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Reflections from Church Camp: Seeing God, Seeing Ourselves

What you treasure reveals your fears. Reflections on the fleeting impressiveness of people, and the quiet, flawed yet real devotion that truly pleases God.

13 Assassins

I recently picked up watching TV again (a big change for me, since I usually only caught movies on planes!). One film I stumbled on was 13 Assassins, a violent samurai story set in the 1800s.

Things I Saw and Thought About in Jakarta (Part 2/2)

Joining Mom and her friends for Vesak Day celebration at the Tzu Chi Buddhist Foundation that I’ve been curious about for awhile, and more reflections on this trip.

A Break from Running

Posted on April 26, 2019May 1, 2019 by melly

People meant well to cheer you on, but you prefer them quiet.

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10 Days to Race, Last Day to Fundraise

Posted on March 28, 2019May 1, 2019 by melly

Oh alright, I haven’t trained much since week 8.

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Persistent Feet for Beautiful Feet

Posted on March 17, 2019May 1, 2019 by melly

You’d think less time in fundraising = more time in training.  The opposite is true.  May be this speaks of the general human problem (mine for one!), you perform better when watched, no?

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Trip Back Home – Lunar New Year

Posted on March 11, 2019May 1, 2019 by melly

Commemoration of past events is understandable, but insistence on tradition based on myth is baffling,

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To be Distinctive – Life @ Work 2019

Posted on March 5, 2019January 1, 2024 by melly

‘If I’m too comfortable, may be I haven’t stretched myself enough.’

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After 2 Years..

Posted on February 3, 2019July 14, 2019 by melly

.. meditation is in being even more present, not absent.  It is in more thinking and not blanking out thoughts.  It is gaining peace not by not thinking, but by thinking rightly.  It results in fullness and not emptiness of the mind.

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God’s Gracious Hand – Engage 2019 Talk

Posted on January 31, 2019September 26, 2022 by melly

.. we don’t hope in this world, instead in the inheritance that’s been reserved for us, which – unlike anything even the best thing in life can offer – will never change, decay, it’s secure, forever.  In fact, the more and worse the trial we face,

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Everyone Has a Toilet to Fix in Their Life

Posted on January 15, 2019July 14, 2019 by melly

Who had expected to go through all they have?  Although we all know broken relationships, illness, and even bereavement happen to everyone, we still don’t expect it to happen to us.

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Dubious New Year Greetings

Posted on January 1, 2019July 14, 2019 by melly

Wish it every year if you’d like, but what do we know for certain? You wait long long. For such things simply don’t exist. It doesn’t take long for the mood to settle back into everyday reality – by end of the week?

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