on the Christian life
My mom asked me last week – so what’s your birthday wish? Actually, I asked myself the same question just a few days earlier. And I didn’t have an answer both times.
Is my life perfect? Not really. So isn’t there something I wish could be different? … Read more
Royalty. As a little girl, I had often imagined what it would be like to be one. A princess, a queen, a monarch in my palatial home. I would ride horses and play the violin. Paint in the morning and play lawn tennis in the afternoon. … Read more
Temperatures are rising and tempers are flaring as we inch closer to election day. This is the first time I have seen our nation in such a divisive state over politics. My social media feed has never seen so much emotionally loaded speech in its ten-year existence. … Read more
About two months ago, I heard a conversation that shook me to the core. All it took was one line.
“Who’d want to marry you?” a male voice had said.
It was spoken in jest, and it was not even directed at me. … Read more
This will sound jaded – it may even come as a shock to some – but there is no such thing as happily ever after. At least, not in the conventional definition. By conventional, I mean boy-meets-girl story that ends in marriage, “and they lived happily ever after.” … Read more
I’ve just finished Francis Chan’s Crazy Love. It made me realise that I’ve been living a rather comfortable, convenient Christian life. I have yet to love God with reckless abandon, the way he has loved and continues to love me.… Read more
In my current saga of getting over what-could-have-been, I am coming to realise a few things. I had begun to settle. And although it seemed like he was good enough, I actually deserve better.
I deserve better than a man who seemed to fit the criteria, but actually was just someone who happened to be available.… Read more
From a very young age, I have always been my own person. At age eight, I had opted out of the normal child’s life. Instead of spending breaks playing with other kids, I spent my lunch hour reading in the library.… Read more