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The Lord has brought into my life two very different people but two who remarkably share similar struggles as I have.

One has a background that is so similar that I am rejoiced so greatly that God has brought him into my life. We don't interact much. We were former lab partners back when I was studying Chemical Engineering in uni. Then for a brief moment after graduation we worked for the same company and then he left to another firm while I stayed. Today we met again at a friends wedding and we shared some stuff that were so deep and realized that we had so much in common.

I thank God for who he has brought in.

Another is a guy from church, who remarkably walking in some of the paths I have walked before.

I hope God will guide me in sharing some of the things that I have went through with him.

Praise God for these men that he has brought into my life.

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