What words are you using?

So if you have been reading my blog for a while you know I love God first and foremost. But you also know I have a love for all things Korean, so much so I have been learning the language for the past year and a half. It is a beautiful language and oddly not as hard to learn as you’d think considering the letters look more like pictures. My friend will often tease me by reading Korean characters based on what the symbols look like (to them) something like this, “the standing man is hugging a tree and crossing his legs” (yes, they’re a little abnormal… it’s why I love them).  Learning this language is one of the things God used to help me step out of my box and explore the world around me. Today I have been thinking a lot about the things we let into our world, and how each new interaction changes us. Oddly I would never have this interaction with Korean had I not had surgery. I had six weeks of recuperation, which for a person who doesn’t really like being bored, was the most horrible experience, EVER. After a couple weeks of American TV and old movies I was going crazy. Enter the internet. I started surfing the web, watching random videos, I landed on a link for a Korean drama called Boys Before Flowers. I was hooked. It was both hilarious and refreshing. I then decided it would be more fun to understand what they were saying instead of just reading English subtitles, and thus started my journey into learning the Korean language. What’s the point of this very long story? Sometimes bumps in the road and potholes on the journey is God’s way of saying step out of the box, try something new. Don’t just settle for the same old. One year later my Korean journey saw me spending three weeks in Korea on a missions trip. I am not sure why I felt the need to write this today, probably because I know that we  can miss so many things because we tend to stay with what we know. We stay in the box. So today just a little encouragement don’t miss your adventure because you’re too comfortable. Find the “NEW” that God has for you.

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19).

Lesson: Don’t settle for comfort, seek the adventure. Don’t miss God’s NEW