Korea! Korea!

Who would have ever thought that I'd be given a chance to study here in Korea? I admit, I have dreamed of studying abroad many years ago, but not specifically here in South Korea. It is my 4th semester here this spring (2011) with the course Masters in International Relations - a kind of political science major that I hated during my college days. Just yesterday (April 29) had finished submitting the final draft of my thesis entitled; Renewable Energy Policy Implementation by Four ASEAN States: Comparative Analysis - a kind of academic write ups that I never thought I could accomplish without anyone's help, aside of course from my thesis adviser.

Indeed, what I have enumerated above are not within my interests but did happen to me most definitely for a purpose. I just don't know yet what exactly is that purpose be. Until now am still asking why? Why things happened to me the way it did. I dunno what's gonna be the road for me after spending two years to study here in Korea. Nevertheless, whatever will it be, I am making myself ready to accept it wholeheartedly because I believed I can make use all of these for a better future ahead of me. I believed, these all came from Him as parts of His plans to pour down immeasurable blessings upon me, thus, I don't have any single right to complain, instead I only have to be thankful, and nothing else more because He knows better than I do on how to run my life productively.

For me, what makes life exciting is the fact that is has full of surprises! And this what makes me more agog to live life to its fullness! I can't wait to finish my life chapter here in Korea, I can't wait the next chapter to happen which is going to be filled with so much colors and meanings, to the level which is really beyond my understanding.

The Importance of Support Group

Support groups are God given people to a Christian who will uplift him when he is downcast, encourage him in times of the attack of discouragement and remind him of the streams of love he's capable of giving when it's being dried up by people around him who vacuumed it because of their selfishness and greed. They are the ones who will play the role of Hur and Aaron to your life who will lift your arms up when you are tired to fight in the battle of love and cares. They are there to squeeze you like a grapefruit until the sweet juices from you will all come out able enough to quench the thirst of those who arrive to your life exhausted from the spiritual battle in the wilderness.

This Support Group for you are the ones who will help you pluck the speck in your eye to help you see the better panorama of the road especially created by God only you can track down. They are the first ones to offer their hands when in one spot of your journey to eternity you stumbled down and fall so that you can rise up again and continue to fight the good fight of faith. They will admonish you about the consequences of your decision/s made only by your own and not being sought after God’s guidance and opinions. They are the tangible promise of God that He will never leave you nor forsake you especially during those times of sufferings and troubles. They will laugh with you when you are happy, will leap with you when you are in overwhelming joy, will cry with you when you are in deep pain and will climb up with you to the mountaintop to make your trekking exciting.

Your Support Group is the resemblance of God himself. As God handed them down to you, it is His way of telling you "I care for you son, take good care of them as you care for me because they are my hands for you...they represent me...I am they".

Blessed are those who have Support Group with them in their lives, they seldom get weary because when they are broken they will be broken more in the process until they will be made whole again, under their cares… under their tutelage. As iron sharpens iron, your Support Group sharpens you, your minds… your character…your being you. Until one day when you wake up, you realize, you are no longer a babe… but like a mature, strong, sharp-looking eagle, ready to fly, to soar up so high, unmindful and unaffected by whatever kind of storms or thunderstorms seems to fiercely block your wonderful gliding journey in life.