Embarrassing worship

I went to church at First Assembly on Sunday morning, where this couple was awkwardly standing in the second row during worship. Everyone else was sitting and singing, the lights weren't even dim, and the middle aged couple just stood there lifting up their arms and moving their body in worship. They totally stuck out. How embarrassed would I be to be so bold?

Then the words entered my heart: "Do not criticize anothers worship until you know what God has brought them through." I could only begin to imagine the dependence that the couple had on God. I just sat and thought about what miracles God could have performed in their lives to make them so passionate. I can see their passion, but could I see the possible grief in the past that would bring them into this kind of submission to Him? King David worshiped freely and even bore criticism from his wife for his foolishness, but only after experiencing God's providence in the depths of his despair.

Tears welled up in my eyes as I realized that these things are too wonderful for me to know. Tears streamed across my face as I stood too.

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Credit Card Debt Free

I paid off all of my credit card debt today, which kind of accumulated when I loved in the Bay Area 7 months ago. Praise God!

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Weddings and couples

Dude, I have a wedding to go to this weekend (Tim and Stacy), next weekend (Fred and Cindy), in Feb (Tim Mak and Amy), in March (I think?... Sam Chang and Trevor), and June (Ryan and Suky). Being content with God alone... good luck to me as I sit there alone, surrounded by couples. It's so sad sounding that it's actually kind of funny to me.

Last night one of my closest friends (Lisa Hsu) from high school invited my sister and I to have dinner with her parents, another older couple, her and her boyfriend Tom. My sister couldn't make it, so it was 3 couples plus myself. What was I doing there? Awkward... to say the least.

Life of David... life in Mono. (Stolen from "Life of Yobo... life in mono.")

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TAing Nietszche philosophy class

I'm a TA for a literature class that covers Sophocles, Shelley, and Nietszche (Quoted "God is dead"). The first lecture was all about how the Renaissance was a time when people turned away from Providence to Fortuna (Chance). It was a time of tension between Christian faith and reason, meaning that they advanced away from blind faith toward scientific reason. I'm supposed to teach that crap! Haha! So I sat there in the lecture hall listening to the stuff that I'll be going over in section, while wearing my InterVarsity sweatshirt and my WWJD red bracelet.

Evolving toward science away from God?! Berkeley forced enough molecular biology into my head that my little pinky has more scientific exposure that the room of liberal arts students combined (not to be cocky, but I'm mad). Science, reason, and truth point toward Jesus Christ. God is the architect of all that we see. History and testimony verifies the Word of Truth. I'm going to teach it all right... teach it my way. ;)