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Continue reading →: These are the days of… (Oct 15, 2023)One of my favorite podcasters, Emily P Freeman, has this beautiful practice of reflection where she completes the prompt of ‘These are the days of…’ This is my reflection based off of her prompt from the past handful of weeks, and I wanted to include the positive and less positive…
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Continue reading →: Reflections on Scripture – 10/5/2023For my morning devotional reading, I have been reading one chapter in the Psalms (if it’s really long, I’ll just read a page) and also a chapter or a few in the Old Testament. I’m currently using the Orthodox Study Bible, and today I was in Psalm 83 and Leviticus…
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Continue reading →: Sept 29, 2023 ReflectionsThings I have been learning these past couple of weeks about Yahweh, people, & myself (with original photos from Marina Alviso County Park) : Yahweh: ⁃ reorientation to sin ⁃ if sin can be removed then it didn’t belong there in the first place ⁃ I’m realizing how dangerous it…
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Continue reading →: 3 Self-love habitsHello all. I wanted to share three things I have been doing lately to love and care for myself lately: Anyways, I hope reading through this has encouraged you to find ways to care for and love yourself as another fellow human being, too (:
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Continue reading →: New Site NameStill continuing on the idea of being wholehearted, I have decided to change my WordPress site name to a loose translation from which my Chinese name is derived – 本心如所從來 : “the heart as it initially comes”. My name is the 2nd and 3rd characters – “心如”. My father gave…
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Continue reading →: Faith & Justice Retreat 2023During mid-September 2023, I had the amazing privilege of attending the Faith and Justice Fellowship’s retreat at the stunning San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS) on the University of Redlands Marin Campus. This fellowship is closely connected to my current home church. I also follow the works of the keynote speaker,…
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Continue reading →: Last Day of Filoli MembershipLast year on my birthday, I bought myself a year-long membership at Filoli. It’s such a beautiful area and it has been so calming for me to visit it all the times that I did. Thus, on my 30th birthday this year, I also visited Filoli – the last day…
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Continue reading →: Letter to someone I once looked up toDear Someone I once looked up to (and/or an institution in general): I should have followed my gut feelings and not talked to you. Certain people told me that it would “be the right thing to do”, but looking back, it really was not. I knew how you would handle…
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Continue reading →: My very handsome boyfriendOn my birthday weekend, I asked Jacob if he would be willing to do a photoshoot (with him as the subject) and he said yes ! These are a handful of the photos I took ♡ (if anyone else is in the Bay Area and would like to do a…
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Continue reading →: Foraging with ForageSFEarlier this year, I got really into the Uncharted series hosted by Gordon Ramsay. He would go all over the world, learning about the cuisines of the cultures and people groups he was visiting, and then have a cook-off with a local chef. One thing that I thought was really…
the heart as it is | courage • grief • beauty
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