Relationships
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Letting the line snap
I’m still reading Chapter 5 of Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! but my fingers were itching to tap and type what I have been thinking, so I dragged my body to my laptop. Here I am. I am in my early thirties and most of my days are spent working from home, coordinating with people in the… Read more
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The different voices in the Bible
Today, I was reminded of our need to “remain humble” in reading the Bible, and not use it “to seek ammunition for the side of an argument we already stand on,” because we’ll surely find one. Instead, we must “seek the wisdom that comes when we listen humbly to all the different voices arising in… Read more
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Ara and Celi: the beach dogs
When we arrived at JCAH Beach Resort, known for kiteboarding in Araceli, Palawan, we noticed many dogs running around. One that particularly caught our attention was a small long-haired mocha dog. She was extra giddy in welcoming us, as if we had already been friends, which is why we quickly opened our hearts and felt… Read more
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The moral basis for living in freedom
I was in college when I learned to memorize the 10 commandments. It was when my sister and I attended an evening service and the Pastor challenged us to memorize the 10 commandments through the aid of our fingers, telling us that His goal was to send us home having the 10 commandments memorized. I… Read more
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“It’s never my fault”
When things don’t go as we hope they would be, it might be too tempting to blame everyone else but ourselves. Doesn’t it make us feel better to be the victim of our situation, instead of having the agency to think of ways on how to get out of it? Because if we are the… Read more
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Station Eleven (by Emily St. John Mandel)
I first wrote about Station Eleven in an earlier post, and even then, I already knew it was the kind of book that doesn’t leave you easily. But reading it two years into a real pandemic changed something about the experience. The dystopia Mandel imagined is far worse than what we lived through, and yet… Read more
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