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Righteous Rebellion
One morning, I came across a message shared in a WhatsApp group, and it made me pause. The writer was talking about resisting the constraints that society and culture place on us as human beings. About how no one should decide the “appropriate” dress code, or tell us what to do with our lives; that…
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Face to Face with Reality
I was recently asked what serving in a village was like, and all I could say was that it made me realize the weight of the work we have to do on this earth. For years, I’d been told about how many people were waiting for me to rise and take my place in Christ,…
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Past Sins Are Blotted Out…What about Present Sins?
Then Jesus said, “he who is forgiven much, loves much.“ You were forgiven before you sinned I was reading a book, and the author was talking about how amputees usually feel pain or sensations in the places where their limbs used to be — phantom pain, it is called. Then he likened how the memories…
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Adaptability vs Rigidity
If adaptability is a skill then rigidity is not! It was a twitter space held by the NGO, where I volunteered. Our founder was breaking down the big jargon of 21st century learning skills and when she came to Flexibility and Adaptability she said something that stuck with me. It was actually a simple thing,…
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Ẹru ẹlẹru
Envy and jealousy are very funny things. They make you hate good things. Naturally, when you see something good — for example, someone gets married or buys a house — what should be your response? Shouldn’t it be celebration? Even if it is clapping in glee or laughing out loud. Something in you should respond…
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Peace ≠ Control
Have you noticed whenever we’re hurt, we tend to sleep in a fetal position? We would curl into ourselves and try to hold on to the shattered pieces of our souls even as everything around us crashes down. Our little attempt at gaining control of something. Anything As someone who stress-eat, I can tell you…
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The Art of Surrender
“Writing is both a science and an art.” “Baking is more science than an art.” “It takes art, not science.” Whenever I hear statements like these, I imagine science to be straight lines, sterile walls, logical paths that never veer off tracks and objective formula that is guaranteed to produce results. But art? Art was…
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The Paradox of Living
Littered all across scripture are paradoxes upon paradoxes. Matthew 11:28&29. Jesus call the heavy-ladened to come and pick up his yoke. Ephesians 2:8&9 and James 2:14, 17&26. One claims that faith, not works, is what saved us, and the other claim that faith without works is dead. Ephesians 1:19-23 talks about Christ conquering principalities and…
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Mary Contrary
Mary, Mary, quite contraryHow does your garden grow?With silver bells and cockleshellsAnd pretty maids all in a row. The first time I heard the phrase, “Mary contrary”, I pictured a willful girl who would always disagree with whatever you say. If you say the sky is blue, she would insist that the sky was more…
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Fictitious Reality
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” – Simone Weil Somehow I always find myself living with people who are crazy about movies. Maybe not crazy crazy, but you sha get the point. They would sit down, watching series after series, standalone after standalone, while I stared at them…
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