Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2023| Leave a Comment »
By Tina Teng-Henson
These days, I define excellence.
I used to jump through hoops laid out by those around me.
College entrance, obviously.
Evangelism and discipleship and mission.
Ordination? Maybe. Maybe not.
My set, we’re in the “good enough” stage of life:
Chauffeur and cook; keep the kids alive.
My friend said yesterday:
“Cooking? I gave that up 4 or 5 years ago.”
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »
By Wendy Choy-Chan
Last week, Emi shared (https://aawolsisters.com/2023/03/14/excellence-employing-and-enjoying/) about excellence being about the process and not the product, that excellence is in living.
In Chinese, there is no “ing” that you can add to the end of a verb. To convey the progressive verb tense, you need to add words like “right now and continuing to” before the verb, which makes a sentence quite cumbersome. So, we usually assume or hope that the audience will catch the “ing” from the context. Unfortunately, there is often a loss in communication and words like faith and love become abstract concepts, perceiving them as commandments (goals/products) that we are to achieve, and not the actual on-going day-by-day, moment-by-moment experiences and interactions that we have with God. It is as if God has told us his expectations and now he waits at the finish line to see whether we will reach excellency in these aspects.
(more…)Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »
By Emi Iwanaga
“and I have filled him with the Spirit of God,
with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge
and with all kinds of skills—”
Exodus 31:3 NIV
Not the product, but the process
Experiencing the Creator’s guidance
Utilizing wholeheartedly one’s skills
Bringing sweet rest at night, throughout the night
Awaking refreshed with expectation
Excellence in living
Emi Iwanaga served thirteen years as a missionary in Amazon Valley in Brazil, over 20+ years as a children’s ministry director, women’s ministry director, and pastor’s wife, and is currently a spiritual director.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2023| Leave a Comment »
By Jerrica KF Ching
I believe that the idea of “excellence” can be a very complex idea that sticks with some of us throughout our entire lives. For me it was within the world of academia and later my occupational well-being. When I was in elementary school, report card grades consisted of S- (less than satisfactory), S (satisfactory), S+ (more than satisfactory), and E (excellent). If we received E’s for all four quarters of the school year, we received a Certificate of Excellence that was printed on special paper, and our names were called aloud at a school assembly. I cannot recall my parents ever pushing my siblings and I to strive for E’s, so perhaps my desire to earn E’s for all quarters was due to a competitive streak between classmates, wanting to know what having status felt like, and being motivated externally due to my age.
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