exodus 26

“so what did you learn from this passage?”
i was blank for a bit. and so he spoke
“well first, you learn how to build a tabernacle, that’s useful…
…and then you learn that sometimes there are boring parts of life
practical parts of life, like doing math or studying natural science or biology.
not everything’s always about theology and [...]

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piano

i found a piano today. it was the kind that you would have wanted.
all alone in an empty chapel, moonlight creeping through stained-glass panels, rich echoes saturating the still, cool air. it was the kind that i had wanted to get you for your birthday, but wrote that it would probably be impractical. it was [...]

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silent knowing

it’s been so long since i’ve last written, and so much has transpired. but i shall take it one step at a time. today it shall be about the state of spiritual affairs in my own walk, which has of late been somewhat distressing.
the feeling is strange. increasingly i dread sin, hate it, want to [...]

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intellect

I just didn’t know what was wrong this morning. It was going to be a great day, a monday with only one lecture (from 10 to 11) and the rest of it off. And yet as I plonked myself at my usual QT spot against the side of my bed, there was once again nothing, [...]

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blindness

I scoured the shelves of Oxfam (a pretty neat charity shop in Cambridge, which sells second-hand goods), hoping to find a meaningful book on Christianity. There was C.S. Lewis’ ‘The Four Loves’, which I endeavor to read one day, but something else caught my eye, and that was a book called ‘What’s Wrong‘, written by [...]

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“i’m not religious”

well, I’ve had several people ask if there are Christians here, so I’ll write this post as a reply.
The short (and tragic) reply is: not many.
A bit about what’s happening here. My roommate’s a Czech Republic guy named Daniel, studying theology. While theology may be the study of the historicity and language of religious texts [...]

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the college bar

I live in a room just a block away from the college bar. In the UK, it’s a social norm to frequent the bar, an activity for the common man, not associated with shifty characters or activities – as it often is in Singapore. Drinking alcohol isn’t the only thing that takes place there, rather [...]

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God’s parting words

asked this week, what You wanted me to know before leaving. what words and truths did You want me to hide in my heart as i departed for new pastures. You spoke. and here i hope to share a few to everyone.
the first thing was that You are Wise.
an instruction to always be guided [...]

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the last monday

one week ago, someone’s countdown began.
she told me it was her last monday.
my turn now.
yesterday’s farewell was surreal
and left my heart deeply affected
by the emotions that had transpired
talk of ‘regret’ and ‘missed chances’
left me somewhat sorrowful about a farewell
i had once missed.
watching the great hustle
one wonders how
his own farewell will be like
and while saying that [...]

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what’s so great about a secret?

Sometimes, I get moderately annoyed with people who delight in their secrets.
We’ve all tasted the feeling before – hints are dropped, our attention is caught, our interest is raised. We probe further, only to find a flurry of gleeful exclamations: “Secret! (: It’s a secret!” It happens everywhere – over MSN (the easiest, with that [...]

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