Skip to main content

Unproductive

Today was a slow day at work, which I haven't experienced since January when work became a whole another ballgame. Despite the free time, it's been hard for me to reflect today--something about not proDUCING anything makes me feel.. uneasy. I definitely depend on my results to define/affect my worth, which is NG. (Pic to my right is the wall I stare at in my lonely cubicle)

One exciting thing is that Lisa, a freshman from Northwestern that I met at the international student retreat a few weeks ago, is doing a one-day internship at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and stayed with me last night. Ann Arbor frequently gets visitors from the HMCC of Chicago, but it's very rare that they ever venture outside of our college campus to come see Detroit of all places. Last night after LG I picked up Lisa from the megabus station, got to know her more before I fell asleep prematurely (can't keep up with college students anymore), and this morning she accompanied me during my drive in. I don't know if she really meant it but apparently she liked the feel of downtown Detroit more than downtown Chicago... O_O

Tonight she'll be joining Jean for LG, Ann Arbor-style--praying she'll get drenched by the HS and experience the power of God in this place!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

And just when you least expect it..

Today I went down to the food court with another intern and as I opened my box of sushi, I hesitated. Feeling as if there were too many eyes on me (I only ate with one other person -_-), I questioned whether I should pray before my meal, in fear of social rejection. After I prayed, she asked me if I was a Christian, and I awkwardly responded that I was. Then she said, "Finally! What a relief to know that there are other Christians!" WHAT THE.. I couldn't believe it. Here I was, sitting with a co-worker that I had simply exchanged cordial greetings with, now talking about God haha. Even though I was scared and honestly did NOT want to pray, God used a habitual thing like that to open up opportunities for me to invite her to small group and share my faith. Crazy how He works when you least expect it.
5 comments
Read more

Delirious

delirious (adj): marked by uncontrollable excitement or emotion; ecstatic; filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy (1 peter 1:8); me I don't think I had a personal relationship with God until 2 weeks ago. There have been a lot of formative moments and experiences in the past 6 years of me considering the existence of a higher-being, 3 yrs of being a Christian, 1 year of living by faith, 6 months of serving on church leadership, 1 month of dire circumstances, each of which have been challenged and supported by specific instances in my life.* But it's only been 2 weeks of finding pure joy, satisfaction, and freedom in Christ (alone). Though it's been 6 years since I first stepped into a church building and 3 years since I accepted Christ, I was always afraid to admit that I didn't know what grace, freedom, repentance, or Jesus meant--in terms other than the ones I had heard or read--it was always a theory and never a reality in my own life. After years of doing chur...
5 comments
Read more

Surrendering my career

"Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it." The concept of surrendering my career never made much sense to me because I've always known what I wanted to do, and was perfectly en route to achieving it. I thought I was better than everyone else for knowing what I wanted to do. In all frankness, I just thought I was awesome and gave myself credit for every accomplishment in my life. When God directly confronted me last year with how much I had been living for myself, I made all excuses to rationalize and justify myself. Somehow God changed my heart to be willing to let go of my perfect plan and insured that I would never find the type of security and identity that I found through a job title or company reputation. He took me through a whole year of rejections and dejected moments so that I would learn what it means to be satisfied with merely having a relationship with the God of the universe , not just praising Him or want...
2 comments
Read more