Allergy Cure of the Day: Rooibos Tea

Well, if you have allergies as badly as I do, you try just about anything (except for needles!!).  I have tried the neti pot without much success.  I may try again before the allergy season ’cause I started using neti pot in the peak of it and it was too late to help… so is the theory of my “resident mother” at my work place.

Well, my other “mother” read on this thing called rooibos tea that supposedly cured this one article writer.  So I got mine from Amazone.com and it smells… interesting.  Here’s to ridding of allergies…

The Pursuit of Happyness: Personal Review

I’ve been afraid of many things before… and weirdly enough, watching this movie is in that same place.  Wondering why?  It’s because I can see myself in that same place.  Losing everything, having nothing going right, and having to sacrifice just about anything so that he could provide.  For his son.

I cried practically from the get go of the movie.  I felt and saw every bit of this man’s struggles and heart tearing life… The last 5 minutes of the movie… was the best tear jerker in my life.  Fatherhood is something no man should ever think lowly of… he sure didn’t.

I can only pray that I can be that committed to my family and our well being.  I don’t own a home.  Life may be hard but I have a family to be thankful for… roof over our heads, food to eat.  Watch this movie … to understand the heart of a father.

Ask not what your God can do for you…

… but what you can do for your God!

That’s what I’d say now. I used to say, borrowing from the words of JFK, “Ask not what your church can do for you, but what you can do for your church!” But I am realizing lately that even that is a selfish statement and request. In fact, in light of discussion with PS after tonight’s Bible study, I am realizing how selfish I have been and am… and how selfish we all are.

We grew up with everything expecting to be certain way… be it same or different from what/how others perceive that as. And because of that, we, more than another person, are more prone to resisting change. That’s not necessarily bad… but it is when that change is mandated by God! I feel that more than often, that I myself am that factor that resists the change that God wants to bring.. for the good of His kingdom! John Ortberg spoke of many things in the following video from this year’s PGF (Presbyterian Global Fellowship) but one thing that stuck to me was when he used the word “conduits” to imply our role to bring God’s Kingdom to hear on earth.

The way double pane windows and thermos work is by using vacuum inbetween two materials. Vacuum is what prevents the heat from being transferred between two places. If you wanted the heat to be transferred faster, you’d either use better conducting fluid (like water) or just use metal inbetween. Sometimes, we Christians act more like vacuum than water and keep from God’s kingdom from coming down to here on earth. And we must stop that by being less and less selfish. More of Christ, less of me. Less of you.

“Comatose” by Skillet

Very powerful lyrics… read it… esp. where I accentuated it… without God, I am in a comatose and only an “overdose of Him” will wake me up. Good stuff… I will get the song up later tonight…

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I hate feeling like this
I’m so tired of trying to fight this
I’m asleep and all I dream of
Is waking to You
Tell me that You will listen
Your touch is what i’m missing
And the more I hide I realize I’m slowly losing You
Comatose
I’ll never wake up without an overdose of You
I don’t wanna live, I dont wanna breathe
‘Les I feel you next to me
You take the pain I feel
Waking up to You never felt so real
I don’t wanna sleep, I don’t wanna dream
‘Cause my dreams don’t comfort me
The way You make me feel
Waking up to You never felt so real
I hate living without You
Dead wrong to ever doubt You
But my demons lay in waiting
Tempting me away
Oh how I adore You
Oh how I thirst for You
Oh how I need You
Comatose
I’ll never wake up without an overdose of You
I don’t wanna live, I dont wanna breathe
‘Les I feel You next to me
You take the pain I feel
Waking up to You never felt so real
I don’t wanna sleep, I don’t wanna dream
‘Cause my dreams don’t comfort me
The way you make me feel
Waking up to You never felt so real
Breathing life
Waking up
My eyes open up
Comatose
I’ll never wake up without an overdose of You
I don’t wanna live, I dont wanna breathe
‘Les I feel You next to me
You take the pain I feel
Waking up to You never felt so real
I don’t wanna sleep, I don’t wanna dream
‘Cause my dreams don’t comfort me
The way You make me feel
Waking up to You never felt so real
Oh how I adore You
Waking up to You never felt so real
Oh how I thirst for You
Waking up to You never felt so real
Oh how I adore You
The way You make me feel
Waking up to You never felt so real

Teeth Incident

Ah the joys of raising kids… I was going to let them watch bit of TV (JJ loves Thomas the Tank Engine) and then off to the library for Thursday’s Family Time.  Then all of a sudden, Anna rushes to me crying!  Hard! 

She was bleeding in her mouth… turns out Anna was biting on a blanket, and JJ pulled on it.  Hard!  Her teeth were loose… Yikes.  After much panicking, I called Soojin and then Sanghee for advice.  Both told me to ice her teeth area to rid the pain.

After some time, bleeding stopped and spoke with her dentist who told me what I needed to hear.  Don’t bother taking her to ER ’cause all we will do is wait and they won’t do anything.  She told me to just ice it, stop the bleeding, and feed her liquids and soft foods only.

Ah the excitement of raising children… one bites and one pulls.