Wednesday, January 15, 2003

This past couple of weeks have been crazy. I'm even getting sick of coffee, if you will believe. I started a new round of addiction - Vanilla Coke! :)

This quarter is definitely tougher than the previous. I feel like a zombie some days, and others I'm just pushing through by frenzied necessity.

But good news! I sent out my first round of summer job applications. It's a temporary load off my back. Hey, I can only do my best and God will provide the rest. Pray for me regarding the summer, that I will be placed where God desires. No use in being anxious over what is largely out of my hands.


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Thursday, January 09, 2003

"You should not let a single person in the world, whatever sin that person may have committed, come before your eyes and depart without having found mercy with you. And should that person not ask for mercy from you, then you must ask it of him. And were that person to come to you a thousand times, continue to love them so as to lead them back to the right path. Always have compassion, for all of us have sinned." -- St. Francis of Assisi

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal... lock it up safe in the coffin of your selfishness. But in the casket... it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable.... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell." -- C.S. Lewis

"The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us." -- Frederick Buechner


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Monday, January 06, 2003

Surprisingly, returning to Seattle after the break hasn't been difficult. The city feels familiar and (with mostly sunny skies) strangely comforting. Of course I miss family & friends. However, the studio apt is uniquely my own space and now there are familiar faces of new friends to return to!

Top 10 Highlights (in no particular order) of my winter break in SoCal:

1. Watched The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Version at least two times completely, including the appendices, and read most of The Two Towers. My mom liked to ask, "When's the test?" Haha.

2. Animated and lengthy discussions with Joy on everything from Biblical truth & historical context to PDA in romantic relationships! I think Joy should be a lawyer! :)

3. Disneyland - the annual tradition with Norcal-ers. This year the faithful included Bev and Allen! Whoo-hoo! Bev ate avocados for breakfast and is secretly a million years old and of elvish descent, Allen debated with Joy and pined for Cinderella from across the parade rope line, and both beared (bore?) with our unending bad jokes and allusions to LOTR.

4. Hanging out with junior-high buddies ("Friends Forever!"), high school buddies, church buddies, and buddies that don't fit into the above categories.

5. Realizing that I like soymilk but I can't be a true granola girl.

6. Wise counsel and listening ears from Pastor & Mrs. Keng. Thanks again for your prayers!

7. Hugs and kisses from Mom & Dad. :)

8. Dinner & show w/Jason, with a hilarious rendition of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

9. Sitting in my leather recliner with footrest in my reading corner.

10. Eating GOOD Chinese food. TOO much Japanese food though.


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Tuesday, December 31, 2002

It is the last day of the year. Do you ever feel sad that this one seemed to pass so quickly? It's a strange thing - this passing of time, or rather, our perception of it.

How is that those little church kids I once knew are suddenly graduating from high school? My "little" cousin, who I used to jump on the bed with pretending to be rockstars, is taller than me and is learning to drive... my younger sister has graduated from college! How often do we hear our parents say, "I suddenly woke up and found myself to be middle-age!"

Sheldon Vanauken, author of A Severe Mercy (by the way, a heart-breakingly beautiful book about love, faith, death and hope) probably said it best. He said that we often say, "How fast time flies!" or "I can't believe how long it's been since..." or "It can't be that many years already!" etc. because humans are like fish out of water.

We were made for the eternal realm, and therefore the passing of time feels a little odd, as if it doesn't fit quite right. We are surprised, or perplexed that we should find ourselves years older than what our internal clocks feel! And what should make it feel so unless we somehow felt that it should be otherwise?

Currently Watching
The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Platinum Series Extended Edition)
Starring Elijah Wood ~ Directed by Peter Jackson
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Monday, December 23, 2002

It's strange going home and having it feel a little foreign to you. It took me a day or so before I felt like my bathroom was really mine. You know how you place your toiletries in particular cabinets and shelves... well, it's all different here! But I'm getting used to it.

Joy is back from D.C., so we're content as can be! We also put up the Christmas tree, plus tinsel and lights...a little late, but we can still enjoy it through the new year!

Jason's family hosted a big Christmas party last night -- Chinese food was delicious, and the festivities were excellent! Not only did we have our very own Larissa Lam sing, there was also a spectacular world-class (I think?) violin player! And best of all, 70 or so (mostly) Chinese folk singing Christmas carols together!

Currently Reading
The Two Towers Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings
By J. R. R. Tolkien
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