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People, and then some.
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Dialogue will certainly reduce our fears and suspicions of one another. It will make us better friends, even with people we regard as enemies or threats. Yet friendship, or at least the readiness to be real friends, is also a precondition for good dialogue. To be friends is to trust and to be vulnerable. It involves running the risk of sharing ( Read more... ) -
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I am surrounded and protected and blessed by the most wonderful people. God, Your mighty hands protect me when I am too naive to protect myself and too weak to build myself up, thank You ( Read more... ) -
God is amazing.
As I sit to think about it properly in the quiet and the calm, I realise it's wrong to see today through a lens of awkwardness, because to do so would deny one truth that struck me so deeply today: that is the truth of what it means for God to give far more than you could ever imagine to ask for or receive.
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I'm so thankful that the things that I am truly passionate about do motivate me. I suppose it's not that I haven't been productive, but that I needed to be reminded about the ventures towards which I am automatically driven once I remember them ( Read more... ) -
We don't all love the same things, but we all love.
Today is one of those days when I find myself in awe of seemingly ordinary people I have been privileged enough to come to know, occasionally in the most unexpected of ways. And then I go on to wonder whether I can ever be like them in tenacity, in discipline and determination. And then I come to realise that we have all displayed such admirable ( Read more... ) -
A theory of change:
I wonder what would happen if I make it my life motto to live in fear. To do things that scare me and surround myself with criticism. And of course not run away from any of it. Would that make me a better person? -
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When I was in Primary 4 I read one of those motivational books that specifically told me never to say or tell myself, "I don't know," because that stops me from thinking and makes me give up on looking for a solution.
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Happy New Year! / A distraction from down
Because thanksgiving is always a good idea, and also because I need something to get myself to stop thinking about whether or not it is worth returning my new down jacket which has been leaking teensy feathers, it's time for a stocktake of 2013 and the things that made it pretty darn epic.
(In no particular order,) in 2013 I:- Got LSE100 done and ( Read more... )
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To give and to live.
Sometimes we moan about being in asymmetrical relationships: in which we give more than we get, and we care more than we think we should. The well in our hearts runs dry as we draw from it everyday, and yet get no replenishment in return, We are tired, we are discouraged ( Read more... )