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A Church Camp Anecdote + Prompt Response
Happy Easter! You can find the prompt and the answer to it at the bottom of the post. Since the Holy Week is the usual time for church camps here in the Philippines, I thought I’d share this funny anecdote. It was a lifetime ago when I took on camp coordinating and facilitating tasks, so… Read more
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Ways to Elevate Your Community
My community is more organic. I don’t live in a gated village or a subdivision with an HOA. Towns and cities here have an administrative sub-unit called barangays, and that’s what I live in. I live downtown, in a pretty urban setting. My street is adjacent to a main highway. When my mom was growing… Read more
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Simple but Special Ways to Express Love
The biggest change that ^@#$% pandemic brought forth is the fact that I am now fatherless. How have I adapted? Who says I have? I’ll never be okay about my Dad being gone because of Covid, even if it means he’s now in an infinitely better place he had always wanted to be. In principle,… Read more
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Adding Your Special Twist on Things
Any aspect of your being can make you unique if it’s unusual. Have a name like Renesmee and you’d be pretty unique even if you didn’t have vampires for parents. If you did something in an unconventional way, you’d stand out, too. I think we’re all pretty unique without making the effort. We’re alike in… Read more
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10+ Must-Read Vintage Children’s Books
I must have replied “doctor” because that’s what I heard most kids and adults say, but as soon as I started reading stories on my own, I knew I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. I’m grateful to have grown up without the distraction of the online world. For amusement, I got… Read more
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Ideas for Making Your Day Better
That I’m like my dad, or that I remind them of my dad. Yesterday was the anniversary of his heavenly homecoming. It has been five years. Dad was 74. It’s past the biblical lifespan, but still too short for those of us who love and miss him. I never even considered my dad dying. I… Read more
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