February 2012
5 posts
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life...”
– Francis Chan (via benshim)
Still Running: you complete me... →
jesshong:
As Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) longingly and apologetically stares at Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger), he says, “I love you,” (dramatic pause) and ends by saying, “You complete me.”
Hearts melt and a deep “aww” resounds in the hearts of every female watching this. For those that do…
Still Running: To all them single ladies... →
jesshong:
When it’s time to hit the dance floor at a wedding and the DJ starts playing “Single Ladies” by Beyonce…the girls usually go crazy. All the girls come into the floor, and when it’s time to shake their hand like Beyonce, they go crazy. I do too. But then as I shake my bare left…
still gets me every time I hear it.
time to make...
http://benshim.tumblr.com/post/16921888058/kai-yang... →
kai-yang:
thesweetermelody:
“One of the most terrifying things for a man is to take to himself a daughter of God, because God loves His daughter. Let me just say something that is very, very important. It may sound kind of, just too simple, but you need to hear it, and it’s this: You…
January 2012
2 posts
The danger of trying to please God →
benshim:
This describes many of my actions well.
Next Year In Jerusalem! →
benshim:
All I can say is… Next year in Jerusalem. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
3 posts
A Woman Who Fears the Lord Is to Be Praised →
wsupketchup:
—John Piper
The whole thing is worthwhile reading. But here’s an excerpt:
What is a woman like who fears the Lord? What sorts of things can we praise her for? I’ll just mention four things that the wise man has chosen to celebrate about the woman who fears the Lord (and which I want to celebrate in my wife!). First of all, a woman who fears the Lord is not anxious about the...
Dude, Where's Your Bride? →
October 2011
8 posts
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.”
– Romans 12:12
clothedinwhite:
1. What I ‘want’ to do. (important to me)
2. What I ‘need’ to do. (society’s definition of ‘need’)
3. What I’m good at doing.
4. What God wants me to do.
5. What I’m actually doing.
rings
student: you’re married 3 times! you’re wearing two earrings and a ring — 3 rings!
friendships between 9 year olds
me: aren't you two friends?
tony: only sometimes
jack: yea. when tony's being annoying and I'm being annoying, we're not friends
9-year-old: how old are you?
me: 23
9-year-old: you're almost as old as my mom.
really??
mom: don't eat beforehand, because you'll have to have a blood test
me: I hate needles! I'd rather have a PICC line all the time so they could just take blood from there
Why men are in trouble →
apparently it’s not just me “being bitter”
September 2011
7 posts
“A Christian witness is not like a rich man who has a lot of bread which he hands...”
– D.T. Niles
7 tags
mom: wow you really like watching softball?
me: baseball.
*2 minutes later*
mom: okay, explain the rules of this football game to me.
me: baseball.
August 2011
11 posts
New Blog →
because I can never stay with one for too long
“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every...”
– Oskar Schell, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via beautyisanillusion)
Come Be a Nobody for Christ →
fighting the Asian parent stereotype
me: ughh I don't want to go study
dad: so take the day off!
me: I already took 5 days off
dad: take another day off!
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness… Broad, wholesome,...”
– Mark Twain (via pietro-crespi)
someone's Chinese skills are lacking...
sister: *in Chinese* what do you want to do later? dad: what? sister: *in Chinese* what do you want to do later? dad: what? sister: *in English* what do you want to do later? dad: Oh.
Life’s been a little crazy lately. I was driving to meet a friend to study yesterday, when it suddenly started raining. Thunderstorm, no big deal, though I usually try to avoid driving when it’s pouring rain. Especially when it comes down in sheets like summer storms tend to. Got onto the highway, and by then it was almost impossible to see and everyone was driving at about 20 mph. I...
July 2011
6 posts
A pastor from northern Florida spoke at my church recently and mentioned how drivers in New York start to honk if cars don’t move immediately after the stoplight turns green. Something different from life in the south? It’s something I’ve paid more attention to since then, and he was right. All the cars around me on the road do it. I do it sometimes. And it definitely became more...
Sometimes I wonder why You saved me. Not in the eternal sense. But in the I-should’ve-died-last-Christmas-and-came-really-close-to-it sense.
So why didn’t it just happen? Why am I still here? And why do I keep feeling like I should be doing more, that I was created for so much more, when I hardly had enough energy to survive this weekend? Why is it that every time I feel like my...
June 2011
15 posts
Something that kept crossing my mind back when I was working on the puzzle:
Some pieces just don’t fit, not matter how badly you want them to. They may appear to fit together, but if you look closer, there’ll be just a tiny part that’s off. And even the slightest thing would mean it’s the wrong piece. In the end there’s only going to be one piece that fits...
“…and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never...”
– Little Bee, Chris Cleave
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
whose trust is the LORD.
He is...”
– Jeremiah 17:7-8
I like things to connect. It’s never been more apparent to me than it is now that I’m working on this puzzle. I have the last 6,000 pieces of the total 24,000, and it’s time consuming, but God’s been showing me a lot through it. Such as my ridiculously strong desire for things to connect.
6,000 pieces is a lot, so I’ve been working on parts of it on a separate piece...