Welcome!

You may wonder at the title of my blog. And originally it was a title that was very insignificant (see first post). I have often had the desire to change my blog's name or even to start a new one as the address is also soo do or pseudo. But this last year at bible school I had an assignment on generosity based on two chapters from the Bible (Leviticus 25 and Deuteronomy 15) that changed my perspective a bit. In Deuteronomy God tells the Israelites "...you shall not harden your hearts, nor close your hand from your brother, but you shall freely open your hand to him and generously lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he lacks." (Deut. 15:7-8).
Soo do means open hand in Korean, or at least that is what I have been told in my karate classes, and after remembering this and working through my generosity assignment, I wondered to myself: Am I a soo do (open hand) christian or a psuedo christian? This question continues to challenge me. I often keep my time, money, and encouragements to myself and don't give generously. But God calls us to give all we have, for our security lies not in our weatlh, or health, or time, or place, but ultimately in Him.
This blog is for me to share my thoughts and my days, things I love and places I go, my struggles and His victories, and ultimately His work in and through me will hopefully make me a soo do christian.

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Guess What?!?!?

You will never believe what happened the other day.
I was in the kitchen putting things away and my friend, Sharlie who was doing dishes after supper came in i told me she had the most exciting news. I responded with a rather uninterested "okay" and continued with my work. She said "you have to look at me" so I looked at her and she said "I FOUND YOUR SHOE!". yup that's right the shoe i kicked of the ferry dock! yes, indeed that very same shoe floated down the beach past Overbury (a b&b on the island) and landed on the beach, where Sharlie found it while taking a much longer walk than usual. And the most amazing part about the whole story is... it doesn't even look like it took a swim in the ocean. It looks exactly like the other one (minus the sand). YAY!
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Shoe overboard

Hello everyone!
The weather here is amazing! yesterday I sat outside while I worked on my assignments, on a picnic bench under an apple tree by the the cow pasture (i kid you not). It was divine. nad today the funniest thing happened.
As I stood with my friends waiting to get on the ferry i was contemplating out loud about standing on one o f wooden poles that the dock is attached to and doing a karate kid kick when i decided to imitate it. little did i realize that it probably wasn't wise since i was wearinfg loose ballet flats and as my foot flew up my shoe flew off did several flips in the air above my head before landing with a definite plunk in the ocean behind me.
=( (sorry mommy).
well that's the story this week ttfn.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Bungy Jumping

You can see my bungy jumping video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fHvoQMk5hM
the actual jumping ends after around 43 seconds and you can hear all my friends talking about how i jumped feet first and how they wouldn't want to jump that way. . . and how the girl who is recoring thinks she not doing very well. . . blah blah blah. But you can also hear my blood curdling screams.

Sunday, December 02, 2007

What i've been learning

I continue to learn a lot of the same things in every book we study. one is that there is no one i can depend on more than God, he will always be there for me and i can cling to him and i should only cling to him. i also am continuing to see that jesus is all i need and he provides everything for me. that pretty much sums it up beside interesting facts and such, but everybody at the school continues to say they are learning to fully rely on God. the rest i can tell you next week.