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2008
It's the last day of 2008 and I couldn't sleep well...
Woke up at 3am, lying on the bed thinking through what has happened this past year.
I got up with my stomach grumbling...
Turned on my bext friend-hp. surving people's facebooks thinking... maybe it's time to write an new article for my old Blog.
2008.. it was a year that I was really expecting but it turned out to be the other way. Not a bad way, but it's just different. Most of the time I was in Taiwan for 2008.I travel to 7 different countries in 2008. 7... that sounds amazing... As I know, a lot of my friends here have never got out of the States yet... I'm blessed.
In the beginning of the year, I had some tough time... when I was very depressed, God grabbed me to Him. 2008 is the year that God made me really closed to Him. A Missionary trip to China changed my greedy heart, if not, it at least effected me a little. I never thought I would have gone to a missionary trip.. I do pray everyday but I never really spent so much time with God. I made a lot of new friends, little bros. and siss. If THAT didnt happen, I would never grew up so fast under God's family. Yeah.. that's true, God always has His plan for me, not the way I want, but the way He wants. Maybe I can see a little point of that...
Then I got back to the US with different intension... All I can do now is working hard. I was afraid that I'm getting away from God again since I can't have a full time service in the church. And it seems like it's happening...sorry...
So... 2009, I pray that I'm still there... since He put me back here, then there must be a good reason for that. I just need patience to see the response...
Woke up at 3am, lying on the bed thinking through what has happened this past year.
I got up with my stomach grumbling...
Turned on my bext friend-hp. surving people's facebooks thinking... maybe it's time to write an new article for my old Blog.
2008.. it was a year that I was really expecting but it turned out to be the other way. Not a bad way, but it's just different. Most of the time I was in Taiwan for 2008.I travel to 7 different countries in 2008. 7... that sounds amazing... As I know, a lot of my friends here have never got out of the States yet... I'm blessed.
In the beginning of the year, I had some tough time... when I was very depressed, God grabbed me to Him. 2008 is the year that God made me really closed to Him. A Missionary trip to China changed my greedy heart, if not, it at least effected me a little. I never thought I would have gone to a missionary trip.. I do pray everyday but I never really spent so much time with God. I made a lot of new friends, little bros. and siss. If THAT didnt happen, I would never grew up so fast under God's family. Yeah.. that's true, God always has His plan for me, not the way I want, but the way He wants. Maybe I can see a little point of that...
Then I got back to the US with different intension... All I can do now is working hard. I was afraid that I'm getting away from God again since I can't have a full time service in the church. And it seems like it's happening...sorry...
So... 2009, I pray that I'm still there... since He put me back here, then there must be a good reason for that. I just need patience to see the response...
Hot pot tonight, that's the food we had... and I'm having it for the end of 2008!
Taiwanese ice shaving tonight... looking forward to 2009!
posted by Jackie at 12/31/2008 11:43:00 AM
2 Comments:
Hey Jackie, it's been a while and I'm glad that life seems to be going well for you, if not predictably. Don't be discouraged, one of my favorite traits God has is even when you aren't thinking of Him, He still thinks of you. Having been a christian my entire life, I had felt at some points that I got the short end of the stick. I never had some great awakening to Him, I never experienced that moment when I saw the world in a new way like some many people who convert to christianity do. I've had those "spiritual highs" and thought that was may be what it was like, but they didn't last. I think consistency is key, no matter were I am emotionally. I think you just need to be available to Him all the time, so you are receptive to Him when He calls on you. Even in our mistakes we cannot derail God's plan, He can and will use us for His purposes despite us, but if you are reseptive than the glory is His and His promise is yours.
Sorry, I got a little long-winded there. Anyway, keep on keeping on Jackie!
-TCP
Hey TCP, yeah it's been a while. How have you been. I've had some really amazing time to serve God when I was back to Taiwan. I could feel that He's really pulling me closer to Him little by little. And yes, sometimes I couldn't tell why God's doing something on me when He's doing that in His way. but it always turned out to be that I realized it all of a sudden that it couldn't be another better way if it was not His.
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