Remembering the Dark Times

I used to see the dark times as something to forget. I wanted to pretend they had never happened. My struggles and failures, the moments of intense loneliness, fear, and confusion––I just wanted to put all that behind me. The point was to overcome. The point was to move forward. But in the midst of recent […]

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Coming to the End of What I Thought I Knew

“Knowledge puffs up.”1 Corinthians 8:1 Ever since I was young, I have craved knowledge and understanding. As a kid, I asked my parents what the meaning of life was and thought their answer, “No one really knows,” struck me as absolutely ridiculous. So everyone is just blindly staggering through their lives? That makes no sense! I have […]

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In the Dark

While I was lying in bed last night, two car crashes happened outside my open window. It was jolting to be half-asleep and hear the screech of tires followed by the crash of metal and glass. Even though I was lying safely indoors up on the fourth floor, it felt as if the cars were […]

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