Crazy Asian Mother by Erick Liang

HAHA this is so true! lol

Perfection

Latest thing I am working on:

Tormented by visions of dreams unmade
Horrors creep through waking aspirations
Tingles of failure throughout a bright morn
Strive for unattainable perfection

Communication fails with each mistake
Pushed away with silent indifference
Absent responses to prayers not sincere
Without glimpses of tangible perfection

Weaving in and out of thoughts of beauty
Romantic tones of crimson and fuchsia
Trickling light dances amidst the shadows
Get lost in the swatches of perfection

Sweet Pictures

Here are a few pictures form our vacation for your viewing pleasure:





ok, i have no idea why the words at the top are underlined, and i can't get it off..hmm

love you all,
Bri

Bye

Well, I am leaving early in the morning for a family vacation. Although this should be very relaxing, I am going to miss the last week of freedom. =(

Anywho, if anyone needs me, I will only have my cell, possibly no internet.

Blessings,
Bri

More From Tour

much love,
Bri

Wow..so much has been happening recently! lets see, there was choir tour, and we bought a house..

Tour was so amazing! I don't think many christians, let alone teens, get to experience good fellowship very often. There were so many times of worship, prayer, and just having fun relationship building times. The many hous we spent on the bus (there were 50+ hours I think) were so fun and excutiating all at the same time. I think I played Lock a total of something like 14 hours..more if you count all of the times we played for a few minutes here and there..lol we even got so tired and bored at Universal Studios that we played Lock and ERS for an hour and a half.


Stephan being eaten

We went to the San Diego (or san perverto..ask me some time) Zoo one day. I really cannot understand why there is such a big fuss about..its very clean and pretty for a zoo, but I didnt love it all that much. I got alot of realy good pictures that day however.


John in the middle


Sara and I


Jamaica in the middle

then of course the wonderful (sometimes) pictures of on the bus:


Jessi and I


John with some girly things...lol..and the purse that we bought with gold sequins...lol


Kenny and John in the back


andrew kissing kenny's fish pillow..lol


and of course the amazing, Squad Six! these guys were amazing. they were really a godly example to all the guys the entire time, and were just commited to being 6' tall gentlemen:


of course, david is doing something totally unrelated to taking the picture..lol


Squad Six (Jacob, Stephan, Josh, John, and David)


Besides tour, we bought a house the day after I got home, and have beenn working on it none stop since then. David, Linda, the Borgerdings sp?, and John have been over here helping a lot, and we are still not done.

Dad is moving home sometime next weekend..Yay! Things will eb so different when he gets back..

i will post again whenever something exciting happens...

much love,
Bri

Ebay

Ok. I really do not have much time these days. We are working on the new house 24/7. Here is a little something to enjoy until I can post for real.

Ebay 2 Watch it now on StupidVideos!

Scream

Does anybody know how I feel?
Sometimes I'm numb, sometimes I'm overcome
Does anybody care what's going on?
Do I have to wear my scars like a badge on my arm
For you to see me, I need release

Do I have to scream for you to hear me?
Do I have to bleed for you to see me?
'Cause I grieve, you're not listening to me
Do I need to scream?

Has anybody seen what's been done?
Where was my defense? No one heard my protest
The eyes of God were watching me
It's time to make my peace, let it go and be released
So I can breathe again
I'm on my knees

I've been marked, set apart
But I'm cut so deep and afraid of the dark
One drop of blood from the hole in Your hand
Is enough to heal me and make me stand

'Cause I'm clean, He is listening to me

I don't have to scream for Him to hear me
Don't have to bleed for Him to see me
'Cause I'm clean, He is listening to me
I don't have to scream
I don't have to bleed
'Cause I'm clean, He is listening
And I don't have to scream


Love you guys!

Pearls Before Swine

This is my favorite comic strip ever!

Relient K

Sorry its gone : )

quick pics

update

i guess its time to update, and tell everyone just a little of all that has changed, and what is going on now in my life. since i have moved out here to Ca, so much is different! i no longer have teachers who truly want me to learn the most i can, they are just there because that is where life put them or something. not all fo them are like this though. i guess god is really taking care of me. three of my 6 teachers are christians, and 2 of them go to my churh! its kind of strange-the public school system. the actual work is so simple and easy, but school itself just drains me. i guess the emotional energies required to process through ALL of the information thrown at me, deciphering what is really true from what is not makes up most of the pull. I have just made anastonishing revalation about the way they indocrinate everyone now though: it is not a frontal assault towards our eyes, ears, or any physical senses; it is a slow seeping stream of post-modern theology that soon becomes part of the very person, allowing them to make new judgements based on their new-found "knowlege". for example, in my tolerence class (english) we are not being taught directly that christians are bad, and homosexuality is not bad, and tolerence is the only way; we are learing about little changes of the conciousness that makes you more sympathetic towards those with differences. and i find nothing wrong with that. the bad part somes when i found myself sitting in church, and was thinking "how insular of him" (insular being our new vocabulary word that means close-minded). then i realized what was slowly happening to me and it is crazy how easily you can be pulled off course if your final destination is not constantly in front of you. Also, in little bible-belt oklahoma, the danger for me was to get sucked into complacency, and taking for granted the fact that I new the one true God. Here, i have to hang onto the fact that i know him, and he knows me, eveyday. That has to become a part of my very identity. I really have to make a concious decision to make time for god everyday, or else he WILL be put aside for "later". I do not pray that i will spend more time with god, i pray that he will give me a longing to be with him, beucae i do make time for things that i truely desire. i hope that i desire God above all else.

we are very actively involved int he church here, i have no idea how it all happened so fast, but now another girl and i are in charge of the youth band, my dad i the leader of the 9-10 grade guys, dad hasstarte a small group that is based on the book "the Case for a Creator" be Lee Strobel. Good book! anyway, there is a little update for everyone, and i hope to hear from you all soon!

love you guys,
Bri

China Pics

a part of the great wall where the old wall is still visible (the brown part)

A teenager roasting meatsticks.

The front of the little gate man's house.

thats all i have time for right now.

Bri

discussion prompt

I've been thinking alot recently, and just want to discuss some things that sometimes befudle (love that word) me. ok here are a few questions i would like to have answered:

1. how does God view suicide?
2. why is cussing so wrong?
3. why is tolerence intollerable, and where would it go if followed through to conclusion?

if you have any ideas on the above, i would love to discuss them and get a few ideas! =)

later,
Bri

here is a picture of me and mom outside of a coffee shop in Berkeley. i have got to get some pictures of where we live and our youth group and school. ive got to learn how to upload pictures from my phone..

Just Starting

Yay! I FINALLY have a blog! wow..times are changing. i just moved from the bible belt of oklahoma to liberal city in berkeley. god is seriously streching me in alot of ways. for example, i have this one class at my new school(public!) that's subject for the year is tolerence and justice. its pretty much all propaganda. Ms. Krouse was talking about how people used to judge gay people until we discovered that homosexuality is accually just something in our DNA. well, i went up to her after class and asked where she got her information. she said she did not remember and she most likely read it somewhere.hahah..well i have tons of stories like that and its onkly the first week. but i can't talk much right now.

One last thing. could you all just pray for me and my family right now? We are all really going through alot. i just started public school, my dad has a new job, my mom may have to start working, and forrest was in school, but was taken out and is now going to be homeschooled. i guess the things we need prayer for are:
1. strength to endure in such a liberal place
2. friends that will encourage us spiritually
3. ajustment to a new life

thank you guys so much! i love and miss all of you!!!
Bri