May 2012
9 posts
beanbags
In 9th/10th grade, I started thinking about how I could serve TG and what I would like TG to look like, and I had this image in my head of beanbags and ambient lighting…
Oh wow, I even wrote it down… I thought this was just a passing thought O_o Good old Xanga hahaha.
9/2/2007: Other things that interest me that I could use to serve TG: art in general, photography, writing… I...
before i start growing moss or something.
Reminders to self:
Run every day / Play volleyball with the bro.
IV summer devotional / Quiet time with God.
Shadow?
Wisdom teeth out.
Cook with mums and pops.
Make picnic blanket?
Back up photos and stuff.
Listen to sermons. (Recently listened to Redeeming Affirmation which was super good and something I needed to hear).
Play guitar. Learn how to strum in rhythm and...
In January of this year, Montgomery County implemented a 5-cent tax on disposable bags.
Today I went grocery shopping with my mom, and everyone I saw in the checkout lines was using reusable cloth bags.
WOOHOO PUBLIC POLICY IN ACTION. WOOHOO WE CAN SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT.
Okay. That was my exciting thing of the day. Hehehe.
open doors
We always left our door open during freshman year, and occasionally people would drop by and stay a while. Brown 117 houses a lot of good memories :) And even coming back from classes and already seeing the door open from halfway down the hall brought a certain lightness in my step. Yesss, someone’s home!
Our doors this year were heavy and unfortunately good at swinging themselves closed… But...
Life is good, life is good… It is hard, and sometimes it hurts, but God is faithful. And He brings joy in the morning.
April 2012
2 posts
Cathay: Call me Princess Cathay!
Siri: Okay, I will call you Princess Cathay.
Cathay: Play Call Me Maybe!
Siri: Okay, I will call you Maybe.
Today is my mom’s birthday. I sent her an email with the swing photos and the photobooth photo from Duke Royale. Not really meant as a gift or anything (and probably should have sent them earlier anyways), but something I knew she’d appreciate.
She replied:
Hi Lulu,
Thank you for the gift!
It is a different you, but always beautiful.
Love you!
Mom
For some reason that...
March 2012
8 posts
OVER 9000 INDEED!!
hmmmm feels like there’s a general slumpiness this week…. but we still have reason to SIIIING :D currently listening to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPuh86DR2Cs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYLTn4fKYQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-EzVteRq1k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UilTnh7Ftn4
bahaha one of the comments: “10,000 reasons? That’s OVER...
the plan
1. Marry a guy with last name Wan.
2. Name my kid Obadiah (I actually like this name hehe).
Obi for short.
Except I haven’t watched Star Wars so I don’t actually have the right to do this. Oh wells.
Word Wednesday: gentle
junebugkim:
Yeah, it’s not Wednesday.. but this one was too good to wait!
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Prautes (gentleness, consideration) was used in secular Greek writings to describe a soothing wind, a healing medicine, and a colt that had been broken. In each instance, there is power for a wind can become a storm, too much medicine can kill and a horse can break loose. Thus prautes describes power under control.
...
Visible Children: We got trouble. →
visiblechildren:
For those asking what you can do to help, please link to visiblechildren.tumblr.com wherever you see KONY 2012 posts. And tweet a link to this page to famous people on Twitter who are talking about KONY 2012! I do not doubt for a second that those involved in KONY 2012 have great intentions, nor…
Yawning or trembling →
May God forgive me for using His word to get an intellectual or emotional high when it is living and active and sharper than any sword. May God forgive me for treating His word like a toy when it’s a weapon to sever my flesh from my soul and enable me to run the race set before me.
May God forgive me for yawning when I should be trembling.
February 2012
3 posts
thirst
Background: Intervarsity is tabling this week on the plaza with the question, “What are you thirsty for?” We have bins that say “Love,” “Success,” “Purpose,” and “Fun,” and we’re asking people to drop a red cup into the bin that represents what they think our campus is thirsty for.
I asked a girl with short blond hair what she...
Isaiah 55:10-11
As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Wow. What a promise.
January 2012
6 posts
prayer team skype
Kevin: Scott, listen to me.
Kevin: You're the only testosterone in this room right now.
Kevin: You need to carry the mantle.
Ivy: Hehe. Man-tle.
Wide Eyes: Big ways the internet is changing our... →
(via mega-mix)
THE INTERNET IS OUR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
We don’t have to remember phone numbers or addresses anymore. Instead, we can just hop on our email or Google to look it up. According to a study by Science Magazine, “the Internet has become a primary form of external or transactive memory, where information is stored collectively outside ourselves,” and our brains have become reliant on...
New Year's Questions →
whoaaaaa →
http://www.preceptaustin.org/
this website is so confusing and disorganized and has the longest pages ever not to mention an icky horizontal scrollbar and it is in need of a serious makeover.
but the commentaries are so dense and they go verse by verse and they use notes from a bunch of different theologians and they take you back to the original language and they link you to relevant sermons...
on a God who chooses not to control
We need to get rid of the notion that God has a plan and God has everything under control. What happens is not God’s plan being unfurled. God does not have everything under control. If God had everything under control, we would not be hearing the stories we’re hearing about Penn State University today about children being abused - that is not God’s plan. That is not God’s...
December 2011
12 posts
strobe light →
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me? - John Green
Do you ever wonder why such a perfect God would love such a wretched creature as me? I always wonder about that. If I could see myself the way God sees me...
the gift of crying →
on experiencing God because of God →
read it! it’s short! this is one of the things i’ve been learning this semester! don’t you love it when you read something awesome and you’re like THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I’VE WANTED TO SAY ALL ALONG
we need a word for that thrilling flash of recognition you get when you stumble across some sentence, some paragraph in some henceforth sacred book, which says exactly...
sunahpark:
“College is a temporary season of academic preparation and growth so that you can serve God more effectively with the rest of your adult life. If you’ve chosen to go to college, then God’s plan is that college be a springboard into all that goes on with responsible Christian adulthood. Consider every commitment you make, every activity you sign up for, every class you choose, in light...
star wars snowflakes →
TEEHEE :)
THERE’S JUST NO WAY TO KEEP IT INNN
God is good. God is good. God is good.
:)
“When I trained as a physician, I learned the art of medicine: how to listen, how...”
– Anne Bower (Curing or Healing?)
Hmm I like this definition of medicine.
Sixty Years of Memories →
the coolest part about this project, i think:
… it was a huge amount of fun to collect and collate all of these memories, many of them occuring years before I was even born. It gave me a different picture of my dad, one woven together by all the people from his past, all those people who—-weirdly, peripherally, slowly, surely—-put into action the sequence of events that led to...
How We're Doing: Columbia Spectator →
I used to think there was something seriously wrong with me, because my life looked nothing like the Columbia admissions brochure. Judging by The Blue Album, Columbia students are “embraced” by the “warmth of a close-knit community.” They are flawless, radiant, and successful. They do research while juggling classes and community service, throwing Frisbees on the lawn, and hitting SoHo every...
November 2011
6 posts
Silent Night? Yeah, Right. →
Advent, which means “coming,” is a time of preparation, but it’s not the kind of preparation that has come to define American Christmas culture. It’s not the “Martha” kind of preparation in which we scurry around buying presents and decorating our homes just so. It’s not even the kind of preparation we usually witness before a wedding day, even though a wedding is also an important metaphor in...
Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t... →
(on the role of medicine for the terminally ill)
excerpt 1:
The difference between standard medical care and hospice is not the difference between treating and doing nothing, she explained. The difference was in your priorities. In ordinary medicine, the goal is to extend life. We’ll sacrifice the quality of your existence now—by performing surgery, providing chemotherapy, putting you in...
Death and all his friends
stuffthathappenedtomeenz:
Today, my high school math teacher committed suicide.
I remember him as being kind and loud and funny and hilariously sarcastic, the type of witty, sharp sarcasm you just can’t help but smile at. Though I had him as a sophomore, I would visit him during my remaining high school years, seeking his advice and counsel and sharing a good laugh or two during those visits....
October 2011
2 posts
God, you are CRAZY crazy good
Thank you for dumping all of this goodness on me this week hahaha :)
tooooo many good conversations to count! okay, no such thing as too many good conversations :) …okay, i will proceed to count them anyways :)
unexpected and encouraging card from Mr. Wu! :DD
bumping into Sharon Y at the great hall and talking about testimonies and fellowships and God stuff
email chain with one of the...
blessed be your name
praises from the last two weeks. should start doing this more often.
prayer team meetings!! sharing struggles and being lifted up in prayer
being lifted up by upperclassmen and being reminded that i’m never in this alone. also, persistence in not letting me get away with pretending to be okay. also, encouragement to keep up with quiet times.
perspective. also, struggles.
life stories...
September 2011
6 posts
oranges
today i opened my backpack and found two lovely surprises… hehehe…
also, this is amazing:
2 Corinthians 3: 7-18
Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? If...
2 Corinthians 2:12 - 3:6
Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-by to them and went on to Macedonia.
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are...