People and Lifestyle
This journey, was a journey of becoming from abiding.
It was this dream He put in my heart that I was walking into. It was this posture of surrendering, of Jesus knowing what He is doing, that gave me the courage to step out. This is my journey of becoming.
Our world is full of exhausted and overstressed adults, raising overscheduled children. Hyperproductivity is the norm and everyone’s chief end seems to be on “IPO”s or “exiting”. Hear me out, let go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as your self-worth.
I am a Crazy Rich Asian. These past weeks I witnessed the excess of life in America while back home my work deals with groups in slum areas who barely have any roof over their heads. I wonder how I should respond. How does God wants me to respond? I think, I finally understand.
I am not okay. And it is okay to not be okay.
That it is okay to not always be that “ outwardly excited, on-fire, “God is good all the time” kind of Christian. Maturity is when we choose God even when things don’t go the way we want them to be
Then I thought, "If Christ told us to love others as ourselves.. How can I love others if I don't love myself?" Not to be self-absorbed in our loving, but.. Can we really be overly judgemental on ourselves yet genuinely love others still?
