Mr. Sun, shine down on me!

I looooooove summer. :o)

Cool things about this summer:

1. Esther, my wife: Esther's been and will be living in my very small room for the first half of summer! :o) Although she doesn't listen to me and sleep on my bed, she sleeps on a mattress next to me and I hope it's not too uncomfortable for her. Living with Esther has been cool because we're always together anyway, so it's just convenient being in the same room. The pressure that her presence brings has also kept me accountable for alot of things this summer-- so I'm very thankful. I sorta feel like we're married sometimes. Random facts about living with Esther: a) She has small hands, but I already knew that. b) She has legit face lotion c) When she wakes up in the morning, the first words she says is "I hate my life"..seriously.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Sleeping early: Esther and I are grandmas. We sleep between the hours of 10:30-11:30pm. every night. Except the one night I made her watch transformers til 3am. She told me she hated me like 20 times that night.
   
   
3. DWYS: Every morning at 7am, some of us from the college group come together at Starbucks and read together every morning. Although we dont really say anything to each other, and all of us are a table away from each other-- it's really encouraging just to start the day off with familiar faces who all want to be kept accountable this summer. I've wasted every summer of my life by sleeping more than I needed to, so this has become quite solidified in my daily schedule and has served to encourage me, refresh me, and charge me up for the rest of my day :O) thanks all you dwys-ers, and pastor aaron!
   
   
   
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4. Time to read and journal: I love summer because summer means more time and more time equals more time to read and journal :O) these two things have grown to be one of my top hobbies ever since I came to college, and having alot of extra time this summer has allowed me to indulge myself (sounds bad... but its not) in this leisure that I enjoy so much. I bought some new ones today. Don't judge
   
   
   
5. Summer school: I love summer school. not only is it chill, but my class this session is SUPER intersting. It's my first health-body-anatomy-kind-of-thing type of class and I love it. It's been really easy to study for it all the time because I love just reading about it all day, and my lecturer is very helpful. I really love this class and it makes me all the more excited for next year!
   
   
   that's how fever happens
   
   and this is a python eating an antelope..whole. Metabolism is fun
   
   
6. Preparing and anticipating my Junior year: One of my favorite things about this summer is the fact that its the summer before I start my actual nursing program. In a month or so I have to order my scrubs and white coat, and my dear roommate of next year, Jess Quen, gave me some of her anatomy books before she went home to norcal. So I've been looking through them, and just anticipating for it, being excited and prayerful along the way. As tough and overwhelming as I know it may be, I'm excited to see how much more dependent and steadfast He'll grow me to be .

So those are just some reasons I love this summer :O) it's been a week and a half so far, and I'm so excited to see how wonderful my entire summer will end up being.

Give thanks-- esther as a roommate, tracy as a friend, reading, my new journals, erasers, productive study times, caramel mistos, encouragement, emails, oppurtunities to pray

My roommates

So this past new year, I've been living with three beautiful girls that I just realized I never took time to talk about til now. Living with these girls was definitely a experience for me personally, especially because I never had to live out of the comforts of my own room. If you know me well enough, you'd know that despite what people may relay from my personality, I really like being on my own when I'm at home.

Everybody tells me that living with friends is hard, and when we first assigned to live together I definitely didnt see why anyone would think that living with friends was anything BUT fun and exciting and lovely. I hit rock bottom a few times as I struggled to really find the medium between being a good friend slash roommate and being my own person. (that doesnt really send out what message I want to say) haha. Basically, sometimes it's hard being considerate. Sometimes, its hard to think about others before yourself. Props to all you self-less folks who think of every single person in the world before you think of yourself, I applaud you. I am trying. I really wish I was like that. But Truth be told, I am not, but if anything-- I am trying.

Living with these girls had made it a trying year. Not because of who they were personally, but because they are people, and I am a person, and people usually clash like waves every so often, but that's okay.

We have less than 3 months together, and it saddens me if I'm to be honest. I'm thankful for every single one of them for various and millions of reasons and looking back, I cant help but regret the times that I wish I served them better, loved them better, gotten to know them better, and spent more time with them in general.

Since this entry sounds really sad so far, I figured I would introduce them to you guys :O)


This is Aimee :)
1. She lives in the room next to mine.
2. She eats super healthy (yogurt, berries, salads awl da times) and goes to the gym alot
3. She is a really really good dancer. I like watching her practice!
4. She watches shows while she goes to sleep
5. She has the most natural and peaceful wake-ups ever
6. She has a really really cute smile
7. She is the "teenage daughter" of our household.


This is grace. or ask I like to call her, dark park!
1. She is dark
2. She has the craziest laugh I've ever seen in my life. She makes me laugh alot, too :)
3. She is nocturnal (doesnt sleep at night and sleeps throughout the day in small segments)
4. She sleeps in the strangest positions...
5. We share love for Mac and Cheese..and suffered for it last year (HAHA)
6. She loes TV shows too..and watches it like..at all times. Especially when shes sleeping
7. She is a really loyal friend and I miss when we used to share stories.. :O)
She's the baby of our family


This is Jennifer. AKA MY HUSBAND. She is the Father of the Family.
1. She hates it when people wear shoes in the house...like seriously hates it haha
2. She is possibly the busiest person I've ever met in my life.
3. She is the best person to have conversations with. I love our conversations
4. She is honest and so straightforward. Very real. What you see is what you get.
5. We share a love for disneyland
6. She always lets me borrow her clothes and shoes for events
7. Her talent + Her love for God has inspired me alot these past two years

btw, did I mention she was on youtube?

mtviggy.com | korean



Give thanks-- early wake ups, TGIF, my roommates, remembering to love and appreciate them more

Sister love

This morning my sisters and I went over our first lesson in FOF together. I was very thankful for my sisters' teachableness as they were very open to hearing me share about how the Word has affected me in this past year-- although they grew up for the past 16+, 18+ years of their life with the bible next to their beds. I'm not gonna lie, I was super nervous. I had to pray about 10 silent prayers before we started this morning and although it was early and they weren't too happy about how early we were having it, God truly blessed us with a refreshing time of reminders and of new motivations :)

I'm at It's a grind now and I'm doing my extra credit assignment. I needed to print out a article from my website but I didn't want to have to go back and forth, so I asked my sister to print it for me after she showered. I was very thankful :) but I dont think she's too happy right now.. haha





Haha

My parents asked me to pray for them. My mom asked me to keep her accountable with her devotions. I'm so thankful for my family

Give thanks- My dad and his warm and welcoming hugs, My mom and her cute diligence and desire to dependent, Audrey and the laughter she brings me and her honesty that challenges me to have integrity, Katherine's beautiful and genuine desire to grow

A break from the week

I'm home

The best part about being home on a Wednesday is that I'll go back to Irvine tomorrow night and I'll feel like the entire week is starting again as if it were Saturday. But it'll really be the beginning of Friday and the weekend will come so I'll feel like I turned back time and started a weekend all over again.

July
The best thing about July so far is that I get to start on a planner that I bought about 3 months ago. I bought it in April but couldnt use it because the first month on the planner was July. Didn't think the time would come so soon but here we are, and here I am, 3 months older, 2nd year of college under the table and the beautiful aroma of summer surrounding me. The non-best thing about July is that I have to pay rent. Money has been quite a scary thing to me these days but I know that it's because I'm letting it cradle me in its arms as if it could provide me with some comforting security that I know it would never provide for me.

It's only been 3 days but I'm pooped.

(haha)

Coffee-love
I've been trying not to drink as much coffee these days. But I must admit there is something strangely beautiful about coffee. Honestly, alot of the times when I'm drinking it I dont even enjoy it. Sometimes I feel so sick of it that I dont even want to drink it for another week or so. I felt like that about 2 hours ago but the thought of it is what brings me back. Do you ever experience something like that? I do. Sometimes I'll eat something for dinner and be so full and bloated that I would never want to eat it again, but turn me around once and you'll see me eating it again for breakfast. There was another example I wanted to share but I realized it would expose my secret so I erased it.


I wonder if my husband would let me...Would this be considered child abuse?

I'm too tired to go on
It's 9:15pm and I'm going to bed

but one last thing--
Today I was thinking about love. (wow, that sounded super lame..) HAHA, but I mean it-- I really thought about it. Not necessarily the cant-eat-cant-sleep-reach-for-the-moon-notes-on-my-car-window-flowers-on-the-bed-butterfly-stomachs-and-warm-snowy-nights kind of love, but the kind of love I have for people in general.

I searched a few passages in hopes to teach, correct, and sharpen my view of what love should be, and to see how I could better emulate the example of His love for us. As cliche as it may seem, this passage struck me: the well-known passage about Love (1 Corinthians 13). I used to always read this or hear it somewhere and just gladly nod my head in agreement to the various characteristics they would state about love. But as I read and re-read this passage today, really trying to see how well I've been doing, I noted the parts that I felt I miserably failed at on a day-to-day basis.


I honestly could have boxed every word in that passage, but I gave myself some undeserved slack. But I'm thankful for times God gives me to reflect and see that I'm alot farther away than I think, but I'm more thankful for the hope that He gives me in His love for me

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:10-12

Give thanks-- Your perfect love, sleep

Don't waste your summer

It's summer!

Last year, John Tang shared with me a list that closely related with this list when I told Him how scared I was about wasting my summer. Last year was an epic Fail with an uppercase F, but I'm ready to take on this year's summer with full force, on full throttle and I'm gonna do it!

I've been reading alot of blogs this week-- and for alot of people the main topic seems to be time. Time always seems to be our worst enemy doesn't it? "There's so many things I want to do-- but oh darn there's not enough time", "I would totally be more ready for this test if I had a little bit more time", "OMG I'm gonna be a third year, where did all the time go? I wish it would slow down"-- just a few of my own personal examples. Time annoys me because I cant control it. I'm a control freak and I ususally feel most secure when I have everything tightly entwined between my finger tips like string puppets where I am in complete control of everything. But oh you Time-- darn that time-- I close my eyes and time passes by. There's no way of grabbing a hold of it to slow it down, nothing I can do to tell it to stop or go back a few minutes-- and that frustrates me.

All of us are given the same 24 hour period a day. In my pastor's words, "All of us receive the same amount of time each day, but is it being spent aimlessly or is it being invested wisely?" When I think about how I spend the 24 hours of my day, I put myself to shame because I know better than anyone how much of this time I "waste" indulging in myself, vegging on personal pleasures that will only take me so far to make me sleepy enough to give into a shameful nap, and adding little to no benefit to any one else around me.

At the end of each day, I imagine myself to be dragging my feet, face down, emptihanded. Dragging my feet in reluctance to come, face down in shame and emptihanded with nothing to bring but the waste that took place.

I love summer; It's an extended time of good weather and limited stress and I want to use it the best I can. I want to spend time with people and encourage them. I want to read books and fill my heart with all the more reasons to worship Him with my life and with everything I am. I want to invest in His Kingdom and not only share but to build relationships. I want to journal and testify of His faithfulness and majesty in my life. I want to enjoy the sunshine. I want to watch movies. I want to pray more. I want to go to disneyland. I want to learn how to play piano. I want to make necklaces out of flowers and I want to learn to praise God for His creation.

There's so much I want to do
and now I feel like summer's not enough time to do all these things

Yikes,
there I go again. -_-


Thank You God, for time.
Help me to use it to glorify You

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This exerpt is about Sabina who suffered under mad persecution but yet remained faithful to the Lord and to the people around her. In the midst of sufferings she endured and endured it joyfully and later she and her husband brought her family's murderers to Christ. Read the whole story here


People are fighting and laboring for the Kingdom of God on a daily basis with the "little time" they have. . What are we doing?

Give thanks-- being at home, private times of reading, oppurtunities to encourage my parents, the joy of Christ in my family, preparing for FOF to do with my sisters, pho hana, yogurt, the strength and wisdom You provide to help me as I try my hardest to be discerning..

The summer wind keeps blowing in

I cant believe this year is over. This year was definitely heavy-- heavy, being full of alot of studying, alot of learning, alot of growing, alot of changing, alot of responsibilities, alot of stress, alot of worries, alot of reassuring comforts, alot of pruning-- this year has just been crazy.

To name a few things that happened this school year:
1) Becoming a Learning Coach at Starbucks
2) Getting a car
3) Planning Korean BBQ's and Senior banquet
4) Getting to know people better
5) learning to read on my own
6) learning and growing to defeat my fear of EV
7) Biochem, Molecular Bio and Microbio ('nuff said...seriously)
There's just too much. This year has definitely been full and wonderful-- but all in all, I'm glad its over. So I am officially done being a "regular" bio student at UCI and will now proceed to nursing classes :) In 2 weeks, I will take the first nursing class that is absolutely required for my program. Human Physiology? :) yayuhs

There's alot I want to do this summer. Study more. Work more. Read more. Pray more. Alot of things I want to mend and repair with myself. Patience, self control, diligence, discipline, taming my words, to name a few. A much more to look forward to: getting my scrubs, studying more, reading my long-awaited list of books, summer vacaaaaation :)

Thank goodness this year is over. I hope I passed all my classes, but it's in His hands now.
Time for chapter 3.

Say whaaaaaaa?

Resolved tomorrow. sleepy times.

Give thanks-- Your faithfulness, finals week finally ending, the end of 2nd year, the beginning of summer, the comforts of sitting, anticipation for sleep, resolved tomorrow, confidence in prayer, Your grace that covers all things.

p.s. North Korea threatens VOM, demanding them to stop sending them faxes about love, forgiveness and the gospel. As scary as it is-- thank God that Christ is being preached somehow. :) Let's not forget them

"Ridunkulous" microbiology

Okay, I dont know how exactly to spell it-- but it's the word that bChao always used to describe this class.
It is pretty "ridunkulus" aaaghh i dont know how to spell it. haha.

Anyway, My final for my m122 class is in about 3 hours and 45 minutes. yipee.
How ready do I feel? 56%.. i think? haha. There's just alot of material. Although I can confidently say that I seriously did not procrastinate or slack off for this class-- I'm still quite unprepared. which is sorta depressing but whatever..

This round of finals has been the scariest for me. 1 down, 1 today, 1 to go. Many times I feel quite discouraged from how un-prepared I feel despite how hard I studied throughout the quarter. Endless nights in study rooms, sacrificing sleep so I dont fall behind, missing out on hang out oppurtunities just for the sake of trying to keep up. ( I didnt even watch "Up!" and I hear its really goood..) however, I dont feel too distraught. More and more I feel like I'm learning to see how trivial and foolish it is to be so consumed with worry and disappointment on small things like these tests. (even if they are finals, and even if my final is 60% of my grade, even if I dont feel ready, even if this sucks.)

As lame as it sounds, I just want to do my best. I know that sounds really lame and cheesy.. haha. But I just want to give it all I got, take it, and move on without looking back-- even if I dont do as well as I hoped. If my heart's desire is that He would use me for His purposes, I just want to make sure taht I do as much as I humanly can so that I could be as equipped and prepared as possible so He could use me. sigh


This is bryan. He is one of the nicest guys I know and he rides his bike around but he doesnt look like a loser. He's super smart and he has the best study techniques ever. I'm really thankful that I got to take this class with him this quarter because he always threw in words of wisdom every now and then about study techniques, my well-being, and life in general. he's going to be a LARC tutor next quarter and I'm soooo confident (1734732%) that he is going to be the best one ever. He likes to eat food. His favorite word is Ree- dun-ku- lus. I teach him korean words like molla and joggum


This is Denise. She has the neatest writing I've ever seen in my life. Seriously if you saw it you would freak out. She really loves details and is very diligent in making notecards, pages and pages of outlines and writes on humungous posters. Denise is one of the sweetest girls I've ever met and she is a constant encouragement to me and I'm so thankful to have a sister like her :) I'm actually taking both of my bio classes with her and I'm so thankful for her because she likes repeating things when she studies (which helps engrain it in my head) and she always reminds me to use these classes to glorify God. She has a cute laugh and I like holding her hand.

In the beginning of the quarter-- we started this email thread on gmail. although it only lasted a few weeks, looking back at it now it encouraged me so much and reminded me of how faithful God has been to us even in this little quarter. I'm so thankful for them :)



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One more thing,
So about 4 years ago I followed my dad to Dominca Republic for medical missions. There, we treated hundreds of people who had lived without medical attention all their lives. The kinds of conditions these people were in were super intense. There is one account that I remember really vividly til this day.

There was this woman who was unable to walk comfortable for about a decade because her leg and foot was super swollen. I remember my dad telling me that it was an infection due to some wound or cut and that the bacteria had infected it and had messed up her foot circulation. My dad had to needle that foot and ankle up x10000 and I remember having to squeeze and massage the leg really really hard to take all of the bacteria-ed blood out. I vividly remember this because of the amount of brownish blood that woman lost and how she would repeatedly hit my arms and head because of the unbearable pain it was causing her. I remember closing my eyes so tight trying not to let go despite the amount of pain I was causing her.. if anything good were to come out of this class-- I now know (or I think i know) what kind of virus that woman had.


I hope that woman's better now
if not, I hope when I become a nurse I can go back and nurture her in a less-painful way.



Here we go, micro. note to self: poe fo sho

give thanks-- yotb, emails, starbucks, bchao and denise, productive study times, and the motivation that comes from You

A letter

As I was cleaning things out of my computer, I found a letter that was written last year and I'm surprised as how uplifted I felt afterwards.

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Dear Sharon,
Good morning! Today is a new day. You might have made a few mistakes yesterday, and a few things may not have gone according to plan, but God has given you a new chance to start again.. so don’t waste it! Here’s a few reminders for today..

Today you may possibly go to class. I know that it can be tiring and rigorous, but hold on. No matter how insignificant the material may seem, the more you focus and the harder you work on it—the better nurse you will become. God is using this class, the things you learn and the studying habits that you develop to further equip you to be the best and most hard-working nurse you can ever be! Go to class, Listen with attentive ears and an eager mind! God calls you to be a student, so be the best one! – for His Glory and Honor alone! When people see you, they’re going to get so encouraged by how joyfully and diligently you work! Smile as you learn, Rejoice as you study. You can do it!

Today you may possibly go to work. Don’t forget that as you are working—you are not only serving customers, or your fellow coworkers/employers—but you are serving God. Some people may ask you to do things that you might not want to do, or things that have been unfairly assigned to you.. but do it joyfully and willingly. Be humble. Don’t let your pride cloud your attitude and harden your heart. You are there to serve. Whatever they ask, do it better than they could have possibly asked you to do it. If possible, do any extra work that will make it easier for the people around you. Serve your customers joyfully, cheerfully and with a loving heart. Brighten their day with your words of encouragement and greeting. Make them smile. Don’t let the workload wear you down. Work hard, and serve faithfully.. for this seriously glorifies God. Work so that His light will shine upon You and that they will know that there is something indeed different about you. You can do it, I know you can.

Today you may possibly have to study. Whether it’s for an exam, for review or just for the sake of not falling behind—do it diligently. Ask God for the strength and diligence to perservere when it gets tiring. Don’t let studying become something dreadful. Do it with a happy spirit, with a positive attitude and with an excited and eager mind. If you’re going to study—study with all your strength and might so that God will see your faithfulness. Study hard now so that you will develop skills that will help you to focus and quickly learn things that you will have to in the near future as you prepare to become a nurse. Pray! You can’t do it alone. God will strengthen you and instill a positive fire inside you. Stir the passion in your heart.. Study hard. You can do it!

Today you may possibly be tempted to sin. No matter what it is, or how severe the sin may be.. don’t forget that it all looks the same to God. Whether it be a thought, action, or word—cast it away the moment you detect it. God hates sin. Love God more because of the sin that seems to be devouring your heart. Seek strength and refuge in Him. God will surely help you. Find strength in Him. Plead with Him. You cant be the light when your continuously painting yourself in black. You can do it, Sharon, be strong.

No matter what you do today—rejoice. Give thanks for all that you have, all that you have been given and all that you have yet to receive. Love all, for you have been loved first. Trust God with everything today. Spend time with him every chance you can. May every breath that you exert not leave your body without a prayer tied to it. Thank God for everything.. good, bad, easy, or hard. Seek for God’s heart. Do everything for the sake of multiplying his glory. Be honest. Be real. Be genuine. Work hard in everything you do today. Smile. Make people smile. This life is not yours. You are not yours.

Let’s give God what He deserves today.

Love,
Sharon

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I wrote this letter to myself about a year ago and tried to read it every day right after I woke up. Although I was only consistent in this morning letter reading for a week or so, I can see God's work and faithfulness marked in how far He's brought me since then. Thinking about where I was exactly a year ago-- I cant help but be thankful and praise Him for the grace He's shown thus far. Thank God I'm not the person that I was even an year ago. I was struggling so much then, and dont get me wrong-- I continue to struggle now-- but I thank God for the genuine and sustained joy that He's been teaching me to have as I labor.

I'd rather be struggling than swimming in complacency.
Let's keep struggling

Give thanks-- Jamie, the fact that saturdays are always nice, lunch with strangers however weird they may be, refreshing times with You, Your vast love and faithfulness testified in the one little year of my little life

Busy bee, where's yo honey?

This past week has flown by and I can't believe it's already Friday already. In exactly one week I will be done with my Sophomore year in College-- Crazy. Halfway done? Unreal.

This past week I've been spending alot of time preparing for finals week. Not preparing for finals, but preparing for finals week. With practice tests, note cards and other tid bits that I can use to study next week-- I've been keeping myself rather busy.

I've had my fair share of fun too. Yesterday I had a bonfire with CCM and played a good game of football (girls vs boys) with our Sophomore class. Got owned, and humbled-- but all in all we ended just being reminded of how blessed we were to have each other :o) Today I splurged on an Albatross run with the tripod and I'm about to head over to a late night pho night with a group of my faves. It's been tiring. I'm sore to my bones. and I'm utterly exhausted and feel the fats. But it's been a good week and I'm excited to get this next week up and over with.

What else have I been doing to keep myself busy? I've been trying to find another job. Preferably a private tutoring job but most of the things I've found have been for either little children or caregiver for paralyzed people. I spent all day sending emails and resumes and I finally got a reply (yes, only after one day! Cool!) She seemed deeply concerned that some nutjob would be handling her kids and their 2nd grade education-- so she asked me to take a IQ test..





Those were just a few of my favorite questions.


give thanks -- deep sleep, life without a hairdryer, spending time with tracy and esther, CCM class of 2011.

Blindfolds

Most of my friends are Christian.
Sue me, sue me, what can you do me-- but being more involved in CCM and church has allowed me to develop deepened relationships with those in it as well and it has really been a tremendous blessing in my life. The striving-to-love-always-and-be-selfless-at-all-times-and-trying-to-emulate-the-kind-of-love-that-Christ-demonstrated-on-the-cross kinds of friendship is something that I've never really known before I came to college. Being surrounded by the constant encouragement, influence and example made a huge difference in my life as I imagined it would and I'm so very thankful.

But I think being in this Christian safe haven for the majority of my first two years, if not my entire life, has caused me to have a blindfold of what else is out there.

Recently I've been trying more and more to become more aware of what's happening outside of my comfort bubble. I'll share with you guys the blogs that have helped me to stay more aware

The Big Picture has allowed me to see what kind of things happen around the world through pictures! (from things related to war, religion, holidays, etc-- strange stuff, but very interesting and eye opening) It's like news in pictures slash photo journalism and it's really cool :o) VOM (Voice of the Martyrs) has a really great blog about people who are being persecuted around the world. It's really heart breaking to see the kind of suffering people have to go through to defend their faith, and it really rebukes my lack of appreciation for the kind of freedom I have here.

Today I found a blog on some random agnostic/atheist guy. He calls himself The Angry Philestine and he definitely opened my eyes. Not to see his side on the foolishness of the gospel or the message of Christ, but moreso, on how merciful and gracious God has been to me to bless me with the eyes to see Him and the spiritual understanding of the gospel. Everything I read thus far really made me sad, but it challenged me all the more to equip myself more and more with the knowledge, wisdom and love I need to defend this faith and this God I proclaim.

1 Peter 3:15-16
But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.

Here is a conversaton he had with someone who left a comment on one of his posts.


1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

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The gospel goes against alot of the things this self-seeking, self-exalting, self-serving world proclaims. It's seriously riding aginst the current of the world and more and more I'm learning that the gospel does seem foolish in the eyes of this world. The more I see this, the more I'm encouraged to really strive to be the "salt" that God calls us to be. I never really understood what this meant-- I dont really like salty things! But regardless, I wish that He would use me to be a salt in this world. To bring flavor to this dark and flavorless world, and to (like, salt) preserve the truth and beauty of Christ in this ever diminishing and rotting away world.

Speaking of salt, who remembers Psalty?
Haha



Let's be salty too



give thanks--mornings, learning alot in class, productive study times, eye-openers, lunch in 20 minutes, the million reminders of Your grace