l’esprit de l’escalier
1. The feeling one gets after leaving a conversation, when one thinks of the things one should have said; afterwit.
2. Wisdom which comes after the event. The lack of forethought.
+Summer Log
SUMMER LONG GOALS:
-Get into the best physical shape of my life. Rep 225 lbs. on the bench, sub-6 mile, 7% body fat. Play lots of basketball, do lots of cardio, eat healthy, work out.
-READ BOOKS. My list of books to read (so far): Boy Meets Girl, Spiritual Leadership, The Cross Centered Life, Counterfeit Gods, Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary, Too Busy Not to Pray. More to come later.
-Spiritual discipline. Start a Quiet Time and Prayer journal.
-Plan for fall semester. Weekly meetings for LiNK, plan out servant team retreat and schedule for KCM.
-Travel. YOLO road trip across the country? SF trip? Camping trip?
-Learn languages! Complete Rosetta Stone for Spanish, start practicing at the Mexican businesses nearby.
Day 1:
-Got a good work out with my summer roomie, Peter Cho. Learned how to use the rowing machine (great cardio).
-Vacuumed the apartment for the first time in forever. Cleaned the bathrooms.
-Ate yogurt and cereal for lunch. Ate chicken and brown rice for dinner.
-STSM support letters.
-Prayed for 40 minutes.
Day 2:
-Brunch at Amandine.
-Dinner at Spitz, boba at Ozero.
Day 3:
-Worked out with Peter. Back, abs, and rowing machine.
-Planned some KCM and LiNK stuff for summer.
-Went to Riverside with Esther, Erika, and Connie for their cafe night.
-Prayed with teammates before spending the night at KCM Row.
Day 4:
-Went climbing/bouldering for the first time in my life, my forearms and hands are still on fire.
-Worked out my chest a bit at the climbing gym.
-Finished the Quad Hogg challenge at Hogg’s and got my picture taken for the wall.
-Went to UCR KCM and fellowship at JB’s.
Day 5:
-Worked out chest, and then did an intense 30-minute rowing session with Peter.
-Father’s Office with some friends. Saw some old faces.
-Church for a bit, and then Miss Coffee afterward.
-Bonding time with Timmy, TTom, and Jackie.
Day 6:
-SUPER SATURDAY. Durian wafers are disgusting. Stinky tofu is worse. Balot is delicious.
-Team bonding at Gilmok.
-Hanging out with the Outsiders, i.e. Helen and Pauline.
Day 7:
-Church with my apartment mates :) Glad to see Justin and Peter come out.
-Planning basketball tournament for STSM.
-Mission training + team hang-out at In-n-Out.
-Slept in the car in the garage. Sounds ridiculous, but the tranquility and quiet keep me coming back for more.
Day 8:
-Long day at the gym. Played a bunch of basketball for some cardio, and then did some bench.
-Laundry!
-Brother’s Appreciation Night dinner with the 101 girls :)
Day 9:
-Cooked some chicken for lunch.
-LiNK meeting with Kayleen. Tweeted some potential performers for this fall’s benefit concert just on a whim.
-Cleaned the apartment while having a pretty good conversation with Chang.
-ONE OF THE POTENTIAL PERFORMERS RESPONDS TO MY TWEET! WE’RE IN BUSINESS :)
-Went to the gym for the hardest work-out this summer. Repped 185 on the bench 5 times for 3 sets, killer shoulder work-out, strength training on the row machine.
-Saw Chris Fowler, Kirk Hirbstreit, and Erin Andrews (<3____<3) outside the Lyon Center.
Day 10:
-Woke up to a retweet by Erin Andrews!
-Sent an email to Kenny Choi from Daphne Loves Derby.
-Ate lunch with Chang and Jackie.
-UCLA for OMC dinner at Feast! Hung out at Tsung’s for a bit. Went to console Robert.
-Watched Pursuit of Happyness with Esther, Jackie, TTom, Pauline, and Jong.
Day 11:
-Cleaned the apartment.
-First Core meeting of the year! Bought everyone TG, and even if it ran for like 4 hours, I am blessed to have the opportunity to serve with these people.
-Worked out with Peter. Repped 195, and maxed out at 205 on the bench!
-Ate dinner with Peter, Yuri, and Jamie. Home-cooked salmon!
-Ozero with Pauline, Esther, and Chang. Walked around Little Tokyo for a bit, and then went to Wurstkuche, and then played pool for an hour, and then went to LACMA to take pictures, and finally returned back to CP. Yay for late night summer adventures!
Day 12:
-Worked out. Played some basketball.
-Went to Talbot graduation for Pastor Charlie. Dinner celebration at the Kang residence in Culver City.
Day 13:
-Woke up early, read.
-Church for mentorship with Pastor Charlie. Shot around for a bit afterward.
-Got a hair cut, but regrettably gave in to the temptation of eating KFC for lunch as I waited for my stylist to finish up her appointments :/
-Went to the gym an lifted for a bit, and then played two games of basketball.
-Fell asleep at 8pm, LOL.
Day 14:
-Woke up earlier than most Sundays, finished up missions homework.
-Went to church, probably Pastor Paul’s best sermon since the merger.
-Played some basketball at church.
-Ate Thai BBQ for lunch real quick (my diet…T___T), then off to missions training.
-Missions training was awesome, and I really appreciated Tuba’s seminar on spiritual warfare.
-Team hang-out at Guppy’s (my diet!…T___T).
-Attempted to watch Totoro with Ttom and Jong, but ko’ed.
Day 15:
-Miyako all-you-can-eat sushi with Peter, Bryan, and Lois!
-Couple games of basketball at Lyon Center. Threw the football around for a bit afterward.
-Yard House for dinner and drinks.
-Watched The Dictator (worst movie of all time).
-Attempted to watch Puss in Boots with Ttom and Pauline, but ko’ed again :(
Day 16:
-Lunch with Justin.
-Did some pull-ups and push-ups at home.
-El Chato for dinner.
Day 17:
-Filipino Consulate to get our visas with my team, King Taco for lunch afterward.
-Gym by myself :( chest, shoulders, triceps.
-Homecooked vegan dinner :)
Day 18:
-Core meeting :) and then Myeongdong Donkatsu for lunch with Core.
-Figured some finance stuff out for KCM next year.
-Worked out on the track with Peter. Abs and back, and then ran a mile. Pleasantly surprised at a 7:23 mile time, but still no where near where I want it to be. Hopefully I can get it around 6:00 before the end of summer.
-LAST SUPPER WITH TTOM.
Day 19:
-Cleaned out my closet, organized some LiNK and KCM stuff into shelves/boxes, moved out some old clothes and shoes, reclaimed space on my desk.
-Took care of some finances at the bank. Becoming a man by improving my money management and financial budgeting skills!
-Went with Hannah and Justin to buy some paint at Home Depot.
-Painted our apartment with Justin for a couple hours, ended the night with well-deserved McDonald’s.
Day 20:
-Paint fumes gave me a headache in the morning, couldn’t go to discipleship.
-At lunch at Spitz with Esther nuna! Had some Ozero afterwards, and then Scoops (where we met up with Yochan!). Good times with 3 generations of KFCUMC’ers, reminiscing about the good ole Michigan days.
+No matter where we are today or what mistakes we’ve made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.
Joshua Harris +We have six-thousand manuscripts, or portions of manuscripts, just to the New Testament alone. If we pull in the Old Testament, we’d push over the twenty-thousand mark, but let’s just talk about the New Testament, because that’s what everybody’s attacking. Six-thousand manuscripts, or portions of manuscripts, of the New Testament alone. Six-thousand.
Now, you may not be impressed by that number. But, let me share with you: Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars. We’ve got less than a dozen copies of Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars. How do we know what we know about Julius Caesar? Through Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars. We’ve got less than a dozen copies. New Testament? Six-thousand. Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars, less than a dozen.
How about Aristotle’s poetics? Aristotle’s poetics; that’s how we know about the writings of Aristotle! We’ve got less than ten copies of Aristotle’s poetics. New Testament? Six-thousand manuscripts or portions of manuscripts. Aristotle’s poetics, less than ten.
How about the writings of Socrates? How many manuscripts do we have of the writings of Socrates? Answer: Zero. The only thing we know about Socrates is that which was written by Plato. There are no surviving writings of Socrates. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. New Testament? Six-thousand manuscripts or portions of manuscripts. The writings of Socrates, none.
‘Yes, but I heard we don’t have any of the originals.’ You’re right, we don’t have any of the originals. You’re right. As a matter of fact, the earliest thing we can put our hands on was written down probably about A.D. 120. Which is around two and a half decades of the writings of the originals.
‘Ha! Gotcha!’ Yeah, you got me. Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars; earliest thing we can touch: a thousand years after the original. Aristotle’s poetics; earliest thing we can touch: fourteen hundred years after the originals. Socrates; got nothing! Homer’s Iliad; the earliest thing we can put our hands on: two-thousand one hundred years after the original. New Testament? Within two and a half decades.
Voddie Baucham +The Church needs artists because without art we cannot reach the world. The simple fact is that the imagination ‘gets you,’ even when your reason is completely against the idea of God. ‘Imagination communicates,’ as Arthur Danto says, ‘indefinable but inescapable truth.’ Those who read a book or listen to music expose themselves to that inescapable truth. There is a sort of schizophrenia that occurs if you are listening to Bach and you hear the glory of God and yet your mind says there is no God and there is no meaning. You are committed to believing nothing means anything and yet the music comes in and takes you over with your imagination. When you listen to great music, you can’t believe life is meaningless. Your heart knows what your mind is denying. We need Christian artists because we are never going to reach the world without great Christian art to go with great Christian talk.
Tim Keller +
This is the Michigan legacy. Go blue!
+How is this even fair? This is like a freaking dream team of choreographers…ABDC 7 locked up already.
+Questions to Consider
1. Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
2. Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
3. Do I confidentially pass onto another what was told me in confidence?
4. Am I a slave to dress, friends, work , or habits?
5. Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
6. Did the Bible live in me today?
7. Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?
8. Am I enjoying prayer?
9. When did I last speak to someone about my faith?
10. Do I pray about the money I spend?
11. Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
12. Do I disobey God in anything?
13. Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
14. Am I defeated in any part of my life?
15. Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy or distrustful?
16. How do I spend my spare time?
17. Am I proud?
18. Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisee who despised the publican?
19. Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I going to do about it?
20. Do I grumble and complain constantly?
21. Is Christ real to me?
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