God with me 100% of the time as my strength, provider, comforter,
encourager =
291 days in Korea so far =
6,984 hours =
419,040 minutes =
25,142,400 seconds =
29,332,800 heart beats at 70bpm =
6,556 miles from Kansas
City to Seoul, South Korea =
34,615,680 feet apart, one way traveling =
415,388,160 inches =
Looked at daily as what an "American" is when
there are 312,664, 583 people to represent (
http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html) =
over 560 students and
young lives influenced in more ways than I will likely realize, both positively
and negatively =
traveled over 100 hours by train and bus =
learned about a
unique and semi-isolated culture that most people in the world will never
experience in its natural state =
Eating rice every day =
adapting to a foreign
culture continually =
hearing a language I don't understand for 90% of the day
=
realizing how much people think they understand the world when they are still
trying to get out of the sandbox =
opening up in my heart and mind and becoming
the man of God, only by God's grace, that He has created me to be =
not driving
a car for a year =
becoming more aware of how little is necessary in life to survive=
experiencing what a culture based on "what is best for
society first and the individual last" vs "what is best for the
individual first and society last" is like =
realizing how nice it is to
have a college education, but how minutely necessary that is when you seek
God's guidance for opportunity and living a fulfilling life =
realizing that my
education, skills, relationships and experiences are not what make me who I am,
it is God using them in his masterpiece of a symphony called life to play the
song I get to be part of.
It all comes down to perspective really.
Most people don't give numbers like it’s a second thought, or even
a first for that matter. But at the end of the day, every day, there is an
equal sign at the end of our time, and there will be until time ceases to exist.
It is not the sheer quantity or mass before or after the equal sign that holds
the greatest importance, but rather two presidents. The first precedent being
that one of them is love. The second precedent being that they are equal.
