ARTICLES BY COLLEEN CHAO

Category: Love

Category: Love

Community

Dear Younger Self

Dear Younger Self—I know it’s cliché,But I would go back if I couldTo say: Make yourself small,Don’t resent being weak—Humility before GodWill set you free.

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a person sitting on wooden planks across the lake scenery
Love

Everything my heart craves

Before the foundations of the world were laid, you saw me and knew me and knew my days. You had already determined the era of

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woman s hand using a pen noting on notepad
Beauty

Love List

At the risk of sounding morbid—I hope I’m buried with this Love List someday. I was 20 years old when I compiled this collection of

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people walking on the sidewalk near a brown building
Hope

Surprised by Oxford

I just spent an unforgettable week in Oxford, England, whisked away by the articulate pen of Carolyn Weber. It’s no easy task to hold my attention

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Hope

Painting

My dirty, sweaty 5-year-old is sitting on the back porch happily humming and throwing fistfuls of birdseed on the lawn. We’ll have an aviary here by

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woman turning around on green fields
Bible study

I don’t have to scream anymore

They’d been running around in circles all morning, yelling, begging their god to answer them—to no avail. So they screamed louder. Louder and longer. And

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close up photo of coffee on table
Love

Date at dawn

I penned this almost eight years ago in the midst of a desperate season, when I was hungry for the Word and a quiet space

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anonymous woman walking in refugee camp
Community

In a world of refugees….

Today I sat with a friend from Romania whose family has suffered upheaval and persecution as far back as she can remember. Her heritage is

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Beauty

Ezekiel 16

I remember you before you were beautiful. Before you stopped people in their tracks and made jaws drop and heads turn. You, who are now

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Category: Love

woman s hand using a pen noting on notepad
Beauty

Love List

At the risk of sounding morbid—I hope I’m buried with this Love List someday. I

Read More »
Hope

Painting

My dirty, sweaty 5-year-old is sitting on the back porch happily humming and throwing fistfuls of

Read More »
Beauty

Ezekiel 16

I remember you before you were beautiful. Before you stopped people in their tracks and

Read More »