Well actually its 8:00 to 4:30, and I am pretty excited to leave. I have really enjoyed my experience at CHOC and the people and relationships that I made here, but it’s time for me to move on with my life. Cleaning out some of the things on my desk and organizing some stuff opened the window for me to reminisce about my near two year career here. Most likely my last day of work will be May 21. I’m going to try to use my saved up vacation days to get an extra paycheck in there so I can offset some of the costs for the move to MD.
But this is the last thing on my mind. Right now my current dilemma is finding housing in Bethesda. So expensive and also not living near the area makes it that much harder. I’ll probably have to fly over there a couple weeks before I go to Texas to find a place for August…blerg.
With the next year pretty much planned out it has been a load off. Life has been pretty uppity these days but still just work, work, work. Many things to plan and figure out logistic-wise as well as start preparing my good-byes to those who warrant them. I just found out I have to buy all this army gear and stuff before I officially head out and it’s going be kind of weird seeing myself in army clothes hahaha…pictures soon to come I’m sure.
I will be trying to relax and do stuff I can’t really do for the next weeks. I already have a Vegas tripped planned and also a trip to Virginia to see Jeanhee!! Which I am excited for…Also for my time off between work and Texas which come to think of it is only about 2.5 weeks…wow sucks….probably can’t do anything significant…blerg…
In the meantime I am officially going to start honing my Korean speaking and reading skills. The military pays you if are competent in foreign languages!!! Also starting to prepare for my Step 1. May seem premature, but might as well get a start on probably what is the most important exam of my life...am I right?
Spiritual life:
Qt’s and prayer life have been going good. But in all honesty having a job I think makes QT’s a lot easier. When I get to my desk first thing in the morning, I do my QT’s, probably because I don’t want to start work. But on Saturdays and days I have off from work, I usually don’t do them. So even though I may be doing them, I don’t think my heart is 100% in them.
Prayer life has been significantly better than before. I think a lot of the times I am afraid to ask for pray for something because I am afraid that God doesn’t want it to happen and at some level I know that it’s not meant to happen, but because of my own selfishness I get scared and try to hide from God.
These days it seems that God has been telling me to be content with life and that looking at past experiences of how I always freaked out about things, in retrospect it was just a waste of time.
Right now I am doing my devo’s from 2 Samuel and Psalm. Learning about David has been edifying at the same time hopeful and humbling. His story was completely based upon trusting in God in dire times, especially during the times when Saul wanted to kill him. It is just a constant reminder that it is all about the heart and that true forgiveness comes only with the heart of repentance. Even though David was a sinner and committed pretty shady things, God still used him because he was a man after God’s own heart. And as I was reading the Psalms of how David was asking God for forgiveness, even just from the text you can infer sincerity and humility.
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