February 2012
2 posts
““You are right.” He says.
I look up into the shy smile I have grown to love so much. Day 178 of bandaging this wound, and it is almost gone.
Makerere is not one to strike up conversation usually, so I probe. “Right about what?”
“That thing you say. You know. About even bad things being used for our good and all of it working for God’s glory even when we can’t see it. You are right. If I...
i love her
Okay, I love my professor. Why is she so cute?
Just saying.
Last week, I was a bit panicking over the dearth of information I had on my topic and so I emailed my professor:
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On 2/9/12 10:52 PM, Lisa Lee wrote:
Hi Professor Feeley,
I am trying to work on my annotated bibliography for POLI 127 and it is really hard to find articles and sources for my research topic on the DRC and its...
January 2012
1 post
from the words of katie davis
“Can you imagine the stench?
Joseph has walked and Mary ridden 90 miles in the scorching sun, the wind whipping around their faces and caking them with dust from the dirt road. More sweat pours from Mary’s brow as she experiences the pains of labor for the first time. The stable is packed with all the travelers’ animals. Flies buzz around them in the heat and the air is heavy with the...
December 2011
2 posts
forelsket: infallible word →
janeshin:
I commend to every Christian here the constant use of the infallible word, because it was our champion’s chosen weapon when he was assailed by Satan in the wilderness. He had a great choice of weaponswith which to fight with Satan, but he took none but this sword of the spirit — “It is…
Soli Deo Gloria: too good. →
esminlee:
“You have been wishing for another position where you could do something for Jesus: do not wish anything of the kind, but serve him where you are. If you are sitting at the King’s gate there is something for you to do there, and if you were on the queen’s throne, there would be something for you…
October 2011
5 posts
soliloquy: “There are times when God calls us to... →
“There are times when God calls us to be alone for a time so that we can get to know Him more intimately. The apostle Paul spent three years in Arabia before starting his ministry, and men like Moses, Joseph, and Elijah spent years in isolation as God prepared them for the work He had called…
avec foi
I don’t have a right to anything in this world. I don’t have the right to clean water, nutritious food, good company, or proper respect. Everything I have in my life is due entirely to the grace God chose to pour upon me. And because of His grace, I am blessed with family, friends, shelter, etc.
Knowing this, I cannot say that I have a claim on these things that I say I own. My job,...
“My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word...”
– John Piper (via yijungyeob)
forelsket: Charles Haddon Spurgeon: Saving Faith →
“…The faith of these two was alike in its confession of unworthiness. What meant her standing behind? What meant her tears, her everflowing tears, but that she felt unworthy to draw near to Jesus? And what meant the beggar’s cry, “Have mercy on me?” Note the stress he lays upon it. “Have mercy on me.” He does not claim the cure by merit, nor ask it as a reward. To mercy he appealed. Now I care not...
September 2011
2 posts
birth pains
it’s so simple, so easy, to disrupt the flow of this world.
something I realized just yesterday as people all around me, including myself, began to panic due to the loss of electricity.
long lines in grocery markets, closed down gas stations, stopped cars on the side of the freeway, huge traffic on local roads, etc.
sd was without electricity for about ten hours or so and within those...
forelsket: Free Pardon: sermon by Charles Haddon... →
janeshin:
“…men know and prize divine mercy most when they most feel the weight of their sins. Until a man is consciously condemned and pleads guilty, he will not ask for mercy, and if mercy were to come to him, he would treat it with disdain. He would look upon the offer of forgiveness as an insult, for…
August 2011
3 posts
Where there is death, there always seems to be life as well.
God is funny, that when a flower dies, He has its seeds plant in the ground to begin a new cycle of life.
Reality is that we will all physically die sooner or later in this world. And even with physical death, life—physical, metaphorical, spiritual, etc.—is birthed from that reality.
but death also shows how utterly...
letting go
i feel like there are more things to understand but it kinda clicked in my head right now.
it’s not me but it must be Christ who lives in me…..
it’s why Apostle Paul says that His grace is sufficient for us..not the false notion of grace that makes us feel comfortable to stay in our sins..but the true grace that God gives us when we come to realize just how sinful and wicked...
eat
1 Peter 1:17-21 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver and gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and...
July 2011
6 posts
“I thought that if she was just going to die anyway, I should let her die quickly. Then I wouldn’t have to love her, and it wouldn’t have to hurt. Anyway, if she lives, she’ll just grow up to be like this. Who wants to live like this?”
5 months ago my friend Regina, a Karimojong woman who picks fallen branches off our street to sell as firewood and occasionally stopped in for water, came to me...
forelsket: From the pen of Jim Reimann →
janeshin:
Sometimes there will be a cost to fleeing sin. The cost for Joseph was ultimately being sent to prison as an innocent man. Yet that cost was much better than losing his character. Often people say there was no way out, so they fell to their temptation. But God’s Word tells us: “When you are…
John 6:25-69
25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the...
: dying to live →
elainechang:
excerpts on dying and living that i came across today in my reading:
The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death…
Colossians 2:6-15
6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
9 For...
I will wait for the Lord.
Until the day of His coming, I will wait. I will wait in prayer and praise.
I will wait in the Word and worship. I will wait with perseverance and hope.
I will wait with faith that my Lord is coming.
May the things that give You most glory be done, dear Jesus. Although these things might be baffling to us, may we never put our standards above Your own perfect ones.
...
June 2011
1 post
: the best is yet to come →
elainechang:
i didn’t think i’d cry. i thought i’d just be there, stand on that stage, at the bride’s side, hold her bouquet, adjust her train, walk off stage (without face-planting in 48329-inch heels!), mumble a quick speech, and then be on my merry way.
but man, was i wrong. how much this has humbled me,…
May 2011
2 posts
thy will be done
I’m always floored every time God intentionally chooses to intervene into my measly life and show me how faithful and glorious He really is. He didn’t have to do so. He could’ve just kept allowing me to live with a veil over my face, allowing me to believe that this cloudy vision is the all-truth. But no, He chooses to put things in my life that makes me drawn to my knees in...
April 2011
5 posts
Cut out my eye that I might see
The Cyrenian Cycle: Simon of Cyrene by John Piper
click the link to listen and read along
(…) And so it went for years, until The man named Jesus claimed to fill The promises, but had no sword, Or fighting forces — like a Lord Without a minion. Simon laughed Out loud: “Does he think he will draft A following with messages About the birds? And when he says, That we must sell our...
: There is no other message but the message of the... →
elainechang:
A couple of months ago, our EM group headed out to Church Without Walls, a homeless service out in Balboa Park, like we usually do on Saturday mornings. But this one was a little different. A lady came up to our pastor and one of our guys to receive prayer for healing from cancer. They decided to…
throughout history up to present day, human beings have always strived to find...
wholly surrendered to You
Over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament were fulfilled by only one man in the New Testament.
The son of Abraham, the son of King David. The Messiah to be born out of a lineage of sinners, full of adulterers, prostitutes, Gentiles, etc.
The son who was led to the slaughter like a lamb, silent before his accusers. The son who was to be mocked, despised, whipped, and beaten.
The Messiah to be...
true fasting
isaiah 58
true fasting is not a set period of time where you starve yourself or deprive yourself of delectable foods and enjoyable entertainment. it isn’t something you do to become holy or righteous or desired by God. righteousness and holiness cannot be attained by our works (it is only possible through grace, by faith). rather, true fasting is the crucifixion of ourselves to this world.
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March 2011
1 post
February 2011
4 posts
What FOOLISHNESS we live in. What FOOLISHNESS I’ve lived in for the past 19 years of my life.
What FOOLISHNESS, FOOLISHNESS, FOOLISHNESS.
God is a god of HOLINESS. Do we even know what that means? Do we live with the weight of His HOLINESS everyday? Do we weep over the souls that do not believe or even the LUKEWARM souls that roam around in churches every sunday?
Or do we find ourselves...
it really is a crazy Love.
So I just started reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan and I’m only a few pages in but God’s already been rocking me with his incredible, incredible majesty.
Watching this literally put everything in perspective. Of course, I knew we, humans, are so small in comparison to this vast world but seriously, think about it:
We as humans cannot even be compared to specks of dust. Focus on...
brian eccl park: Love/Hate →
brianecclpark:
Can’t have one without the other.
“Wait, what?”
God hates.
“Blasphemy.”
Listen to me:
If there is no hate, that means there is no love. Why? Because if you love something, you must, must, must, must hate something. Without hate there is no love.
Pause. Don’t misunderstand. Check the object…
my constant prayer
I cannot make my own heart beat, no matter how hard I try. I cannot make myself pump blood throughout my whole body, no matter how hard I push my body to do so.
There is nothing I can really do to make my body stay alive, except for maybe to breathe. But even that is, eh.
I have no control over how the inner functions of my body works. I cannot actively make my kidneys work so that I can pee...
January 2011
8 posts
all my women, please read! →
“By no means is it a tragedy to be a single Christian woman, by the way of the world has once again infiltrated Christianity with the false idea that it is. One of the greatest lies is that if you do not ‘have someone’ or are not ‘actively looking’, there is something wrong with you. Another lie is that the single woman should be dating around as though looking for a...
: December 16, 2010: HOLY →
Other Priestly Garments
Make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth, with an opening for the head in its center. There shall be a woven edge like a collar around this opening, so that it will not tear. Make pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn around the hem of the robe, with…
daughters of light
this is an entry that i know will get some people heated up or uncomfortable but i pray that for those who do start to feel this way as you read on (and please read on, girls specifically), let it be a conviction for you to really expose all the darkness you know you harbor inside so that God can shine His light.
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i’m sure almost every single girl out in the world (even, especially,...
to surrender is to suffer, yet to also rejoice
Why do I love God? Why do I do the things I do? Why do I go to CHOP every night? Is it because of religion or my duties? Why do I evangelize and pray and repent? Why do I do what I do? Why did I quit my job, leave CCM, let go of relationships and plans, and give my money away?
Is it because I just want to look holy? because I want to look good? because I know it’s something I should do...
It’s so weird to compare what I was doing one year ago and where I was to the things that are going on right now, present day.
Exactly one year ago, I can’t remember doing anything but watching missed tv shows on abc.com, going to OVT for food every couple hours, mindlessly attending classes, and staying up super late every night doing worthless things. I’m not discounting all...
Gratitude (cover)- Esther Haejin Lee
December 2010
10 posts
day three hundred and sixty-four.
random thought-spill some of the things i’ve learned in 2010:
God is really really really and really good. Yeah, I truly understood that unbelievably real fact this year. Sorry God that it took nineteen years for me to realize.
Everyone is gifted and needed for the Body. Without one person, the Body can totally feel the absence and difference.
True sisters are an absolute blessing. I...
joyous blessings of the holidays
I literally did not do much this whole break but with the little i’ve done, i’ve been so incredibly blessed.
Jesus, family, old friends, and cute socks make me happy. three more days, everyone! are you ready?
day 360
there’s nothing greater than to look back at the past year and see how much you’ve grown, changed, learned, and experienced.
there’s nothing greater than to look back at the past year and realize just how good and faithful God was to you every single day.
it’s crazy. it’s 2011. in five days.
Jesus, you’ve been unbelievably good to me these past 360 days...
Watch“the greater the struggle, the glorious the triumph”
faithful
after years and years of sewing seeds and crying out to you for my family you have proven your faithfulness ever more clearly.
women, it’s time to rise up and stand in the gap for our loved ones women, it’s time to be firm so that the battle can be won
he can have no hold over our family anymore his kingship and authority over them is no more
instead, you reign supreme because you...
all to you
it’s been two weeks since we started it and it’s already beginning to be a beautiful lifestyle. not a forty day commitment or a short-lived relationship but rather, a thriving and sustaining part in my life.
its not the fact that i am committed to it everyday but its you bringing down your rain everyday. it’s because of you that i am so grateful.
it’s because of you that...
“Jesus, I pray, I love you, I need you. For...
I think this quarter was the most peaceful finals season I’ve had. Although it should’ve been my most stressful (due to my lack of faithful studying and bad grades), I believe it was the supernatural gift of peace that God provided that helped me tremendously.
Wow, this quarter went by crazy fast. I still cannot believe it. This quarter was one of the hardest but the most beautiful....