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Purpose: to live a life of love, encouragement, and gratitude daily

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13th May 2012

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Carrot cake I made for dessert after our Mother’s Day dinner prepared by my dad, brother, and me. After several hours in the kitchen, cooking, baking, and washing dishes, I’m tired, but that makes me realize what my mom and any other mom goes through on a daily basis. I love you, 엄마 & 할머니! 사랑해요 <3

1st April 2012

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This song brought me to tears. It has been my prayer for the past couple of years and still continues to be…

sixbyul:

Oh Lord, if it be Your will, let me be Your song. 

restinginlovescaress:

I’ve been listening to Corrinne May since I was 12 and honestly, she has got to be my favourite singer songwriter around. I love how her lyrics are so heartfelt and simple and how her melodies are just so captivating. Her music play quite a big part in my life especially so after I received the Lord in 2005.

When I look at her, she somehow reminds me of David the Psalmist. David is a songwriter and someone whom God calls ‘after His own heart’. I love David because He is so real - real with himself (his emotions, who he is) and real with God. He acknowledges that he is human and his emotions. Instead of despising the fact that he is emotional, he turns and directs them towards God and allowed God to use him in the area of song writing. David’s songs aren’t always songs that were churned out from his mountain top experiences. His songs are about things that we experience in life, even the issues that he faced in his life! And that is why he is described as a broken man (Psalms 51:17). And that to me is powerful. 

Just wanted to share this beautiful song by Corrinne May. It speaks so much to me and when I first read the lyrics without listening to the song, I was like ‘Yes! This is me you are writing about!’.

May you be blessed,
Ariane

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YOUR SONG
Music and Lyrics by Corrinne May, ‘Crooked Lines’ 2012

Silent, wordless
Everything was still
You breathed us, yearned for us
Our hearts began to thrill
A brand new creation
A symphony
Written from above
Written out of Love

Let me be Your instrument
Let me be Your voice
Let me be the reservoir
Where thirsty hearts rejoice
Let me be the hand
That wipes the tears away
Oh Lord,
If it be Your will
Let me be Your Song

A violin, a piano
Each one has a role
Major or minor
Or just a single note
So take the time to stay in tune
Cause we’ll never know
When we’re called to play
It could be today

Let me be Your instrument
Let me be Your voice
Let me be the reservoir
Where thirsty hearts rejoice
Let me be the hand
That wipes the tears away
Oh Lord,
If it be Your will
Let me be Your Song 

A song of hope for the hopeless
A song of comfort for the pain
A song that warms the frozen heart that
It might beat again

For what am I but a single breath
That only You sustain
The less I get in the way,
The more the Master can let the music play

Let me be Your instrument
Let me be Your voice
Let me be the reservoir
Where thirsty hearts rejoice
Let me be the hand
That wipes the tears away
Oh Lord,
If it be Your will
Let me be Your Song 

Oh Lord,
If it be Your will
Let me be Your Song

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15th March 2012

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skim says/rants/muses: my open-letter to the Asian-American bloggers out there: →

skimsays:

I have sent various versions of this email out all day. I am reproducing this in hopes that more people will see and spread the message:

I am a Korean-American senior at Bryn Mawr College and I am writing this in hopes that you will join the efforts to free a friend and peer of mine,…

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12th February 2012

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where's my 모자?: 34. Brian helped me not to be ashamed of who I am. →

brianjoo-:

Although this Brian fact is more about me than him, I’d really like to share this with everyone because I think it’s important. Growing up, I was never the skinny one or the pretty one. Never the outgoing one or the one that everyone wanted to hang out with. I wasn’t picked on because that would…

one of the reasons I love Brian more and more as I get to know him more and more as a fan and as a B.F.F. :)

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27th January 2012

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Scott Hamilton - I Am Second →

26th January 2012

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Oh How He Loves Us…

Do you know someone who relentlessly and continuously pursues you until you get the message? Who takes your burdens, stress, frustrations, disappointments, heaviness of heart, cluttered thoughts, and not only takes the load off of your shoulders and frees you from the heaviness of it all but also reminds you of His constant, unchanging, unending, uncontainable, indescribable love for you?

I do. And I hope you do too.

Thank You, Jesus.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” - Matthew 11:28-30

22nd November 2011

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REYIS OF SUNSHINE: Sweet Aroma of Faith →

reyidiance:

This is from one of those ridiculous forwarded emails my mom sends me. But this one is actually good :)

You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again. A young woman went to her mother complaining about her hard life. She was tired of fighting and struggling.

Mother invited her…

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