Applying for ESL jobs

These days I'm getting geared up to apply for ESL positions in Korea. There's a whole slew of documents I need to collect for the job application and visa process. But for starters, I'm just trying to polish up my resume. Actually it's been completely overhauled - but that's a good thing. I'm planning on applying through Reach to Teach Recruiting because they seem pretty legit. I tried looking at schools' websites to contact them directly, but unfortunately most of them are in Korean. Who wudda thunk!

This is all pretty crazy and uncharted territory. Four months ago I had no idea I would be applying for ESL jobs in Korea! But I'm so glad to have a direction to head towards. Hopefully all this will work out and I can find a position to start teaching at by February.

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I'm still feeling a bit numb and calloused towards God, which is like being tied to a pole 2 feet from a drinking fountain on a blistering hot day. I'm trying to work through these things.

Oh Lord show me compassion and mercy. May your tenderness and love bind up that which has been torn asunder within me. I know this world has nothing for me. I will seek you first, Lord. You will hear my voice early in the morning and late in the night.

I need a change

So it finally hit me that I'm really neglecting this thing. And I don't like that, because I want to write and I like how writing makes me think. I think the primary reason I don't write a whole lot (besides being busy) is that I want what I write to be presentable. I want it to be cleaned up, not offensive to others and not careless in a way that could some how cast me in an unfavorable light.

The trouble with that is that I'm supressing a lot of thoughts and reactions to things. From now on I think I will start just saying what's on my mind. Probably shouldn't get me into trouble, but maybe it just might. Maybe it should push the envelope a bit. In a good way. I'm just a broken person with issues so obviously some things I come up with could could just be off. But not all things. If I'm serious about this God thing, and am pursuing his Kingdom, my life (not just this blog) should be saying some things that just might be offensive to some.

The extreme measures God went to to redeem us should push us to extreme measures for his sake. My life is desperately crying out for an overhaul of pretty much everything that is in me, minus my relationship with Christ. Maybe some of that will make its way here. I'm going to unpack it all. I need to be stripped down to the core. Please, holy fire, quicken your flames to this rotting pile of flesh. I want to be free.

a tiny speck

It's funny how a person can think they are going places, that they are getting out and seeing the world. Maybe they travel to another country, or even a different continent. But then if you take a step back and think of the earth in relation to the solar system and the sun, the trillions of galaxies and stars surrounding us, you realize one thing. We are so miniscule.

My God is one who created EVERYTHING. He is Lord over ALL creation. A master designer of all things beautiful and complex. What a wonderful God. I am so in awe of Him and can only long to humbly serve Him. What an honor to be used by Him! There can be no greater aspiration than to know God and bring Him glory.

Even though I am but the tiniest of specks and derived from the dust, I have the breath of God within me. I have been given life, an astounding opportunity to reflect my God and give back to my Creator.