Pre-Kalimantan thoughts.

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As it's that time of the year again, Wai Jia has been busy hitting the books and scrutinizing pots, which are specimens of preserved, diseased organs for her upcoming final exams for her 4th year of medical school. Thanks to her friends and Mr. Rajendren, she has found much joy in studying for what ought to be rather dead subject (no pun intended).

She is excited about flying off after her exams next week to visit a mission hospital in Kalimantan with two of her close friends. Last year, she had a dream of being lost in a jungle in Borneo with her passport and couldn't figure out what it meant. Many months later, when a doctor highly recommended her to visit this particular hospital in Kalimantan well known for its great service to the indigenous people (even people from the city fly in to get treated), she was rather reluctant, until her father told her that Borneo was the old name for Kalimantan. It was then that she also learnt that the hospital was situated in a jungle. Remembering her dream, she thought it was a pleasant coincidence or divine confirmation indeed.

Talk about making your dreams come true.

Coincidences or divine arrangements aside, she's excited about learning a little more about what it means to be a missionary doctor, and nervous about learning more about God's calling for her life.

She hopes you'll have a blessed start to your new year. Remember, even in your valleys, when you don't understand your plight, God has a purpose and plan in the grand scheme of things. Stay true to your vision, your dreams will come to pass someday.