September 30, 2008

• I am VERY VERY happy, cuz I have finally decided what to do next year. 
  For about one month now, I've been stressing out over whether to stay
  in Korea and continue working, or to risk refusing the contract
  extension and moving back to California. 

  This is how I felt for 30 straight days. (I love Ramona)
  

  I've finally decided to move back home.  I don't know if I'm reading
  too much into this, but I was reading through Genesis this past month,
  and I kept reading about God telling Abraham, etc. to leave their home
  and go where God tells them to.  So I kept wondering, is this God's way
  of telling me to stay in Korea?  I really really couldn't figure
  anything out.  But I had to decide by this afternoon, and I was leaning
  towards going home after I spoke with my mom yesterday.  So last night
  I continue where I left off in Gensis, and the first line I read is God
  telling Jacob to go home:
  Genesis 31:3- "Return to the land of your ancestors and to your kindred, and I will be with you."
  Genesis 31:13- Now leave this land at once and return to the land of your birth."

  Okay, so I realize that this may be just a little coincidence, but I've
  been praying for God to guide me and direct in terms of what to do, and
  everytime I made a decision, I just couldn't seem to stick by it.  And
  then at the 11th hour, the first thing I read is God telling Jacob to
  go back to his family and his birthplace.

  And I realize that I've really really wanted to come home, but I was
  trying (praying) really hard that God would help me accept whatever
  decision. 

  I guess one of my fears is that when I go home, I'll be unemployed, and
  then catastrophe will strike and my family and I will live like the
  Joads in the Grapes of Wrath.  But I'm really hoping that maybe God was
  telling me that God will be with me, just like with Jacob when he
  returned home.  So all will be well right?

  So, another reason to leave Korea: melamine spiking from China. 
  Apparently, Korea has been affected by the melamine spiking of food
  products such as oreos, ritz cheese crackers, all cookies and biscuits
  from China.  SCARY!!!! I don't want Kidney stones! although i'm
  destined to have them since my dad, uncle, and aunt did.  i couldn't
  escape gall stones; i'm certainly not going to escape kidney stones.

  AND, scary, but I ate some oreos a couple weeks ago at work.  good
  thing i haven't been eating any processed sugar for the last two weeks
  though.

  toxic toothpaste, melamine laced food, fatal tuna... seriously!  i
  don't think i'll ever buy anything from china that goes in my mouth.

  see everyone in two weeks!

  • 6:31 am
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