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Name: Shinhee
Birthday: 7/16/1980
Gender: Female
Interests: prayer journaling, reading, drinking coffee, trying to keep in touch with people, swimming, ping-ponging, photographing, ebaying, cooking, eating, costco-ing, driving, ...
Expertise: Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world (including Christianese and religiosity), but let God transform you into a new person by CHANGING the way you THINK. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is. Romans 12:2 (NLT)
Occupation: Teacher
Industry: Education
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Member Since:
1/9/2004
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| so, we spent the first day (Monday-holiday) at the church gym! :) couldn't turn the lights on, so we played volleyball in the dark...
 
on the way out, we decided we liked the romantic lights... so even though we all look... well, you know, :) we still took pictures.
 
much of our time was spent in pastor judy's car!
 
yummy thai food...
 
 
Venice Beach... (with Pastor Mary-In Sun's roommie)
 
we biked about.. 10 miles...?
 
then some beach volleyball
chawon came out to say hi. we were in his neck of the woods...
 
on to Laguna Beach and Las Brisas...
 
In Sun's boys.
 
jump shots...
 
beach volleyball round two, this time with more people... a little more fun, i'd say... :) check out the view!!!
 
sylvia's sweet 16th.. we got her 16 white roses and a secret gift...
meeting up some old folks! frank (visiting), jeanne, and viv!!!
 
my last night...
my last day... :) liza arrived a couple hours before i left.
saying good bye before i return to the beautiful rainy NW... :)
 
a few extras:
all three of us (dan, sis and me) were home, yet joel still managed to sneak into my room and "play" quietly... all of a sudden, my sister is freaking out! joel had dumped both fish foods in my beta tank...
uh, yeah. so we cleaned it.. it's okay, cuz i had just bought new rocks for them anyway... joel won't be touching fish food anymore... (so he says...)
it happened to be yet another wednesday Liu birthday (peter's 5th), so i made yet another wednesday night dessert for church. i made a lot of red velvet in the past few weeks, so i decided to go with something different. hmmm, how do i rotate...?
 
banana pudding.. :)
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| here are the residents of 80th ave.e. (none of the other homes on our block are occupied...
and actually, the first snowman is uncle zale (dan's brother)... he's small because he decided to make him at the end when all of us were too tired to roll and lift really large snow balls... the other snowpeople are the lius and me. :)
my snowwoman (2nd from left) was cold, but sacrificially gave up her scarf to her sister snowwoman (far right).
we went intertubing at snoqualmie... amy, jisun and me.
at the top, near the pass, i bought chains for my beloved kia (which is now no-more, praise the Lord!). during the one mile drive to the parking lot, one of the chains must have fallen off!!! brand new chains, already one gone! i didn't even realize it until after we were done tubing and getting ready to leave... sheesh!
amy, cheese, and landry... what is he doing to the snowman?
the snow was seriously deep.. i think even landry's leg went all the way down...
joel's first ice-skating session.. he was so cute! back hurt like crazy after one rink rotation with him!
i think he had fun... :) especially holding mommy and daddy's hands!
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| well, we've entered yet another new year... this will be my 28th... the Lord has certainly brought me a long way. honestly, the past seems so far away.. like a blur... i can hardly remember last year! i've met a lot of people along the way, receiving so much joy and encouragement as i've walked life with them... seasons have come and gone, so many transitions, so many hopes coming to fruition.. and so many left to still blossom.
it's been about seven months since i've moved back home. a few months ago i bought two betas... i wanted fish in korea, but it was so expensive to get an aquarium... and i felt that i would neglect them... plus there was no room for fish in my apt, let alone my lifestyle... so now, i have two betas, separated by a blue wall... it's a small tank made especially for them... i just cleaned out the mini aquarium tonight. i thought about how good it must feel for them to go from murky water to clean clear water... they are swimming around with their fins and tails waving at me... such beautiful vibrant colors... i think they're happy.
i took in a plant that my mom was throwing out (letting die) back in the fall. it's a pretty bamboo plant in a nice small pot. i didn't realize it was growing, but when my mom came to visit a few weeks ago, she was surprised at how tall it had gotten... i guess i see it now... :) there's so much symbolism in something like this... i wonder if it will outgrow me...?
last friday, i bought a subaru outback sport. it was a huge decision and took a while to make, but finally i settled on this car and this color and did a lot of negotiating for the best price. i loved driving before, but now i love it even more... every time i get in the car, i feel blessed and happy... this is a year of new things.. "greater things..."
my final change was purchasing a much needed desk for my room. we went to ikea on saturday and i found the perfect (for me) desk... it's actually a glass table top with drafting legs that are adjustable... so the table is not flat, but slightly slanted... i'm completely satisfied with my room now... i thought i was before, but now i really really am. :)
so, i'm sitting here at my new "desk," listening to "God of This City"... it's been playing on repeat for the past 3 hours... "greater things have yet to come, greater things are still to be done in this city....." i have to confess, i haven't been reflecting much... i haven't been sitting quietly and examining my life or where God is leading. my "quiet times" have not been so quiet. i guess i've just been so "busy" and feeling so urgent about the youth group or this and that... my prayers have been so superficial. when i slow down and think about the Lord... His Kingdom... the stark contrast to the smallness of my life and my "needs"... i'm amazed that God would still use me... i just had dinner the other night with some friends i met through Empower (the N.K. conference from last summer). they have such a deep love for the NK people... i had forgotten my passion for missions, getting so entangled in life with (sister's) kids... then again, how could i ever leave them? tonight, kaitlyn and peter were both super sweet... kaitlyn called me from my sister's phone saying, "i just wanted to tell you that i never saw you today or yesterday and i miss you." i had to remind her that i saw her yesterday in the afternoon before i went to tutor... she replied, "i just miss you a lot." (sigh) peter gives me hugs and tells me he wants me to never move out of the house. kaitlyn chimes in, "i don't want you to get married for a long time, cuz then you have to leave." although she has been faithfully praying for my husband-to-be... that he would "love God and find shinhee gomo soon." (i've trained her well!) later she assures me that i can come over and sleep here whenever i want. ahh, i wish i could just record our conversations... i realize i'm boring you, my small but faithful xanga audience... :) i'll move on.
as i look through facebook and xanga and other social networking mediums, i realize how old i've gotten when i see wedding pictures of kids i once knew... i also realize how much everyone has grown... life stops for no one, eh? i guess being in the upper 20s, people who were just kids way back when are now full grown adults... weird.
seminary: it looks like i only have 6 more classes to go in order to graduate with a Master of Arts in Christian Ministry. it's not an M.Div., but i'm not sure i want an M.Div... i may slow down and take more classes to work toward it, but for now, i think i want to be done with full-time schooling... i went into seminary really hungry for the education and the knowledge. i'm coming out appreciating the friendships (esp. in Korea at torch) and the diversity of backgrounds (esp. here at Faith)... i still don't know much, but i do know that i want to give knowledgeable, Bible-filled messages that turn people's hearts toward God... i want people to come to salvation, not just a good feeling. may the Lord's will be done!
what a random entry... it's been a while, i guess... the conclusion is: God is a Good God. | | |
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