As I approached my thirtieth birthday in December, I was anxious a big existential crisis might hit. I kept thinking, “Well, I didn’t really have a quarter-life crisis at twenty-five like a lot of my friends did, so I’m probably overdue…” But the...
“We discover the art of packaging our self. What begins a role we play becomes an identity. Our masks have become our reality; and we have become our lives.” – psychologist David Benner, The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery As we explore the...
When I was in elementary school in the late 70s, The Cave of Time and Sunken Treasure were the books to have. The books were from an extensive series called Choose Your Own Adventure. I loved opening up these books to start an adventure. They were written in second person, with me, the...
By Denise Tsang, Copic sketch marker and pencil The last two months have felt like a whirlwind. From full-blown yelling matches with parents to a friend's abrupt decision to leave our ministry team, I felt completely helpless and at the mercy of circumstances beyond...
A little over a month ago, I did something that felt unusual and unnerving, especially for a workaholic like myself. I took a Sabbath. No, not one of those yearlong ones during which I’d don a robe and check into a monastery. Just a half-day one. Having recently wrapped up a...
“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he...
A few weeks ago, I took my son to the DMV for his driver’s license test. When I got out of the car and exchanged places with his examiner, a profound sense of anxiety swept over me like a wave. For a moment, I was transported to an earlier phase of life. It felt eerily like...