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11/26/2017

I used to think gratitude was about thanking God for the things he’s placed in your life. For the roof he’s placed over your head, the food he’s placed on your table, the opportunities he’s placed in your path, and you know, the little things you often take for granted. Now I know that gratitude is also about thanking him for the things he’s protected you from. For the diseases you didn’t get, the relationships that didn’t work out, the dreams that died in order for you to come alive. Gratitude is about thanking God for both the answered and unanswered prayers. It’s about seeing him in his absence as much as his presence.
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I feel like often times we look for him in the things we have and we end up giving him half-hearted gratitude because we miss the whole other side to how he’s working in our lives. We rarely ever look for him in the silences and vacancies, and yet that’s the very place we’re likely to find him. So I challenge you to do a 360 degree search for gratitude this Thanksgiving. Cover all grounds. Because we have a God who works in the margins and with the marginalized. He loves working in the unseen and with the unseen. So thank him for both the haves and have nots this Thanksgiving. Because there’s more blessings to reap and more gratitude to gain, if you can find him in both. Wishing everyone a jubilant Thanksgiving.
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Sharon Kim, creator of Can Plan cancer planner and HuffPost blogger :)

11/25/2017

The Baby Boomer generation focused on stability as a priority for their careers. Us Millennials rejected stability in favor of pursuing our passion. I believed that my generation had found a superior way to happiness and fulfillment in life.
Since I graduated in 2013, I have been pursuing my passion. But living the dream didn't turn out how I expected to. I thought that if I did meaningful work, I would live a meaningful life. I thought that if I pursued my dreams, I would find happiness. But somehow I was still unhappy and life still felt meaningless.
If life is a road trip, my work is the car. Baby Boomers chose to drive a soccer mom van for comfort and security. As a Millennial, I chose a Tesla for excitement and sexiness. I thought I had made a better choice. But it really didn't matter what kind of car I drove on the road trip of life because I didn't even know where I was going. I had been speeding along the highway of life, windows down, music on full blast. For a while it was fun, but as time passed on, I realized that I was lost. There was no difference between comfort or excitement because I didn't even know my destination.
So it is with life. It doesn't matter what I do if I don't know why I do it. The most menial tasks can fill me full of meaning and the most captivating work can still leave me completely empty. It just depends on my why.
Sonsern Lin, founder of

11/16/2017

I thought that as long as I lived a moral life and respected God that I would also be able to pursue my own life, my own dreams, my own desires. I never fully comprehended that following Jesus was an all or nothing proposition. I didn't realize that halfway commitment was just as futile as complete disregard for God. Maybe that's why God would rather have me be hot or cold, because if I am cold, at least I know where I stand. To be warm is to live in a great deception.
"The almost impossibly hard thing is to hand over your whole self to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is remain what we call “ourselves”—our personal happiness centered on money or pleasure or ambition—and hoping, despite this, to behave honestly and chastely and humbly. And that is exactly what Christ warned us you cannot do. If I am a grass field—all the cutting will keep the grass less but won’t produce wheat. If I want wheat… I must be plowed up and re-sown." - CS Lewis
I thought the point of life was to have awesome grass. So I became a pro grass trimmer. Other Christians would even compliment me on the health and vibrance of my grass. But I no longer want grass. I want to be plowed up and re-sown so that I might begin to produce 🌾 . I want to reorient my schedule, my priorities, my very life around Christ. I want to fully die to myself so that Christ might reign in me.
I have lived my whole life as if the world revolved around myself, so making the switch will be challenging. The first adjustment I am making is to reorient my schedule around intimacy with God. In the past, time with God was an afterthought that was squeezed into my schedule on an irregular and half-hearted basis. For the rest of 2018, time with God will become the center of my schedule, and life will be fit into the gaps.

11/15/2017

This past October, I went on a Silence & Solitude Retreat to discover the meaning of "seek first the Kingdom". The months leading up to this retreat, I had been going through a season of immense anxiety and a perpetual sense of meaninglessness as a result of some difficult life circumstances. Life felt out of control, my dreams seemed out of reach, and failure felt like my only future. I had moments when no longer existing seemed better than existing in the pain. I went up the mountain at the lowest point in my life.
In the mountains, there were no distractions. Just me, my anxiety, and hopefully, God. The whole first day, I was just trying to survive. The anxiety was overwhelming and I couldn't seem to find God.
So I decided to wander further up the mountain. I ended up stumbling upon a monk cemetery. While soaking in the faithfulness of several generations, I began to notice several flies swarming around me as they would a dead animal. Figuring that I was inhabiting their home, I decided to walk away. But the swarm of flies followed me. I started running, but they kept following me. The swarm of flies remained with me for over an hour. This bizarre experience got me thinking. Could it be that even though I looked alive and thriving on the outside, I actually was dead and rotting on the inside?
My whole life, I had lived as an exemplary Christian. I had served faithfully in the church, shown kindness to others and practiced generosity. I knew all the Bible verses and worship songs. I had become a pro at being a good person. But I was living under the deception that if I lived an upright life and worshipped God, I would also be free to pursue my own wealth, success and happiness. In my time in silence and solitude, I realized that I had always used God for my own purposes instead of allowing him to use me for his purposes. I believe that God allowed me to fail at all my endeavors and experience the meaningless of worldly pursuits so that I might have the opportunity to see my folly. It is my desire going forward to more fully understand what it means to seek first his Kingdom, so that I can begin to live a life that is truly life.

10/16/2017

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