Tag: jessa blog
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My first apartment hunting experience was when I was months away from becoming a wife. While we were at the peak of our wedding preparations, I was also thinking a lot about where we would live, because I do not want to stay at my husband’s studio apartment long-term. So, I started my search online,…
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Wailing at night: on surrender
anxiety and faith, faith, jessa blog, letting go, prayer, surrender to God, trust God, trusting God with worry1–2 minutesWhen things do not go as planned, the gap between what we imagined and what is actually happening feels like a wall. It stops us cold. While we convince ourselves that letting go would keep us sane, the loss of the power to direct events keeps us awake at night. And what did surrender look…
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My eight-year-old niece occasionally uses my sister’s or my mother’s phone to call me and share her life updates, which mostly revolve around her latest craft project. She reminds me a lot of my younger self, so I try my best to be the adult I once wanted to have as a friend: a willing…
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Since I am no longer a staff member at the university, I lost my MS Office access, and so I looked for a free alternative. It took a lot of convincing myself that a free and open-source alternative to MS Office is okay because, from experience on using open-source freeware, I enjoyed using QGIS (open-source)…
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When insecurity and IMet eye to eyeCold air suddenly slapped my faceBlood draining outInsecurity had weird eyesThey roll from side to sideI wanted to ask, “What have I done to you?”I could almost hear her tell me, “You irk me.””Doesn’t matter what you say or doI just simply hate all about you.”And that’s when I…
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Keeping a blog alive
2–3 minutesIt takes a lot of effort to keep a blog running. There was a day last week when I was sitting at my computer, typing away, determined to finish three blog posts on three things I was interested in writing about. I realized I spent the whole afternoon doing just that. Nobody really asked for…
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You’re finally here! So, I just discovered that some of you have subscribed to my blog as far back as 2020, but remained in the dark—meaning you haven’t received any of my blog posts straight to your inbox since you typed in your email. It turns out there was a confirmation step that I cannot…