Giving up everything to buy something that looks like it’s worth nothing is only a joyful situation to someone who has seen the treasure in it. “Jesus said, ‘The kingdom of heaven...
“Oh, so you’re the holy type too,” she said as she frowned. She waved vaguely at my bleached hair and turquoise roots. “Your hair threw me off, I thought you were cooler than that.”...
I run a public relations and marketing business that’s rather small, not very innovative, and wholly unremarkable. We only have one goal: Make as much money as possible, and give away as much as we...
“I’m really stressed,” my friend Anna* sighed, slumping into her seat opposite me at the cafe. “I need to do well during this probation period, but at the rate my department head keeps...
Getting a job shouldn’t be that tough. Besides, I’m a Singaporean and I’m going to graduate with a bachelor with an honours degree. That was my mentality towards my impending job search while...
“Everyone has a job, all your friends are working, everybody is employed.” The voices echoed in my head. I was 18 years old and unemployed, looking for my very first job. The fear of stepping...
As a child, I was a dedicated musician. Academic schooling was mandatory, but music nonetheless took on a large part of my life – I spent hours practising, and weekends were dedicated to shuttling...
Before I was called into missions in my early twenties, I remember chatting with a close friend who was feeling the nudge towards full-time ministry. She asked me what I thought, and with gutsy...
One thing about missions trips that I find beautiful is the simplicity of being. What I mean is, life becomes simple in a holy way: All that matters each day is that we accomplish a work for God —...