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| I've missed writing!
I was looking around xanga posts from the past and realize now that there is so much richness to be plumbed from writing down one's own experiences, reading about other's in this way. It's funny how I've become accustomed to writing on an Internet forum and not in my physical diary except when whim takes me...
may this be the place I go to instead of Facebook. This xanga, at least, has the potential for some depth and thought.
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| Devotions 1.14.08
“Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, and
a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus,
they asked him, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’ He said to them, ‘If any
of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take
hold of it and lift it out? How much more valuable is a man than a sheep!
Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” –The Story of Jesus, Matthew
Chapter 12, Verse 15
My first reaction is, Duh. “It is lawful to do good on the
Sabbath”? Is it ever unlawful to do
good? But then I think about this situation and it makes me want to weep
because I realize that I operate by the rules which might have asked for evil
to be done most of the time; if Jesus hadn’t been there, and I had instead, I
would have thought about the rules instead of the human need right in front of
me and walked helplessly past. God tells us what is good especially when we
scream out to him that it goes against the rules, that it’s not right, that it
isn’t how the universe works. What do we know
about the universe? We’re human beings who would rather follow the rules most
ingrained in us by our life experiences or by our communities, rather than
follow the Lord of peace and love and good. This
is why hope and faith are good, but love
is the best of the three: because love sees with eyes that go beyond what the
mind can comprehend and the heart can hope for. Love sees what is, rather than
what “could be” or “should be.”
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| back from Beijing!
Missing China whilst rejoicing for California's cool breezes. One precious week until I go back to Amherst...
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| {{It was like the Power Asian Uni Gathering}} for real. <3We were seated, arranged comfortably around a table topped with real boba tea when I realized how much. How much a part of me has yearned to see again all of my dearest friends (now I have to add the label, "from home"). Not just for seeing the people I remember (you, probably), but smiling with them over Lee's and Le Dip; or, making jokes about each other which would only resonate within the deeply introspective, slightly sarcastic (egotistical? :0) Uni culture of friendship.
I had forgotten how much friendship and love make life joyful. Yay for loving grandparents, too! 
Listening To: The many CDs a friend burned for me during senior year. More Irvine  , basically.
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| On Being Vegetarian until Beijing, or for a week.It's actually not that hard, because meat--rather than juicy deliciousness--become something you avoid along with pieces of gristle or fat. That said, there are moments of mourning for pieces of fish that I can't eat, or for bulgogi I can smell cooking in the kitchen...
But isn't life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? I'm fasting from meat and Facebook, two unlikely things to fast from--unless you see that I'm a meat-loving, Facebook-addicted college student! I want to live for more than material things, and sacrifice these two material qualities in the hope that I'll learn to live for more than myself, for the here-and-now.
And an interesting twist to life: in Beijing (nine more days!), I'll be an international student!
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