The older we get, the more likely we are to face trials; call it growing up, if you will. And even if trials don’t plague us, we’re bound to hear of loved ones who have to face them. Over the years, I’ve heard from different friends about the struggles they have had to go through. …
We’ve all been on the receiving end of either unintentional or intentional hurtful remarks. But how we respond makes all the difference—as I learned for myself on one journey back home. That day, my friends and I were having a discussion about a recent film. For some reason, I was lost in thought and didn’t …
This year, 2016, Leicester City FC won the English Premier League. No-one saw it coming. Bookies gave them 5000-1 odds at the start of the season. If you and I had put $100 on them, we’d now have $500,000. What Leicester City’s Premiership win teaches us is this: there’s a difference between improbable, unimaginable and inconceivable. Leicester City’s win was improbable – …
“My life is incomplete. I’m still waiting until my knight in shining armor swings by on his horse, scoops me up in his arms, and takes me away in the distant sunset! And then, I’ll feel complete.” I laughed at that comment, along with others who attended the talk on relationships that evening. But as …
Christian friendship is arguably the most important kind of human-to-human relationship needed in the life of every Christian, yet seldom talked about—unlike marriage. After all, the Bible does not expect that all will be married, but it does expect people to be in community, so that they can grow in maturity, encourage one another, and experience …
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I can’t stop comparing myself to others. “Is he smarter than me? Is she prettier than me? Does she have more friends than I do?” While it can sound like an innocent habit, I ended up being sucked into it, unable to be thankful for whatever I had. It started when I was a child. …
Dear Joshua, I will never forget October 23, 2017. It seemed so surreal seeing you lying motionless in the casket, dressed in your best. Tears swelled up in my eyes as I remembered how you had been such a good friend to my husband and me. Your abrupt departure from this earth caught us completely …
The movie Inception (2010) was a world of dreams-within-dreams-within-dreams. It was impossible to tell what was dream and what was reality. One way of escaping the dream was to get yourself killed. By dying, the dream would be over, and you would wake up back to reality. But the dilemma was this: If you aren’t dreaming, you really …
I got into a great conversation with a girl at a party recently. She’s been a friend for a long time, but it went so well I started to wish she was more than a friend. But I could tell she didn’t want the same. It’s hard to walk away from a party alone. No …
Iused to think Thanksgiving was cute, like little handprint turkey art projects from third graders. Thanksgiving was mildly entertaining, like whatever football game is on TV when you fall asleep after too much turkey. But Thanksgiving, I thought, was not important or relevant or meaningful. How could it be? I’ve always been a little jaded about this …
