Constellations

Today I was teaching about constellations. 

I got the kids to swap books with a friend. In their friends book they were to draw a box and inside the box draw a minimum of 10 stars in a random arrangement, then give the book back. 

Once they each had their own books in front of them again the students were to make up their own constellation from the random stars their friend had drawn. 

This is what one girl saw in her stars:

I love my job ^^

The 4 Most Important Sermons I've Ever Heard!!!! How To Walk With Jesus

Recently I stumbled across these sermons. They are in my opinion the four most important sermons I have ever heard. You can listen to them all by clicking here.

     1.  Baptism of the Holy Spirit

     2.  Abiding in Christ

     3.  Emotional Healing 

     4.   Experiencing God's Love

For the last few months I have been struggling and praying about the power of God being manifested in my life. I'm here living in Korea, I'm supposed to be a missionary and yet I feel like I am a terrible missionary. Not because I don't share Jesus - because I do. But because I don't see the power of God at work in my life.

From the Bible I know that knowing Jesus should bring lasting change in me. And I feel that I do know Jesus, slowly He is bringing  me closer to Himself, but I have not seen the changes I expected. I still struggle with sin, I still struggle with healthy lifestyle, I still struggle with even wanting to be a Christian sometimes. So I feel like "How can I introduce people to Jesus when all I can offer them if a lifetime of struggle? I can't offer them the overcoming power of Jesus, I can't offer them victory, because I haven't experienced it in my own life."

Even as I write this I know it is not entirely true. I can see in my life how God has healed me and taught me to overcome some of my challenges; fear and depression are not things I struggle with any more. But these have been gradual changes, they are not the day to day overcoming of temptation that I seek/want in my own life. And they are not things I can easily share with another person and say "If you do what I did then you too will overcome." Because they involved God healing parts of me that were broken and since everybody is broken differently, God's method for healing me may not be the method that will heal another person. Also often the experiences that healed me were God orchestrated, He brought various people into my life at different times to teach me things. Those experiences can not be replicated.

God brought these sermons into my life at just the right time. If I am completely honest I had just endured another round of the temptation to throw away Christianity and give up on God, not because I don't believe, but because I am so tired of the struggle.

I came home from school one day and threw my smart phone down onto my bed, it started playing the second sermon in this series all on it's own. And the topic was the exact thing i had been praying about on the bus as I was coming home. I don't remember downloading this series onto my computer, and I don't remember uploading them to my phone, and i definitely don't remember ever listening to them before, but just when I needed them, there they were.

These sermons are the 'how' of the Christian life. How to walk with Jesus. How to experience His overcoming power in your life. Since I have been practising what I learned from these sermons I have had more success with overcoming temptation than I ever have had before. I unreservedly recommend them to anybody who wants to experience the overcoming power of Christ.

The Most Terrible, Worst, Hardest, Ugliest Number In The World

Today with Grade 1 after school I was teaching them to read numbers, we quickly went from 1,2,3, etc up to the 100's and then thousands. Then one little boy (the odd, quirky, but undeniable genius one - my favourite, but don't tell him) asked me for a hard hard number.

I told him I would give him the biggest worst number in the world. I wrote something in the millions on the board. He got it right. Then another baby asked for an ugly terrible hard number, and another and another and soon we were in the billions and trillions.

Then just at the end as the bell was about to ring my odd quirky genius brings me a wrinkled and ripped scrap of paper. "Teacher do..." All the kids looked most anticipatory - I think they had secretly worked it out together ...

There was no way in the world I was going to disappoint them and tell them I didn't know, so I made it up ... 

Seven hexillion, 

nine hundred and eleven pentillion, 

one hundred and nineteen quadrillion, 

six hundred and nineteen trillion, 

five hundred and seventy billion, 

nine hundred and seventy four million, 

nine hundred and eleven thousand, 

nine hundred and eleven.

If you know what those terms are supposed to be - feel free to educate me :-)

Another Happy Day

Funny thing, even though I've finished the 100 Happy Days Challenge I still find myself composing paragraphs in my head of happy things I could tell you about. But it's also been nice to take a break from blogging. 

Here are a couple if random things fr the last couple of days:

1. The election is over. No more lines of bowing chanting ladies and candidates with sashes and business cards at the train station for the last few days. However this morning two of the candidates were back with sashes with lots of writing all over them. I am guessing that they were the winners and that they were thanking everyone for voting for them. I was happy to see that one if the winners was the younger cute one ^^ I wonder if his good looks had anything to do with him winning?

2. Today we had speech contests at school. I was one of the judges. Quite boring actually. And I was not the only one to think so ... Captured this shot of one of the contestants at the end of the contest. 

3. Since the happy day challenge is over I've set myself a new challenge - be in bed with lights out and electronic devices turned off by 9:30pm every night except Friday and Saturday nights. Have been doing it for almost a week now and I'm starting to feel really good!!!! May become a life long habit. Sleep is a wonderful thing. 

And good night to you all. 

Electionairing

There has been an escalation of electionairing tactics, probably because the election is tomorrow. 

Last Thursday there were three trucks with pictures and speakers outside the train station, Friday morning there were four. Today there are five, and a car with a loud speaker on top. 

Now there are yellow bowing chanting ladies too, but I think they are really blues in disguise. However that makes no difference. There are so many bowing chanting ladies of various colours it's almost like having an honour guard saluting me all the way into the station. 

I have been told that in extreme circumstances the bowing chanting ladies also dance. I'm hoping to see that tomorrow seeing as it is the actual Election Day. 

Here is a picture of the first set, taken from across the road so they wouldn't see me ^^

You can't see the entire line because the people walking in block some of it. And, the red table on the end is a man selling 김밥. (Korean style sushi.) He is there everyday. Regardless of elections.