I love my mom's soondoobu. Every time she cooks it, I get so happy. But there's ALWAYS one thing missing... it's not spicy! My dad, my brother, and I love to eat spicy food. But my mom is the ONLY one in our family who can't handle spicy food at all. After countless number of times of asking her to make it spicy, she acquiesces to my request, and I regretted it. This crap was one of the spiciest things I've ever eaten in my life! Needless to say, I had very intense BTS afterwards, and I am still recovering from shock.
Mom (in Korean): "See, I told you. Now you're never gonna eat spicy food like your mom right?"
touche umma...
-Simon
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Prayer
Praying is so hard. I feel like my prayers these days have been so selfish. It's always about "fill me with the Holy Spirit, change me, mold me, make me more like Christ, me me me me ME." Of course I'm not saying that praying for those things are bad. I just haven't been praying for the church and the congregation, family, friends, nonbelievers, etc. I have just been concentrating on me so much.
But then we recently had a Bible study on prayer. It's not about praying for certain temporary circumstances and situations (although it is not wrong to), but it's to ultimately exalt Christ. And as I read Sarah Chong's blog on prayer, it made me think about the Lord's prayer and how perfect it is. Each sentence is filled with so much meaning. It's so straight forward.
Lastly, I loved Pastor Harold's analogy with prayer. It is like breathing. You inhale, and exhale. When you inhale, you are taking in Scripture. Then the natural response is to exhale, you pray.
-Simon
But then we recently had a Bible study on prayer. It's not about praying for certain temporary circumstances and situations (although it is not wrong to), but it's to ultimately exalt Christ. And as I read Sarah Chong's blog on prayer, it made me think about the Lord's prayer and how perfect it is. Each sentence is filled with so much meaning. It's so straight forward.
Lastly, I loved Pastor Harold's analogy with prayer. It is like breathing. You inhale, and exhale. When you inhale, you are taking in Scripture. Then the natural response is to exhale, you pray.
-Simon
Saturday, May 30, 2009
All For the Glory of God
Today was a difficult day. Spent all day at church preparing for the Mission's Rally Night due to poor planning from all of us. We really learned it the hard way. As a result, Missions Rally was canceled and it got moved to a few weeks later. To add salt to the wound, I heard a lot of remarks from different people about how the missions teams did such a poor job planning everything as if we didn't already know that.
Nevertheless, MJ put it best: "our plans must adhere to God's plan." I am glad that our event is postponed. It's a good reminder that we can't do all of this from our own strengths. I feel like this event really lacked prayer. If anything, we'll learn from this when we plan future events.
-Simon
Nevertheless, MJ put it best: "our plans must adhere to God's plan." I am glad that our event is postponed. It's a good reminder that we can't do all of this from our own strengths. I feel like this event really lacked prayer. If anything, we'll learn from this when we plan future events.
-Simon
Thursday, May 28, 2009
A New Beginning...
Wow! It has been a really long time since I wrote in a blog. I think my xanga is pretty much nonexistent. But the more I thought about it, it's important to capture these college years.
Because I'm a little late on the whole college years, I guess I will sum up my sophomore year. My first reaction to sophomore year was that it really sucked. I hated it. I feel like I had the biggest depression stage of my life from summer up until end of fall semester, struggling with both difficult semesters academically, stressing over transferring, worrying about family issues, etc. The list just goes on. However, the more I reflect on my sophomore year, it wasn't so bad. In hindsight, I feel like I grew the most spiritually. Like it says in 2 Cor. 12:8-10
8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
It was a difficult year, but I grew a lot by it. The weaker I am, better is Christ's power to my soul, thus the stronger I am. Plus, I achieved decent grades both of my semesters after studying so hard for my classes. I got into UCLA! :) My dad's business is in the works. My brother's doing well in Korea. I've acquired many new friendships, and still strengthening existing ones. I'm going to Paraguay again this summer. This year's Sister's Appreciation and Senior Banquet were the best ones I've attended.
So why am I complaining? I've said it before, and I'll say it again: This was a good year because God made it. We don't judge a movie by the conflicts, problems, and issues that come up in the plot. We judge it from its overall result and say it was a good or bad movie. Life is like a movie, but our life is created by the best and perfect director.
-Simon
Because I'm a little late on the whole college years, I guess I will sum up my sophomore year. My first reaction to sophomore year was that it really sucked. I hated it. I feel like I had the biggest depression stage of my life from summer up until end of fall semester, struggling with both difficult semesters academically, stressing over transferring, worrying about family issues, etc. The list just goes on. However, the more I reflect on my sophomore year, it wasn't so bad. In hindsight, I feel like I grew the most spiritually. Like it says in 2 Cor. 12:8-10
8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
It was a difficult year, but I grew a lot by it. The weaker I am, better is Christ's power to my soul, thus the stronger I am. Plus, I achieved decent grades both of my semesters after studying so hard for my classes. I got into UCLA! :) My dad's business is in the works. My brother's doing well in Korea. I've acquired many new friendships, and still strengthening existing ones. I'm going to Paraguay again this summer. This year's Sister's Appreciation and Senior Banquet were the best ones I've attended.
So why am I complaining? I've said it before, and I'll say it again: This was a good year because God made it. We don't judge a movie by the conflicts, problems, and issues that come up in the plot. We judge it from its overall result and say it was a good or bad movie. Life is like a movie, but our life is created by the best and perfect director.
-Simon
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