and "no fun". So, I thought, why not label each facility nicely and brightly. At least, residents will know what they are passing up when they are passing by.
Simple things that can do a lot for many. That's what I like to do.
That very much describes my business, my work, too: Doing simple things that can do a lot for many.
Like what? Keeping in touch with friends, listening up for problems where I can make a contribution; sharing with whoever may be looking, the better health that my products can offer, or the independence, freedom, security and future that my home-based franchise can provide.
Often, I need not spend too much time talking, at least initially, for there is always a website, a product catalog or a book I can point them to e.g. that book on How To Make $4000 A Month Working From Home. Yes, that's what I do :)
When anyone decides that they really want to do something about their wellness, or start being their own boss by learning to build and building a business of their own, that's when I will spend a bit more time talking. Actually, it's more like getting them to do the talking, engaging them in conversation. I call that coaching and for that reason, I call myself a Coach.
As Coach, I help people get in touch with their core and inner-most desires, discover and decide what's most important to them, then encourage them to look into their inner strengths and latent capabilities to break through psychological barriers and their long-established "lack conditioning".
How do I get paid? Absolutely no coaching fees. Purely performance-based. I get a 5-20% cut of the profits they make. Good money, and I do mean GOOD.
Now, don't you think that I work?
Well, it depends on how you look at it.
Did someone say, when you enjoy what you do, you won't have to work for another day of your life?
My life and work has indeed become one.
In a few minutes, wife Chris will be back with the two kids, Jia Wei and Yan Ting, and a takeaway lunch. Pan mian, Chris said when she phoned home just now. Hey, we will get to have fun eating together, before I go out in the afternoon to meet a partner and a prospective customer.
Oh yes, I do work, and I do go out when I need to. I am home-based; not home-bound ;->
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Cancer Prevention Business
A Book Review
Title: Antioxidants Against Cancer
Author: Ralph W Moss, PhD
If you want to deepen your understanding on the power of antioxidants in the fight against the all-too-common scourge called cancer, read the book, Antioxidants Against Cancer, by Ralph W Moss.
If you want to share with someone who is acutely aware of the pain and fear of cancer, as well as the conventional treatments that it portends, lend them this book.
If you want to win over a medical professional, or challenge a doctor whom you believe is giving bad advice to a loved one about cancer treatment, insists the doctor read this book and then, give you his opinion.
This book makes great inflight reading, and so it was for me on April 9th 2006 as I was flying Singapore-Bali: I found time to read this book again, and this time, slowly, from cover to cover. By the time I was done, I wondered why I let the book sit on my bookshelves half-read, and why I do not have tens and tens of copies to give away or to lend to people.
For those of us who consider fighting cancer and preventing cancer one of our pet causes, personal battles or mission, do count this book among the must-have arsenals that we can use in this battle. (For me, it is my business: I am in the cancer prevention business!)
Let me share with you some of the many interesting ideas and empowering information I picked up from the book.
---
First, the author is a Director of CancerDecisions.com, an online treatment information resources for cancer patients. He is a leading expert in America on cancer alternatives. He writes with authority, supported by hundreds of references, and yet simply. As oncologist Dr Stephen Sagar of Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre in Canada puts it, it is an excellent evidence-based summary, easily understood by both patients and their cancer treatement specialists.
"Antioxidants against Cancer", the book, is about how to activate your body's natural healing powers with today'smost protective and immune-boosting supplements and foods.
It is a definitive eye-opening book that will show you and your doctors why antioxidant therapy should be offered to every cancer patient. It reveals how we can use antioxidants to:
1. greatly reduce your risk of getting cancer
2. help prevent cancer recurrences
3. decrease the side effects of chemtotherapy and radiation
4. improve the results of conventional treatment.
In this book, we can learn which specific fruits and vegetables are the most powerful weapons in the fight against cancer. Discover which food supplements are an absolutely necessary part of your antioxidant program.
And up to now, I have been quoting extensively from the covers of the book - the front and the back covers! Hee Hee .... Remember I said I read it cover to cover ;->
------
Now, let's dig into some of the most interesting titbits from inside the book.
p. 5, table of contents: One glance shows that the book delves into the relevance and importance of more than a dozen well-known vitamins and supplements e.g. Vitamins A, C and E, Beta-carotene, CoQ10, Folic and Lipoic Acid .... The coverage is extensive, and can be digested chapter by chapter, starting with those names that one's more familiar with or have bene recommended to consume.
p. 15: On fruits & vegetables with the greatest antioxidant values (or Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity or ORAC), Blueberry tops the list. Also high on the list are blackberry, garlic, kale, strawberry, spinach, brussel sprouts, plum, alfafa sprouts, broccoli floret, beet, orange, red grape, red pepper ...
You know what that list makes me think about? Unicity's Daily Produce 24. Go read the label, see what we have to offer there!
Just in case someone runs away with the list to the supermarket, Ralph Moss presented the list against this contextual advice: "Food is the mainstay of your antioxidant program. But I strongly believe that it is necessary to take supplements in addition to foods in order to get the maximum benefit."
p. 102: Here is one personal nugget should help people and doctors who always worry about over-doses and taking too much supplements - a supplements program which Ralph Moss and his family takes ....
A good multi-vitamin/mineral pill (without iron)
Vitamins A, C and E
CoQ10
Lipoic acid
Zinc
Selenium
Grape seeds/Pycnogemnol
Mixed carotenoids
p. 101, Conclusions: In his concluding chapter, Ralph Moss summarize his 3 basic ideas as follows: 1. Antioxidants in fruits and vegetables reduce the risk of cancer; 2. Supplements are a necessary part of any antioxidant program; 3. Antioxidants generally improve conventional cancer treatments by decreasing side effects without decreasing effectiveness.
p. 105, Appendix: The author cites 3 types of "synthetic antioxidants" in the appendix to make the point that while medical professionals question the benefit of dietary antioxidants for cancer patients on radiation and chemotherapy, they have been using "synthetic antioxidants" created in chemsitry labs to mimic and presumably improve upon the effects of dietary antioxidants. The point is, if oncologists can routinely prescribe "synthetic antioxidants" along with radiation and chemotherapy, why not dietary supplements?
p. 99: In the penultimate chapter on History Of A Controversy, Ralph Moss said: "In the last few years, we have witnessed a tremendous change in the attitude of scientists towards nutrition and cancer. For audiences of the 21st century, it will become increasingly difficult to understand how bitterly the American medical profession of the 20th century opposed the dietary approach to cancer. Doctors usually claimed they were defending the public from cancer quakery. But while there was some quakery, more often this charge was a figleaf to cover their fear of change."
----
I say: Whoa .......
I strongly recommend owning many copies of this book, one to read and to refer to, the rest to lend to others to empower them with life-enhancing information in the face of the ever-rising cancer scourge.
Book available from amazon.com at US$9.95
Title: Antioxidants Against Cancer
Author: Ralph W Moss, PhD
If you want to deepen your understanding on the power of antioxidants in the fight against the all-too-common scourge called cancer, read the book, Antioxidants Against Cancer, by Ralph W Moss.
If you want to share with someone who is acutely aware of the pain and fear of cancer, as well as the conventional treatments that it portends, lend them this book.
If you want to win over a medical professional, or challenge a doctor whom you believe is giving bad advice to a loved one about cancer treatment, insists the doctor read this book and then, give you his opinion.
This book makes great inflight reading, and so it was for me on April 9th 2006 as I was flying Singapore-Bali: I found time to read this book again, and this time, slowly, from cover to cover. By the time I was done, I wondered why I let the book sit on my bookshelves half-read, and why I do not have tens and tens of copies to give away or to lend to people.
For those of us who consider fighting cancer and preventing cancer one of our pet causes, personal battles or mission, do count this book among the must-have arsenals that we can use in this battle. (For me, it is my business: I am in the cancer prevention business!)
Let me share with you some of the many interesting ideas and empowering information I picked up from the book.
---
First, the author is a Director of CancerDecisions.com, an online treatment information resources for cancer patients. He is a leading expert in America on cancer alternatives. He writes with authority, supported by hundreds of references, and yet simply. As oncologist Dr Stephen Sagar of Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre in Canada puts it, it is an excellent evidence-based summary, easily understood by both patients and their cancer treatement specialists.
"Antioxidants against Cancer", the book, is about how to activate your body's natural healing powers with today'smost protective and immune-boosting supplements and foods.
It is a definitive eye-opening book that will show you and your doctors why antioxidant therapy should be offered to every cancer patient. It reveals how we can use antioxidants to:
1. greatly reduce your risk of getting cancer
2. help prevent cancer recurrences
3. decrease the side effects of chemtotherapy and radiation
4. improve the results of conventional treatment.
In this book, we can learn which specific fruits and vegetables are the most powerful weapons in the fight against cancer. Discover which food supplements are an absolutely necessary part of your antioxidant program.
And up to now, I have been quoting extensively from the covers of the book - the front and the back covers! Hee Hee .... Remember I said I read it cover to cover ;->
------
Now, let's dig into some of the most interesting titbits from inside the book.
p. 5, table of contents: One glance shows that the book delves into the relevance and importance of more than a dozen well-known vitamins and supplements e.g. Vitamins A, C and E, Beta-carotene, CoQ10, Folic and Lipoic Acid .... The coverage is extensive, and can be digested chapter by chapter, starting with those names that one's more familiar with or have bene recommended to consume.
p. 15: On fruits & vegetables with the greatest antioxidant values (or Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity or ORAC), Blueberry tops the list. Also high on the list are blackberry, garlic, kale, strawberry, spinach, brussel sprouts, plum, alfafa sprouts, broccoli floret, beet, orange, red grape, red pepper ...
You know what that list makes me think about? Unicity's Daily Produce 24. Go read the label, see what we have to offer there!
Just in case someone runs away with the list to the supermarket, Ralph Moss presented the list against this contextual advice: "Food is the mainstay of your antioxidant program. But I strongly believe that it is necessary to take supplements in addition to foods in order to get the maximum benefit."
p. 102: Here is one personal nugget should help people and doctors who always worry about over-doses and taking too much supplements - a supplements program which Ralph Moss and his family takes ....
A good multi-vitamin/mineral pill (without iron)
Vitamins A, C and E
CoQ10
Lipoic acid
Zinc
Selenium
Grape seeds/Pycnogemnol
Mixed carotenoids
p. 101, Conclusions: In his concluding chapter, Ralph Moss summarize his 3 basic ideas as follows: 1. Antioxidants in fruits and vegetables reduce the risk of cancer; 2. Supplements are a necessary part of any antioxidant program; 3. Antioxidants generally improve conventional cancer treatments by decreasing side effects without decreasing effectiveness.
p. 105, Appendix: The author cites 3 types of "synthetic antioxidants" in the appendix to make the point that while medical professionals question the benefit of dietary antioxidants for cancer patients on radiation and chemotherapy, they have been using "synthetic antioxidants" created in chemsitry labs to mimic and presumably improve upon the effects of dietary antioxidants. The point is, if oncologists can routinely prescribe "synthetic antioxidants" along with radiation and chemotherapy, why not dietary supplements?
p. 99: In the penultimate chapter on History Of A Controversy, Ralph Moss said: "In the last few years, we have witnessed a tremendous change in the attitude of scientists towards nutrition and cancer. For audiences of the 21st century, it will become increasingly difficult to understand how bitterly the American medical profession of the 20th century opposed the dietary approach to cancer. Doctors usually claimed they were defending the public from cancer quakery. But while there was some quakery, more often this charge was a figleaf to cover their fear of change."
----
I say: Whoa .......
I strongly recommend owning many copies of this book, one to read and to refer to, the rest to lend to others to empower them with life-enhancing information in the face of the ever-rising cancer scourge.
Book available from amazon.com at US$9.95
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Divine Inspirations
Hi!
Welcome to my blog, created on this the 15th day of May 2006. I have chosen to call it The 5E Network, naming it after my international network of business partners and customers.
In this maiden bogpost, let me share how I come to be a-blogging.
I was talking to my friend and business partner Sunny Chow over coffee this morning about some of the stuff I regularly send out by email, and he jumped on it, strongly urging me to have a blog where I can archive them for future reference and for the purpose of sharing with people for whom some of these email articles may be relevant. He said it'd take only a few minutes to create a blog. And I said, show me.
So, we walked over from the dining table to my computer in my home office and here I am ... with a blog of my own, sharing my thoughts and inspirations with the world. I never thought I'd be keeping a web-diary open to the world to see ;->
For completeness, and substance, here's the email article that got me started ...
----- Original Message -----
From: Lim Eng Hai
To: The 5E Network
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 7:32 AM
Subject: Listen up, listen well .... for Divine Inspirations ;->
Dear Friends & Partners,
I'd like to share with you some of the amazing messages that I've been picking up from Church lately.
I had learnt that to coach others well, we need to have a coach ourselves, so that we are learning as we are teaching.
I have a Coach .... in the Lord - The Greatest Coach In The World and The Greatest Teacher Of All Times!
Without prejudice to your individual beliefs, please allow me to share with you highlights of my most recent "coaching" sessions ;->
eh.
-------------------
On April 30th, Pastor Prince shared a message that he said will spell "financial abundance" to whoever it is meant for. I know it is meant for me, among others.
Ask God for wisdom ...or, for "an understanding heart ... that I may discern between good and bad" as Solomon did at Gibeon, and everything thing else will follow - long life, riches and honour - 1 Kings 3
Have a listening heart. Listen not just with your ears but with your heart. Ask questions and listen, just as Jesus did at the age of 12.
After a visit to Jerusalem for the feast of the passover with his parents Joseph and Mary, Jesus "tarried", staying behind without the parents' knowledge. It was only one day later that they realized he was not with them. So, they turned back to look for him, and after 3 days, they found him. And what was he doing?
He was sitting amidst the priests at the temple, "both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers." - Luke 2:46
Understanding shows through with listening and questioning, not talking! Therefore, be slow to speak, swift to hear ...
"Wherefore, my beloved breathren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God." - James 2:19-20
(That last message came at a time when I had just allowed myself to be visibly upset with a business associate over something. It drove to immediately seek to make amends.)
----
On May 7th, Pastor Lian spoke on wisdom has God had guided her to do, reinforced by a last minute call from Senior Pastor Prince during a moment of doubt ....
Wisdom is a person, she said. That person is Jesus. "Let Jesus be your wisdom from within".
When you need help, there is no need for elegant words spoken in prayers. Just cry out for him, and let him be your wisdom from within.
"The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." - James 3:17.
Be prepared to accept correction, especially from the wise and anointed. God often speaks to us through others. Think of it as divine correction.
There is more hope for fools than people who think they know it all.
(I've been looking for the exact verse and wordings of the above in the Bible since last Sunday's service, but without success ... until yesterday ... when I caught up with an old friend over lunch. I shared with her the fun that I've been having with consulting God's Word, and my difficulty in locating this verse about wise men and fools. She helped me find it in The Book of Proverbs and pointed me to it late last night. Here it is ....)
"Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him." - Proverbs 26:12
------
Lastly.... I was going to send out the above email when my son Jia Wei, who had woken up early, interrupted me, and helped me to achieve a "pause for effect".
He said he has something he must show me first. He led me to his room, and guess what he has drawn on the whiteboard?
Speaking and Listening ... A mouth on one side and an ear on the other, with waves connecting the two as the mouth speaks and the ear listens!
I was intrigued, and asked him what inspired him to draw that.
He led me to a book, turned to a page on "Loss of Hearing". It reads: "Hearing loss happens when the ear is damaged by loud sounds or sickness. People use hearing aids to hear better. Other people can't hear at all...." Smiling as I reflect on how "sickness" impairs most people's hearing without their ever realizing that, I closed the book to look at its title.
HEARING.
Jia Wei told me that he had just picked it up from the Library, yesterday.
Amazing! Pause for effect, indeed.
Let's enjoy these divine inspirations and revelations, have fun with them, and let them bless our days and our work :)
eh.
Welcome to my blog, created on this the 15th day of May 2006. I have chosen to call it The 5E Network, naming it after my international network of business partners and customers.
In this maiden bogpost, let me share how I come to be a-blogging.
I was talking to my friend and business partner Sunny Chow over coffee this morning about some of the stuff I regularly send out by email, and he jumped on it, strongly urging me to have a blog where I can archive them for future reference and for the purpose of sharing with people for whom some of these email articles may be relevant. He said it'd take only a few minutes to create a blog. And I said, show me.
So, we walked over from the dining table to my computer in my home office and here I am ... with a blog of my own, sharing my thoughts and inspirations with the world. I never thought I'd be keeping a web-diary open to the world to see ;->
For completeness, and substance, here's the email article that got me started ...
----- Original Message -----
From: Lim Eng Hai
To: The 5E Network
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 7:32 AM
Subject: Listen up, listen well .... for Divine Inspirations ;->
Dear Friends & Partners,
I'd like to share with you some of the amazing messages that I've been picking up from Church lately.
I had learnt that to coach others well, we need to have a coach ourselves, so that we are learning as we are teaching.
I have a Coach .... in the Lord - The Greatest Coach In The World and The Greatest Teacher Of All Times!
Without prejudice to your individual beliefs, please allow me to share with you highlights of my most recent "coaching" sessions ;->
eh.
-------------------
On April 30th, Pastor Prince shared a message that he said will spell "financial abundance" to whoever it is meant for. I know it is meant for me, among others.
Ask God for wisdom ...or, for "an understanding heart ... that I may discern between good and bad" as Solomon did at Gibeon, and everything thing else will follow - long life, riches and honour - 1 Kings 3
Have a listening heart. Listen not just with your ears but with your heart. Ask questions and listen, just as Jesus did at the age of 12.
After a visit to Jerusalem for the feast of the passover with his parents Joseph and Mary, Jesus "tarried", staying behind without the parents' knowledge. It was only one day later that they realized he was not with them. So, they turned back to look for him, and after 3 days, they found him. And what was he doing?
He was sitting amidst the priests at the temple, "both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers." - Luke 2:46
Understanding shows through with listening and questioning, not talking! Therefore, be slow to speak, swift to hear ...
"Wherefore, my beloved breathren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God." - James 2:19-20
(That last message came at a time when I had just allowed myself to be visibly upset with a business associate over something. It drove to immediately seek to make amends.)
----
On May 7th, Pastor Lian spoke on wisdom has God had guided her to do, reinforced by a last minute call from Senior Pastor Prince during a moment of doubt ....
Wisdom is a person, she said. That person is Jesus. "Let Jesus be your wisdom from within".
When you need help, there is no need for elegant words spoken in prayers. Just cry out for him, and let him be your wisdom from within.
"The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." - James 3:17.
Be prepared to accept correction, especially from the wise and anointed. God often speaks to us through others. Think of it as divine correction.
There is more hope for fools than people who think they know it all.
(I've been looking for the exact verse and wordings of the above in the Bible since last Sunday's service, but without success ... until yesterday ... when I caught up with an old friend over lunch. I shared with her the fun that I've been having with consulting God's Word, and my difficulty in locating this verse about wise men and fools. She helped me find it in The Book of Proverbs and pointed me to it late last night. Here it is ....)
"Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him." - Proverbs 26:12
------
Lastly.... I was going to send out the above email when my son Jia Wei, who had woken up early, interrupted me, and helped me to achieve a "pause for effect".
He said he has something he must show me first. He led me to his room, and guess what he has drawn on the whiteboard?
Speaking and Listening ... A mouth on one side and an ear on the other, with waves connecting the two as the mouth speaks and the ear listens!
I was intrigued, and asked him what inspired him to draw that.
He led me to a book, turned to a page on "Loss of Hearing". It reads: "Hearing loss happens when the ear is damaged by loud sounds or sickness. People use hearing aids to hear better. Other people can't hear at all...." Smiling as I reflect on how "sickness" impairs most people's hearing without their ever realizing that, I closed the book to look at its title.
HEARING.
Jia Wei told me that he had just picked it up from the Library, yesterday.
Amazing! Pause for effect, indeed.
Let's enjoy these divine inspirations and revelations, have fun with them, and let them bless our days and our work :)
eh.
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