08/01/2023
When God calls us to walk our personal mission, He doesn't promise that the journey will be smooth. Even though we obey Him, He assures us that He will be with us as we endure and walk towards our personal mission.1🐾🐾
🥀Grieving the last season to prepare for the next.🌹
Hey, it's August! Half of 2023 has passed, and it's been a while since I last updated anything since the beginning of this year.
There's so much to say and summarize for the past 6 months in one limited post. If you've been reading my previous posts, you might have noticed that I couldn't find anything, or perhaps a resolution, to look forward to in 2023 until I transitioned into adulthood life (though my status is still that of a student, the challenges have been on another level, one after another).
Having undergone my 3rd major abdomen surgery earlier this year was no longer the significant teaching point, although it could have been life-threatening. As I've grown more Christlike, He brought me to another level I never thought I would face—a season where I thought I was at the right place and time to fulfill my personal mission, a time when I believed I could finally do what He called me to do.
However, life is uncertain, and because "the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son" (Hebrews 12:6), He brought me to another level to show me His heart and perspective for broken and lost souls.
Being a trainee counselor, dealing with challenging, difficult, and complicated human beings really tested my limitations. Seeing how broken the world is, how hurt people hurt people, and how I struggle to endure and wish for simplicity in life, I grieve for my last season in university, even though it wasn't simple either. Ironically, it might have been better than now, haha. Human nature is never satisfied and will never be satisfied.
Despite it all, He, the CREATOR of the world, created us in His image and KNOWS each of us personally. He is PATIENT, FORGIVING, GRACIOUS, COMPASSIONATE, and abounding in love. He sees our brokenness and allows me to see the root issues and molds me to see His perspective, .....
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