February 2012
9 posts
Feb 23rd
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so. true. zomg.
hesiarp: “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless,...
Feb 20th
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Feb 18th
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ambition.
i consider myself to be an ambitious person. it’s in my general nature, and Boston has helped make me more so. it’s one of the first words that surfaces to describe you, if you are indeed an SMG cookie-cut-out. most associate it with the most absurd acronym (sex/money/greed) that was a joke to me at first, but as i spend more time with peers, is forming more into a solidified reality....
Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord and...”
– Colossians 3:23
Feb 13th
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all day long, shapes and figures wander aimlessly. shades of gray— they all blend in together. depleted of confidence and the pride that made you fall, i see the weight that is excruciating on your shoulders. you try to cover up and hide away but your efforts are so useless, or is it that we’ve all stopped to care?  it’s funny how a face a face, a face, shows all of the things...
Feb 10th
“If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease...”
– Emily Dickinson  (via thresca)
Feb 9th
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Feb 7th
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January 2012
4 posts
“To be satisfied by the beauty of God does not come naturally to sinful people....”
– John Piper, When I Don’t Desire God (via eugeneklee)
Jan 29th
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Jan 26th
12,978 notes
grace for a sleeper.
fast asleep. wake me, oh Lord.
Jan 21st
2 = the best one, by far. hands down. →
Jan 20th
December 2011
7 posts
Dec 29th
17,097 notes
Dec 26th
4,360 notes
Dec 8th
3,422 notes
ONE FORTY PLUS: If you want to be truly... →
jhnmyr: If you want to be truly intimidating, If you want to make an impact, If you want to have strong connections with others just be sincere. Sarcasm is not an attitude, and it’s not a personality trait. It’s a style of rhetoric meant to be used occasionally to highlight a larger point. Saying…
Dec 8th
5,061 notes
decompress.
just had my first two CORE finals, two more to go. is it healthy to say that studying has become slightly addicting? haaa.. tonight was the first time i actually felt good after taking exams. and by ‘good’ i am not referring to confidence that i did well or that feeling of “man, i aced that thing!” by ‘good’ i mean that i feel like i didn’t even sit...
Dec 7th
Dec 7th
5,661 notes
From Screwtape, to Wormwood
chreesteenyun: “Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.” 
Dec 2nd
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November 2011
10 posts
Nov 30th
318 notes
testimony.
in my youth group, we have a tradition for graduating seniors to give their testimony. i have spent year after year at kumc, sitting in awe of how good God is and how individually and uniquely faithful he is in the lives of my unni’s and oppah’s. when my time came, i was unable to share mine in person—i was already half-way to Boston. but! pastor paul offered to share mine in my...
Nov 28th
“Hope you’re enjoying all that God has blessed you with on this day! Do...”
– on the grace of God; from a friend, on this Thanksgiving day.
Nov 24th
impossible.
Nov 16th
i am a terrible writer.
most of the time,  i know what i want to say. i just can’t cut the chase to the actual words. well, at least on this blog. when i’m emailing or telling someone, i somehow have a much easier time conveying what i intend to. so here’s an excerpt of an email reply i sent to a dear sister of mine.   Faith— is one of the things that—no matter how hard i try to figure or...
Nov 9th
Nov 8th
meter sticks, measuring tape.
i love reading old journal/blog entries. FRIDAY|| July 29, 2011 i was talking on the phone w/ 엄마 yesterday.. she was commenting on how i’ve matured over the years.. especially for my age. by saying what i said next, i risked negating her statement. i responded by saying how i’ve come to realize that age is not an accurate enough measurement of someone. young men and women, even...
Nov 6th
:)
ellischang: ‎Listen without interrupting. (Proverbs 18) Speak without accusing. (James 1:19) Give without sparing. (Proverbs 21:26) Pray without ceasing. (Colossians 1:9) Answer without arguing. (Proverbs 17:1) Share without pretending. (Ephesians 4:15) Enjoy without complaint. (Philippians 2:14) Trust without wavering. (Corinthians 13:7) Forgive without punishing. (Colossians 3:13) Promise...
Nov 6th
When the Words Don’t Fit →
hesiarp: Sometimes the love stories worthy of poetry don’t make the romances of a lifetime.
Nov 6th
sweet, sweet addiction. →
Nov 5th
October 2011
12 posts
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not...”
– colossians 3:23-24 from a dear friend :)
Oct 30th
“And above all these, put on LOVE, which binds everything together in perfect...”
– Colossians 3:14 (ESV)
Oct 29th
Oct 26th
Oct 24th
so the things is..
i’m really loving on college these days. the days are getting harder, faster, busier, and fuller. the reality of being a university student is only hitting me now [[yes, as an almost-second-semester-junior. what can i say? i’m a late-bloomer, ha]], and it comes in waves as my time spent immersed in community has exponentially increased. and for every soul i’ve encountered thus...
Oct 20th
Oct 17th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 10th
i love you, Fall.
the chill of the morning glues me to my bed don’t want to face the cold, but to catch a glimpse of the magic that takes place when the sun peaks through the lens of changing leaves— pockets of golden light, dancing and flirting with pools of shadows,  is enough to get me up and out of my warm slumber, clothing myself in my sweater/scarf/boots debut of the year and face the mysteries...
Oct 7th
1 tag
Oct 6th
328 notes
Oct 6th
22 notes
RIP Steve Jobs: 1955-2011 →
Oct 6th
September 2011
6 posts
quick update.
monday. another start of another week. this past weekend was a blur.. lots of time spent with the team.. and it’s only the very beginning. i looked into my heart today and i found some fear—fear about this upcoming semester, fear about the future, fear about non-sense needless things; and i realized, i have been undermining God’s sovereignty in my life.. and doubting the work...
Sep 26th
“Your love stronger than my shame greater than my pain Your love will never...”
Sep 25th
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Sep 23rd
Sep 16th
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victory.
Death is swallowed up in victory.”“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. - 1...
Sep 13th
healing.
in all things, we know that we are more than conquerors You keep us by Your love You keep us by Your love.   what can wash away my sin? what can make us whole again? nothing but the blood  nothing but the blood of Jesus. how precious is the flow? that makes me white as snow?  King Jesus. 
Sep 13th
August 2011
4 posts
Aug 23rd
home.
at the drop of the word, so many thoughts and emotions are unleashed from my heart. when i first arrived in London, i remember wondering how i would come to survive a whole summer, without my family, on my own—working, traveling, etc. it’s crazy to think how fast three months have flown by. but even crazier, it’s strange to think how much of a home i’ve made of this place. ...
Aug 7th
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