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Of living
[Written October 2015] When you mean well, but you only serve to annoy the person you originally wanted to encourage. Sometimes I really have to ask myself, “Why do you even try? Not only did you shoot yourself in the foot (which is normal, you do that a lot), BUT at the expense of someone you…
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Of life, tension, death
Technically, it’s August 1, 12:29am as I’m typing this, but we’ll consider this our monthly entry for July. One of my youth pastors died during the height COVID-19 on July 29, 2021. We had a memorial service in his honor for the first time onsite a couple of days ago, and GCF’s Auditorium A was…
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Of slippery months, two languages meeting, and patient enduring
In my endeavor to write (for myself, for the craft, for the future), I need to come face-to-face with an uncomfy truth: that certain months, like June, will feel like slippery fish. How are we now in its last week? Didn’t the month just start? To be fair, I’ve been living in the future without…
