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This is her attempt at tai-po…

Pics from our summer. Playing at the pool, b-day party, eating, drinking, fun with tai-po, etc. etc. etc.

Summer 2010 – Baby Auntie’s b-day party… kiddie pool and slide.

According to the latest Business Week Report. UVA, William and Mary, and VT made it to the top 10 of the highest ROI in terms of tuition and job salary. Thought that was interesting.

LenPenzo writes about this in his blog. He comes to the conclusion that technical degrees are more sought after than liberal arts degrees due to supply and demand. A higher supply of liberal arts students means lower demand for them vs. lower supply of techies means higher demand for them. Who knows.

So for you COLLEGE kids, study HARD while you’re in school… these are your FORMATIVE years (no matter where you go).

Read through Habakkuk this weekend and was reminded again how truly amazing life is when we see it through the eyes of God.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1).

We studied the men of faith in my Sunday School class last week and I was struck by the circumstances in which these people were in. Much worse situations than I can possibly imagine, but they had a hope, a conviction of something that was beyond their circumstances. They believed God. And because they did, the persecution, the suffering, the killing, the poverty… paled in comparison with the knowledge of where they were going and who was waiting for them at the finish line in the race of life.

They endured hardship for the sake of knowing Christ, the Messiah. The lives of the OT saints ended without them ever seeing the coming of the Messiah, and yet they believed. I find that remarkable. We live in an immediate gratification culture where RESULTS and PRODUCTION are the indicators of success. For the Christian success lies not in those indicators, but where your heart is and in whom are you putting your trust in all circumstances..

The end of Habakkuk points to a similar understanding: (3:17-19)

17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
19 The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights.

Even in the midst of DEEP ECONOMIC DEPRESSION, the prophet Habakkuk looks not to the impending DOOM, but rejoices in the LORD.

My recent prayer is for our eyes to be set on the LORD, that we can rejoice in the LORD and that with Christ we too may endure the hardships of life with JOY in any and all circumstances. May we be known for our joy.

Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

AMEN.

This whole summer E1 was swimming with a swimsuit with built in floatation devices. But after buying a “prettier” swimsuit she decided to wear that one. Unfortunately it did not have those built in floaties. But in our amazement, she was able to wade in the water as well keep her head afloat for a long while. She was also able to swim a good length by herself.

Of course we were close by just in case. She’s still a bit afraid of putting her head in the water, but it took a lot of courage for her to enter the pool with no help. It scared us to no end, but also was a great joy seeing the improvement over the summer. (as well as LAST SUMMER)

Hopefully she wasn’t too scared and will be trying it again soon and hoping to take some vids of her swimming.

Swim on!

Relative of relative from China needed to pass VA DMV exam but couldn’t read English. So I compiled this list of vocab words that may or may not be accurate… anyways here’s the list: TRAFFIC TERMS in CHINESE

Let me know if you know of any other resources.

I’ll read through these docs as well to get better vocabs:

Rules of the Road PRC

Chinese Rules – GOV.CN

VA DMV Manual – http://www.dmv.virginia.gov/webdoc/pdf/dmv39.pdf

I have a bunch more of our target adventure. here’s the lateset installment: