some thoughts.
Fifteen of us prayed together on a saturday night, surrounded by the sounds of partying. We were amidst the world without coloring ourselves like them. But we knew our own hearts and how ridiculously easy it would have been for us to be on the other side of the wall. For many of us, we had been there. For the rest of us, we had wished to be there.
I take grace for granted and don’t appreciate what’s immediately in front of me. I look longingly towards the future without caring for the present. I constantly forget the good in my life and dwell disproportionately on the bad. I expect others to give me the benefit of the doubt when I act out and then don’t give others that same love. I only allow people to get as close to me as I want them to and then get offended if they don’t want to get close to me. …I am such a sinner.
Dozens of people have sown in my life and only a couple were an active part of the reaping. My life’s sower’s have no idea what they’ve done for me and some of them may never know until heaven. I only learned to appreciate my youth group teachers after I became a teacher myself and saw how deceivingly difficult it was. I wonder if I’ll only truly appreciate my parents until I become a parent myself. I wonder if I’ll never appreciate some people in my life to the degree they deserve because I’ll never be in their shoes.
don’t feel like picking up the phone, so leave a message at the tone
January 11th marks National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Each year, an estimated 800,000 persons are trafficked and sold into bondage. Tens of millions are currently enslaved globally. Seventy percent of them are women. Fifty percent of them are under 18.
When I was at inner city missions in the ghetto of kensington, Philadelphia, I met a young 14 year old black girl named Destiny. She was with am older white man named Rob and they were both addicted to heroin. I remember how cold she was to me when I met her that first night. But she still looked utterly hopeless.
I prayed that I’d meet her again and the following week, I saw Rob… But without her. When I asked him about her, he mumbled that she had been thrown in jail for prostitution.
I reeled at the news. I immediately understood that Rob was her pimp. And in the following weeks I saw him with different girlfriends who he would sell to other men for some quick cash.
It’s hard not to mourn at the evil of human trafficking when it stares smugly at you. How many girls did Rob sell to other men to get a quick fix? And how come only the girls get caught and thrown in jail?
God has a heart for the oppressed. Where are our hearts?
(via humantrafficwatch)
Fotoshop by Adobé by Jesse Rosten
This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty.LOL, but the sad thing is, it’s SO TRUE.
Pilgrim EM Retreat day 1
Pastor Young Kim from GCC:
“All of us are always traveling in somebody’s plan. Do you spend time meditating on the plan God has for you?”
“Relationships: Right person, right time, right way.”
“When God convicts you, just go straight. Obey.”
“Even if you are successful in the future, if you don’t listen to stop, surrender, listen, and obey now, then what you have will never be as good as what God has for you.”
“I don’t say to trust blindly. You take the faith walk trusting in God’s character.”
recap of 2011 part 2: unedited and neer-before-seen pictures
july: inner city missions - boston team
august: inner city missions - harvesters+bctc team
september: christina son’s birthday surprise
october: dinner at mia’s with class girls
november: parents visited cornell / cornell vs bu hockey game at msg
december: pyg winter retreat
recap of 2011; unedited and never-uploaded photographs!
january. pilgrim college retreat
february: jt steakhouse with my sister
march: tom and joy’s wedding
april: easter on the quad
may: perfect summer day with my girls!
june: summer picnic with kccers
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Let’s all celebrate Jesus’ birth together.
late night pokemon doodle for you guys before I go to sleep.
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quick late night doodle. nothing impressive… just got tired of it so I stopped. haha -_-
sunriseeeeeeeeeee.
I want to be able to sit on my roof.
