My ABCs of Hymns

I got the idea from Pipsqueak (who got it from someone else, but that's not particularly relevant). Like her, I can't quite limit it to one hymn per letter. I also fudged a bit, using first lines where it fit, and making "the" either count or not so that I could fit in a few more of my favorites. :)

A - Abide With Me
B - Be Thou My Vision and Be Still My Soul
C - Christ The Lord Is Risen Today
D - Dare To Stand Like Joshua
E - Eternal Father, Strong To Save
F - Fairest Lord Jesus
G - Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken and Glory Be To Jesus
H - How Great Thou Art and Have Thine Own Way Lord
I - I Know Whom I Have Believed and I Know That My Redeemer Lives
J - Jesus is Lord and Just As I Am
K - King Of My Life I Crown Thee Now
L - Lo! What a Glorious Sight Appears and the Lord Bless You and Keep You (+ the 7-fold Amen)
M - My Hope Is Built
N - Nearer, Still Nearer and No Tears in Heaven
O - O Lord, Our Lord and O Sacred Head
P - Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow and Purer in Heart, O God
Q - .......?
R - Revive Us Again
S - Shout For Joy to the Lord of the Earth and Shall We Gather at the River?
T - The Lord's My Shepherd (Orlington) and This Is My Father's World
U - Unto Thee O Lord
V - Victory In Jesus
W - What A Friend We Have In Jesus and When The Morning Comes
X - ......?
Y - Years I Spent In Vanity And Pride
Z - Zacchaeus Was A Wee Little Man?? I think that's the closest I can come. :)

Wisdom of Ecclesiastes, Part I

I had some extra time this morning, since I had built up quite a few extra work hours this week. (Caveat: if you work in the Atlanta area, a 7:30 commute is a world of negative difference from a 6:30 commute). In reading from Ecclesiastes, I was reminded of how much wisdom is present in that book. Of course, the whole Bible is full of wisdom, but Ecclesiastes seems to ring more clearly for me. Here are some excerpts.

Ecclesiastes 2:11
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

This is said after Solomon says he undertook great projects in order to find what was meaningful in life. Goes to show that a man who had everything he could ever want still was not content after getting everything under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5
2 Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.

Jesus echoes these words in Matthew 6.

4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow. 5 It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it. 6 Do not let your mouth lead you into sin.

Jesus echoes these words in Matthew 5. I actually had the opportunity to decline swearing an oath when we got our marriage license over Thanksgiving weekend. Instead, we "affirmed."

11 As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the own except to feast his eyes on them?

Supply side economics is no recent concept.

As I wish to keep posts to a digestible length, I have much more to comment on, but that will come a bit later.

Our Turbulent Engagement, Part 2

The Harmonic family and I are heading off this weekend to visit her other-grandma-that-I-haven't-met, who lives in another part of rural NC. So I leave you with Part 2:

This is getting so long that even I am forgetting where I left off. Maybe I should just have Harmony write it. In fact, it might be interesting to have her write her version of the novel. Might make for some quite interesting Rashomon-like narrative.

Let me preface this portion by saying that I wish there were some other way that this situation could've been handled. I am not advocating that others go around defying their parents. Perhaps we were wrong to defy my parents. But eventually they came around to support us in our decisions. At least we are not defying them anymore ....? And when exactly do I stop becoming a child as the Bible defines one? These are not rhetorical questions; if you have thoughts on this, please leave a comment.

When I left off Part 1 (see link on the sidebar or whatever), I had begun the job search. Come February 2006 and I did not have any job offers, but I had some promising prospects (which, eventually, did not work out). I had told myself that I would have another talk with my parents after I got a job offer, but I got impatient and called again in February. I said that back in August I was thinking about grad school, but now I'm thinking full-time job after graduation. I asked them to reconsider what they'd said in That Horrible Month (tm), considering that I was going to be working after graduation. They still held firm. Well this time I fought back a bit. I don't remember all that was said (much to the female audience's frustration, I'm sure). The phone conversation actually ended twice; the first time, my dad hung up on me. I called back, and my mom picked up. I do remember the last thing I said to her, before she took her turn at hanging up on me: "Just don't be surprised if I'm engaged by the time I graduate." I don't think we spoke for a month after that.

As I mentioned earlier, none of my job prospects worked out. However, I think soon after the conversation I received an e-mail from a recruiter of a big name company right in the Atlanta area. After a series of e-mails and a series of on-site interviews, I was offered a job! All this time I was assuming that I would end up moving away to, U of Texas at Austin, the Pax River area of Maryland or the DC area, but in the end God worked things out PERFECTLY for me. I honestly could not have asked for a more perfect outcome.

Soon after I excitedly accepted the job offer, I called my dad, to talk more about engagement. By this time, I think I had firmly established myself as a masochist. (I seem to have broken that habit recently though, thank goodness.) It was considerably more subdued than the previous conversation. He seemed to indicate that he had given up trying to argue with me. If this is what I wanted to do, then he said there was apparently nothing he could do to stop me. So that very evening, I went to Harmony's work and finally said, "Okay, let's get married :)" I'm sorry to disappoint everyone, but there was no elaborate plan. I didn't even get down on the knee and pop the question. As Harmony will testify, she was fine with it. So we were finally engaged! End of story, right?

When my mom found out about this, she was NOT happy. Unfortunately, she reacts much differently to stress than my dad. She called me one morning in tears, beginning with "How could you..." I then proceeded to spend an hour on the phone with her while she was crying and being mad/crushed. Taking the advice that one of my uncles had given me much earlier, I didn't know what to say, so I just shut my mouth. She was telling me to cancel all the plans that we had made, that I had gotten engaged against their wishes, so now I had to listen to them on when to actually get married. Of course, she was still wanting us to get married MUCH later. It was kinda frightening to hear her like she was; she was saying that she did not want to live because of what I had done, that there was something wrong with her and that she was going to go to the hospital because she didn't know what it was. Now this distressed me; I loved Harmony, but I also didn't want to cause the early death of my parents. I talked to Harmony, the aforementioned uncle, and my sister. We didn't know what to do.

Part 1
Supplemental I
Supplemental II
Part 3

Wedding Portraits

This past weekend we were in Charlotte to take wedding portraits. Yeah, whatever, we broke tradition and I saw her in her full wedding dress. We're only traditional in some circumstances. For any new readers, no, we are not married yet. December 16 fast approaches...




This last one is making fun of traditional Korean wedding pictures, where people don't smile. For comparison purposes, below that is a picture of my parents in a similar get-up.

Randomnimity

The future Mrs. JunkFemale and I will be going to Charlotte this weekend to take care of more wedding details in person. In lieu of bridal portraits, we're going to be doing full-dress portraits of the two of us. I can't exactly remember why we're doing that; probably some mandated handed down from my parents or something. We'll be doing that and like 50 other things. I don't know what I'll be doing tomorrow morning as she's getting all her make-up and hair done. Bring a book or something...

We'll be staying at her maternal grandma's house, which is always fun. She's 80-something and still going strong. Rumor has it that she bought herself a chainsaw for Christmas a couple of years ago and went and sawed down her own Christmas tree. Pretty cool, huh?

Here's a link (EDIT: for some reason this link no longer seems to work. Sorry. E-mail me if you'd really like to hear it...assuming it's legal for me to pass on the MP3) to our favorite recorded version of Be Thou My Vision, by 4Him. I hope the link works, as for some reason I can't access it at work (which is where I am posting this). We both have a feeling that we wouldn't like the song as much if we were singing it ourselves. I listened to this song constantly around April, when engagement problems were FLARING up. Ever since then it's become our de-facto theme song.

I don't know if this will even matter, but if anyone's going to leave comments, be aware that they probably won't get posted until Sunday evening, since we must approve of every comment before it gets posted. No such thing as unlimited free speech on THIS blog.

Nashville Bible School Tradition

I found this to be completely fascinating. JM would probably enjoy that book very much, I think, and church history is one of my favorite subjects. I found it very interesting to compare the beliefs of two of the most well-known men in the Restoration movement at that time to the beliefs of the average member today. From the introduction to the book:

"This book recovers a piece of forgotten history from the first decade of the twentieth century. Some of the finest examples of kingdom living to be found among Churches of Christ are found in the midst of that heartbreaking year of division. The "best" of Churches of Christ in 1906 is represented by the life, thought and practice of David Lipscomb (1831-1917) and James A. Harding (1848-1922), despite the fact that Lipscomb and Harding participated in the conditions which resulted in division."

The division referred to here, for those who are unaware, is the split in the Restoration Movement that resulted in the forming of the Churches of Christ and the Disciples of Christ.

More information on Restoration history can be found:

Here, at a website put together by one of the churches in my area. There are also a whole lot of primary texts (for those interested) at this website.

Our Turbulent Engagement, Supplemental

Are you still with me? And all the women said "Yes! Tell me more!" And all the men grunted in a decidedly male manner, for they got lost and had long ago decided to go off and break stuff or set stuff on fire.

Let's take a hiatus from engagement talk and teach you some more about Korean marriage culture. From what my parents had told me, it seemed like marriage in Korea is still largely arranged. Prospectively betrothed ones can only proceed forth with a relationship if both of the families know each other and both of them approve of the relationship. Family is above all in Korean culture, and if the family (= parents) did not approve, then that was the end of it. Many factors could be involved in the approval/disapproval process: the age of the man, the maturity of the man, socioeconomic status, the '인상' ('een-sahng,' no equivalent in English, "general impression" is pretty close though) of the other family.

From what one of my uncles told me, my dad's family is a very high class family in Korea. Fitting, considering that my paternal grandpa held titles such as State Labor Secretary, University President (of multiple universities), and President and Founder of Lion's Club in Korea. He studied abroad at Peking University and at Columbia University, at a time when Koreans in America were unheard of. He was also heavily involved in the independence movement against the Japanese occupation, and fervently chose NOT to give his kids Japanese names, nor to teach them the Japanese language. He was a great man and I wish I could've met him. So you can gather that my parents were going to be very picky about who their oldest and only son would marry. Not just any of the proletariat would do for their son.

There was obviously a big culture clash here. In Korean culture, marriage is an act that is much more of a family activity, whereas in American culture, it is generally much more lone wolf. To my credit, I was not trying to go about things lone wolf style; I had tried to introduce Harmony to my parents much earlier, to no avail. My mom had said something way earlier along the lines of "Why do I need to meet her? You're just friends anyways." I had tried to involve them more. The problem is that both of us had different mindsets. My parents were thinking this was just some friendly fling and that I would eventually move on in life. They were not even considering that I would be thinking marriage this early, but I was. So you can imagine that they were quite shocked when I started blabbing about marriage at such a "young age."

It seems that in the worldwide contemporary culture these days, one must be firmly established in life before he gets married; most importantly, the man must be firmly established. He must be done with graduate school before even considering marriage. That's the impression that I got from my parents. Apparently no consideration is given to young couples burning with passion for each other. If ya ain't established, fergit it. I maintained that if we were to keep on waiting for things to be "perfect" before we got married, then we would never get married. Life would never be perfect.

I had made an astonishingly correct prediction prior to having the engagement discussion with my parents. I correctly assessed my dad as the more intellectual of the two, and from there concluded that he would be a bit more open-minded. He had been living in America for a lot longer than my mom, and had had exposure to much more American culture through the workplace. I assessed that my mom, being a stay-at-home mom whose social network only included like-minded Korean people, would be much more close-minded to my lunatic whims of marriage to an All-American Girl. Indeed, my dad, while still being opposed, said we should remain in a dating relationship until 25, then decide. My mom, OTOH, said I should have no contact with Harmony until I was 28, and see how I felt about it then. You've GOT to be kidding... Luckily my dad *quickly* dismissed that as being a ridiculous idea. Sometimes I'm glad that my dad is the domineering one of the two ;)

Part I
Part 2
Supplemental II
Part 3

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Faces to Put with Names

Here's a picture of us. Note the Georgia Tech degree and Star Wars concept art poster in the background. JunkMale is on the right, for those who are slow on the uptake. Also, I'm going bald. I used to have much more hair before all this engagement/parents drama started happening.
Another picture of us in the our backyard. Here too, I'm going bald. Again, JunkMale on the right.

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Our Turbulent Engagement, Part 1

This is the first post in a series of long and detailed posts about our engagement. I'm sure you women out there will be able to follow the labyrinthine story with much enthusiasm, while the men out there will vaguely be able to recall something about an engagement. The only reason I know the story so well is because I lived through it. I admit to false advertising, as this post will not actually cover any part of our "official" engagment.

Background: I went off to Georgia Tech for college in August 2001. I ended up joining Harmony's campus ministry group. Harmony and I were, at first, acquaintances. Then around the spring semester of 2003, I noticed that I found myself unconsciously looking forward to seeing her at lunch on campus. Many of our group would gather in the food court to have lunch together, and it was always a more enjoyable experience for me when she was there. Anyways, after asking permission from both my parents and her's, we became a couple on September 27, 2003.

My parents thought we were too young to be in a committed relationship and assume that we would break up eventually..Sometime within a year later, both of us had realized that we might be right for each other. As time went on, we became more and more certain of it. All this and we had not even officially become engaged. Unfortunately, my parents' idea of being a couple and our's were completely different. In our minds, we were in a very committed relationship, headed towards marriage. We were of the opinion that young people should not enter into relationships lightly. My parents, on the other hand, thought that I was too young to be in a committed relationship and probably assumed that we would break up eventually. Neither side communicated this to the other, and that ended up causing a lot of troubles down the road.

Enter the Korean parents and culture. While in the southern U.S., daughters might be considered the prize "possessions," it's the opposite in Korea. Sons are of extremely high value, because the sons are the ones that are supposed to support the parents in their old age. Also, when children marry in Korea, sons remain in the family line and carry on the family name, while married daughters are crossed off the family tree (interestingly, Korean married women usually keep their maiden family name). Daughters "officially" become part of their husband's family. So the fact that I am the firstborn and only son in my family just added to the troubles.

For reasons that are beyond my comprehension, past and present Korean culture says that sons and daughters are obligated to obey their parents in EVERYTHING, no matter how old or mature they are. So if some dashing young man were to meet his maiden in his early 20's, the parents could say "Wait until you're 28," and the culturally Korean young man should subserviently listen to what his parents said, without question and debate. Well, that young man is me, and my parents told me that I was too young and dumb and not of the right mind to make a decision to get married like this.

That was August of 2005. To make matters worse, I had decided to have this talk with them while I was visiting home, which happened to be about 500 miles away from Harmony. I had gone home intending to get their approval and blessing to propose. I had wanted to get engaged before going off to graduate school, which was what I had been planning on doing at the time. In what I can describe as being totally my fault, I had already told Harmony that I planned to propose, but when I went home I bowed to my parents' will (for the time being, I might add), and then had to tell her that I thought we should wait six more years. It was quite a dumb thing for me to have done. I should have just not mentioned it to Harmony at all and not have gotten her hopes up. In fact, my dad was very mad at me when I revealed that I had talked about this to her, since he said this would just cause a lot of stress for her. Being 500 miles away, I couldn't even be there for her to console her. Her primary Love Language (tm) is physical touch, and no amount of MSN Messenger talk could compare to me being able to be there with her and hug her. August 2005 is one of the months in my life that I would love for God to strike from my memory.

In spite of That Horrible Month (tm), we prevailed, and somehow moved forward with life. In September I changed my mind about grad school and decided that I wanted to get a job right out of college. Maybe that would help change my parents mind. Maybe they had just freaked out because they didn't think we should be married while I was in grad school. Maybe things would be okay if I told them that I was going to get a job and be able to support her. So I plunged into the job search, with the idea that if/when I got a job offer, I would talk to my parents again and say "Hey, look, I have secured a job and will soon become totally financially independent from you and Umma (Korean term for "mom"). Don't you think I'm ready to get married now?"

Supplemental I
Part 2
Supplemental II
Part 3

About Our Labels

This is probably way overdue, but this is a page explaining the details of our blog labels. Some of the labels are quite obvious, so I will expound on the ones that are not so self-explanatory, then list all of our labels.

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Sometimes these posts can fall into the "filler" category (useful for when blogging times are slow). Usually contain some sort of update on our life.

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About This Blog

This page last updated 2008 May 14

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Some of this is adapted from our first post. You can go there and see how/if my writing tone has changed at all. I'm tempted to make a few changes to it, but I am biting my tongue and just leaving it the way it was published.

(this page will change to reflect changing focuses on our blog, if applicable)

Thou and Thou Only is a Christian blog, contributed to by me (JunkMale) and my wife, Harmony. We were married in December 2006, after a somewhat rough "pre-engagement" and engagement (read about that saga via the left sidebar link). Sometimes our dog Luna somehow gets on here and posts an entry or two ;)

We believe the Bible is the infallible Word of God. We constantly seek to hone our lives to conform to Biblical standards. As Christians, our first allegiance is to God. As such, we do not consider this world home. Romans 12:2 says "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

We seek to keep our minds clear of earthly biases, whether we're talking about political parties or church denominations. No man is infallible; as nations are composed of men, no nation is above reproach. Neither the Republican nor the Democrat political party is the ordained party of God. Neither the left nor the right of the political spectrum has a special place in God's eyes.

Although some of this talk may sound Anabaptist or Mennonite, we are members of the Church of Christ denomination. We do not automatically condemn members of other denominations. Truth is truth and we do not believe any single Christian denomination has everything perfectly correct.

Here are some (but not all) topics you will hear about on this blog:

• Christianity in general


• Christianity as it relates to everyday life and politics


• Healthy eating and related subjects


• Gardening (our goal is complete vegetable self-sufficiency)


• Our dog Luna, whom we feed a raw diet


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• Read more about our blog labels on our label explanation page

(this blog post was not actually written in 2006; I just backdated it so it wouldn't appear as a new entry.)

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Recipe: Ma-Po Tofu

Dinner tomorrow night is going to be a repeat of Ma-Po Tofu (aka 마파두부). I got the recipe from here, but fdh (f = future) said there was too much ginger and not enough 고추장 (red pepper paste).

So the modified recipe will be:

1/4 cup chicken broth
1/4 cup Korean pepper paste (고추장)
2 Tbs soy sauce
1 (18 oz) package soft tofu
2 Tbs canola oil
1/2 lb ground pork
1 1/3 Tbs minced garlic
3/4 tsp minced fresh ginger
1 Tbs cornstarch dissolved in 2 Tbs water
1 1/2 teaspoons Korean sesame oil (참기름)

I would like to serve this with brown rice, but at my parents' house we have none. Therefore it will be served with medium grain white rice. Short grain would be better, but medium grain is close enough to sticky rice when it cools a bit. Besides, Ma-Po is Chinese, not Korean.

Note: This is partly a test to see if Korean fonts show up in blogger.
Edit: They do! If you would like to see them and cannot, here are instructions:
Firefox - View -> Character Encoding -> Auto-Detect -> Korean
IE - View -> Encoding -> More -> Korean

Death

Not one hour into my blogging career and my first post seems to not be visible for some reason. I was editing the post to put in a Scripture. I can still see it when I'm signed in, but it doesn't show up publically. I'm sure it'll fix itself somehow. Or maybe my woman can fix things for me. Always nice having a woman around the blogosphere.

EDIT: Problem solved, somehow. Maybe an issue with browser cache? Maybe an issue with my Firefox plug-ins being overzealous? It showed up in IE, then I tried in Firefox after some fiddling.

First Post! Yes!

This is a family/joint blog started by me and my wife-to-be, Harmony. We got the idea from The Common Room. Partly as a way to communicate while I'm at work (due to the nature of my work network, I can't check my personal e-mail, nor can I spend any time on MSN Messenger), and partly because we wanted to document the start of our new life together.

We are a rare breed of couple; I am a Korean-American male and my wife-to-be is an American white female. We are both Biblical conservatives (could sort of be considered crunchy conservatives). We are both Ramblin' Wrecks from Georgia Tech (2006 B.S. Applied Physics here, 2005 B.S. Polymer Engineering there). THWG!! Note the GT color scheme of our blog: white and gold with *sparing* navy blue accents.

You might be surprised to find out that we do not intend for Harmony to work outside the home, even before kids come along. If you want to know why, go read this rambling on my website. Please, no trying to change our minds. You won't get far on this one.

We fully declare that we are "weird." We are going to homeschool our children. Yup, you're darn right; our kids are going to turn out "weird" and "unsocialized." With the way society is going these days, "weird" and "doesn't fit in" are probably good characteristics. We're planning on having kids right away, and we're planning on having more than the suburban standard 1.5 kids + dog. We're not agrarian by any standard, considering that we live smack in the middle of a suburban planned community/utopia. But we read the labels on the food that we buy, and try to make stuff from scratch whenever possible. No trans fats for us!!

On this blog, expect to hear about subjects such as

• Biblical conservatism.
• Homeschooling.
• Multi-cultural shenanigans, as my parents are legal Korean immigrants and were not happy about us getting married at such a "young" age. To their credit, they've lightened up considerably.
• Rants against secular liberalism.
• The life of a young stay-at-home-wife, hopefully soon to be a young stay-at-home-mom.
  

Title of our blog:
This is a short phrase taken from our favorite hymn and de facto theme song, Be Thou My Vision. For the unwashed pagan masses, "Thou" refers to God. Not you ;)
The subtitle is also fitting with one of our motto scriptures, Proverbs 30 : 7-9:

7 "Two things I ask of you, O LORD;
do not refuse me before I die:

8 Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.

9 Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
and say, 'Who is the LORD ?'
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God.

Links and Readers

I moved the link list to a separate page, because I noticed that people hardly ever clicked these links when they were on the sidebar.

If you link us, there's a good chance that we will link you (courtesy of Sitemeter and Technorati, I will find you, hahaha). Or if you write a good blog, we will also link you.

• Biblical Womanhood


• Frog & Elephant Baby Supplies - a business run by friends of our's.


• Christian Unity - Harmony's Dad's Blog


• Family of N


• Married To The Empire


• Michelle's Blog


• R&V Farmstead


• Smockity Frocks


• Suitable For Mixed Company


• Tammy's Recipes


• The Cappuccino life


• The Common Room


• The Hot-Rod 5


• Veiled Glory


• Wings and Prayers