January 2012
3 posts
S: I think this was the best dinner I had this week.
Me: What? What kind of food did you have for dinner this week?
S: (looks at me smiling) I am not talking about the food. I meant the company that I have for this dinner and the conversation, Jenny.
Me: Oh…haha
blessed. she’s so sweet. but i honestly blushed a little bit. hehe
Ruth
Whenever I approach this book, I put a little smirk on my face. Yes, this is the book where a woman was bold enough to propose to a man. Yes, this is the book that has a foreign woman as the main character. And yes, there’s a love story between a man and a woman, and it’s in the Bible.
But today, this book showed me something that I needed to see. I didn’t know until today...
i had a weird dream. i was trying to go to church but i kept going in a direction that i have never been before. at one point, i got lost and when i finally got to one church, it wasn’t the church i was looking for. it was a church for little kids. when i was standing outside of the building being puzzled, my coworker shows up and says this is a youth ministry church. i wanted to find...
December 2011
13 posts
“Men, you don’t have to be rich and you don’t have to climb corporate ladders. You don’t have to fix cars and grow a beard. But it’s time to take a little initiative–in the church, with your career, and with women. Stop circling around and start going somewhere. It’s probably a good idea to be more like your grandpa and less like Captain Jack Sparrow. Even less like Peter Pan. Show some...
as i was sitting in the midst of crowd, i thought about what he said. when he said those words, i didn’t want to really think about them. but they did come back to me eventually. to be honest, i just wanted to talk to someone. someone who can understand what i’m actually saying. not just nod and ask a few questions here and there, but can genuinely look me into my eyes and...
Fear. I am ready to conquer you. I am weak but He is strong.
<행복의 문을 여는 열쇠들>
말을 많이 하면 반드시 필요 없는 말이 섞여 나온다. 원래 귀는 닫도록 만들어지지 않았으나 입은 언제나 닫을 수 있게 되어 있다.
돈이 생기면 우선 책을 사라. 옷은 해지고, 가구는 부서지지만책은 시간이 지나도 여전히 위대한 것을 품고 있다.
행상의 물건을 살 때는 값을 깎지 마라. 그 물건 다 팔아도 수익금은 너무 적으니 가능하면 부르는 그대로 주라.
잘 웃는 것을 연습하라. 세상에는 정답을 말하거나, 답변하기 어려운 일이 많다. 그때에는 허허 웃어 보라. 뜻밖에 문제가 풀리는 것을 보게 된다.
텔레비전에 너무 많은 시간을 빼앗기지 마라. 그것을 켜기는 쉬운데, 끌 때는 대단한 용기가 필요하다.
아무리 여유가 있어도 낭비는 나쁘다. 돈을 많이 쓰는...
상처
덤불 속에 가시가 있다는 것을 안다.
하지만 꽃을 더듬는 내 손 거두지 않는다.
덤불 속의 모든 꽃이 아름답진 않겠지만
그렇게라도 하지 않으면
꽃의 향기조차 맡을 수 없기에.
꽃을 꺼기 위해서 가시에 찔리듯
사랑을 얻기 위해
내 영혼의 상처를 견뎌 낸다.
상처받기 위해 사랑하는 게 아니라
사랑하기 위해 상처받는 것이므로.
-조르주 상드
how to be the same person wherever you are: be like Jesus.
Me: What’s the one lesson you learned living on the street?
Josh: Judging. People judge you and look at you with disgust.
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Baba: The pastor from the church across the street is really nice. But I was thinking to myself if all that decoration is necessary. It costs millions of dollars. I say why invest in the building,...
Stop thinking for yourself. It only weakens you.
-Pastor Robert Daniels
for some reason, i felt like a failure today. as i let myself say “i’m not there yet,” i instantly sensed myself being discouraged. and then i started to see all the flaws in me and asked myself how am i ever going to be mature. i want more maturity in my character and in my walk with God. yet i just felt like a helpless baby today.
yet God was so gracious. He introduced me to...
Because He lives
eunsuncho:
God sent His Son, they called Him Jesus
He came to love, heal and forgive
He lived and died to buy my pardon
An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow
Because He lives, all fear is gone
Because I know He holds the future
And life is worth the living just because He lives
- Gaither Vocal Band
Living, He loved us. Dying, He...
November 2011
6 posts
even though i’m so tired, i can’t contain this joy that God brings in me.
Today Tim Keller came to Google NYC to talk about his book on marriage. I was so excited to VC it that I was in such a good mood. I even booked a room for my building and my coworker asked me if I was going. Of course! Or else why would I book a room for it? It was from 12 to 1, so I was thinking about doing as much as work I can so I can go to the talk. At 10 am, my coworker emails me her...
things that i want to do
so…i know this is not appropriate. three weeks before the exam and i’m going to write down a list of things that i want to do after I am done. but it’s fun! and hopefully i will be more motivated and instead of worrying about how each day goes by so fast.
ice skating
hiking
rock climbing
watching movies in the theater
going to some sort of performance (play, musical, and...
you see i knew it was going to happen all along…but i just wanted to buy time…when in reality i was only wasting it. but what blows me away is that He still calls me and tells me how lovable i am because i am faithful. even when i just felt like i disobeyed. it’s almost as if what i do doesn’t matter so much anymore. because he has already determined who i am. because...
October 2011
9 posts
Trusting God is not some kind of leisure we choose to do or don’t do. It is necessity. For trusting God is the only way of living the life. Not surviving or barely getting by. But living. When there’s a lack of trust, we don’t live anymore. We don’t enjoy or experience the journey with God. The journey no longer becomes a journey because we are too occupied by little...
Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
-Esther 4:15-16
A woman of God is courageous.
Staying focused is so hard especially when there are tons of distractions waving at you. But it’s good to know how good it is to have a dream. The process of striving for something can be painful; but only when we are in a state when there’s nothing to strive for do we come to appreciate the process itself. So reminder to self: learn to appreciate the race more than the outcome.
“As they stumbled down the hill she began to feel regret creeping up on her, and realized she didn’t want him to go yet. A second night. She wanted one more night at least, so that they could finish what they had started. How might she say that? She couldn’t of course. Fainthearted as usual, she had left it too late. In the future, I’ll be braver, she told herself. In...
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Today I went to this event called “East meets West” where a lot of fancy companies from the East basically came to partner with start-ups in the West. Without knowing that this was one of the purposes, I went to check it out as I wanted to educate myself more about technology. And the moderator asked the panelists to describe the relationship between start-ups and big companies.
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living he loved me, dying he saved me.
-Glorious Day by Casting Crowns
as a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
-Ephesians 4:1
grateful.
September 2011
5 posts
each prayer heard and each wish resigned.
-alexander pope
today was a kind of a day when i just wanted to crawl under my blanket and forget about the world. but God is good.
a humble, faithful, and loving man.
In the end, it’s about who and not really about when, where, why, what, and how.
August 2011
5 posts
The strongest weapon that Satan has against us isn’t necessarily money or fame. It’s discouragement.
-Mother
As I was watching Bride Wars on TV, I teared up (as I am “running” on the eliptical and being completely oblivious of others at the gym). And it just made me think of Ashley. I really hope we can be like that minus the fighting and having a wedding on the same day haha. I am just grateful to have a friend like her. Thank you God. Really.
when jenny picks up the phone while driving
ashng:
Me: (dials Jenny’s number)
*riinggggg*
Jenny: Hello?
Me: Jen?
Jenny: Who’s this?
Me: What??!??????
okay. this blog makes me sound so bad. but it’s so funny because i was actually thinking about blogging this too. great minds think alike ;)
yeah, so whenever i pick up using the bluelink system in the car, i can’t see who’s calling. but the moment ashley...
reconciliation
As I sat down in the midst of a crowd with no familiar faces, I started listening what the pastor had to say. He spoke on 2 Corinthians 5:11 - 21. I really liked how he actually explained to us the background of Paul writing this letter and going through the passage verse by verse.
Paul talks about how we are reconciled to God so that we will live for Him. And we are reconciled to God through...
Grace is always costly.
July 2011
8 posts
The motions →
I don’t fall in love with songs easily, but when I do, I can listen to them for hours…which I did today at work. The moment I heard this song, it just pierced through my heart.
trust
After work, I decided to go to fellowship dinner that was held at Google. I have been looking forward to meeting other Christians and have great conversations. Yet when I walked into the room, I honestly wanted to turn around and walk out. There were five other men who were a bit older than me. Great. Guys tend to be not the best conversation starters. So I sat there eating my dinner and...
If He tells me that I am beautiful, worthy, and strong, then I am all that. Who am I to deny what He said? Looking down on ourselves is not humility. It’s another form of pride in a sense that we evaluate and determine God’s creation, while ignoring what the Creator has to say.
세월이라는 것은 무서운 것이다. 중요했던 것도 낯선 것으로 소중했던 것도 무의미한 것으로 그렇게 천천히 천천히 다시는 돌아가지 못하게 만들 수 있기 때문이다.
하루하루가 힘든 요즘.
어른이 된다는건 왜 이렇게 어려울까.
These days I have been experiencing some growth pain. But despite all that, I don’t cling onto God enough. He wants so much more, yet so many times, I am blindfolded by what I can only see.
Familiarity over mysteriousness.
There are moments when it’s hard to wake up each morning, when we feel the heartache every other second, and when nothing seems to lift us up. But as long as God’s spirit is within us, it can never be the worst day of our lives.