School is over! :)

My kids at the Elementary school where I student teach. They are so precious and so fun to be around. :)

I currently student teach at a resource center for special needs kids.

(Left to right - Isaiah, Mckalia, Colleen and me) I'm going to miss them dearly! :)

Update....

It's been quite a while since my last blog. A lot of interesting things have happened over the past few months... I can't capture everything, but here are some photos that will capture the events from the past few weeks....

My dear friend from New York recently got married! I was so happy to be apart of her wedding! It was a phenomenol trip to New York last week, and I wish my friend my utmost best! Congrates Jule! :)  

My time in New York. I believe this was in front of Union Square. :)

The bride a few days before her wedding. We were at a cafe in Korea Town.

The bridesmaide. (Jisoo, me, and Anna) :) This was taken after the reception!

Went to the New York Metropolitan Art Museum.

I had a great time in New York! :)

Only a week left until the end of October. November is just around the corner, can you believe it? Time just flies. :) I haven't updated my blog for a little over a month :( A lot of things have happened and I've been quite busy. For those who don't know, I'm taking classes to get my Masters in Special Education. The courses have been challenging at times, but so worth it. I'm actually tutoring at a second grade elementary school, and the experiences there have just been amazing. I didn't realize it before, but I love interacting and teaching children in various learning environments. I will try to post some pictures of my students later.... :)

Also, my younger sister from Korea came to visit us just last week! :) It was so great seeing her. I haven't seen her for about 6 months or so. She looked great! It was great spending time with her and hearing her experiences in Korea! We love you sis! :) Here are some pictures I took when we all went out to dinner at a sushi place. :)

We all had a great time! :)

Matthew 6:25-34

DO NOT WORRY

-Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying "what shall we eat? or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.-

Look Again and Think (My utmost for His Highest)

-A warning which needs to be repeated is that "the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us. We are never free from the recurring waves of this invasion. If the frontline of attack is not about clothes and food, it may be about money or the lack of money; or friends or lack of friends; or the line may be drawn over difficult circumstances. It is one steady invasion, and these things will come in like a flood unless we allow the Spirit of God to raise up the banner against it. "I say to you, do not worry about your life...." Our Lord says to be careful only about one thing-our relationship to Him. But our common sense shouts loudly and says, "That is absurd, I must consider how I am going to live, and I must consider what I am going to eat and drink." Jesus says you must not. Beware of allowing yourself to think that He says this while not understanding your circumstances. Jesus Christ knows our circumstances better than we do, and He says we must not think about these things to the point where they become the primary concern of our life. Whenever there are competing concerns in your life, be sure you always put your relationship to God first. "Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." How much trouble has begun to threaten you today? What kind of mean little demons have been looking into your life and saying, "What are your plans for next month-or next summer?" Jesus tells us not to worry about any of these things. Look again and think. Keep your mind on the "much more" of your heavenly Father.

Don't let the worries of life consume your daily thoughts! :) Remember that God understands our situations better than we do. He see and hears our cries and answers them accordingly. For those who are struggling with finances, education, family, career, relationships and anything and everything that life throws at you, just know that God knows and will provide! :)

Currently Reading What's So Amazing About Grace? By Philip Yancey see related

This is one of my all time favorite book, "What's so Amazing about grace." We live in a world full of ungrace, that we loose sight of what grace means. What is your definition of Grace? What is God's definition of Grace?

I want to share some passages from this book that brought tears to my eyes.

-In a manner of speaking, grace solves a dilemma for God. You don't have to read far in the Bible to detect an underlying tension in how God feels about humanity. On the one hand, God loves us, on the other hand our behavior repulses him. God yearns to see in people something of his own image reflected; at best he sees shattered fragments of that image. Still, God cannot or will not give up. A passage from Isaiah is often cited as proof of God's remoteness and power: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." In context, though, God is actually describing his eagerness to forgive. The same God who created the heavesn and the earth has the power to bridge the great chasm that separates him from his creatures. He will reoncile, he will forgive, no matter what obstacles his prodigal children put in the way. As the prophet Micah says, "You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy." Sometimes God's conflicting emotions tug against each other in the very same scene. In the book of Hosea, for example, God wavers between the tender reminiscences of his people and solemn threats of judgment. "Swords will flash in their cities," he warns darkly, and then almost in midsentence a cry of love escapes: How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? My heart is changed within me, all my compassion is aroused. "I will not carry out of my fierce anger," God concludeds at last. "For I am God, and not man, the Holy One among you." Once again God reserves the right to alter the rules of retribution. Although Israel has rully earned his rebuff, they will not get what they deserve.

In an astonishing acted out parable, God asks the prophet Hosea to marry a woman named Gomer in order to illustrate his love for Israel. Gomer bears three children for Hosea, then abandons the family to live with another man. For a time she works as a prostitute, and it is during this period that God gives the shocking command to Hosea, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adultress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods...." In Hosea, the scandal of grace became an actual, talk of the town scandal. What goes through a man's mind when his wife treats him as Gomer treated Hosea? He wanted to kill her, he wanted to forgive her. He wanted a divorce, he wanted reconciliation. She shamed him, she melted him. Absurdly, against all odds, the irrestistible power of love won out. Hosea the cuckold, joke of the community, welcomed back his wife home. Gomer did not get fairness, or even justice; she got grace. Everytime I read their story- or read God's speeches that begin with sternness and dissolve into tears- I marvel at a God who allows himself to endure such humilation only to come back for more. "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? Substitue your own name for Ephraim and Israel. At the heart of the gospel is a God who delierately surrenders to the wild, irresistible power of love.

"Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost."

Grace is something that we cannot earn on our own merits, rather it is a gift from God. There is nothing that we can do to make God love us more or less.God loves us not because we were lovable, but because it was in His nature to do so! :) God has achieved everything on our behalf, we just merely need to follow Him. How great it is to know and have that kind of Love and Grace!!!! Thank you Jesus!