I can confidently say that this has been by far the most productive summer i've ever had!
And that definitely is a great thing..
Here's the summary
Job
Mac
Retreat
Urban Hands
Football
Blackberry
haha... when i put it like that, it doesn't sound very exciting, but it was!
I guess i can start off with the job thingy
For the first time in my life, i found a job
and a pretty sweet one at that!
For 3 months (May-July), i was able to travel across the west coast working as a business analyst for a government contractor
I got to travel to places i have never been to in my life
These places included Denver, Co., San Francisco, Ca., L.A., Ca., and Kansas City, Mo.
Woo hooo
More than anything else, i was just really grateful for the opportunity to go out and see the west coast, except for vancouver i had never been even close to the west side of this country
West Virginia was definitely the furthest west i had been (and even that was by accident, freakin getting lost on the way to blacksburg....)
I got to experience life on the west coast, and i can't lie, i thoroughly enjoyed it!
I could definitely see myself living there for a certain amount of time.. not LA, but any of those other places.. wait... it's a no to KC as well.. sorry
In that short amount of time that i was out there, i felt so alive, i know that sounds cheesy, but i mean... who cares
There was so much to do and see, i felt like a kid who just discovered cable t.v.
It was just me, my rental car, and a GPS, and i was off!
The only regret i had this trip was not doing enough in Cali
But i guess there's always next time!
I purchased my first mac this summer
I believe that's an accomplishment in itself
It was too pretty to pass up.
Don't judge me, i did what i had to do
It's significant because of my stand against the Apple brand... yes i had an ipod, but i was forever against the computers... haha
That's all i have to say about that...this laptop rocks!
I also purchased a blackberry.. the tour to be exact and i have to say... well worth it
I kno i sound materialistic, and i promise i'm really not, well.. kind of hahah.. but yea
The power that the blackberry has over the iphone is redickulous
I'm not gonna argue about which one is better, because honestly, it's pretty even to me, but let's just say.. Verizon for the win!
So i'm on a flag football team for our church (SNL)
It's fun playing with people from your church
It's also not that fun playing with people from your church
There's so much unnecessary pressure when it comes to playing this game
Perhaps most of that pressure is from me
Up until i started playing in this football league, i was not very competitive
Yea cheering for teams i got competitive, but when i played a sport, i just wanted to run around so that i could eat whatever i wanted and not get a heart attack at the age of 25 (so far so good!)
But yea, win or lose, i just really wanted to play to hang out and be around the sports environment...
But lately i've become so infatuated with winning that i start to mentally have a meltdown
I'm always scheming ways to improve on offense and trying to figure this and that out..
I mean that's kind of cool, but i'm not played to play this sport, i joined because i wanted to play football, not because there's some prize at the end for winning it all
I've realized i don't like the mindset i've been having when i play, my pride is like HUGE, whether in defeat or victory
In defeat, i get so angry at myself for being so "stupid" or whatever
In victory, obviously i get big-headed because we won....
But the past 2 weeks, i've had time to analyze this and realized that my pride is a goliath in my life
I want to win so that i look good
Like the victories were all because of ME
Forget that
David was a servant, a shepherd, he gave all glory to HIM and the victories came to glorify the Father
My prayer has been to have the heart of a servant, that win or lose, all glory goes to the Father, that i would be grateful simply for the opportunity to go out there and play
My shoulder and pinky have been sore for the past few months, it was good to rest it a little bit this past week! Please pray for my physical health, i'm breaking down like the walls of jericho
But anyways, i believe in the sports ministry so much
God can use this simple sport to bring people together under His name, there's so much power in that
This summer's KCPC retreat theme was "Poiema" or God's Workmanship
This retreat was bomb yo, from the Mr. T look-alike contest to the lollipop dance, it was an uplifting 3 days
I was really encouraged by just how powerful our God is
He really broke some walls down this summer, kids were able to worship freely and comfortably, i think
One thing that really stuck with me was about being His masterpiece
It's amazing to realize that we were each individually created by Him
Created for a purpose that was not our own, but for His perfect will
I know God is not finished with me yet and that encourages me because i realize how many times i've failed
Urban Hands 09 has been the most recent trip that i have taken
All the way over in Washington D.C.
What a journey it was
Being the only Asian group, you always wonder how you're going to fit into a place filled with different groups
My fears were relieved when i realized just how quickly a game of ninja or some other group bonding game can bring people together
By the way, i HATE that ninja game, it hurts my head just watching that game, and seriously, how do you lose in that game?!?! You can stall for as long as you want... just yell out your name for a long time, i was so amazed that people were losing left and right
Anyways, yea, it was a blessed time where instead of just serving the students, i had the opportunity to serve WITH the students
It was a humbling experience, one which i hope will constantly be remembered
The word that God was pouring into my heart this week was the word beloved
I had no idea why, i rarely ever used that word, but as i was praying for each member of our group, that word just kept pouring out of me
God was telling me that each child there was His beloved, that no matter what burdens they carried, that no matter how far they felt they were away from Him, that they were still His beloved! That Jesus' death on the cross was for THEM, that they were worth every single second of pain and suffering that He endured for us, that He has no regrets
The only thing about summer i don't appreciate is the lack of sports
Baseball is cool, but out of the big 5, it's number five behind hockey, and believe me, i love my hockey
I understand that baseball is America's pastime or whatever, but still, it doesn't bring the excitement that every other sport brings, at this point, every game is not cutthroat, there is no desperation in every game, you lose one game, you still have 161 games left, even at the halfway point you have about 80 games left....
Don't get me wrong, baseball isn't a crappy sport, it's just not as exciting from game 1 to game 12 like football and soccer is, and to a certain point, basketball and hockey
Anyways, i'll see you guys later, take it easy
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