Tag: musings

  • Of a song, in the meantime

    I’ve been going through the book of Psalms lately through Community Bible Study. (Psalm 19 being my new favorite Psalm, but so much is bare and heart-wrenching.) While reading the material, I’ve soft music playing in the background. And the first one playing from my Spotify playlist is the one below: Without knowing when, my…

  • Of 5 ways to stay happy at Impact Happy Hour (as an introvert)

    The social sector isn’t perfect, obviously. But generally, people who work in the nonprofit / social enterprise world are easy to love. They’re usually: And I’ve been working in the nonprofit sector for over a decade now, so I can say that with my whole chest. But sometimes — your faith in the sector gets…

  • 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…

  • Of the beauty and babel of L4

    Last September 22-28, I had the privilege of participating in the Fourth Lausanne Congress (L4) held in Incheon, South Korea. You can find other websites that better explain the significance of this global gathering, so go ahead and visit them. It was fascinating. One of the first things I learned from L4 is that, statistically,…

  • 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…

  • 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…