March 22, 2024

I’ve rewritten this so many times because there’s so much I need to say, and a cohesive and concise caption just won’t come to me, so here’s a non-coherent rambling of thoughts:

• This past half year has had me considering my own place in the Korean diaspora. The violent annexing of Korea by Japan and the scars of generational trauma now 3 or 4 generations removed still persist.

• I’ve been struggling to find a home church for the last year as a single adult. My theology is very conservative, but my faith practice looks more politically liberal. Social justice is an outpouring of the gospel. Give me the redemptive and restoring work of Jesus. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

• Evangelical Christianity puts Jerusalem on a pedestal as it awaits a Third Temple and the return of Jesus. But in the end, what we await is a new heaven and a new Jerusalem.

• This year there is a significant overlap of Lent and Ramadan. During a time of spiritual fasting and praying, we witness starvation and murder.

• Holy week approaches. Palestinian Christians will have suffered through Christmas and Resurrection Sunday. If there are any left. The oldest Christian community, laid in dust and rubble.

• Watch my faith as it hangs by a thread.

• What do I do when all my prayers are screams into the void?

• How do I censor myself so I am still palatable?