http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxlwYP0HNdc
you HAVE to watch this!!
Toddler Survival Kit
4 years ago
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
read anything good lately?
Starting Dec. 17th, I will have 3 weeks of leisure at home in San Diego.
3 whole weeks of not being graded on my performance and knowledge! I'm compiling a reading list- a mixture of reading ahead for my British novel class for the Spring '09 semester, as well as a few pleasurable escapes, along with a pinch of theological classics. Since my reading-for-fun books have been limited this semester due to a heavy class reading load, any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
.Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson & Henry Oliver Relin
.C.S. Lewis Classics Collection
.Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
.Emma, Jane Austen
.Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
3 whole weeks of not being graded on my performance and knowledge! I'm compiling a reading list- a mixture of reading ahead for my British novel class for the Spring '09 semester, as well as a few pleasurable escapes, along with a pinch of theological classics. Since my reading-for-fun books have been limited this semester due to a heavy class reading load, any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
.Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson & Henry Oliver Relin
.C.S. Lewis Classics Collection
.Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
.Emma, Jane Austen
.Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
things that make me SMILE
coffee.
coffee with friends.
friends.
bicycles.
when my phone rings.
kartwheels.
grass.
the smell of outside.
acoustic.
books.
bookstores.
ART
gold picture frames.
thrift stores.
Psalms.
a clean room.
cooking something that tastes good.
large sunglasses.
happy animals.
hiking.
surprises.
coffee with friends.
friends.
bicycles.
when my phone rings.
kartwheels.
grass.
the smell of outside.
acoustic.
books.
bookstores.
ART
gold picture frames.
thrift stores.
Psalms.
a clean room.
cooking something that tastes good.
large sunglasses.
happy animals.
hiking.
surprises.
flying
"If you surrender to the air, you can ride it."
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
I once flew amongst the treetops through a rainforest in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I long for a piece of those moments NOW.
distance doesn't matter
a message from a Thai student that brought a smile to my face and a prayer to my lips:
Hi...Jussy
how are you?
how are you?
now,i have a vacation and live in my home.
next week my school will start again.
it just a short vacation.
what are you doing?
I very miss you.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
my Saturday night
consisted of going to the grocery store at 10pm, looking up recipes online to cook for myself this week, and now trying to work on a paper. awesome..
Sunday, October 12, 2008
"the journey"
I’m surrounded by people and yet alone.
I carefully watch, observing everyone around.
Wanting to scream that “I am here!”
How many times will I be at this place
Of longing, desiring Jesus to fill me wholly?
In between two competing worlds
Too young, and too old.
Barely out of my reach, I am left here,
Alone again.
This is the place of healing that I know too well;
Now is the time for repair.
A silent Presence soothes my soul,
As I dare to place my trust in the One who knows me.
With each tear, He covers my brokenness.
With each loving gesture, He beckons me to continue with Him.
And so I walk on.
I carefully watch, observing everyone around.
Wanting to scream that “I am here!”
How many times will I be at this place
Of longing, desiring Jesus to fill me wholly?
In between two competing worlds
Too young, and too old.
Barely out of my reach, I am left here,
Alone again.
This is the place of healing that I know too well;
Now is the time for repair.
A silent Presence soothes my soul,
As I dare to place my trust in the One who knows me.
With each tear, He covers my brokenness.
With each loving gesture, He beckons me to continue with Him.
And so I walk on.
solving the energy crisis
I love that I have owned my car for 6 weeks now, and filled my tank with gas for the first time TODAY!
YAY walking!
YAY walking!
Monday, October 6, 2008
success unexpected in common hours
A few words from my favorite transcendentalist. Always an encouragement when having an 'I don't know what I'm going to do with my life' crisis (like right now!). This passage never fails to comfort the part of me that is never content to just be and sit still in one place, and continues to inspire dreams, creativity and originality. (If only I could foster such elegant words instead of merely quoting them!)
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open.
The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours… In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open.
The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours… In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
hey, I went to Vietnam!
So, I forgot I went to Vietnam. And that I have a whole folder full of pictures. And that I slept out on the roof of a boat in the middle of Halong Bay. It was AMAZING!
Bicycles everywhere= gladness
color the world happy
heading out to sea
view from my cabin
HaLong Bay: a natural world heritage site. over 1,000 islands
fellow sailers
vietnamese 101
and the BEST part: kayaking through bat-filled caves, discovering small secluded pieces of heaven off the coast of Northern Vietnam.
Bicycles everywhere= gladness
color the world happy
heading out to sea
view from my cabin
HaLong Bay: a natural world heritage site. over 1,000 islands
fellow sailers
vietnamese 101
and the BEST part: kayaking through bat-filled caves, discovering small secluded pieces of heaven off the coast of Northern Vietnam.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
a beautiful sentence
The great spirit you so lightly invoked, the 'lord of terrible aspect,' is present: not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way, not the cold philanthropy of a conscientious magistrate, nor the care of a host who feels responsible for the comfort of his guests, but the consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as a love between the sexes.
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
to be sinless
He was sinless because he was the friend of sinners!
"This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them" (Luke 15:2).
Jesus' sinlessness was anything but obvious. The sign of it was not heroic moral purity but a life that called his purity into question. His friends and associates were not the good church people of this day. They were his enemies, not because he rejected them but because they rejected him. His friends were political revolutionaries (the Zealots), dishonest business people who were also traitors to their nation (the tax collectors), immoral women, social outcasts, and half-breeds... In this way he was for his fellow human beings as they really are- guilty, needing forgiveness, acceptance, and help. In this way he was obedient to God and fulfilled the task God had given him to do- not to minister to well people who do not need a doctor but to sick people who do; not to call the righteous but sinners (Matt. 9:12-13). His sinlessness was his willingness to be sent "in the likeness of sinful flesh" (Rom. 8:3-4) in order to overcome the broken relationship between God and humanity and between human beings themselves. It was the willingness of the one who "knew no sin" to be made sin for our sake (2 Cor. 5:21).
Jesus was sinless because, in perfect obedience to God and perfect love for his fellow human beings, he was willing to risk his good name and his "moral integrity" to be with and for undeserving, unworthy, sinful people.
Shirley Guthrie,
Christian Doctrine
-what I came across while doing homework this evening
"This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them" (Luke 15:2).
Jesus' sinlessness was anything but obvious. The sign of it was not heroic moral purity but a life that called his purity into question. His friends and associates were not the good church people of this day. They were his enemies, not because he rejected them but because they rejected him. His friends were political revolutionaries (the Zealots), dishonest business people who were also traitors to their nation (the tax collectors), immoral women, social outcasts, and half-breeds... In this way he was for his fellow human beings as they really are- guilty, needing forgiveness, acceptance, and help. In this way he was obedient to God and fulfilled the task God had given him to do- not to minister to well people who do not need a doctor but to sick people who do; not to call the righteous but sinners (Matt. 9:12-13). His sinlessness was his willingness to be sent "in the likeness of sinful flesh" (Rom. 8:3-4) in order to overcome the broken relationship between God and humanity and between human beings themselves. It was the willingness of the one who "knew no sin" to be made sin for our sake (2 Cor. 5:21).
Jesus was sinless because, in perfect obedience to God and perfect love for his fellow human beings, he was willing to risk his good name and his "moral integrity" to be with and for undeserving, unworthy, sinful people.
Shirley Guthrie,
Christian Doctrine
-what I came across while doing homework this evening
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