reflection
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A Little Pain Never Ruined a Good Testimony
What’s one thing you know now that would have saved your younger self a lot of pain? Why do we treat pain as the enemy when so much of our growth comes from experiencing it? A life without challenges may… Continue reading
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Life More Abundantly
What’s a moment in your life that made you feel truly alive? You ask for a single moment, as if life can be neatly packaged into a box. What a tragic way to view existence! Life is not a collection… Continue reading
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When Forgiveness Hugs Karma
Do you believe in karma? Karma keeps score.Forgiveness puts down the pencil. Karma waits for what is deserved.Forgiveness stops waiting. Forgiveness has other plans. It walks into the placeswhere anger has gotten comfortableand starts opening windows. Karma locks the past… Continue reading
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The Unscripted Occasions
What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done? I am the butterflythat does not drawher journey across the sky. I leave the flowerand allow the windinto the conversation. Light catches me,another blossom appears,the wind shifts— And still,I am going somewhere.… Continue reading
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But They Know Me Here
What’s a place you visited that felt like home? I’ve traveled looking for places worth visiting. I’ve never traveled looking for another home. You can love a place, be fascinated by it, stay longer than planned, and still never confuse… Continue reading
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But It’s Not April
What’s one thing you wish you had started doing earlier in life? WISH? I can’t answer that today. It’s not my birthday. “Wish” is a word I’ve reserved for those three seconds between someone lighting the candles and everyone yelling… Continue reading
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Desire Has a Credit Limit
There was a time when I wanted everything. Unfortunately, this happened to coincide with the exact period of my life when I could afford almost nothing. I could walk through a store and find seventeen things I desperately thought I… Continue reading
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I Was Never Going to the Airport
What’s the best and worst airport you’ve been to? I have never met a good airport. I have never met a bad one either. An airport is a door. Who stands in the doorway admiring the hinges? Looking through my… Continue reading
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Where the Past Still Blooms
What’s something you do completely differently from how you were raised? Gosh, it’s been years since those old rules were made,The paint has all peeled and the memory delayed.No use in looking at how we were raised—Safe to say we’ve… Continue reading
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The Absolutely Enormous Pile of Lovely Things
What’s the kindest thing someone has ever done for you? The kindest thing I have ever experienced is the collective presence of certain people. The accumulation of small, daily kindnesses often carries more weight than a single, isolated grand gesture.… Continue reading
