Tag: waiting
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Advent Anticipations
In this Advent season, it’s so easy to get wrapped up (quite literally!) in the hustle of the holidays: gift shopping, decorating, baking, all the TV specials – you name it! I’m a fan of finding the best gingerbread lattes, which is quite harder than it sounds. We spend 4 weeks anticipating Christmas Day and…
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Fix Your Gaze
Have you ever been so close to something that you miss seeing it? It’s like when I can’t find my phone and it’s on the table in front of me. It’s there the whole time; I just don’t see it. In an interview with the New York Times, psychologist Christopher Chabris explained why this happens.…
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Waiting Well, Standing Strong
I’ve held onto this devotional for close to a year. It was the one God gave me to share the words I wish I had when I was going through the hardest season of my life. I recently spoke on this topic, having organized the first women’s breakfast at my church campus, and gave powerful…
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1 Year (The Inevitable)
“but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” – Isaiah 40:31 (ESV) My counselor warned me to brace myself. This is the time when trauma can hit hard, no matter how…
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When You Feel Stuck (Part 3)
Click here to read part 1 and click here for part 2. I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t overthink things. As a child, I was always one to analyze the details. I was a strong reader and writer, motivated to discover and learn. Languages and logic became interests, which eventually…
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When You Feel Stuck (Part 2)
Click here to read part 1 Have you ever felt stuck, having accepted the past yet unable to move forward? There’s no easy way to navigate being sandwiched in between the reality of what was and the possibilities of what will be. The disappointments have settled in and became a part of a new normal.…
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When You Feel Stuck (Part 1)
“You’re not stuck.” That’s the word God gave me in church a few weeks ago. That morning, I found out about another disappointment, another loss, I’d soon have to face. I went to church to escape this reality, only to sit through a sermon about change. The takeaway point was that change can be a…
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Reporting the Good News
During my junior year of high school (let’s not count how many years ago that was), I wrote an article on Valentine’s Day for a journalism course. It was fun and entertaining, and my advisor published it to the school paper because it was one of my better works. I can’t remember the details, but…
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Standing Firm in the Waiting
“I’m going to trust God, but assume the rejection.” That was my mindset during my 2nd year of college. I was in desperate need of a scholarship to fulfill my God-given dreams. But just because I was eligible didn’t mean it was available. New classes hadn’t yet started and somehow I was more burned out…
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Beauty In All Seasons
“He has made everything beautiful in its time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 (ESV) Flower preservation: sometimes beauty is redefined as we are refined. Recently, I got into experimenting with flowers to keep them longer. I called them my “forever flowers”, because for once, I wouldn’t have to throw them away. I knew that my cat wouldn’t be…
Consider the Joy 