thoughts of my head upon my bed
thoughts of my head upon my bed
my thoughts on random stuff
I absolutely love being a student again! Seriously! Sometimes, I can even feel my brain grow! It’s awesome! Now that I’ve convinced you of my sincerity by the overwhelming use of exclamation points, I shall proceed to confess to a phenomenon that is completely new to me. Yes, I’d heard it spoken of, but I …
A conversation I had with a Croatian friend of mine during our first year of college in the US stands out. She said, “Sikhu, I don’t understand why Americans ask, ‘how are you?’ when they don’t really want to hear your answer!” She would actually take the time to craft a meaningful response to their …
One of the greatest gifts that experience brings is the opportunity to mentor the less experienced. So in light of my 30yr status, I’ve been doing some reflecting on how I responded to mentorship in my youth. Sad to say, on many occasions, I have been far from the model mentee. One example comes to …
When you’re looking for a change in your life, there is the temptation to fixate on an approaching moment in the future and ascribe to that moment all the qualities you wish you had now. When I was seven, I wanted so badly to be a Pathfinder! Both my eleven-year old brother and nine-year old …
This year I will have been a baptized member of the body of Christ for 20years. Twenty years! It seems almost unbelievable. How blessed I was to be introduced to a loving relationship with Jesus from childhood. Really, I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t know God…or a time when I …
The last time I had walked down that hill was with tear-stained face in 2002. My two years at Pearson College had come to an inevitable and dreaded end. This might be the last time I’d see some of my friends for a very long time. A year before, I had said goodbye to the …
If it hadn’t been for that one GYC in Sacramento, this past convention would have been my 10th! That ruins the poesy of this post but I can still reflect on a 10yr connection with GYC…Nah, I’ll be fair: This convention, the 9th GYC I have attended also happens to be the 9th I have …
The guest speaker at the UofM commencement service on Sunday, Dr. Raynard S. Kington, shared a story about his six-year-old son who couldn’t go to sleep one night because three things were bugging him. As any conscientious father would, he hoped to resolve these issues, assuage his son’s fears and put him to sleep, but the …
When I first told my younger sister that I was knitting a scarf, she laughed me to scorn. “You must be REALLY bored,” she said, “knitting’s for old people.” (And then she begged me to knit her a scarf! haha) My Mom laughed too when my sister shared the news with her. But she’s the …
On this day one hundred and sixty-eight years ago, the founders of the Christian denomination to which I belong experienced what has come to be known as the Great Disappointment. All day and all night on the 22nd of October in 1844 they waited for Christ’s literal return…By noon of October 23, most had come …