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Facing Gains and Losses With a Smile and Calmness
By Chenchen In our entire life, with great reluctance, we always lose what we are obsessed with; meanwhile, unknowingly, we always gain what we are dismissive of. Obsession, which is fruitless, can only increase the burden in our simple lives. We become pained, perplexed, bitter, and helpless because of our persistence in our own pursuits. […]
Continue ReadingHow We Should Read God’s Words to Achieve Results
By Xiaohong, China As a Christian, we need to go through spiritual devotion and read the words of God daily. The Lord Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). Only God’s word is the truth, the lamp to our feet […]
Continue ReadingPassers-by in Life
When I was four years old, my father passed away, and my mother had to take us six children back to the countryside to do farming. At that time, we were very poor. As I grew up, I could feel that life was hard and uneasy to my mother. She became a widow at a […]
Continue ReadingForsake the False Gods and Follow the True One (I)
Before, we enshrined many “gods” in my home such as the fortune god, the earth god, the door god, etc. In the beginning, I just went through the motions when enshrining them, and never took them seriously. Later, my husband criticized me for it, saying that it wouldn’t be efficacious if I didn’t worship them […]
Continue ReadingA Christian’s Experience of Job Hunting
—Learning to Wait By Liang Xin For a young person who is about to enter into society after graduation, the biggest trouble he has to face is job hunting. Indeed, there are many enterprises and public institutions in today’s society. There seems to be lots of job opportunities. But the number of graduates every year […]
Continue ReadingBidding Farewell to the Days of Risking My Life to Earn Money
By Anjing, China From an early age, I often heard adults say, “Money makes the world go round.” Unconsciously, these words became the motto with which I lived by. I always held the belief that so long as I had money in my life, I could own everything and lead an honorable and admirable life. […]
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