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How to Find the Courage to Start Something New
This mindset kept me from overcoming my fear of starting anything new.
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Motherhood and Creative Work —What the Struggle Can Teach Us
1. I looked at my phone — 7:45. I took a deep, relieving breath and kicked off my outdoor sandals in exchange for my comfy sleepers. I’d just got back from walking my son to school. We’d transferred him to a new school this year for its short distance from home—10 mins walk, driving time…
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Mid-Year Refection 2022
Our experience won’t necessarily mature us, but the learning from our reflections on past events will.
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Every Ending Comes with A New Beginning —A gentle guide to navigating a life transition
When we were younger, we thought everything in life should remain the same.
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Six Months in UAE (a gift inside)
How do you want to live in this unpredictable and problematic world?
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How to Keep Peace While Pursuing Your Dreams — A note to creative moms
Do you desire more than a domestic life?
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See Them as Soils — A Mindset Shift from Achieving to Becoming
We will never catch up if we chase an illusion.
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Some Things Changed, Most Things Remain — Navigating transitions in the UAE
Everything in life is a gift.
Keep readingLeaving Switzerland in Two Weeks and Final Sales
Living an abundant life can not be without purpose.
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3 Lessons for Feeling More Fulfilled and Purposeful— Thoughts on My Birthday
About life purpose and goal-setting
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From Scarcity to Abundance— How a family of 4 learned to thrive in a one-bedroom apartment
You and I were made to live in abundance in every season with our Creator.
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Shift of Perspective
What can you do with what you have to serve the people in your life best?
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Walk Your Lane with God
It’s a disservice to God and a waste of time to wish for someone else’ life.
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Faith and Visas
When I flew from Nanjing and landed at Beijing airport that early summer morning, I didn’t know I would be stuck in the city for the next five days with only one day’s changing clothes packed in my small backpack. I hailed a taxi and asked the driver to take me straight to the South…
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The Little Match Girl, My Grandma and Christmas Party
It made me unafraid of death if death could be this gracious.
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How to Be Content Here and Now
No one else has the privilege to live and experience the wonder of your life.
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Remember the Why of Your Goals
When the work is hard, and fears creep in, tackle it anyway.
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Valuable Lessons I Learned in My 30s (Part 2)— Chase Purpose
What is your part in God’s Great Commission?
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Valuable Lessons I Learned in My 30s (Part 1)–Embrace the U-Turn
I had to offer up my dreams to learn trust and obedience.
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4 Tips for the Busy Parent’s Daily Soul Renewal
G𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩, 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚.
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4 Tips for Designing a Small Apartment
You can create a home you love right where you are.
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How I Was Surprised by Joy at a Liechtenstein Castle
How often, we thought we knew, but we didn’t.
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Daily Planning Guide for Beginners
To live life well boils down to spend every minute and hour well.
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A Life Lesson from a Mountain Top
Worship arises inside of us at the sight of the best nature could offer.
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Everything
6:03 am, I woke up before my iPhone went off. I got up, walked gingerly to the anteroom/office, poured myself some water, and sit down in an armchair at a small desk with my bible opened. Thus, I had started my morning routine. Just recently, I decided to get up about one hour earlier than…
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Reframe for Joy
One “I want my diaper changed. ” It was 8:30 am. I heard my two-year-old son talking to my husband in the living room, while I was sitting at my desk praying to God for some fresh words for the day. I knew right away that my husband would need some help in getting the…
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The Loneliness You Are Feeling Is a Gift
Years ago, I spent the winter in a village in Switzerland, where it was covered with thick snow most days from November through January. I was working in a training center for a non-profit in that remote village. That Christmas holiday, I decided not to travel thousands of miles home, instead, staying at the center…
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Peace beyond Quietness
The apartment was quiet. My 5-month-old daughter had fallen asleep a few minutes ago in her stroller in the kitchen, where I just finished up washing lunch dishes. My toddler son was soundly sleeping in his bed in the bedroom. And my husband was napping on the couch in the living room. I went to…
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Dare to Claim Abundance Here and Now
This grace in which we now stand has promised us all that we need for each day, no matter how hard this season seems to be.
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Receive the Gift of Today
Have you ever woke up in the morning, feeling so tired that you wish to go straight back to sleep again? But you knew you couldn’t because you have kids to feed or work to do. A day full of plans and responsibilities is awaiting. I’m sure you have been there. So have I. In…
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On Building Your Imagination
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most Highwill abide in the shadow of the Almighty. This is a Bible verse from Psalm 91. What do you imagine as you read this verse? And more from this psalm: For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowlerand from the deadly pestilence.He will…
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From Time Travel to Surrender
I recently watched a British film called “About Time.” It’s a story about a family whose male members possess the ability to travel back in time. They could go back to any occasion in the past and live through it again. They could, in the exact moment, choose to do things differently from the first…
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An Encouragment to Rise Above Fear
When I was about eight years old, I rode the roller coaster for the first time with my dad. Regardless of my dad’s effort to calm me down, I cried and screamed from the beginning to the end. I was so scared that the first time ride became the last one. I refused to ride…
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A Note to the Anxious Heart
The outbreak of coronavirus since January this year has caused tremendous loss and damage in China and world-widely. Because I’m Chinese and I have friends and family living in China, I can tell you many heart-wrenching stories in Chinese news. Now, since the virus has come to Europe and the second case has been found…
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The Taste of Grace
It’d been over two months since I arrived at Burtigny, a village about half an hour’s drive from Geneva, Switzerland. I came to the training center in the village for a three months course on Communication. This training center belonged to the mission organization I was working with at that time. When it’d been the…
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The Wind from Cape Point
My hair was wafting in the coastal wind as I climbed the stairs following a crowd on a sunny autumn day. Seagulls were squawking, flying in circles nearby. I finally reached the top of the tower on the hill, panting, excited. Here I was, standing at the southwestern tip of the African continent, on a…
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In Face of Bad News
I saw a post on Instagram the other day, “It is already five months into 2020, yet it’s still January.” I grinned tiredly, couldn’t agree more. What a frantic start of a new decade! I don’t just mean personally. I mean, world-widely. I sighed when Harry and Mehgan decided to leave their royal title behind…
Keep readingIn the Name of Self-Care
It’s Friday evening. We just finished a simple, hearty dinner, and it’s time for our toddler son to go to sleep. Friday night is the movie/date night for my husband and me. Usually, after we put down our son in his bed, we watch a movie or an episode of our favorite show with some…
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Life in Surrender
In my early 20s, I took several mission trips with like-minded friends. The very first one, we were given two destinations to choose—- Thailand or Kazakstan. Our leader told us upfront that we can pray about it and make a choice. However, taking consideration of the size of the teams, our preferences couldn’t be guaranteed.…
Keep readingHe Is In The Boat
It’s in January 2020. I have so many things in my head. Husband’s job searching, increasing our monthly income, trusting God for a bigger apartment, waiting for a place in kindergarten for my toddler son, taking care of the kids, housework, planning and cooking meals, service in the church, and my commitment to posting a…
Keep readingThe Confession of a Mom (a Former Evolutionist )
I didn’t want to have children. As the only child growing up in China, I was often told how burdensome I was by my mom, especially when she’s angry at me about something. I’m sure she had her point. An ambitious career woman as she was, to have me must’ve brought her much inconvenience in…
Keep readingHappy Thanksgiving
I didn’t grow up celebrating Thanksgiving in China, of course. I’d learned about it at school as one of the historical events written in the textbook. But it didn’t mean much to me until I was invited to my first thanksgiving dinner at my American friends’ home. I was in my early 20s, fresh out…
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“Le Choix du Roi ” —-Esther’s birth story
It’s on the 2nd of November, at midnight. My husband and I arrived at the hospital. It’d been raining the whole day and finally brought the chill of the early winter. Having parked just outside the building, I took a deep breath in the cold, humid air as I slowly stepped out the car with…
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Waiting Not
How many days in our life do we find ourselves waiting for something? Waiting to grow up a bit more to put on that gorgeous dress or drive a car, to hear the university entrance exam result, for that phone call from someone special, a job interview, a visa to a foreign country, an engagement…
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Becoming
I started regularly journaling maybe since I was ten. I gradually fell in love with this exercise. I loved to keep a notebook with me all the time. I wrote when I felt happy, sad, or bored. I wrote when inspirations hit me or just for the sake of passing some extra time. I also…
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Glory
We went to Talloires France to celebrate my 36th birthday. It was a last-minute decision. In the middle of my husband’s job searching, financial pressure, my 33 weeks’ pregnancy, searching for short term accommodation for my parents-in-law who are coming to visit us in less than a month, we didn’t plan much for my birthday…
Keep readingMy Fresh Take on “Love Never Ends”
My son has grown up fast. Now he is almost two years old! The more I spend time with him and get to know him through all the changes and growth of his young life, the stronger and deeper my love grows for him. I’m sure many parents can relate to me. As days go…
Keep readingThrive Where You Are
It was a fine spring afternoon. My baby just woke up from his nap and I decided to take him out for a walk along the Geneva lake. The crispy air brought the hearty fragrant greeting of the spring flowers. The lake reflecting the soft sunshine looked like a huge glowing sapphire. My baby was…
Keep readingHomeward
It was mostly a rainy day. We decided to drive along the lake. As I was driving, the wet cloudy view outside the car window was calling for something like a mug of steam hot chocolate… something cozy. A yearning started to appear in my heart, a yearning for home… I told my husband my…
Keep readingSoul Detox
Being a mom of a young child is tiring, especially living as an expat who is learning the local language and without any help from the far-away extended families. Despite the challenges in life, I try to stay healthy for my family, which means I tried to exercise and cook nutritious meals as often as…
Keep readingFinding Rest in the Trials
2019 is here. You might have celebrated the New Year with a big feast with family and friends, and you countdown on New Year Eve till the dreamy fireworks went out at midnight, then raised a glass of champagne cheering to the loved ones and to the coming year, starting strong. However, for our family,…
Keep readingThe Greeting of Snow
My first experience with real snow started on one morning being woken up by my dad’s whisper in my ear: “ Get up baby, it’s snowing! ” I was about 10 years old then and we were staying at my grandparents’ place in a small village two hours away from my city in China, for…
Keep readingMade for Home
It was a cold December day, I was traveling with a girlfriend to another city for a meeting, just for one day. We had a contact of a married couple who were living in that city, happy to host us for the night. My friend had met them briefly before while I hadn’t known them…
Keep readingA Search for Peace
Every once in a while, I get to have a couple of hours “alone time” when my husband is able to watch our one-year-old son. I would carry a cloth bag with a notebook, pens, high lighters, books, sometimes a laptop to go to a café or the local library, where I could sit, muse,…
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Plow in Season
Our first born son Caleb turned one last week! What a milestone for new parents! What I had hoped to do was to take some time reflecting the first year of my motherhood through the photos and videos we took over the year, only if we didn’t end up rushing into hospital emergency room with…
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