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How God Prepared Me for Rejection
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I was writing a report at work when I saw the email notification:
"...we are regrettably unable to offer you a place in our entering class..."
A hundred emotions rushed through me as I read the rejection letter from my dream school.
I Didn’t Know How to Relate to God Until He Showed Me
Years ago, while interviewing for a role in the Christian Fellowship, I was asked: “Who is God to you?”
When I heard that, I drew a blank.
To the One Who Feels Lonely
Do you ever imagine what it’s like, having people who care about you? Wouldn’t it just brighten up your day, knowing that there are people eagerly waiting to greet you when you get to school or work?
I wish that were the case for me too.
When God Didn’t Answer My Prayer for a Relationship
I sat on the couch as tears dripped down my face. I had willed myself not to cry, but I felt as if a small tiny knife had lodged in my heart, and each breath drawn only served to push the metaphorical knife further into my heart.
I replayed the text message in my head: “It’s someone I have started seeing, but nothing official at the moment.”
Lifelines When It Feels Like God’s Against You
I army-crawled through my own questions not long ago, amidst a cancer scare for my son. And I’d say that truthfully, more than events that alienate me from God, my thoughts are what often enslave me, threatening to tear me from the rigorous discipline of trusting what is true.
When the Going Gets Tough . . . Give Thanks!
Giving thanks in all circumstances. It seems easier when things are going well and worry seems far. But as I’ve thought about thankfulness more deeply recently, I’ve pondered how we can make sense of this command when life is crashing around us.
4 Truths to Light Up Your Darkest Moments
I began graduate school for counseling excited for a wonderful new life season. I’m glad I didn’t know what was actually coming. That winter, I became very sick with an illness that doctors couldn’t diagnose. While battling flu-like symptoms and intense dizziness, I ached for my old friends and family who were states away.
God is my Home
Title: God is my Home
Artwork by: Melissa Rechard (@belovedscribbles)
Description: It…
Invisible
Earlier this year, we participated in an exhibition organised by our church. Our project was focused on deaf and blind people. Though individual drawings of each of our five senses, we tell the moving stories of how five individuals (aged 30 to 50 years old) worship God despite of their physical impairments.