Tessa Kino

A Letter To Bapa

It has been almost a year since since you died. It’s strange because your death has hit me more intensely than the others. No, it doesn’t make them any less significant to me. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you were the fourth passing of our immediate family in the span of five years. While death is a common thing, I find that most people my age have not lost both their parents…

As the new year begins, the resolutions also commence. Each person has something they would like to change or develop so that the new year can be a time for growth. Well, there’s only one thing I have on my heart as 2013 starts: allow God to help me develop an undeniable Christ-like humility. I’ve been digging into a small, yet rich book by Andrew Murray titled Humility: The Journey Toward…

Loud Honks and Dirty Looks

When I commute to the city, I park my car at the train station, and the lot I use is across from a one way street. Today while I was exiting the parking lot, there were a lot of people still crossing the street to get to their cars, and so before I turned left I wanted to make sure I wouldn’t hit any pedestrians. That’s the right thing to do, right? Well, I was so preoccupied with the pedestrians…