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What a Week!

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on January 20, 2007
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I am now a proud member of ISR 9, lead by Karlo and Jonie. From the looks of it, this is going to be one seriously interesting small group. Now, I don’t know if this is where God is leading… Ken stopped me and asked if I would like to join his, since his small group has 7 freshmen and they’re in dire need of a car… but I don’t know. Maybe if I knew how the small group selection process worked. I only asked to be placed into a Wednesday night small group because of my love of symmetry (Sunday Service, Wednesday Small Group, Friday Large Group). We’ll see how this turns out.

Large Group. “The Office” spoof was almost dead on, with the unsteady camera shots and each of the guys being someone from the actual show. Oh, how I miss running through all those episodes with Derek… which reminds me, I think I’m going to hang out with him some more tomorrow… I hope I get all my work done.

Dodgeball at Canaan. That was some good times. I think I threw out my arms in the process (definitely should NOT have done biceps and forearms). I also screwed up my knee. I like sliding on the floor with them.

Tired. I don’t know what led me to wake up so early and go to morning prayer. I just want to make sure that I’m not doing this for anyone but God. But of course, motives can’t be 100% pure… I just need to make sure I get my butt up and spend an hour with God.

Which brings me to my last point: I wonder where my day goes. Here’s a snapshot of a 24 hour period.

1 hour: Bible/Prayer. Yeap… at LEAST… 1 hour: Something else… like foreign language, or musical interests… or drawing… or something 1 hour: Cooking. I cook. I aim for an hour per meal, from prep work to cleanup. However, all this week, I don’t think I had a proper dinner. One night, I had this ghetto rice with eggs and albacore tuna. Protein galore, but not very… yeah, you know what I mean. 2 hours: WIMPE. Lift for 1 hour, run for 30 minutes. Actually, this turns out to be longer than 2 sometimes, or shorter. It evens out to 2 in the long run, I think.

1 hour: Travel. If I need to go on campus, or go to work, this is how long it takes, on average, to walk out to the bus stop and take the bus OR drive and find a parking spot. This also counts for the times I go to ISR now and then. 1 hour: Bathroom/Shower. I think this is pretty good. No more questions. 7 hours: Sleep. I have to get a nap in from time to time… but this has to get shortened. This is too long.

This leaves 10 hours for work. I can’t believe it. Where does the time go? Of course, I can take half an hour here and there and make it a longer work day, but dizang, where does the time go?

Tomorrow is nothing different. Gotta get to shopping, and get to WIMPE, and get to ISR to work and meet people.

This is indeed… the start of something new.

Thank you, GOD, for the sermon tonight… I will apply it directly to forehead, head-… um, yeah. I will apply it daily… directly to… stop.

Whoo hoo! I’m insane! It’s 4 AM! I woke up this time yesterday!

Realizing How Far I’ve Come and How Far I Have To Go

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on January 11, 2007
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Instead of meeting with four out of the five roommates from last year, I had dinner with just one: Gil. It’s been a while since I ate out… and that’s only a very good sign. Definitely got to catch up on a lot of things… I guess he’ll be trying to take a couple courses leading into a Master’s in Education. That’s awesome good news… he seems like he’s so good with the little people.

I definitely felt like God was speaking through Gil, though. I had to tell him the things that were going on… relational issues was the number one talked thing. I got a clearer understanding of how I should continue to fight myself and my desires.

And from this I realized yet something else… I’m just so thankful that there are people out there wiser than I am. [Points to the sky] Regardless of age, EVERYONE is able to see things differently… and through those different points of view I learn so much about me and about them. While I’m here on campus with the students of UIUC and with the church members of CFC, I need to keep being thankful for all things.

I finally called up Grace Sue, after which I found out that she indeed didn’t get my phone number from the last time I called her… no biggie. I went over to her and Ester’s place after my Dinner with Gil, where I found Dan chilling as well.

This is where it gets interesting. I guess I’m going to be joining a small group. I’m not sure, but it looks like my good ol’ Wednesday might be the day. Inadvertently, I found out basically who all the leaders were for the small groups. I decided this shouldn’t play a role in selecting my small group, and should be giving Mr. Chris Sotelo and email.

I need to stop writing these senseless sentimental posts. I need to start putting up some good content in the area of my expertise.

No, not John Hodgman’s “Areas of Expertise”. That was silly.

So I guess my goal of meeting these people… Derek, Dan, Gil, Grace… have all been met. Everyone else I met today was just bonus. Sweet sweet bonus.

Dah, I missed another post!

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on January 7, 2007
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Indeed, for some reason, I’m becoming very tired too quickly.

Maybe it is because I’m aging and becoming an old grandpa, as some people so gently put it.

Today is indeed Sunday. I will be attending CFC service, and I’m going to catch more than half the congregation still glowing from OIL. I feel like I definitely missed out… from catching the flu and from getting blessed out the wazoo (yes, I’m still working on becoming my rap/hip-hop alter-ego)… but regardless of what happened, I had a retreat here in my apartment, as well. Definitely spent a lot of time discussing and diving into the Word with Dean, as he stayed over for a couple of days. It’s the SEVENTH. Oh my goodness. 7 days has passed since the New Year, and I haven’t really sat down and wrote down a list of things to do… I used to do this daily… where did that Josh Kim go? Meh. Regardless of what the actual goals are, I’ll always set them too high to be reached… and so, the constant everyday resolution is to grow.

Wow, I’ve grown. There was a time in my life when I shunned change… hating moving so much, especially the last move from LA to Cincinnati. Had I not… I wouldn’t have ran into the white suburban Midwest life I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing. Then moving again, away from family and friends, into this state known as Illinois… My my, how far I’ve come.

And how far I have left to run. Resolution was to grow… but to grow, there must be change. Change in the way I act, I talk, I think…

Ooh, I remember a verse… Something about not having people look down on you because of your age, but set an example in such areas as… Let’s see if I can find it…

1 Timothy 4:12 - Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.

I’m still much to immature in too many ways. But alas… so far from who I’ve been… so far from what I need to be.

Gotta keep fighting.