ee: it's obvious that i am not a natural blogger.
ar: this past year, i've struggled to make sense of the stuff floating in my brain. i feel like i'm swimming in thought but am not sure how to make sense of it.
sahn: rather than twitter, i figure i can try doing something that's a tried-and-true technique for me: focus on one theme/thought.

AND SO, be it resolved this fourth day of november, that i shall attempt to keep a running list of Things I Learned Today.
AND SO, i shall attempt to make sense of my life, while dragging any helpless readers along on the journey.
AND THUS, unsubscribing is always an option, as aforementioned resolution may involve lots of boring details.

Things I Learned Yesterday (today's not over, after all):
-(from P. Peter): there's something called genius pacts, where people get together to work on actualizing each other's potential. or something like that. very intriguing....
-the difference between no sugar and one packet of sugar in one's starbucks green tea is enough to take the bitter edge off. so though it doesn't taste sweet, maybe one packet is enough.
-(sobering) when thinking through something, i like to look at every side. likewise, when i am speaking, it is very important to me that others know that i have done said work. if that is not understood, i can take it personally.

i realize now that it might be a good idea for me to include, regularly, a sobering thought, one that humbles/frustrates me about myself. hey, transparency is a good thing. so is humility. so maybe the more i practice it, the easier it will be for me to eat that pie.

yowsers! it's been a year since my last post. guess age really does catch up with you at an exponential rate after ... ahem, the age of 21.

sorry i've been so pitiful about posting. i'm really still learning this whole "electronic mail" and "world wide web" thing, so stuff like xanga has obviously suffered. i've resisted facebook tooth and nail, but finally had to sign up because of a retreat committee i'm on, believe it or not. alas, time to grudgingly move into the 21st century.

so in the last year...well, i graduated from seminary finally, about two weeks ago. correction: i will officially graduate at the end of this summer, when i complete my internship at emmanuel covenant church, an african-american church in orland park (the first). yeah, can you believe i'm finally done after 5 years? crazy.

looks like the summer will be packed; i'm preparing to do some teaching at a summer retreat of a friend, as well as preparing for a retreat held by the women ministries of my denomination, the evangelical covenant church. if you're a woman member of the ECC, you should definitely make it out to triennial XIII in d.c.! i was absolutely blown away by the kinds of things covenant women ministries are doing, and it is going to be an exciting time.

what else...i completed a field ed this past semester with my interim pastor, soong-chan, who was a great mentor. the experience solidified my desire to work in multiethnic ministry and to work at owning my place in ministry, though i know i'll have to carve out a different place of my own. it was a transformative time, as this whole season of my life is, and i'm still trying to figure out how to take it all in.

other than that, we're still figuring things out. hope you all are doing well. -v