Category: Faith & Spiritual

I K.Oed around 6p.m. today and just woke up at 10:30p.m.. I didn’t realize I was that tired…oh dear. Now I hope I can go back to sleep at a decent hour… ************ Zibin’s sweet blog post came at the end of week in which the theme of relationships and growth had been constantly visited […]

One way you keep holding on to an imaginary power is by expecting something from outside gratifications or future events. As long as you run from where you are and distract yourself, you cannot fully let yourself be healed. A seed only flourishes by staying in the ground in which it is sown. When you […]

Yesterday, I experienced a bit of a crisis of faith. And for a while, that knot in my stomach returned. Thankfully, I have a husband who has a gift for speaking truth to me in way that encourages and uplifts. I realize now that the same words could give hope and joy or have little […]

[This, like the previous travelogues, is an entry in my own journal.] Silence. Solitude. Do those words give you peace or unrest? For a long time now, they have made you uneasy. You’ve been afraid of what the silence may reveal. You are afraid of solitude because you don’t fully trust yourself. But you don’t […]

Looking at some of the responses I’ve been receiving on my blog and through email, I thought I should make a post specially to assure everyone who is concerned about me that I’m alright. :) Now, now, don’t scoff… I’m not putting you on…I’m not saying that everything in my life is sunshine and roses. […]

There is an intimate relationship between joy and hope. While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will […]

If not for the sun, we would not see the clouds. Yet, when skies are overcast, our vision is limited to the clouds that cover the sky and the gloom and darkness. We forget that the sun is nevertheless shining beyond the clouds, and that indeed, without the sun’s illumination, we would not even be […]

Reflections inspired by Nouwen’s Here and Now. Surprised by Joy Am I open to being surprised by joy? Am I so bogged down by the unalterable past and the unpredictable future that I am blind and deaf to joy in the present? I would miss out on all the beauty that God is trying to […]

Dearest Self, You are constantly badgered by the past and anxious about the future. Faith is not faith unless it trusts, and trust can be practiced by learning to live in the Here and Now. Every episode has a purpose, and know that even in the darkest hours, God is with you and loving you. […]

I arrived someplace today. And when I did, I found an unexpected gift. Peace. Once again, God showed me that His ways are more wondrous and mysterious than I could ever imagine…and that when He gives, He is truly extravagant! The road goes on, but there is a spring in my step that hadn’t been […]