1 The wilderness and dry land will be joyously glad! The desert will blossom like a rose and rejoice! 2 Every dry and barren place will burst forth with abundant blossoms, dancing and spinning with delight! Isaiah 35:1-2, TPT  

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

A Deep and Detailed Summary by Kyle Kowalski Book Summary on NJlifehacks Study Guide on LitCharts (I was too engrossed in the book that I did not get to take down notes so massive thanks to the above resources, which will be useful when refreshers are needed.)

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

And all of these jobs were physically demanding, some of them even damaging if performed month after month. Now, I am an unusually fit person, with years of weight lifting and aerobics behind me, but I learned something that no one ever mentioned in the gym: that a lot of what we experience as strength

What’s So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey

1 | The Last Best Word “Perhaps I keep circling back to grace because it is one grand theological word that has not spoiled. I call it ‘the last best word’ because every English usage I can find retains some of the glory of the original.” The great Christian revolutions come not by the discovery

A greatness that comes from You

So tonight, I asked Him to speak to me and He used Genesis 36 and the opening of 37 to speak to me. Genesis 36 in and of itself is a simple and straightforward account of Esau’s descendants and how the blessing spoken to his ancestors also came to pass in his life. He was

Nilagang Kalitiran and Mashed Potato

This is one of my dad’s favorite dishes so I cooked this for him this Father’s Day. 👔 Ingredients 700g beef kalitiran 1/2 cabbage 3-4 stalks of pechay 9-10 small potatoes 1 onion, quartered Ground pepper Salt Butte.r Milk Procedure Chop the beef kalitiran into cubes. Season the beef with the sliced onion, salt, and

Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed

PART 1 — The Logic of Failure 2 | United Airlines 173 “That is one of the ways that closed loops perpetuate: when people don’t interrogate errors, they sometimes don’t even know they have made one.” “Practice is not a substitute for learning from real-world failure, it is complementary to it.” 3 | The Paradox

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

8 | “To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own area of selfhood at its expense. But the obedience with the Enemy demands of men is quite a different thing. One must face the fact that all the talk about His love

What The Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

0 | Preface “When I said that I’m most interested in minor geniuses, that’s what I meant. You don’t start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it’s the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.” “Self-consciousness is the enemy of