My Second Sweet December
sweet december, dear friends. this past wednesday (november 30) was my 2nd sweet december celebration with my church folks. to me, this karen tradition is a sign that 1) winter has officially started...
View ArticleThe Blessings of This Hour
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn,...
View ArticleBe Present – a Lesson From Badminton
i should be in bed by now. instead, i am wide awake, listening to the clicking sound of my own keyboard typing. it is in the quiet of night i get to explore the inner part of me, the part that was...
View ArticleDefining My Voice Personality And My First Published Story Ever
my bum hurts…from having sat up in my most uncomfortable chair for 9 hours straight. i usually sneak out to chat with friends at other desks or spend time reading magazines in the toilet…maybe 7-10...
View Articleways to change the world: fast. pray. give.
i have been gone — for a long time. wordpress wouldn’t let me in unless i signed in again. the reason that brought me back to this space tonight is not about myself. but it is about children. in...
View Articlethe greatest love is this…
following the post from yesterday, i am compelled to share these quotes that have encouraged me during the times of spiritual drought or doubts. “we can do no great things, just small things with...
View ArticleA Shoes Story
story — the word has been on my mind recently. my job at compassion is to convey all kinds of stories to people, ocean apart, who give us money every month. i tell stories through articles, photos and...
View ArticleThe Geometry Lesson
i am a free-spirited and romantic person. i don’t mind people giving advices because that helps me grow as a person. but i hate when i am told of what to do. when someone orders me, without asking if...
View ArticleWhy Is Christ So Good to Me?
“God’s kindness brings true repentance” — this has been something on my mind recently. i have never met a man or known of a God so genuinely in love with an ugly person…a sinner like me. undeniably, we...
View Articleon uploading social media: sarcastic ranting
disclaimer: this is a purely selfish post. if you are busy or have something better to do, do not waste time reading this. i just need to vent my anger on this online space because the post is about...
View ArticleMore of God…Less of Me…
oh child, when you behold the creations of this world — wiggling earth worms to graceful dolphins streaming the ocean to majestic eagles soaring high in the sky to the milky way in the shivering dark…...
View ArticlePrayer For My Sponsored Children
never once in my life i wished to be a mom until that day…when i met my two sponsored children and their older brother. their bright brown eyes turned my whole world upside down. their beautiful… Read...
View ArticleAnd I Thought I Had Been An Honest Person
i am lost. at this moment, i am. i thought i was found. but now i cannot even make one confident decision about what to eat for breakfast. who would spend her morning contemplating which church to go...
View ArticleAn Encounter with the Prophet
Learning about what Jesus did in classroom is much easier than living it out. It is so easy to write an essay about what God stuff and discuss about what being a good Christian means. But if we cannot...
View ArticleBack Home at Last
So some of you might not have been aware of what has gone on in my life. Here is a little heads-up. Joel and I were married in April 2015. I applied for the partnership visa, which took 9-12 months to...
View ArticleThe Reverse Culture Shock
Before leaving New Zealand, Joel and I sat through a weekly meeting with a couple, who are now our good friends. This couple had spent years as missionaries in Ukraine but God called them out of the...
View ArticleThe Detour
Joel is going to be in Thailand in exactly 24 hours from now. I cannot be more excited! This is the moment we have both been waiting for and praying about for the past several weeks. Clarity and...
View ArticleReunited!
Joel and I are finally together again! Yeah! It has been good to reunite with my man. Our plan was for me to pick him up from the airport and drive off to a town three hours away for a little get-away....
View ArticleA Couple of Nomads
Tomorrow we are going to Chiang-Mai. I should be excited to reconnect with my old friends and breathe in the fresh cool air, but right now I am sitting on my couch, nose sniffing and eyes puffy from...
View ArticleCompanionship
It was a quiet morning, and I was almost ready for work. I tied my hair up in a tidy pony tail. While I was putting my earrings on, I heard a voice behind me.”Hey, Mink.” I turned and looked – in his...
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