Making the "impossible" possible through the partnership with the One who is able.

I came across an article today about Kim Jong-Un and the injustice that he has brought over the lives of the citizens that are living in North Korea. If you haven't already read or heard about the terrible news, it has been reported that Kim Jong-Un had 80 people publicly executed in North Korea on November 3rd. The justification for his decision for taking the innocent lives of these 80 people were very minor "crimes" which include watching South Korean films, religious activism, cellphone use, and stealing food.
Not only did he unjustly take the lives of these people, but he also ordered the Wonsan authorities to gather a crowd of 10,000 people, including children, at Shinpoong Stadium and forced them to watch the killings.

This news was really heartbreaking. The fact that horrible events such as these are going on around the world everyday, and that we go on with our lives unaware of it, really made me rethink about how I was living.

I'm not trying to point fingers because I am guilty of being caught up in my own "issues" everyday just as much as everyone else is. Many times we're caught up with our own issues, our own problems, etc. And I feel like so many of us complain on a daily basis on what we don't have or wish we did have.
Very trivial issues compared to problems that people around the world are going through.

This article humbled me and reminded me to be thankful for all the things that I am blessed to have in my life. Even if we may not have entirely every thing that we may want, we should focus on the things that we do have! Things such as good health, freedom of speech, freedom to move around whenever we desire, freedom to watch what we want, freedom to talk with whoever we want, freedom to praise God wherever and whenever we want, and the list goes on.


What has happened on November 3rd in North Korea was very wrong and unjust. And I believe this gives us an even bigger reason to pray for not only North Korea but also its leader, Kim Jong-Un.

At such a young age he was given so much authority and power. This execution that occurred on November 3rd was the first known public execution that Kim Jong-Un had ordered, since he took power after the death of his father.

Whether he will command more public executions to take place in the future or not, I do not know. But I'll tell you what i do know.

I know that God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth and everything and everyone on it, did not create Kim Jong-Un and the rest of the Kim family to be or to  do what they have been doing for the past 67 years in North Korea. He also did not create the citizens living in North Korea to be treated the way they are being treated; their lives being taken away from them without justice or dying from starvation without even being able to hear the good news of the Gospel of hope and salvation.

So I just want us to pray. To pray for God to rock North Korea with his love and the everlasting hope that only He can provide. I want us to pray for the impossible, the things that seem like it could never happen.
Because God could do the impossible.  We may not be able to do the impossible, the extraordinary. But we are partnered with the one who can!!

So pray for Kim Jong-Un to be changed from the inside out, to be struck with God's love and his glory so hard, that he wouldn't be able to contain it and his life would be transformed. Pray for all these things and pray for even crazier things to happen!! And as we pray, I encourage us to have faith and to believe 100 percent that what we are praying about will really happen. To not let even a single thought of doubt seep through, as we pray.

Because our God is able. Remember who you are praying to as you make your prayers to him.
You're talking to THE CREATOR OF THIS ENTIRE UNIVERSE!!

If he could make a blind man see, if he could take away the pain in your body, if he could rise someone from the dead, if he could create the entire universe, and if he knows each and every one of us by name, and the number of hairs we have on our head, he can SURELY bring salvation and hope to North Korea.

Remember that the God who preformed all the miracles throughout the bible is THE SAME GOD we worship today!! He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow! He never changes and his power never fades. So lets have hope and faith in what he can do.

I believe that prayer is such a powerful weapon that we are blessed with and we are partnered and backed up by the MOST POWERFUL ONE, the BEST partner of all. WHAT IS THERE TO BE AFRAID OF?! If God is for us, what can be against us?

So lets have faith and pray and believe that it will be done. 
And it, surely, will be done. 

Sustainable Systems: Find objects on the street and create an art piece.

Quit It

The piece I created is titled Quit It. As I was going along the street and observing the things that were on the sidewalks, I noticed that there were a lot of cigarette butts that people just threw on the floor after they finished smoking. Along with the innumerable amounts of cigarette butts, there were also many different kinds of leaves that had fallen off of trees. I decided to collect these two things to create a piece of work that represents the world and the affects that smoking has on this earth.

I gathered and used many different types and colors of leaves that I found to form the earth. The leaves represent the nature that makes up this earth. Then I lined up the cigarette butts that I collected, around the leaves, representing the smoke and pollution that is created from smoking.

This title Quit It is directed to the people who smoke. Not only is smoking horrible for the body and the health of the person who smokes, but it is also harmful for the environment. After filling their lungs with smoke, the smokers leave their cigarette butts on the sidewalks, which in turn creates an unpleasant and dirty city. Both the title and art piece are promoting the viewers to help prevent polluting the earth and environment by quitting smoking.

Space&Materiality project: Create a nomadic shelter.

Eunice's Cozy Coat!

Ever had that problem when one sweater just won't do? Now with the Cozy Coat you can have warmth,comfort, and coziness all in one! 

The Cozy Coat is  sweater that is carefully designed to keep you cozy and comfortable! The blanket which is attached on the back side of the sweater, provides the perfect surface to lie down on. The blanket is very easily rolled up as it is to roll out. With the buckles that holds the blanket in place, one can very simply roll up the blanket and pop the buckles back in and you're ready to go! 

It's a choice,

Wow. Praise the Lord!!!
Tonight, I came across this video online and i just wanted to share it with the people who read my blog.
Here's what i got from watching this video :)

Nothing is a coincidence with God. Everything is in accordance His time, which is the perfect and never by chance.
This man reminded me immediately of Jesus and how selfless the God of this entire universe is. Jesus gave his all to the strangers he came across. He ate with the sinners and became friends with the people that were ill and with people who were outcasts.Jesus did not judge, did not stop to analyze someone by their appearance or their past. He knew all our present sins, past sins, and even our future sins and yet he STILL gave everything to us. WOW!! Who does that?!!

Crazy, isnt it? and it blows my mind that many of us, including me, after knowing this and being "saved" christians, still hesitate from showing love onto strangers. Or even think of finding a compromise or coming up with an excuse to not spend time with him through the readings of his word daily. Like whaaaat?! Doesn't make any sense. The Lord our Savior deserves everything and ALL of our time and devotion, not just that 30 mins or 1 hour or even 2 hours of quiet time that we set aside for him. He deserves our entire life. Our everything.
So why don't we do that? Make a choice. Its a decision that we, as individuals, each need to make.
To live a life devoted to Christ. To live a life that is set apart from this world. To live a life for the Lord!!
How exciting is that?! WoOoOoOo!! HE'S SO GOOD!
ALL praise and honor and glory goes to our God!!
Thank you Lord for loving us and for who you are!!

Here's the link to the video if you guys want to watch it ! :)
Its so awesome!
http://www.faithit.com/atheist-heroin-addict-gets-schooled-on-power-of-prayer/

Stay calm and let God

"They called him every name in the book and he said nothing back. He suffered in silence, content to let God set things right. He used his servant body to carry our sins to the Cross so we could be rid of sin, free to live the right way. His wounds became your healing. You were lost sheep with no idea who you were or where you were going. Now you’re named and kept for good by the Shepherd of your souls."1Peter 2:23-25

GOD IS SO GOOD!!!! WOW 1Peter chapter 2 is such a blessed read. Ive been meditating on this chapter for couple of days now and its such a blessing every time. Its crazy, the bible. You would think if you read one chapter or one verse every night for several nights, that it would get boring but wow, how it is not!!
These verses really spoke out to me this week because I was beginning to struggle with getting angry towards people who did not seem to be thankful for other people's good deeds. You know those people that are just never happy, even if they are blessed with so many things in their lives? I know i once was that person at one point in my life. Never looking at the things in front of me that I already had, and being thankful about those things. But always focusing on what i do not have, what i could have but didnt, for whatever reason.

But even if there are these unhappy, ungrateful, and unthankful people around me who dont appreciate the things that they are blessed with. I came to know that i do not have to be angered or heated by these people. You see, because i was trying my best to love on everyone, but it especially became hard when that person was just never happy or ever thankful back. Not even necessarily thankful to me but just to people around them you know?
And it clicked as soon as i read this verse because, we as followers of christ are called to live a life that is Christ like. Which means, we will go through and have to endure the same trials and hurtful comments from people that Jesus had to endure. However, just as Jesus endured these things by staying silent and just continuing to show love, ultimately letting God set things right. We too can stay silent and continue to show love no matter what circumstances we encounter because we have the insurance that the Lord of all things, the ultimate Judge, will set things right when the time comes.
So brothers and sisters, dont be discouraged if the people you're showing love onto do not return the same kind of love back. If they even show the complete opposite with hateful words and actions, continue to show love just as our Father Jesus did. Because He will set things right! :D

Dont try to get revenge and set things right for yourself! Instead, let God!
All we have to do is love unconditionally, just as He has and is doing and will continue to do!

wow and the last verse.
"His wounds became our healing. We were lost sheep with no idea who we were or where we were going. Now we're named and kept FOR GOOD by the Shepard of our souls."
Wow. I dont even think there even needs to be any explanation to that because that verse says it all.

WOOOOOO God is so good. ALWAYS AND FOREVER!! Thank you Jesus for being so great in our lives!!

Love that is empowered by the perfect love of Christ!

Just got back from my Studio class.

Today, our professor showed the class two documentaries as inspirational examples for our next big project which is also our final. Our final project is creating a memorial piece that documents a historical moment or a historical event that we find important. This memorial piece could be anything from a garment to a movie to even a painting. The historical topic could be a person or a specific event.

Saya, our professor, showed us first a documentary on the very well known, Vietnam Memorial, located in Washington.  It was really interesting to see all the work that was put into this memorial. The documentary mentioned the several trails that the designer encountered. There were many controversial arguments on the design  of the monument itself. And i thought it was really interesting to see the many different view points of each group of people. The documentary definitely made me appreciate the Vietnam Memorial far more than i did prior to watching the film.

The second documentary that Saya showed us was on the tragic incident that occurred on September 9th. The crashing of the twin towers.

Watching this documentary really opened my eyes to this historical event. The documentary was basically filmed by two brothers. These two brothers were filming the lives of fire fighters and the process in which each fire fighter goes through starting from being a trainee to a full time fire fighter.
They interviewed several of the beginning fire fighters and decided to choose one in particular to follow to see and document his journey as a fire fighter.As they were doing this, it just so happened that they were able to document the tragic event of 9/11.

 They film everything from the beginning of what seemed to be much like a normal day in New York all the way up to the exact time when the plane crashed into the World Trade Center and all the horrific scenes after the crashing of the plane.

This documentary really gave a clear illustration of how it must have been on September 11th. It was like I was standing in the exact place and time the event happened because the brothers each were holding their cameras and recording the entire time. The camera would record what they were going through such as running away in order to escape the debris from the building that collapsed. You could clearly see all the dust and really feel how hard it must have been to breathe through all the dust in the air.

After watching more than half of the documentary,  I began to think about all the possible emotions that this documentary would stir up. And i thought that hatred and disgust towards the people who did this, were probably what many people would feel.
Because i remember at the time of when this event occurred, many students who were of the same nationality that the terrorists who had planned this attack were, were getting harassed.

But then i began to think. That the answer to all of these issues were love.

The people who had planned this attack were probably very angry and filled with hate for whatever reason. And therefore acted upon these feelings and emotions of hate and anger by plotting a plan of attack.
And because of this terrible event, many people were also angered which led to the harassment of people who in reality didn't  have anything to do with it.

When I first heard of the attack, which was when i was in elementary school, i remember immediately feeling anger and hatred towards the terrorist who attacked. However, today instead of feeling the same anger and hate, I felt the exact opposite.
Not to say, that I was feeling love and compassion towards the terrorists and what they had done, but that i felt more motivated to show love onto people.

I thought to myself that it was love that these people were missing that really made them turn bitter and hate. So much so that they would even attack innocent people.

It broke my heart to know that something simple as loving and showing compassion onto people, could have changed history. Could have saved so many lives. Could have made everything so much more different. And as i was feeling this pain, it made me think of how much more pain our God, the Creator of everything, was feeling as he saw everything happening. As he watched his creations that he created to love and be loved, fight one another in hate, killing several innocent and precious lives.


This is what motivated me today, to love far greater than what i thought was "showing love" onto people.

 The God of the entire universe created each and every one of us to be loved by him and out of the love he has for us, to overflow love onto the people around us! Its not about receiving the same love that you show onto people from the people that you love on. Because, many times its going to be hard to receive that, almost impossible. If receiving love from people is the only reason why you show love onto people in the first place, you're missing the point!

We shouldnt seek the love of people because first of all, we will never be satisfied with the love that people have for each other, no matter how much that person loves you. Its impossible to reach the full capacity of love that we desire inside of us. And second, We have the love of God!!! right in front of us. The perfect, eternal, everlasting love of the Father. Which is the ONLY  love that will fill us up to our 100 percent and the only love that we will ever satisfy the desires of our heart.


So don't seek love from the people that you love on by giving love to them. In other words, dont love on people for your benefits of receiving back, but do it out of the love that God has for us and the love that he pours out onto us!


In that way, we will be able to change the whole world around. Because the love that we share with each other is empowered by the perfect love that God pours out onto us!!!