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Continue reading →: Reflections March 10, 2024Things I have been learning about Yahweh: There is some significant relationship between love and sin, and saying that they’re in some sense opposites doesn’t cut it. The orthodox faith believes that Jesus is perfect love – and it is perfect love that can enter into the power of sin…
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Continue reading →: Reflections – March 4, 2024It’s been a little under 2 months since I’ve shared some reflections. Here are my reflections since then: Things I have been learning about God: I am currently going through a 40-day devotional for Lent called Sacred Belonging by theologian Kat Armas. This is hands-down one of the best devotionals…
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Continue reading →: Getting to know myself – prompt 7Today’s prompt from Onsite is: What power do you see in embracing and collaborating with your emotions vs subduing and controlling them? I can’t remember where I first heard this idea, but for some reason, it spoke deeply to me: how the west, with its rhetoric and history of dominance,…
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Continue reading →: Getting to know myself – prompt 6Today’s prompt from Onsite is “What opportunities have you had in the past where emotional intelligence could have or did make an impact”? One opportunity where emotional intelligence always has an impact is within my relationship with my fiancé. I definitely don’t do emotional intelligence perfectly all the time, but…
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Continue reading →: Getting to know myself – prompt 5
Today’s prompt from Onsite is “How do you accept and respond to the emotions of others”? As always, I feel like my response is that it depends. Emotions like joy, excitement, and awe are almost always very easy to respond to, regardless of my relationship to the person expressing it.…
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Continue reading →: Things I learned during Daniel FastIn most of the churches I’ve grown up in, there have been church-wide Daniel Fasts ranging from 10 days to 3 weeks, based off of Daniel’s diet in the book of Daniel. It has mainly been done for spiritual benefits, but there are also tremendous health benefits to the Daniel…
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Continue reading →: These are the days of…Trying to go on photography adventures again whenever I’m in the city: Plus, trying some new food places in the city (new for me, anyway): Going to a frequently visited coffee shop in the city between church service and youth group to do homework, especially since I know the food…
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Continue reading →: Getting to know myself – prompt 3Todays prompt question from Onsite is: What emotions do you feel run the deepest? How frequently do you feel these emotions? To answer this, I actually pulled out the emotion wheel. I’m not sure which emotions run deep, so I’m just going to answer this question as which emotions do…
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Continue reading →: Getting to know myself – prompt 2The question for today from Onsite is: “How connected do you feel to your emotions on a daily basis?” My short answer is that I have been getting a lot better at being in tune with my emotions, often with the help of my bodily sensations, too. It’s easy to…
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Continue reading →: Getting to know myself – Prompt 1One of my goals this year was to prioritize my relationship with myself. I feel like I have been feeling less myself with work becoming busy and schoolwork piling up, so I’m realizing that this is something that I really need to be intentional about. To prevent any perfectionist and…
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