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Ecclesiastes

Reading t h r o u g h Ecclesiastes.
Good reminder to seek the eternal instead of the ephemeral.

For.. theres no point in slaving away, working, trying to succeed.
For in the end we all have the same fate.
No one will remember you or what you did. No one will care.

So...

Love the Lord with all your heart and soul.
Share the good news, see Him change lives.
For the Holy Spirit is alive and living.
He is the same today, yesterday, and a bajillion years ago.

We live not by sight, but by faith. 
He gives us hope even when all else seems to be failing.
The more you seek, the more you will find, and the more you will love.

Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts. The good news of the gospel is NOT that good people get good stuff. It's not that life is cyclical and that "what comes around goes around." Rather, it's that the bad get the best, the worst inherit the wealth, and the slave becomes a son (Rom.5:8).

The more I seek you,
The more I find you
The more I find you, the more I love you

I wanna sit at your feet
Drink from the cup in your hand.
Lay back against you and breath, feel your heart beat
This love is so deep, it's more than I can stand.
I melt in your peace, it's overwhelming

if you know me. you know that i walk around a bit carelessly.
maybe a little too careless. 
today as i was walking to the subway to go home from work,
i almost got hit by a car,
my co-worker gave a shout and pulled me towards the sidewalk.
she was pretty frightened but i was pretty nonchalant
and she was surprised and remarked at my calmness.
truthfully, i didn't think much of it.
i think that's when i realized i need to be more careful.
there are countless moments when im with friends, people, even visitors
and almost get ourselves run over.
i'm not afraid at moments like that.
thinking im superman or something.
that cars will stop and avoid me.
that God wont let a car hit me. 
but must be alert.now. 
 

Jul

03

2012

"Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips . . ." —Isaiah 6:5

When I come into the very presence of God, I do not realize that I am a sinner in an indefinite sense, but I suddenly realize and the focus of my attention is directed toward the concentration of sin in a particular area of my life. A person will easily say, “Oh yes, I know I am a sinner,” but when he comes into the presence of God he cannot get away with such a broad and indefinite statement. Our conviction is focused on our specific sin, and we realize, as Isaiah did, what we really are. This is always the sign that a person is in the presence of God. There is never any vague sense of sin, but a focusing on the concentration of sin in some specific, personal area of life. God begins by convicting us of the very thing to which His Spirit has directed our mind’s attention. If we will surrender, submitting to His conviction of that particular sin, He will lead us down to where He can reveal the vast underlying nature of sin. That is the way God always deals with us when we are consciously aware of His presence.

This experience of our attention being directed to our concentration of personal sin is true in everyone’s life, from the greatest of saints to the worst of sinners. When a person first begins climbing the ladder of experience, he might say, “I don’t know where I’ve gone wrong,” but the Spirit of God will point out some definite and specific thing to him. The effect of Isaiah’s vision of the holiness of the Lord was the directing of his attention to the fact that he was “a man of unclean lips.” “He touched my mouth with it, and said: ’Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged’ ” (Isaiah 6:7). The cleansing fire had to be applied where the sin had been concentrated.

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Goodbye school

even though i hardly went to school this year.. it feels weird that graduation is in 1.5 weeks. people have been congratulating+making a big deal out of it..but truthfully i just feel ..... maybe its because i already feel graduated.

work has so far been stressful.fun.killer.. hello to the future.

procrastinating finishing my final online project. flipping through old photos, wishing it was that time again. i wish to be a kid again. carefree. no real responsibilities. just living life.

dont ask. just do.

Piazza del Duomo-Milano

Had the luxury of visiting this cathedral
this past weekend on a nice, sunny,
warm day.. Its truly beautiful inside
and out.

Ciao!

Florence....view from hotel. why must you be so nice?