The Looking Glass

(A sequel to my old but gold post: Finding Maturity) ---- ---- In the past few months, I had been weaving in and out in various issues as I had to deal once again with taking things personally, not being invited and feeling like I'm not mature enough to tag along with everyone. This has left me tired, anxious and worst of all-it has led me to believe once again that I'm unwanted, immature and annoying. And in return, I ended up hurting the ones I love since I was overthinking and at the same time, I also ran away from God since I feared that His best for me would involve more hurt, loss and punishment. I remember what Bro. Velden Lim (guest preacher for Feast Makati Salcedo) said about sin. It is because the devil has laid out the lie that we are unwanted and unloved by everyone including God, and in return sin happens. The devil redirects our starving love into things that aren't God and in return, we get hurt, disappointed and discouraged. In this case, I was looki...

In the last two months prior to the ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine), I decided to play Clash of Clans out of curiosity since my office friends and colleagues were talking about it all the time in the pantry. At first, I was like "why is everyone obsessed with a game that was popular nearly six years ago?" but then, I decided to install the game just for the heck of it. Soon, I was hooked and had to tell my close friend-slash-clan leader to add me to the office's clan. Right now, I had just reached Town Hall 7 and needless to say, I do enjoy the game a lot. Now, there is one huge lesson that I have learned in the game and would like to share with you right now. And that is... Don't Rush Things!  In COC, I admit that it is tempting to upgrade to the next town hall level so I could catch up with my higher-leveled clanmates, but most of them advised me to just max out my existing resources before moving up to the next town hall, and needless to say-it was...