February 2012
9 posts
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,...
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....
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,
as working for the Lord
and...”
– Colossians 3:23
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...
“If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease...”
– Emily Dickinson (via thresca)
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)
grace for a sleeper.
fast asleep.
wake me, oh Lord.
2 = the best one, by far. hands down. →
December 2011
7 posts
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…
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...
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.”
November 2011
10 posts
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...
“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.
impossible.
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...
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...
:)
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...
When the Words Don’t Fit →
hesiarp:
Sometimes the love stories worthy of poetry don’t make the romances of a lifetime.
sweet, sweet addiction. →
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 :)
“And above all these,
put on LOVE, which binds everything together
in perfect...”
– Colossians 3:14 (ESV)
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...
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...
1 tag
RIP Steve Jobs: 1955-2011 →
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...
“Your love
stronger than my shame
greater than my pain
Your love will never...”
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...
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.
August 2011
4 posts
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.
...