It's been an eventful past 3 weeks filled with lots of fun memories! San Deigo for the zoo, Irvine to hang with my sisters and the college bros, Anaheim for the Winter Training, and back to Victoria for work and chillin with Jerry. It's a new year and another beginning to have a fresh start in the Lord. Yesterday is gone and His mercies are new every day. Been learning to live in the present moment as the quote says below:
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord I consecrate this new year to You, not to promise anything, but exercise my will to choose You this very moment.
Sliver the giraffe. By far all of our favourite animals at the zoo. We liked them because they were one of the more active animals compared to the polar bears and lions that were sleeping. And they are amazingly tall. A baby giraffe is born 6' 3"!! That's like having Jeremy Lin in a pregnant giraffe's womb
my 2 wonderful sisters
so glad Lou could make it
our segways are all decked out. riding = super super fun.
my bros (Andrew So and Jon from North Carolina - top 2, and Joe from Irvine - bottom)! stayed up late playing bang and fellowshipping after the training. miss them.
breath-taking. what now Vancouver? haha
Jerry slept over this past Saturday. Always a big encouragement to me when he visits me.
smallest Lord's table ever. and Peter Lai is not hiding in the closet. Yes, there's was only two of us..
A nice 2-hour Google Hangout call with my parents. watching the Lakers game while my parents be silly
Lakers lost! yay. sorry Lakers fans.
Chilli chicken + yellow bell peppers
Chicken fettucini alfredo with asparagus
been busy again with co-op reports, applications, catching up with readings, and other stuff. I'll try to do a better job with keeping in touch this term. Please do send me an email or call from time to time, I'd really appreciate it even though I seem busy. Miss you all!!
Brother. I miss you very much over here too. Keep enjoying the Lord as your everything. You may have seen this on my facebook status, but I wanted to share with you one of my top enjoyments from reading that book you recommended me: A Seer of the Divine Revelation.
ReplyDelete"To escape God's arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. This will prolong the time required for life to mature in us and will even require us to make up this lesson in order to reach maturity. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering. Either he will have his capacity enlarged or he will become more hardened. For this reason, when believers are passing through suffering, they must pay attention and they must realize that maturity in life is the sum total of receiving the discipline of the Holy Spirit. People may see a person who has matured in life, but they cannot see the accumulated discipline of the Holy Spirit which that person has received secretly day by day throughout the years."
Another year to have our capacity enlarged! Thank You, Lord! May you continue to receive the discipline of the Holy Spirit secretly day by day so that the next time I see you, I will see more maturity in life :) Keep pursuing. Cannot wait to pray with you soon.
-Joe
My dear brother Joe, thanks for the message - glad you are enjoying that book! I'm always encouraged to see you and to know that you are going on in the Lord.
ReplyDeleteYour sharing reminds me of one of my favourite parts of Watchman Nee's New Believers Series, #20 on the Discipline of the Holy Spirit (http://www.ministrybooks.org/books.cfm?id=18D9C9).
It talks about how since salvation, God is doing 2 main things, (2 Cor 4:16):
1) tearing down our old man, ie. old habits, character, and disposition
2) renewing our inner man, ie. constituting us with His life
I think we all like the renewing part, but don't like the tearing down part, which isn't really fun. Whether we receive the 'good' in Rom. 8:28 depends on our attitude. 'All things' really means everything, ie. nothing is an accident because the Lord has His perfect and permissive will. The secret is to love God. The Lord often disciplines us through ordering the environment through the Holy Spirit.
I don't want to sound too desperate but I would really appreciate some shepherding this term. Any emails/Google hangout calls to pursue the Lord together would be great. Let me know how school is going and the internship search. I'll be keeping you in my prayers.
- Pat
Hey Pat! Thanks for your enjoyable post. I was happy to spend time with you too in California.
ReplyDeleteSend me your home address in Victoria - I'll try to mail you something too!
We can googlechat and call more often.
Miss you!
love,
lou