Tag: reflection
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Failure and success
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Failure has given me some of the most defining experiences of my life. It made me pause in my tracks, question my direction, and challenge the beliefs I once held with certainty. In those moments of disappointment, I was forced to confront what I thought I…
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On the good days
There won’t always be good days, but on the good days, I’ll be eternally grateful that I am on this beautiful journey. Every bit and piece, every stop and turn, every encounter is what makes it worthwhile. It’s like the strokes of the artist’s brush, painting the best work of art. It is what makes…
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Happiness in moments
If happy should be a destination, an aspiration, a goal, then what happens after and beyond happy? For something as fleeting, happy should only be enjoyed in moments; small and big ones alike. Like wind, moments sip through our hands. There is no constant grand pristine state of being or existence, unless you should be…
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Love yourself with tenderness.
When you love yourself, be deliberate and tender. You are uniquely you and no one can be a better you. You are God’s gift to the world; His masterpiece. When you look at yourself, say those same sweet things to you that you’d say to the person you love. Be unconditional while at it. Invest…
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#9 Travel diary: bicycles everywhere.
When I was a young girl, my brother taught me how to ride a bicycle. It was a very freeing activity. When I rode down that rocky road past farms and past slowly trekking people, I felt like one of those people in the exclusive league which my brother was born into, the free males.…
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Do You Cry Too?
I admit it: I’m a “crier.” I sometimes cry during the national anthem; I’ve sometimes cried at an airshow when I feel the power and agility and precision of fighter jets. I cry during movies. Just last night I was watching a series of the history of Southeastern Conference Football, and I found myself […]…
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#3 Travel diary: History and preservation.
There is life in historical sites, buildings, monuments, antics, verbal stories, …lands and fields even. In Germany the gravity around these things is palpable. Europeans as a whole generally seem to be very rooted in cultural preservation, and holding strong attachments to their history. Germany is not short on technology or new great ideas on…
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Time a healer of all wounds ?
This is a common cliche. We tell our friends, family, the general universal population that in due time their wounds will heal. Today I am thinking that this phenomenon is in itself flawed. Time can not be an independent healing factor. Healing of tissues comes with fibrosis in which case scar(s) are formed. Some scars…
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Christ daily: Be of good courage
Joshua 1:9 – Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Be yourself. Don’t struggle to fit in.
You don’t have to morph yourself into something else in order to fit into every space. Some places are never meant for you whereas in others you will seamlessly fit. This messages of course requires a level of self awareness, maturity and strength of character. To be of strong and noble character, of good moral…
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Fight.
Don’t give up. Go to bed everyday with the hope of tomorrow’s dawn. Wake up everyday, dress up and show up. Trouble don’t last always. Whatever you’re going through shall pass. When you have overcome this battle, you’ll be better for it. You will be okay, more than okay after it has passed. Survivor is…
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Children are the future.
I sometimes lose hope looking at the state of the world and seeing so much negativity, anger and hatred. I have seen a number of peope who have decided that they won’t bring children into such a world. I know though that when we look around intently we shall find so much good going on,…