Purpose

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The Day I Stopped Wishing My Singleness Away

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Holding Hands - Getting married shouldn't be your only life goal

Getting Married Need Not Be A #lifegoal

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Wedding and engagement announcements dominate my social media feeds, and I am starting to feel left out.

Tailored For Glory

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Title: Tailored For Glory Materials: Photography Artwork by: The…

Why Must I Wait?

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We live in a society of instantaneous information, fast-food, and the automated everything. There is little choice but to become tech-savvy, productive, as well as highly efficient. The downside for a generation like ours is that even a five-minute wait may be unbearable.

A Shattered Dream Isn’t the End

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A fairy princess? A queen? Those may be some of the typical titles that little girls aspire to, but that wasn’t me. Believe it or not, my dream was to become a “physical therapist missionary in Africa”.
God gave me the changes I needed not the changes I wanted

Pregnant at 18, what was I thinking?

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There was a time I believed that I had it all together. In my mind, I was the epitome of cool.

So You Think You Have the Best Bucket List?

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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Recently my sons’ school principal addressed his students with this line from Mary Oliver’s poem “The Summer Day”, recognizing that with their best years lying ahead of them, life was full of wonder and possibility.

My Identity Crisis: All I Wanted Was to Fit In

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I spent a large part of my adolescence searching for my identity as if it were a lost item to be found. I suppose it was because a large part of my childhood and early teenage years was spent moving between various states in Malaysia before settling in Auckland, New Zealand.

When My Hard Work Amounted to Nothing

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I know people who are avid fans of Japanese author Haruki Murakami—his most notable books include Norwegian Wood and 1Q84. But while I don’t understand the extent of their fanaticism, I do see why Murakami’s works are so well-received