Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Faith

This is the character for all the words related to faith.  In Japanese, it's incorporated into the words: faith, belief, to believe, etc.  It's made up of two parts.  To the left, is the radical for person, 人.  To the right, the radical for speak, 言.  

Faith, a man who speaks.  Because what good is faith when you just keep it in, all to yourself?  Faith is not real until it is lived out and shared.  We all know the passage that says "In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." (James 2:17).  However, there is another passage in Philemon that says "I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ." (Philemon 6).  Not only does faith manifest itself in our actions, it is also good for us to gain a better understanding of what God has really done for us.  As we share, it becomes more real to us, and we begin to truly understand the awesome things God does in our lives.  We stop sharing, we stop remembering, and we begin to lose sight on the goodness of God.  

Talk.  Speak.  Man was meant to converse.  So whether with nonbelievers, or with fellow brothers and sisters, talk about God, and what he is doing.  

Friday, April 17, 2009

Japanese Project Test



先週の週末にソフトボール・トーナメントがありました。このトーナメントは毎年KCMをするトーナメントです。KCMはかんこくのクリスチャンのグループで、いつも一に二度スポーツトーナメントをします。去年に私たちがかちました(Won)。トーナメントに大学がたくさん出ました。大学USCUCLAUCSDUCIUCRから来ました。このトーナメントは八時から四時まででしたが、はじめからおわりまでたのしかったです。USC はチームが二つありました。USC AUSC Bといいました。私はこのUSC Bチームにいました。

これはBちーむです。 

わたしたちはあまりつよくなかったです。UCIのチームが私たちにかちました。でも、プレーオフで

私たちはUCIにかちました。そのあとで、とてもうれしかったです。UCIにかつからじゅんけっしょう(Semifinals)に行けました。USC A もじゅんけっしょうに行きました。でも、USC AUSC Bがまけました。私たちのUSC BUCLA Bに20たい0でまけました。とてもはずかしいEmbarassing)ですね。でも、だいじょうぶでした。でも、USC Aのじゅんけっしょ

のゲームはWorld Baseball Classicのけっしょうのようでした。USC Aはアウットが一ついりましたが、UCSD A のせんしゅはまんるいホームランをしました。ざんねんでしたね。でも、かたなかったですけど、たのしかったです。



この人は私じゃないですけど、私の名前がありますね。パクはたくさんある名前じゃないんですけど、トーナメントにパクさんがたくさにましたよ。










そして、これはUSCのKCMです。

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Friends

I always have that wish, that all my friends could somehow meet each other, and become friends themselves.  I wish KCM friends could meet church friends, that STSM friends could meet USC friends, etc.  But I realized, for all of us who have accepted God's gift of love, we're going to have an eternity to spend with each other.  And then, in our glorified bodies, without awkwardness, we can really have true fellowship.  We'll have eternity to get to know each other, and to really love each other as we were meant to.  I can't wait for that.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Monday, March 9, 2009

It's been a month...

...I feel like this is a trend, with my blogs, with my journal.  Everytime I attempt to log my life, I end up recording about once a month.  


Which is better than never, I guess.  I realized that I haven't had one of those crazy bible reading moments in a while... the kind where you read a verse, and all of a sudden all of life's questions are answered.  Maybe it's because I don't seek it?  DT reading is awesome, and it keeps me accountable, but I realized that I'm depending on the schedule to find God in the word, instead of seeking him through the words.  


It's funny what people write in blogs.   They expect Nobody to read them, yet they expect Everyone to read them.  It's uncomfortable for a person to be reading over our shoulders as we type, yet we expose [some of] our secrets for the whole world to see.  I wish, the things that I would write in a blog, I could easily share with another person.  But blogging too much gets you used to monologuing; you forget the intricacies and profundity of a dialogue.  

It's interesting, isn't it, that we rate the conversations that we have, not based on the content of what we say, but on how we feel.  We seek intellectual, emotional, spiritual, etc etc  stimulation from the words we say and hear.  Maybe, if we seek, not the stimulation, but the words themselves, if we could truly listen to what a person has to say, then we could learn a lot more, and care a lot more.  Which actually brings me full circle, without me knowing it... hahah crazy!


Do I seek stimulation when I read the Bible?  Or do I seek GOD?

Do you care for the fun people, or do you love them?

Do You love emotion, or do You love GOD?

And so, there goes another, self-thought based blog.  Recalling verses has been hard to do lately, being out of touch with the bible.  I guess it's now time to get my sword, sharpen it, polish it, equip it...

CHR[l.o.v.e]IST - my new signature.  Don't just read it, think about it.  We love, but not by ourselves.  We love because Christ first loved us, and in his love we are able to love.  

Be in Christ!

-Joseph S Pak

Thursday, February 5, 2009

There is thankfulness...

...And then there's clinginess.  I can be grateful for the lovely weather in Southern California, for the calm, safe, quiet atmosphere of the suburbs of Laguna, etc etc.  But if I'm not willing to let it go, it's an idol to me.  I should learn to love the things I have, but remember that keeping the good things in life is not all that important.  If God calls me away from everything I know and like, then so be it.  I should be willing to listen.  

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Silver

It tarnishes.  I opened my drawer, and I realized that I had amassed quite a number of collectable spoons in the years that I had been collecting them.  I unfortunately had not found any in India =[ but, I still had a lot.  Buttt..... looking at all the silver plated ones, I saw that they were all black and yellow and blue!  =[ Stupid 7th grade me for forgetting that silver will eventually tarnish.  Even though I didn't notice it then, I for sure see it now...

gotta clean them up now