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I remembered why…
… I hated alcohol with passion.
I know this kid. I spoke with him recently to learn that he and his mom are moving out. Why? His father is a drunk… a violent one at that. 
 His father would threaten him and the family. If the law was up to me, I’d allow imprisonment solely based upon physical threat upon an immediate family member. 
 Why must men do this??
The sad part is that his dad is not the first that I know of. Another sister in Christ suffers heavily from such a violent father. In fact, she doesn’t know the whereabouts of her mom because her mom ran away for her own safety, and because she was so scared for her own life, she didn’t let any of her children know where she disappeared to…
Why must we do such a thing to our own family. Alcohol itself isn’t evil. However, when you mix it with men, it becomes way too dangerous. Alcohol has to be one of the worst family breakers ever. I am ashamed to be a man because of such family violence that we cause. I seldom touch alcohol and it will become even less frequent as I hear more of such tragedies…
Please pray for the safety of the kid and his mom… and all the children and the spouses of abused out there. I’m sure God is more than sad to see this kind of brokenness. And men, please remember what addiction can do to your loved ones…
Hot Choco and God
With the “colder” weather around, I decided to make hot chocolate for the kids for snack  What is interesting is afterwards. Evidently, JJ decided to clean up after himself and wiped the spilled hot choco that was on the placemat. I somewhat chuckled at seeing his rather lame effort at the clean up.
Then it reminded me of how God would look at my way(s) of cleaning up my own mess in life, only to come after my attempts and He does His own clean up. I wonder if He chuckles as well seeing at His son’s lame attempt at cleaning up. 
 It also reminded me that I shouldn’t mock anybody else’s mistakes, but rather keep myself in check. It’s rather funny how God can re-teach lessons of life in so many ways.
I am humbled… yet again.
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Visiting people at their home
Soojin has had an opportunity to get closer to someone lately at our church. Usually, she’s somewhat reserved as she’s a bit … afraid of what others’ perception is of her. However, Soojin told me that this sister doesn’t seem to possess any negative feelings towards Soojin. In fact, I know she doesn’t. So Soojin has been more open towards her each time she saw her and encouraged her. For the first time, Soojin called her this week.
I don’t know what they talked about but she was then very determined to make a meal for her and wanted me to deliver it. You don’t know or understand how determined she can be if and when she sets her mind on it. So she made her recent new recipe of version of Mapo Tofu. It’s got loads of tofu and mushrooms. Let’s not forget that she’s a health freak. 
So she finishes it and wanted me to deliver it to her but then it turns out that our Wednesday meeting wasn’t at Formosan Church like it has been but instead it was at our church. Upon hearing this, the sister tells me to just give it to some other people that she sees regularly and they can give it to her. I agree and relay that to Soojin.
Remember how I mentioned that she can be very determined?! 
She was insistent on my delivering it to her personally. That same night. Even after church as we hung out at Teahouse to pre-celebrate Eric’s b-day 
, others (incl. PS) tried to convince me to just give it to them to have it delivered. However, I saw Soojin’s side of things and understood (at least better than others) why she so insisted on delivering it. Korean Christians are old school when it comes to visiting people. There’s even a Korean word (shim-bang, ie. visitation) for it. One of the many things that I believe Korean Christians have been doing right is visiting people personally, as in face to face time. They go to where the person(s) lives, and at their home, they pray for the person(s).
Sure in Korea, distance is shorter, but I feel that as we yield to the excuse of “long distance”, that personal touch of visitation and praying for each other in person has been lost. That I think is an awesome Christian art. So for me, it wasn’t an ordeal for me to drive out further, to see where the sister lives, and to pray for her there, at her home. We need to bring that back.
American culture may seem nice at first, keeping the distance, but at the heart of it, it only asks for one thing: alienation. Christ told us to meet together, and where two or more are gathered in His name, there He is with us. So despite others’ thinking that it’s waste of time and resources (mainly gas), Soojin and I think otherwise.