Faith

Creative Love

October 19, 2016

Love isn't stagnant; it doesn't stop where it first began. 
Love is ever moving and ever growing. 
Love is creative. 


This past Sunday service at Hillsong LA was a special service in which we launched Hillsong's new album, "Let There Be Light." Although I'm not a big fan of having to wait in a long line that snakes around the corner of the street just to get into a church service, it was here that I was reminded of how powerful it is to love creatively. 

Just as love inspires new songs in our hearts, love has the power of creating something new and fresh. And we are a world hungry for something new, something creative, something inspiring. We see it in our mindless habit of scrolling through Facebook and Instagram feed, just seeking for something innovative and awe inspiring. 


Love inspires. Love attracts. Love creates. 

As a recent graduate, I've been thinking a lot about the purpose behind my life and what I will be doing with my time here on earth. In thinking about all this, I realized the question that proceeds what I am created to do is the question of why I am created. 

But perhaps the answer to the why is love. Just as love has inspired an entire album of new songs, perhaps it was love that inspired God to create us. Perhaps we are the byproduct of love, for love, to love; a creative masterpiece created out of an expression of God's love for us. 

We all express love in different ways, but when you are inspired by love, the outcome is an overflow of creativity. I believe it is out of this creative process that each of us were created, new and unique. 

Inspired by such a creative love of the Creator, I want my expression of love to be creative, constantly seeking new ways to love, to create, and to encourage. I am excited to see how a creative love can shine its light in our world today. 

Travel

The Super Rest

October 10, 2016

One thing about my family is that each summer, we go on a family camping trip. Over the years, I've been to more National Parks than I can count with my two hands. But THIS camping trip was one that was one of the most beautiful. 

We tetris packed our car with all our camping gears and drove over 1,000 miles from Chicago to Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park.


When it comes to camping trips, it's never just about the destination, but about the whole car ride there and back. 17 hours of being forced to sit down in a small contained space with family means listening to parents' funny childhood stories, going through all 7 CDs of dad's old pop song albums, and getting lost in my daydreams. 



Throughout this camping trip, I had my phone on airplane mode, and went into a "super rest" mode, finding a cure to the infectious millennial disease of phone addiction. 



Lying down in our cozy tent while looking out into these tall wild tress, I couldn't stop saying to myself, "ì•„... 행복하다." ("I'm so happy"). 



Even though every time I had to use the restroom, I had to walk up this hill to the public bathroom station, this view on the way made it hard to complain about the inconvenience. This photo was taken early in the morning with fresh morning dew still moist in the air. Simply beautiful. I could not stop overflowing with praise and thanksgiving, thinking about how this magnificent sunrise happens every morning. What a gift each day is! 


Reminded of God's goodness and His faithfulness looking at this rainbow over our campsite one afternoon. 

Dad thought it would be fun to do a plank on this wooden bridge.


Breathing in this awe inspiring nature, the creative side in me started to awaken, and my brain started to fire up so many ideas for the future. My number one strength, according to Strengthsfinder 2.0 is that I'm "futuristic." Which basically means that I get excited about the future and am good at getting people inspired by what is to come. This time of rest has been a preparation stage of storing up inspirations to be unleashed in the future. This trip took place in a pivotal transition period in my life, of having recently graduated from college and of moving out of home into the new land of Los Angeles. I do not know yet where this life will take me. However, I am excited about it. Even if life keeps throwing me darts of discouragements, I will pick up the courage of knowing that the God who so wonderfully crafted this beautiful nature is also crafting my life story.


My life is filled with spontaneous projects and random adventures, so I'm not sure what type of blog "click of a moment" will turn out to be. But one thing I do know is that my heart is filled with ideas and hopes, and I just have a feeling this is just the beginning of an incredible adventure. 



Thanks for reading, and welcome to my blog :) 



x SKH