When I was young, I remember always having to askĀ my parents for permission to doĀ anything at all. Can IĀ go out with my friends? Can IĀ attend this or that schoolĀ programme? Somehow thisĀ habit...
I get it. Sometimes, you read the Bible, andĀ charactersĀ like Enoch and Moses appearĀ unrealistic ā itĀ feels like theyāve set a standard for spirituality I canāt reach, and itās super...
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the back or west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb or Sinai, the mountain of God. (Exodus...
Iām a runner. I run from problems. Iāve come to realise that I instinctively put up my walls as defences. I distance myself and turn away from hard times. Itās so easy to run when things are...
I used to watch Mulan every night after dinner. It was 1999, a year after Disney released the animated version of the story Iād grown up with in Chinese classes. Arguably the most well-known female...
Some years back, I watched The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. While many had said that it felt like a feature-length āJust Do Itā advertisement, the constant theme of āstop dreaming, start...
Have you ever felt a pain so great that it pounds through every fibre of your being? I have. My mind goes back to one night some years back when Iād gone to see a volunteer counsellor in one of the...
āI am so blessed to get these pair of new kicks for my birthday!ā āI received the promotion that Iāve been waiting for … I feel so blessed!ā āI got an āAā on the test even...
How am I going to survive this?, IĀ found myself thinking one recent afternoon. It wasnāt just the exceptional heat from the morning sun making its way down my face and soaking uncomfortably...