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The God Who Was
Have you ever felt stuck in the past? I was recently struck by the impact of a particular event in my life – not its impact on my life but rather the impact of some people’s impressions and memories of me because of it. I realized that while I have processed, learned from, and grown closer to Jesus because of that event, these people could not think of me without thinking of that event. The link is too strong. I’m sure Doubting Thomas would know the feeling. Poor guy misses one meeting and two millennia later, many...
read moreRedefining Upset
It’s crunch time, well, at least for me it is. I’m currently 96 hours away from my first final of my spring semester here at Cal. It’s safe to say that I along, with thousands of others students, are pretty stressed out. There are deadlines, review sessions, office hours, and study groups to attend. It’s pretty funny (in my opinion) just how many things can go absolutely wrong when you’re stressed out. It just seems that upsets are exponentially growing during the build up to a major event like finals. So many of our expectations are...
read moreA Community Concept
Aldo Leopold got it right when he said, “All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.” As much as it is tempting to view my actions and inactions as impacting only myself, the truth is that my choices, however private they may seem, affect those around me and the environment in which I live. Several weeks ago, I walked home tired after a stressful day at work and a workout with some weight-stealing cranky guys at the gym. I was edgy and still worked up from...
read moreConfession
Remember in Jr. High when you were in a group of people who were talking about a part in a movie that you had never seen? Everyone’s laughing and reacting and recalling that experience… and what do you do? You pretend. You pretend like you know what they’re talking about. Growing up I never watched sports of any kind. I never kept up with stats, games, or players. I played sports but our family never watched them. So when hanging around friends in school that were talking about the game that was on last night, in order to fit in I would...
read moreBad Bird
“Tinker is a good bird, good bird. Tinker is a very good bird. Chirp.” I grew up in a multi-pet household. In my childhood there was a parade of parakeets, fish, frogs, hamsters, a cat, ducks, rabbits, doves, and 2 pigs . . . well, they were actually black razorback boars, but that is the subject for another time. Quite the farm living, but it wasn’t a farm. I should probably mention that all of this was while we lived in a small house in the suburbs. One pet of particular note was a parakeet named Tinker. He was a...
read moreA 360 Love Story: The Twin’s Perspective
For those of you who don’t know this, I am an identical twin to Paul Limones. On top of that, we’re the kind of twins that are best friends with each other. Womb mates and roommates. Brothers that are friends and friends that are brothers. Growing up, we’d buy the same stuff, go to the same dentist appointments, get invited to the same birthday parties. You name it, we did everything together. We were inseparable. We found comfort in each other’s friendship and enjoyed helping each other out in anything—whether it...
read moreA 360 Love Story: Her Side
Our first date began disastrously. The rain was pouring, and as I waited in my very cold car I couldn’t help but notice that Paul was 12 minutes late (which felt like an eternity). That in itself kicked my frustration off. It was February 2011, and just a few days earlier I had finally decided to give this guy a chance. There were so many things about him that struck me—his steady character, his integrity, his knowledge of politics and current events, and the fact that we had so many things in common, from a shared desire to love and...
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I never thought I would get married nor, for that matter, meet “the girl of my dreams.” Growing up, I would hear adults talk about engagement and marriage and say that someday the Lord would have that special someone for everyone of us, including me. For me, this was all nonsense. This was very hard for me to believe as I was not so popular among the girls as a good ‘crush’ candidate. As you can imagine, being the chubby kid in junior high who had the really high voice in choir, and who had thick glasses and braces on at the...
read moreSurviving the Single Life
I’m nineteen years old and two years into college. Does that sound like the right time to date? Maybe. But for me, it’s not. I personally don’t feel spiritually or mentally ready to start dating, not for at least a few months. I know that there are many single young adults who are still single and might feel the same way. But when you are ready, how do you find him? Or for the guys, how do you find her? Will attending every fun event and signing up on every dating website chasing for him or her speed the process? It can,...
read moreConfessions of a Pregnant Woman: Letting Go
When I first found out I was pregnant, there were two major emotions almost simultaneously – great excitement followed quickly by great fear. What do I do now?! I was scared about whether or not the baby would survive the first trimester. Miscarriage is so common, often a hidden grief, and I was scared that this baby might not make it and I would become one of silent numbers. The song “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” came to mind, a song I had not heard or thought of in years, and then it returned to mind multiple times,...
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