June 2011
5 posts
WatchNorth Koreans Risk Lives to Escape Via Underground Railroad - As famine grips North Korea, some are choosing to make a difficult journey to Thailand through a modern-day underground railroad. John Sparks of Independent Television News reports.
baby steps.
get involved: http://www.linkglobal.org/
goodbyes
yesterday i took patrick to the airport and saw him and grace off. i didn’t shed a tear so i guess it wasn’t all that sad. i’m really excited for the both of them and the many experiences God is going to give them! have fun in mehicooo
if you’re interested in staying updated with their trip, check out http://lifeinmehico.tumblr.com/ (grace)...
big thanks!
this past weekend my parents threw me a little graduation party. i guess i shouldn’t say it was little.. it was actually pretty big. i kept saying that the party was much more for my parents and their friends, but the more i say that… the more wrong i feel. the more i say that, the more i feel depreciated by them which is completely untrue!
the night was fun. i got my friends on the...
April 2011
4 posts
feelin the breeze
there’s only 3weeks-ish of school left. and when i say “school left” i mean… for a while. actually not even sure if i’ll be coming back to school. it’s honestly never been my forte… i remember sitting in physics in highschool when my teacher asked the class, ‘who wants to go to college?’ just about everyone raised their hands confidently,...
writing is good for the soul
makin a come back
January 2011
1 post
Oh! Great is Our God! - The Sing Team (Mars Hill...
October 2010
1 post
August 2010
4 posts
pure joy seeing justice being served, friends loving, god being glorified, the kingdom advanced.
Best Birthday and Charity: Water
this could be the best birthday ever.
learn more about my campaign here or read more about Charity: Water at www.charitywater.org. details for the party coming soon.
10Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” -John 4:10
the den of... ven.
cloudy comfy beds,
unused desks,
covered floors with unmatching rugs,
jamming anytime, all the time,
year-long christmas decorations,
friends,
freshman year. man where has all the time gone?
yeah i’m super reminiscent. so what?
“At the top of my door is a clock. Its hands are ticking away.
As I am laying...”
July 2010
4 posts
the beauty of dead bones
The Beauty of Xiaohe, a 3800 year old mummy found in the Tarim Basin in far western China. She’s known for being so well preserved. In other photos, you can see how defined her eyelashes are, they’re actually really long and pretty… I’m kind of jealous. And doesn’t her attire look a little odd? You can’t really tell, but she’s wearing a fur hat…...
randomschmandoms
I miss these places: Balearic Sea, Barcelona, Spain and Louvre, Paris, France.
Someday, I’ll be back. Hopefully, sooner than later.
—-
solo scriptura. sola fide. sola gratia. solo christo. soli dei gloria.
scripture. faith. grace. Christ. alone. Glory to God alone. The Five Solas, Latin phrases used during the Protestant Reformation to articulate the fundamentals of the...
tuition
so, today.. i was looking at my tuition bill for mccombs. it has increased at an average 5% each year since 2007.
so i thought.. hmm what would this look like if it continued to increase at 5% rate over the next 25 years…
yeah. that looks a little ridiculous. $17.4k for in-state undergrad public university tuition!? but even if we went down a notch to just increasing at 3%/yr, we would...
June 2010
4 posts
5 tags
Somalia, being killed for watching the world cup
“On Saturday militants killed two people as they attacked a house where people were watching a game.
Militant group Hizbul-Islam also arrested 10 others at the house north-east of the capital Mogadishu where fans were watching the game between Argentina and Nigeria.” -Somali militants threaten world cup TV viewers, 6/14/2010
(click here to read more...
perhaps being miserable is okay?
6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.” 7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy...
i wish someone would teach me how to share the...
starting my internship tomorrow! look out world, hereee i come! :]
May 2010
7 posts
sitting with jehovah's witnesses
As I started making lunch for myself at home, I hear a knock at my door. Looking through the peep hole I see two older women - two very familiar faces that have been visiting my home for the past few years and exchanging conversations about Jehovah and the Bible with my mom and grandma. One looked of some hispanic descent and the other an african american woman. I stared at them for a while, still...
When my sin is all that I can see Your grace...
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.
8 The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the LORD are sure ...
why not me?
‘Why not me?’ This extremely vague question has a lot of potential to frustrate me and often does frustrate me because I’m usually caught up in my circular reasoning. I began to ask myself, what’s really stopping me from going to the 2.7 billion disengaged people in the world? Upon meeting many encouraging people this weekend, I came across this realization: God commands...
April 2010
9 posts
“What is it that you are mindful of me?”
– psalm8
Where else would I go, Lord?
“Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here’s...”
– keep me from falling over and over and over again. come thou fount
hardened and calloused. it’s like having acid poured on you. that unexpectedly unveils all these cuts and burns you would never had known you had. too caught up in your own agenda, too prideful, or restless to acknowledge these deep wounds that are in desperate need of healing.
only You can do such a thing - all these unexplainables, You know. all these feelings and emotions I weep over for...
Relationships scare me.
Isn’t it reasonable to feel a little skeptical after every failed relationship? When you thoroughly evaluate your mistakes, your overly-optimistic nature, your impulsiveness, your selfishness, flaws, faults, and the list continues. I mean, don’t get me wrong. There are great things too about being in relationships, but it’s just so easy to overlook them...
thank God for drastic transformation.
thankyou! thankyou! thankyou!
“PRETTY ARE THE SKIES UNTIL SOMEONE DIES,
SO EAT SOME CAKE OR ELSE YOU’LL BE...”
– future Hallmark author, Jesse Cheng
“I hope someday my man will be able to write like that.” -shwang
moving forward
For all those who attended RezWeek at UT, I think we can all agree it was definitely the Spirit stirring in us and moving us towards repentance and reconciliation with our true love, Jesus Christ. I encourage us to remember deeply the confessions we were convicted of and our commitment to ridding that sin so that we may grow closer to God. In Hebrews 4, it speaks about this peaceful rest that we...
March 2010
3 posts
“Blessed is the man
whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”
– Romans 4:8
suffocating sin, my awful apathy
The Parable of the Talents
14“Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. 15To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five...
January 2010
2 posts
“6 For affliction does not come from the dust, Nor does trouble sprout from the...”
– Job 5:6-9, 16-18
“Think of our new village here as the home of Jesus Christ, not the scene of a...”
– Rev. Joseph Lejeune, Haiti
December 2009
5 posts
the night fell off your mind
tired - adele
bittersweet
Due to the strike on British Airways by Unite, it’s highly probable that they won’t be flying between December 22 and January 3. Vanessa and I’s flights are scheduled for the 23 which caused us to be affected by this dumb strike. We panicked for a little while and thought of the worst case scenario: spending Christmas and New Years without our friends and family. Luckily for me,...
my study break
my study break started when vanessa walked through the living room door.
she noted how she felt like she was getting sick so i went to my room and immediately took some vitamins. and passed one to her.
then we turned to youtube. and we were looking up ‘Last Christmas’. Ashley Tisdale makes us feel awkward when she performs. Then we came across this ‘Crazy Frog’. That was...
two is better than one
don't forget
it is too easy to be consumed by security. it’s a nice thing you know? nothing truly wrong with it… that is if the security is from God. and that’s definitely not where mine was.
my thoughts are still running around the whole idea of my future plans. each step is so fragile, so it seems. i’m a management major. why? because i like seeing the big picture. because i like to...
November 2009
9 posts
all i want for christmas is a good, clean sensor (or a new lens, but let’s be realistic). goodness gracious, how did this happen?