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Everyday Stories, Lived

Christianity

  • Where to go when panic strikes

    I was taught that panic is a feeling you get when things get overwhelming. And when you are in a state of panic, you feel like you can’t hold the anxiety any longer as it pushes out of you like a wave, making your thoughts run wild. And isn’t it easy to get into a… Read more

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  • Making time for the Lord

    If you’ve imbibed what the world taught you about self-sufficiency, then there’s no room for what the Lord can accomplish in your life. Because you would believe that by your strength alone, you can achieve whatever you want. And if you just create the right environment, and surround yourself with the right people, then what… Read more

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  • The cosmos of Genesis 1

    Recently I’ve been consuming content about how today’s science view the cosmos, which makes me think about the cosmos of Genesis 1 (from the Hebrew Bible) and how they follow a similar pattern of how everything started from wild and waste. Then there was order and life. From Genesis 1, here’s how life on earth… Read more

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  • Ghost net

    There are things left behind by the people from our past that keep us from moving froward today. And like ghost nets, we don’t quite understand what got us. We only know how to flail and exhaust ourselves trying to escape an invisible force holding us back. It would be fortunate to have someone see… Read more

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  • Planning our lives based on what’s tested and true

    It’s true that when you don’t have a plan, somebody does it for you. Because we all have ideas. But these ideas don’t necessarily reflect what the other person values. And if that person’s resolve is weak, he might easily be swayed by what’s on the table. What a joy if it aligns with his… Read more

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  • Selfish kids

    After serving my niece her favorite dish, she began to put almost everything on her plate (more than what she could finish), leaving everybody else almost nothing. She is five. It seems that selfishness was the default. But she doesn’t know it. More likely, she doesn’t understand (yet) what it means to share a limited… Read more

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  • Is being helpless something you learn?

    You might say that your circumstances have shaped you and made you who you are today. Well, it would’ve been inspiring if you meant it that way. But if who you are today meant seeing yourself as having no power to change your circumstance, you might see yourself helpless and a victim of it. But… Read more

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