I wasn't ready

It's interesting. It's interesting the thoughts I had before moving to a different country. Was I really ready?

"I'm so ready to move and get out of the only place I have ever called home for 20 years."

"Everything is going to be fine. I'm sure it will all fall into place."

"I like talking with people. It won't be hard to make friends."

"Korea sends out more missionaries than any other country. Finding a church will be easy."

I find myself the past few weeks doubting each one of those confident thoughts and thinking "wow, I was really not ready." Some days are very hard.  I now understand why people say it is so important to do missions in teams and to prepare before you go. Why did I not treat this more like a mission rather than just a regular move? My heart and my mind was not ready to move away to a far away new home. But even in realizing this, I believe in God's grace to carry me through this new season.  I read this quote this morning and it gave me so much encouragement:

This new season looms and I don’t know what is next. But He doesn’t need me to be ready for this season because He is ready. He just needs me to be clinging to His feet.
By Katie Davis, Kisses from Katie

I know clinging. The past few years I have become quite acquainted with clinging to His feet, but I even need His grace to help me do this. Everything else I may not be ready for, but one thing is for sure....clinging to His feet is where I want to be, where I NEED to be.

Thankful Thought:

Our household good will be arriving today. I'm thankful more of my time will be busy and that I get to play house for the next week setting everything up :)

exploring new territory

For news years we went exploring with our new friend Ben. He took us to Uijeongbu which is about 30 minutes away. Getting to see a little bit more of Korea was really fun.

Coffee was the first stop on our grand tour

interesting statue... looks like they are getting married

This market is bigger than Pikes Place in Seattle

Kimche..... NDE is def not a fan

SOOO many fresh fruits

absolutely LOVING being together again!!!

very random bear that we found

we had to stop at this cute little bakery....so glad we did!



Ben and NDE

To end the night we went on top of our apartment building. Ben took this amazing shot of us :)

New Years was really fun this year. We got to do a lot of NEW things. Haven't really thought about any resolutions. I actually haven't even processed all of 2011 yet. Instead of resolutions, I like to look back on the previous year and see how Abba Father moved in my life. I also spend a significant amount of time/days seeking the God's heart for the year to come. (To see what promises, visions, or words of insight the Lord wants to give me.) This next week I hope to figure some of that out...I'm not sure if I post about that, but if you think about it please pray for me to be able to see and receive God's heart for 2012.

Thankful Thought:

For God imparting his sweet presence to be near to NDE and I. We are remaining encouraged. Yesterday, we found a really great series called Seals, Trumpets, and Bowls: Studies in the Book of Revelation by Mike Bickle. It is my first time to actually study Revelation. NDE and I are really looking forward to this series!!