Tag: life
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If You Make Dumb Mistakes, You Might Not Be Doomed
I used to find clips from Dave Ramsey’s show very comforting. Someone would call in with an insane amount of debt, maybe after making several poor decisions. And after questioning how they got into the situation, Dave Ramsey would always have a path forward – “rice and beans, beans and rice” – that made it…
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Tiny Experiments vs Setting Goals
I’m not sure why the idea of “setting goals” always felt awful to me. Maybe because it implies there’s something wrong with where I am. Maybe because the thought of working towards one thing feels stifling. It feels so wrong in our modern world to not enjoy the idea of goals, when all the world…
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Spiritual Care for the Spiritually Healthy
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place. *** So we’re reading a book about pastoral care in one of my classes, and it’s frequently making me cry. Because too many of the scenarios…
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Being Alone
In April of 2014, I traveled to Paris, France, alone. I mostly did it because I had not succeeded in several things in my life at that point, and I wanted to prove I was at least capable of taking care of myself on my own. Plus, who doesn’t love Paris? And I did learn…
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How to Find Your Life’s Passion
Just do things. That’s my answer to that question. Just do things. That’s my answer to that question. Most advice about finding your passion tends to be either ‘follow your heart,’ or, ‘don’t follow your heart, they’re lying to you.’ What neither of these pieces of advice take into account is—how does your heart know…
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Blah Days
Five Reasons Today is Blah, and, Is There Any Hope For the Future? Yes, I get these too. Far too often, probably. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, after five and a half weeks of excitement in Brazil, that I’d have a blah day once in a while when I got home again. Still, blah…
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My Typical Day in Brazil
I thought I’d give my faithful readers some idea of my life in a different culture, since some sort of explanation as to why this blog isn’t being updated as often might be nice! I wake up in the morning around 7:30 (thankfully my fellow Canadian, Esther, has an alarm clock, or I’d never know…
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The Portuguese Echo
As you may know, I’m currently in Brazil–which means I need to know Portuguese to communicate. The area I’m in (northeast Brazil) has very few people who know English. I tried to learn as much Portuguese as I could before I got here, but it’s been a challenge for sure! At first, when I arrived…
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3 Things That Scare Me About Travelling to Brazil
In psychology, they tell you that the closer you get to an event, the more your excitement increases – and the more your anxiety increases. In fact, your anxiety rises faster than your excitement. Yes, that’s why they make you buy your plane tickets ahead of time. You can’t back out so easily. Don’t get me wrong,…
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Strange Flotsam in My Bedroom – A Photo-essay
Cleaning your room can unearth the oddest things you forgot you had. I’m a bit of a packrat – a bad habit – so it was high time to do a deep cleaning and clear some stuff out. It’s a wrench to part with some of these things. In fact, most of these I ended…
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