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Today is one of those days where you just want to...

RAWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!

I'm angry inside .

Quick update...(AKA procrastination from finance hw).

Wow..time flies fast.
We're all busy looking for jobs (that don't exist).
It's weird being a senior during on campus recruiting season.
Everyone's so talented here...and their standards are high... Yet I will trust in the Lord .

Hong Kong, China, Korea was amazing.
My absolute best summer ever.

Wonderful European friends
Wonderful Korean friends
Wonderful friends from all over the world

One advice to everyone - TRAVEL and immerse yourself in the country's culture!
What an experience.

God bless

Last year, I went on a biomedical service trip that really opened my eyes. We traveled to different clinics and orphanages in Southern China and worked mostly with kids with cerebral palsy. Most of them could not walk and many were abandoned. Our team worked with a university in Hong Kong to provide foot, ankle, and knee orthotics for these children. Even though I didn't always know what was going on, I can say that it was the most eye-opening experience I have ever had. I went into it thinking it'd be an educational trip, but it turned into a life-changing trip.

These children are still children of God and able to experience the same feelings of happiness, joy, sorrow, and love. They're no different than who we are. People think they can't enjoy life, they can't be a child, they can't grow up in a happy family, but I saw them do what others said they could not do. I saw people who gave their hearts to these children and I saw parental love for children who had no parents. I saw dedication, passion, and I saw a desire to give life, to live life, to be life.

Those who loved were not Christians. If our God's love is so much better and so much stronger, then how much more can I love?

I've been blessed with another opportunity to go to China and this is what I wonder - With the knowledge and the experience God has given me, how can I go back and love like God loves?

Off to China I go . Pray for me. This isn't a missions trip, but my life is always a mission.

I'm a senior now!!!! Time kind of flew fast .

Stouffer Freshmen all the way to Senior year! w00t

The gang behind a tree .

Vegas Represent!! We bite Styrofoam hats as a tradition - I don't know why

Seniors throw stuff at us . We get REALLY messy. It was FUN!! haha

Time flew by too quickly .

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Tonight, Jesus Week started .

For those that don't know, it's a week at my campus where Christians come together to make known the presence of God on campus. By doing so, we want to share the amazing love of Christ through our words, our actions, and our prayers. Plus, it's also for Christians. A lot of us here are too focused on school and the future, money and time, and our desires and dreams, that we often forget the sole reason that we're here - God. We hope to remind Christians that our life is about Christ. We don't want it to be just a week of Christ-centered loving, we want it to be the start of a life-long love.

Tonight's opening Campus-wide prayer was amazing. We were all excited because tonight, we were finally going to see the start of God's work for Jesus Week. There were only a few of us, but the prayer was real and sincere. I missed that . Oftentimes, I feel like fellowships and churches can seem institutionalized and directed to fit our needs. We aim to end meetings at exactly Xpm or repeat the same prayers every week that it has become merely a jumble of words that have been engraved in our brains. We sometimes lose focus and everything becomes routine. We don't realize why we're here, why we have fellowship, why the fellowship is connected to the church, and what God has called us to do.

But tonight, with the small group of really passionate people, I saw and felt the sincerity. We really want this God . Start with us first and work throughout our campus. Help us all to love you and love strangers. Let our hands and eyes be your hands and eyes. That is my prayer.

Please pray for Jesus week and the upcoming 24/7 Prayer tent. It's going to be an amazing two weeks.

Hi guys,

This will be my 3rd year fundraising and participating in relay for life!
Our teams walk around a trackfield from 8pm-8am this Friday-Saturday in order to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

It's actually one of the more meaningful years because one of my close mentors from my church has recently been diagnosed with cancer. We give our thanks to God for her amazing doctors who are treating her. However, it takes effort from all of us to help the fight against cancer gain momentum. One of the ways that we can help is to donate to the American Cancer Society. If you guys feel compelled to, please donate to the American Cancer Society through my service fraternity's team at http://main.acsevents.org/goto/YoungYim.

Once again: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/YoungYim

-Young Yim

PS: This is something totally off-topic, but I've noticed that I need A LOT of prayer when it comes to doing things for God so please pray for my friends and I as we work to glorify God's kingdom at my school's Jesus week!

1. http://www.edithzimmerman.com/blog/?m=200903
This blog is pretty cool . She turns food into art.

2. I need a job. Anyone want me? I like start-ups!

3. I want to play with legos or work on a puzzle.
Time does not allow .

4. I feel like a business man discussing Venture capital stuff all day.
yay stocks? Actually...nvm, look at our world today.

5. Anyone know any good Korea programs? I might as well go to Korea and get better at my own language!

I'm starting to realize how different God makes every single one of us.

To some, this may seem like a bold statement, but bear with me.
The more and more I dig deeper, the more and more I realize... evolution didn't create this beautiful collaboration of beautiful people. I look at how we exist and what makes us work. We have our unique brains, sizes, color, qualities, smiles, personalities; we have our organs all in the perfect places made with an insane network of cells which are regulated by tons of enzymes which are also regulated by lots of processes. Everything in our body is determined by our DNA which contains tons of information which can be passed down and interchanged throughout generations to make all different kinds of people! And even as we dig deeper and deeper into the tiny little things that make us into who we are, we can't figure out where it all started!

Even if we attribute it to one single cell, where did that cell come from? How did it turn into us and 50 other millions things on this planet?

How can a scientist, after studying all of this, not wonder if there was divine creation?
There is nothing more complicated than the human system .

With that said, I'm going to talk about how interesting it is that God makes us all different. There are people who are good at different things and bad at others, but somehow, you find someone or know that there is someone on this planet that are good at what you are not good at and bad at what you are good at. You wonder why people laugh at the jokes that you think are retarded and why people don't laugh at the ones that you think are hilarious. You wonder why people resort to violence and hatred while you are a pacifist. But you also realize that you're a pacifist who secretly hates and lies for your own image. You start to realize that some people have stronger faults that others can visibly see and others have an equal weakness in areas that are often missed and unreadable. You wonder why you're so passionate about the lives of the homeless people and the status of the church while your friend next to you wonders why your passion is too strong in those areas and not in the areas of fellowship and bonding. You look around and search for people with your same passions, but you can't really find them because they're off doing the same things that you're doing, searching and not waiting. It seems like others around you have found people that are equally passionate in their areas because for some reason, more people are passionate about X and Y instead of Z. You start to realize though, that everyone has a different reason that they were made and that God, in His Perfect plan, has made you for a reason, whether big or small, to further the Kingdom of God. That you are like the human system, working together for one purpose, to keep the body alive. Some people act as enzymes, some as tiny cells, others as organs, some as mitochondria, some do the energy building, some provide the microtubules for communication, some are the red blood cells. They work together to make the body survive. This body, is the body of Christ.

Like the cells and enzymes at work to keep our body strong, we work to keep Christ strong. We're a body of believers, all called for a different purpose with different backgrounds and different passions. Sometimes, the body clashes and some cells within the body will never understand the other, but as they go on & do the work that they were made to do in the body, the body survives and stays strong.

Just like how we will never understand the human body, I will never truly understand how we all work together to glorify God's Kingdom since we are such a vast network of believers created with a different purpose to come together perfectly for God. But I will say, after just a piece of this unfathomable realization, "What an amazing God!"

It's perfectly planned. It's so perfectly planned that we will never understand, but it comes together beautifully .
You and you and you and you are all beautiful. You're all important.