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A dream or a memory?
I had a dream, and I know it was just a dream. Because I was with you, and in reality, we’re never together. You took me photographs, flattering and candid. You said it’s one way to keep our memories intact, frozen in time. I could hear your happiness when I looked into your eyes and… Read more
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Aging and the never-ending war against gravity
As I looked at myself in the mirror one night, the reality dawned on me: I am getting older. It’s funny how I can’t remember my age anymore when people ask me about it, taking a pause too long, thinking how old I am again. Sometimes, I even make quick math like today’s year minus… Read more
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Wickedness loves company
“Wickedness loves company–and leads others into sin” (Prov. 16:29, TLB). People who aren’t ashamed of their wickedness, or who have been convinced by our godless society that what they’re doing isn’t even wrong, will always try to get those around them to participate with them. It’s a fact of human nature we can’t get around.… Read more
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Legitimate needs
They (compulsive sinful desires) don’t spring out of thin air to lead us astray. Instead, they appeal to our natural, inborn, God-given needs. The needs themselves are legitimate, but sin uses them against us by offering illegitimate, substitute ways of getting them met–ways God never intended us to use. Sin takes what is good and… Read more
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Work that benefits others
Isn’t it so easy to be caught up with the administrative side of work? Finish the report by noon. Submit this by 5 PM. And while you’re finding yourself reacting to deadlines instead of proactively launching ideas and testing your hypothesis (yes, I work as a researcher), you begin to wonder who will benefit your… Read more
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Are you ready when the Internet disappears?
This scenario is based from our monthly scenario club at the Urgent Optimists. Urgent Optimists is a community that brings “together people who want to feel authentically hopeful about the future, and who are working to create positive transformation in society and in their own lives.” I’m a member of Urgent Optimists, and I think… Read more
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Good with words (Midjourney edition)
I am at a loss for words. I have this picture in my head, but the words that seem fitting to describe it slip out of the tip of my tongue. The image was clear in my mind. A clean city with solar photovoltaics installed on the rooftops. I imagined it as an aerial shot,… Read more
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Everyday Stories, Lived
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