Half a Year
A prayer note on returning to a long-missed place.
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A prayer note on returning to a long-missed place.
After reading God Is Red by Liao Yiwu: the faith of Chinese believers, and the comfortable dimness of ours.
On reading Sum by David Eagleman: a captivating book, and a Christian reader's caution.
Half a year of trying to learn to pray quietly, and still stuck on the first ten days.
First time serving in the main Sunday service: on the habits and inertia of serving, and the pride that creeps in.
A colleagues' wedding, a sermon on the tongue, and an uncomfortable look at my own gossip.
Gossip is a bit like a drug. A few more thoughts, and a prayer.
Colleagues talk shop everywhere, and work turns into people. A Christian's place in workplace gossip.
Buying a flat and wedding packages: on feeling foolish, and on haggling that benefits no one.
Looking back on a mission trip to Cambodia: God's provision, a heart reopened, and grief that came home with me.
An unexpected chance to share the gospel with my aunt and cousins over dinner.
worried about an exam
The last day of my first working year, and the many first times it held.
A story I had heard many times, and the two things it finally taught me.