August 03, 2011

Summer half way through

Without realization that summer is already half way through already. it seems that i have accomplished a lot in this summer. work, study, family time, life. I have finished 6 credits, 2 summer jobs, 1 summer camp, going home, 2 visas application, 4 doctors appointment.. what else? it has been pretty crazy . Today i sorta realize that the richest people on earth are those with the greatest love. interesting hah? and family is just the best way to learn about love. It is a kind of love that goes beyond appearance, feeling.. blah. but commitment, forgiveness, unfailing love. I pray today that God will allow me to experience more of that!
this time coming back to hk is pretty significant since i am able to connect with many family members, uncle, aunt, cousins, grandmas. Sometime i really realize that it is such a pity that many dont really get to know their family. the kind of "know" is not just about knowing of who they are, but more of a knowing them, as a person, knowing their hobbit, their interests, their desire, their dreams, their anxious thoughts. Sometimes i think, out of ten billion people, one in thousand chances, we are able to be called as a family. isnt it precious and worthwhile to cherish? We visited grandma, i visited big aunt, had dinner with uncle, and blah.
Apart from family, the other thing that i did is to connect with friends, of course:) it is so good to see friends again. sometimes it is hard to fathom how many friends i actually have in hk, comparing to the desolation in US, where everything is so spread out and apart. You cannot really call up your friend to meet up in 20 mins anytime. Somehow in this summer, God really speak to me from various ways about the importance of relationship and how He cherishes relationship and how He actually uses relationships between ppl to honor Him in ways beyond what we can imagine. In this year's gateway camp, there were a couple individuals really spoke to and prayed for me and in regard to the significance of relationship. Truly, relationship is all that matters.
 
  i am pretty excited about my semester at sea, yet the excitement does not hit me as strong as i would like it to be though. will be going back to CT in two days... um.. not really ready yet. what God has prepared for me in Toah Nipi? Dear God, i am really nothing without you. teach me the right way to go so that i can follow after you closely and tightly.