Mundane Thoughts

I have been praying for a mentor for over a year now. My mother has always played the role of a mentor in my life, but I've never had anyone "officially". When we came to MBBC, I continued praying for God to bring a mentor into my life. I thought it might be easier if I just signed up for something at church, but at the same time, I wanted something more personal. It wasn't until about two months ago, I finally took up the courage to approach Pastor Josh and ask him if Andrea would be available to mentor me. He immediately agreed that it would be a good idea and that he would ask her. I didn't hear from anyone for a while, I started to lose hope that this would work out, but I decided to ask her myself. We met today for lunch and got to know each other better. Grant it, we only scratched the surface of each other, but I'm really excited for this blooming relationship! I was really nervous and excited, but I truly believe this will be helpful in my walk wit

I really should be sleeping. We've gotta be at church at 8am tomorrow, which means we're gonna leave the house at 7, which means I've gotta wake at 6, which everyone knows is death for me. However, if I don't blog about this now, I never will. As cheesy and obvious as it is, the statement "Jesus is all you need" is the most true statement, ever. I just had a less than 10minute conversation with a friend from HS. We weren't particularly close in high school, well, that's not true. We were close in school, but we both had friends outside of school that were our "best friends". Last year, she was in Dallas for a conference, we met up and she shared with me that she has quite her high-paying lawyer job to be a missionary. I was shocked. She was the last person I would have imagined to be a missionary, but God's call came, and she obeyed. She became a missionary to a country in the Middle East, and has just returned recently. We sent a few me

This is Alex. Enoch and I have known Alex for about a year. Alex came to America from China to learn english, hoping to get into UTA. We got to know him when we were doing college ministry at ACBC; he was probably one of the first ones we met. I remember thinking he's very 呆, when I first met him, because...he contacted us one day telling us he had no where to stay, cause he didn't read his lease, and didn't know it had ended...Enoch made many, many calls that day to find him a dorm. Every time we took him somewhere or helped him, we would share the gospel with him, but it always seemed to fly over his head. After we switched churches, we didn't really keep in touch with him, and it wasn't until last week that he texted us to have dinner. He said he would be returning to China within a week, so he wanted to say bye to his friends. We had dinner on Wednesday night, and talked for 3 hours. This past year and a half, he had been attending ISI faithfully, and

April 16: Bible and Moral Issues Research Paper Due April 23: Royal Conservatory of Music Exam April 25: Christian Apologetics Research Paper Due April 26: Bible and Moral Issues Final Exam April 27: Teens and Life Issues Paper Due MAY 6: GRADUATION!!! I used to do this every semester in college, I think it helped me see what I have done and what I still have to do. I'm subconsciously very stressed out, or at least my body is telling me that, but my brain isn't. I have actually been working ahead in my assignments (Enoch Chan is such a good influence on me), but I still feel like I'm not doing enough. Plus, with two part time jobs, time is really scarce. It's really weird, but I have been a student for so long, I keep trying to imagine what life is like after summer. I mean, with the two jobs, I will be perfectly busy, but it's still so weird to think that I won't be a student. No, I will not continue on to PhD. Anyways, must finish well, the last part o

I forgot how good song this is! Recently played my "Hillsong" playlist, and seeing that I haven't updated it since college, all the songs just brought me back to those days at Calvin when I was studying or spending time with God. It also reminded me of Verve, those were always the "best Fridays" hahaha. Okay, enough nostalgia for one day.

This blog post began with the title "I'm So Tired", and after writing about one paragraph, out of frustration and helplessness, I ran to my Lord. I was hit with Proverbs 16, so I erased the original paragraph, and all I have now is this: " The plans of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the  Lord . All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, But the  Lord  weighs the motives. Commit your works to the  Lord And your plans will be established. The  Lord  has made everything for its own purpose, Even the wicked for the day of evil. Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the  Lord ; Assuredly, he will not be unpunished. By lovingkindness and truth iniquity is atoned for, And by the fear of the  Lord  one keeps away from evil. When a man’s ways are pleasing to the  Lord , He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Better is a little with righteousness Than great income with injustice.

"And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.” As some of you know, one of my part time jobs is chatting with people about Jesus (yes, literally). People sign on the website and are connected to different people to talk about Jesus. I have never  understood John 3:19-21 as clearly as I do now. So many people come on the website with questions about a sin they're living in and hoping to receive affirmation for the decisions they're making. However, the curious thing is that they know  they are living in sin, but they do not want to change. Then when using the Bible to direct them to Jesus, they reject it. Many of these people are C

*title derived from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, where she says "hash brown" instead of "hashtag" and since I don't ever use hashtags, I thought it was suitable title* As silly as the title of this post is, I'm truly blessed. In the beginning of Dec, Enoch and I ended our ministry at ACBC. We began visiting different churches, all the while praying that God will settle us in a church before Spring semester. We visited churches for about one month when out of no where two job opportunities appeared before me. It really was out of no where because I did not apply for either jobs; they were both recommended by seminary friends. I was caught off guard cause I really did not expect something like this. I was expecting to attend a church while looking for a full-time job for after graduation. God, of course, had a much better plan. After meeting with both churches, weeks of prayer, and skype sessions with the Ong's and the Chan's, we have decided that