by Sandy Samuel Jerome | Nov 12, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
August 2013: Worry and curiosity filled us. Our heartbeats, fast. I was pregnant, and this was something that we desired and waited for. As Joel and I walked through the corridors of the hospital after my 12-week anomaly scan, I was restless. I wanted to get the scan...
by Penninah Abigail Menezes | Nov 5, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
Boom. Crash. Rumble. Clap I slam upright, jolting the bed and waking to water audible on the panes. I breathe in deep, aware of my hands tightly gripping the covers. I gently sweep them over the thin sheets, the bed under me as I exhale, and fall back on my...
by Oshin Daniell | Oct 30, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
“You are fearfully and wonderfully made.”-Psalm 139:14 This verse was taught to me in my early childhood days. Yet, no one to this day has truly reflected the essence of this verse in my life. Hundreds of sheet masks, beauty creams and herbal face packs—all to get my...
by Sandy Samuel Jerome | Oct 23, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
I turned 37 just last weekend—probably the first time I was not very thrilled about my birthday. While many celebrate their late 30s with a lot of pomp, I was wishing for days to magically move from October 16 to 18—the “17th being my birthday.” Low-key, that is what...
by Sathya Balan | Oct 15, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
Painful rashes, intolerable itchiness, sleepless nights, and exorbitantly high medical bills.The aforementioned constituted my daily life for a couple of years. A period, I call the dark phase. But interestingly, it was here that I got to know God deeply—a meeting...
by Sandy Samuel Jerome | Oct 8, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
214 days—from the time we left our house in the UK to getting here to Singapore. A crazy, scary adventure, to say the least. Little did I know that my life would be on the scariest roller coaster ride ever. For most of 2020, my mind was cluttered with a lot of...
