Friends from IU

I love friends. I have been blessed that having many friends wherever I go. Especially, I had blast time at IU. I know that it took longer than I thought with having two kids in the middle of my degree. However, I have had most wonderful time with young friends. Most of them were ten years younger than me. Most of them from same department became "professors" at colleges now. None of them hasn't had a baby yet. I can't wait to see them have one. I told them when they have first their baby and realize "real world", please think about me and call me.
I have missed the friends so much. I want simply to sit down and chat with cup of coffee and being silly. I am not sure they consider me as their friends or not, but I think about them as my friends. Good friends. We used to get together during holidays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas to share love as friends and family.
This right picture is the last picture at my farewell party. My teachers even joined us.
Friends! I miss y'all so much! Visit me anytime! I will feed you and make you feel "home".

Rest

After the VBS, I decided to have some time off for a few days. However, it is hard to have some quite time with two lively girls at home. I am a hard worker. I love to work and study. one of reasons that I get bored and depressed is "being lazy". I can't stand "non-motivate life". I used to go to swim with my girls all most everyday in the afternoon during summer. And I studied at the library during the day. That was my more than ten years summer at Indiana. So, it is very hard for me with new summer schedule. I love to work but there are not many activities in the afternoon in here. One thing for sure is short of public facilities in here. It makes me sad and depressed. I shouldn't complain but I still miss something in my life lately. I need to have more close friends who love to hang out. I miss my friends badly. I don't usually watch TV a lot but I noticed that I have watched more TV. It is not a good sign. I know. I need to have some rest in my soul and Spirit to find some ways to adjust well in new place to be more active. Real rest is in the Lord. " Real restoring" is only from the Lord.

Prayer after the VBS

Today, the VBS is finished! I reviewed with the kids today with eight songs that we have learned for this week. I prayed while we were singing and dancing that "all the children will believe with all their heart, with their soul wherever they go" in their lives. I don't know how they will grow up and where they will be but I prayed that they will believe Jesus as their Savior wherever they go. I wish the songs could stay in their mind for ever.

It was not an easy job to dance and sing with them for a week but it was a great opportunity to pray for the kids. It is a privilege that I can pray for them.

Thank you Lord, You are just so awesome!

Don't be afraid of DEAD ZONE!

I love to watch commercials on TV. Some of them are boring and meaningless which even making people confuse what the commercial is about. However, there are brilliant ones. One of my favorites is "the Verizon wireless". It became famous with " Can you hear me now?". They started use a new one with "dead zone" one lately. It has made me think about "trust and belief" between people and the cell phone. If you see the commercial, there are tons of people behind a cell phone user always. Especially, this dead zone commercial one made me think even "secure life with the Verizon". Even though we can't see those people in our real life while we are using the phone, the cell phone became "security blanket" for people lately. At this dead zone commercial the guy told a person "You are good to go". What a relief! And the last part there is a phrase "Don't be afraid of Dead zone!!"...followed by how much to get the deal with the cell phone.

How about our real trust and belief in the Lord ? We say "our God is Living God" and we believe that He is with us all the time in everywhere. However, I can ask myself that 'do I trust Him as much as I trust the cellphone?' Because we can't see the presence of God physically, I often forget His presence. I can imagine that our God asks " Can you hear me now, Yoon?" and tells me that " You are good to go". And He would say "Don't be afraid of Dead zone! I am here with you everywhere you go!!" AND NO CHARGING!!It's FREE! I don't have to pay one penny to get the coverage!! It is already paid!

VBS!

My church, Richmond Hill UMC, VBS starts tomorrow. It is first time to lead music part with more than 100 kids for me. Have you heard about people said that whoever has been in the church, they always would come back to be Christians? I heard that when I grow up in Korea and I believe that because I did. And many of my families and friends did too. So, I think, it is very important let any people to be at the church with any circumstance. When I was barely four years old, one of my friends who used to live next door, invited me to go with her and her sisters to her church on Christmas eve service. Believe or not, I still remember what I saw, heard, and had that day. I went to the church on next year Easter with them too. I remember the movie about Jesus' life and Easter egg. I was amazed about the colored egg and kept too long until it got spoild. Inviting the children is literally like planting seeds. Because the children's hearts and souls are like empty fields, the seeds grow miraculously. I have prayed that God use our VBS as one of planting seed step to the children. What an amazing opportunity to give hands to help the Farmer Lord!!

Will I rejoice? and be joyful without anything?

"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the veins, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. "

I have been asking to myself, "Can I be joyful only in the Lord, my Savior? like a prophet Habakkuk?" Honestly, I am not sure whether I am able to be or not. I have been working on our reality works lately and feeling so down with my real life stuff. However, I determined to praise and command to myself like Habakkuk "yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior!!"

Please, forgive me, Lord.

I know most people already know about this picture of the little brothers. The older one took care of his younger brother and gave up his food for the baby and ended up dead.

I always mention the brothers to my kids whenever they complain about our meals like my mom did when I was young. She usually talked about the time of the Korean war without food and supplies to survive.

Our desires never end. When I have one extra shoes, I want to have third one. When I am content with my meal, I want some more with desserts. More and more... The desires never met the"goal".

Jesus told us to share if we have two pair of shoes. How many shoes I have? How many clothes I have? However, I search for a new one again without any guilty feeling. I confess that I am a self-centered one. Please, forgive me, Lord!!

From, this morning as one small act, I decided to give up my coffee for a while to save that money to help the hungers. $1.77 (Tall coffee) or $3.00 (Tall latte). I know it is not big, but I want to be awake with the fact that there are people who are dying without food. And I want to remind myself how blessed I am. I am blessed totally so, I have a responsibility to share the blessing to the other.

YEAH!! It is Monday!

YEAH! It is Monday!

Whenever I see this triplet's picture, it makes me smile. If you look at their eyes, you can't stand not smiling.

I know, it is Monday again after a long weekend. We need some smile. Right?

Let's have a blessed and joyful new week! YEAH!It is Monday!

Come Thirsty

I woudl like to share some thought from my reading today.

"Deprive your body of water, and your body will tell you. Deprive your soul of spiritual water, and your soul will tell you. Dehydrated hearts send of guilt and fear. You think God wants you to live with these? Hopelessness. Sleeplessness. Loneliness. Resentment. Irritablity. Insecurity. These are warnings. Symptoms of a dryness deep within. Treat your soul as you treat your thirst. Take a gulp. Imbibe moisture. Flood your heart with a good swallow of water. Where do you find water for the soul? "if anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink" (John 7:37)".

I felt sometime numb to my soul's condition totally. I usually found out after several days how much my soul was thirsty. If I can feel thirst of my soul, that is good sign. Because it means I am still alive. I pray that living water from Jesus is running forever in my soul. I am feeling thirsty badly. Let's take a gulp!!

First day of July with Psalm 1st

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruits in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgement, nor sinners in the assenbly of the righteous.
For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

I pray that we are planted by streams of water, which yields its fruits in season and whose leaf does not wither throughout this month. Let's have a blessed new month!