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Behind the Five Willows by June Hur: Pride & Prejudice, But Make It Joseon (First Impressions)
No comments on Behind the Five Willows by June Hur: Pride & Prejudice, But Make It Joseon (First Impressions)As a huge Jane Austen fan, the moment I saw the teasers for Behind the Five Willows by June Hur, I knew it was something I wanted to read. Pitched as Pride & Prejudice meets You’ve Got Mail and set in Joseon Dynasty Korea? I was immediately sold! When I saw June Hur announce on Continue Reading
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On Navigating Motherhood and Complicated Pregnancies
If anyone had ever told me that I would not be writing on this blog for four years, I would have not believed them. But then life happened. 2020 was the year that brought the world into a standstill. For me personally, it drew me further inward. I was already an introvert who enjoyed spending Continue Reading
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Work Adventures with God
Before I start off with my story, let me give a bit of a background about myself and my line of work. I work for an IT consulting company as an associate manager with a developer background. My work is mostly project-based and as I have mentioned in a previous blog post, I am currently Continue Reading
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Do not say, “I told you so.”
words written in captivity – 03 : written on behalf of those suffering a loss or disappointment Do not say, “I told you so.”Hold your breath. Don’t say, “Things could have been better off if only you did so and so.” We don’t want to hear what to you seem like well-meaning words.Words that to Continue Reading
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새벽 (Dawn)
words written in captivity – 02 Clouds move as the earth turns.The leavesThey grow and they wither.Slowly and then all at once. The turning of a season.The turning of the tide.Slowly and then all at onceAnd then once again. Where has hope gone?Watch me fade into the sunsetAs darkness fills the night sky.Slowly and then Continue Reading
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사랑하자 우리
words written in captivity – 01 Memories with you are like the end credits to a Korean drama—Sweet, warm, and tender…The kind that brings heaviness in my chest and butterflies in my stomach.I never want to reach the last frame.I never want to hear the silence after the song ends.Images of you and I etched Continue Reading
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Testimony: God Sees
I’ve been bogged down with work ever since most of the states started imposing stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of COVID-19, mostly because I have gotten involved in a project that built a contact tracing app for one state. Because of the immediate need, our team had been working long hours every day of Continue Reading
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A Series of Unfortunate Events (And Why God Is Still Good)
murphy’s law of epic proportions Have you ever had one of those days where things just doesn’t seem to go the way you wanted? Just the other day I was laughing along with over a thousand people who were watching Yuhwan’s Twitch stream as he started ranting about how bad the past couple of days Continue Reading
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My Help Comes from the Lord
I admit that I have a bad habit of segregating the secular from my faith. But lately I am learning to let God work even in the areas of my life I once thought He wouldn’t really care about—like my job for example. For the past few months I have been struggling at work because Continue Reading
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New Beginnings
Our Living Water is bringing in a season of new life and new beginnings. He comes in like a tidal wave washing away the debris of our loss and pain. Whatever it is that the enemy has stolen, He is restoring back to us. We all have our own fair share of heartache, loss, and Continue Reading