I recently started to write for a monthly devotional publication – Living Life: A Journal of Spiritual Formation & Reflection (It is published by Duranno and the English version is translated into Spanish and Russian), and guess what I’ve discovered about myself? I love writing. I even consider writing to be a potential strength for [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘life’
August 8, 2009
A Korean Funeral
This past week, my uncle passed away from cancer so I had the opportunity to experience a full-fledged Buddhist Korean funeral. When I got to the hospital, I had to pay my respects to his son and his mother and then we were ushered into this room where the dead body was (it was covered with [...]
May 23, 2009
The Power of Shame in Asian Cultures
I have never heard so much about suicide until moving to Korea. Sure, there were the occasional suicide stories in the news back in Canada and in Hollywood, but to so frequently read the names of celebrities, political leaders, and high-profile individuals in the headlines in apposition with the deadly words, “suicide,” was unfathomable.
“South Korean [...]
January 13, 2009
Life in Korea: Priorities
Upon arriving to Korea a few months ago, life has been hectic, and it’s been quite the struggle to find an opportunity to blog. I love blogging, but life has just been overwhelming.
One of the blessings of being here and serving at Onnuri Community Church is that I get to learn from Pastor Eddie Byun. [...]
October 26, 2008
Ministry and Life Transitions
3 days remain.
I only have 3 more days in Canada.
There are only 3 more days until my wife and I begin our new life in Seoul, Korea.
How did it get this way? How did we end up leaving our ministry and our life in Montreal to move to the other side of the world? How were [...]
October 9, 2008
Sex Trafficking
“The CIA estimates that between 50 000 and 100 000 girls, boys and women are trafficked annually into the United States to be pimped out or sold for forced sex. Worldwide more than 1 million people are trafficked across international borders against their will.”
“We are not finding victims in the United States because we’re not [...]
September 16, 2008
exploiting the poor?
Is this exploitation of the poor? A saavy marketing campaign? A political statement? Or just plain cruel?
In the August 2008 issue of Vogue India, there is a controversial 16 page advertising campaign that uses the countries poor to sell products meant for the countries rich.
In the image below, you see a picture of a poor [...]
September 14, 2008
the definition of laziness
Laziness. We all feel it. We’ve all experienced it. It’s something that really isn’t that foreign to most of us. But why do we struggle with it so often? Some of us, due to our laziness, choose to go on the internet, watch tv or a movie, instead of doing what actually needs to get [...]
September 3, 2008
animals and spirituality
As you can see in this picture, my wife and I have a puppy – his name is Teddy and he’s almost 6 months old.
For the past couple of days, we have been babysitting Christina’s parent’s two dogs and it’s been fascinating to see the interaction between the three of them.
The most significant thing that [...]
August 30, 2008
how to memorize scripture…
While listening to a sermon by John Piper, I was encouraged by the way he explained how he meditated on scripture. For in Psalm 19:14 it says, “May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my redeemer.” And it also says in [...]
