Korea.

E:	I hate how Korean snacks have so much unnecessary pretty packaging but nothing inside.
I:	Just like the men.

Korean Holidays

MA:	How are you??
ME:	I'm good hahaha
ME:	Today is buddha's birthday, so no work!
MA:	SHUT UP
MA:	that is amazing
MA:	I thought buddha was like...a spirit
MA:	that was not born

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I: Wow they’ve been dating for 714 days S: Hey it’s like 500 Days of Summer I: Except…it’s 714.

Is this the real me? I don’t know.

I’ve bought dozens of journals in my lifetime. Maybe hundreds, if we go way back to the days when Morning Glory was the place to buy gifts for friends and yourself.

But they always ended up getting buried in my bookshelves, or inside a box, and I never seemed to be able to finish any of them.

I bought my first Cavallini & Co leather-bound journal in college, and I’ve bought the same one ever since.  This particular one, I started writing in on July 11, 2010.

I finished writing in it today - May 26, 2012 - and now I’m moving onto my third journal. These aren’t filled with the minutiae of my days, or how much I’ve spent on snacks and coffee. These are my sermon notes and my prayers; these are my letters to God.

It’s a sad sort of deprivation. 

Living in Korea makes it very difficult to watch movies that you’ve been waiting for. 

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It’s been a strange few months.

In just the past 100 days or so I:

was cut open,

sewed back together,

cut open,

sewed back together,

and cut open.

said hello to someone unexpected in my life,

learned how to love,

and then said goodbye.

felt far away from God,

and then felt Him pulling me back.

bid a very happy adieu to winter,

but was forced to let Spring completely pass me by,

and now it’s almost summer.

I feel old and young all at once.

I Am Blessed.

You are blessed.

Edumacation.

I decided to try and add more arsenal to my vocabulary so I subscribed to Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day emails.

Today’s word was accident.

Not helping, Webster, not helping.

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Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone — to have a deep soul relationship with another, to be loved thoroughly and exclusively. But God, to a Christian says, “No, not until you are satisfied and fulfilled and content with living loved by Me alone. I love you, my child, and until you discover that only in Me is your satisfaction to be found, you will not be capable of the perfect human relationship that I have planned for you. You will never be united with another until you are united with Me — exclusive of anyone or anything else, exclusive of any other desires or longings. I want you to stop planning, stop wishing, and allow Me to give you the most thrilling plan existing — one that you can’t imagine. I want you to have the best. Please allow Me to bring it to you. Just keep experiencing that satisfaction knowing that I am. Keep learning and listening to the things I tell you… You must wait.

Don’t be anxious. Don’t worry. Don’t look around at the things others have gotten or that I’ve given to them. Don’t look at the things you think you want. You just keep looking off and away up to Me, or you’ll miss what I want to show you.

And then, when you’re ready, I’ll surprise you with a love far more wonderful than any would ever dream. You see, until you are ready and until the one I have for you is ready, I am working even this very minute to have both of you ready at the same time. Until you are both satisfied exclusively with Me and with the life I have prepared for you, you won’t be able to experience the love that exemplifies your relationship with Me…and this is perfect love.

And dear one, I want you to have this most wonderful love, I want you to see in flesh a picture of your relationship with Me, and to enjoy materially and concretely the everlasting union of beauty and perfection and love that I offer you with Myself. Know that I love you utterly, I am God Almighty. Believe and be satisfied.”

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Unknown

(Source: chocobojoe.phalacee.com)

"Any relationship involves times of closeness and times of distance, and in a relationship with God, no matter how intimate, the pendulum will swing from one side to the other."

Philip Yancy

(Source: purposedriven.com)

"To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast. "

Max Lucado

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I wish I was this cool as a kid!

(via emilyh)

Alien Conversations

G: I suddenly feel like I’m in a chick flick
I: Why??
I: I feel like I’m in a Korean drama
G: I have no idea!!!!! I just pictured all three of us like you in Korea at the hospital. Me at church figuring out my life. And Jenny at home baking granola. And we’re all like grown up………o_o;;;