Ben Ko - Softly and Tenderly

This past week, I finally got around to remastering the CD I recorded in 2003 and putting it on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and a couple other stores. I also have two of the tracks synced with lyrics in a video and put on YouTube. Unfortunately I messed up on this track, so it has thirty seconds of silence at the end, but it's already distributed, so there's nothing I can do about it at this point. Other than that, life is going slowly, monotonously, and laboriously, except that I never know what will happen next!!! So maybe it's not so monotonous after all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7UPc6vAe80&list=UUwMlH_G27i8KxOyUAIukf7w&index=1&feature=plcp

Bebo Norman, "Nothing Without You"

Last camp in Taiwan. Everyone is required to come up with a performance of some sort. My team starts at 2'50".

Update

Well. Made it back to the states. We lived in a hotel for a while. And met this family from China.

 I got to see a little bit of State Wars, a national hockey tournament. Were they good at just 15 years old!

See then we moved and I didn't have internet for a while. That's why I'm at Starbucks on the University of Cincinnati campus right now.

 Sometimes I still feel really bad.

 Especially when I don't see how God's plan for music production is working.

But most of the time, I just miss Taiwan.

Even when I'm trusting God. 

But I know....

Then, I was in Taiwan and God was in me. 

Now, I am here and God is in me. 

...So it's the same.

Just different. 

Just as His mercies are new every morning. Same. But different. I don't really understand it all yet.

I'm sorry, I've been so long, but I keep thinking that I'll have time to write a long post about everything that God has done in my life this year and also just all the kids we've been able to build relationships with and everything that has HAPPENED. But I guess I should just say for now that I am home and God IS GOOD and thank you for your prayers...very very ... very much. I do have time now, just not the brain. I think. So write to me. Write to me. And until then, we can only hope that I will wake up someday and be able to write about everything that went down this year. Blessings waayyy much! :) Ben

Watching this goalie through the playoffs...

Felt like there was something worthwhile in his life...
Went and looked up what he's built on, what he has to say...

Whenever you think you've reached the peak, you're due for a fall.
Inspirational.

我 愛 耶 穌 , 耶 穌 愛 您 , 我 愛 您 .

We're sitting in the middle of Juo Shi County English Competition and my 3rd grade Carol turns to me and whispers, "Where is your 'mother'?" I say, "She's in 'America,' where's your 'dina'?" She says, "Here," pointing down third-gradedly but meaning in the area. A few minutes later, she whispers, "Where is your 'father'?" I say, "America. Where's your 'dama'?" She says, "A far away place." I wanted to ask her if she wanted him to come back. I wanted to tell her she could pray to "Jehovah." But soon, it was her class's turn to perform. They sang, "Beautiful Sunday," and nearly burst out laughing just cause I was watching them, and then they got to the part where the song says, "When you say, say, say, say that you love me," and I just about cried. 

Question for today: Have I stopped inviting Him again?