Identity

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How Being Adopted Helped Me Understand God’s Love

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I was found in a public location in China when I was a few days old and taken to an orphanage.
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Three Good Things About Childhood We Forget as Adults

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It is amazing how much interacting with a child (whether your own or a family member’s or friend’s) reminds you of the wonderful manner in which they view the world – how we likely viewed the world too at that age, before we “grew up” and graduated to a life of work, rent or mortgage payments, complicated friendships, disappointment and heartbreak.
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Is Being Chosen and Loved by God Really Enough?

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One reminder that’s often brought up as comfort for single people is that God loves us, and that we have a relationship with Him. But knowing that did not always make me feel chosen or special, because I thought, “Well God loves everyone because He is God!”
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Being a Christian Is Like Being a Foreigner

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I immigrated to Australia when I was a child. Perhaps it was because I was still very young, I quickly adapted to the way things were there. Recently, I returned to Hong Kong where I was born. That feeling of being a foreigner hit me hard.
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How I Came to Like the Way God Made Me

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It was in intermediate school when I discovered that I was “weird”.  According to this group of “cool” girls in my class, I was strange. Odd. Intense. Weird. And rather than this remaining merely their opinion, I considered their words authoritative on who I was.
Woman leader sitting on her desk working.

What Does God Think of Strong Women?

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Some of you are shocked, and maybe a little offended, that I would ask this question because your instinctive response is, Of course God values strong women.
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Can a Personality Test Define Who I Am?

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When I first took the test years ago, I found the result quite accurate in describing my strengths, weaknesses, moods, even the way I view romantic relationships. Since then, I had retaken the test a few more times, only to discover that the results had changed.
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How I Stepped off the “Busy” Treadmill

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Being busy is a badge of honour for many of us. Perhaps we think it means we’re efficient, productive, hardworking. Doing overtime is the norm, leaving on time is still frowned upon on some level, and taking time off can be unheard off. I was no different.
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When Travelling Isn’t As Satisfying As I’d Hoped

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I was at the happiest place on earth in my favourite country in the world. As many young Singaporean graduates do, I was travelling in Japan for my graduation trip with friends.