The last one month has been a challenging times for me both professionally and in ministry. I was busy and felt like I needed more time in a day. It’s been a challenge to manage my time at work, home, and church.
Just to give a little background. Just early this year, I was given a new challenge at work. I was asked to coordinate works for the international zone. I was thrilled with the opportunity given to me. I worked hard to get up to speed. However, as we all learn, more responsibilities spell more pressures.
My husband and I go to a church founded by people from our countries. Since the first time I met him, he has been a youth group leader. I look up to him in mostly everything. Prior to going out with him, I had this one fear in my heart. I can’t be a leader!! I can’t have people look up to me!! I am not ready for this!! However, I know that this is part of his calling and I can’t disobey God by asking him to leave the position.
I was having a hard time during the first few months of our courtship because I felt he spent more time for this ministry. At the same time, I did not see it as my ministry yet I have to be one. A couple months ago, I started to change my mind and saw this as our ministry. I devoted my time and energy for this ministry. No matter how bad the church is struggling right now, I decided to work even harder for God.
As I strive to become better both professionally and in ministry, I find a lot of challenges ahead of me. At times, I felt tired. Though they are a very different type of works and environments, but the challenges are the same. When you strive to give the best, there is always something that’s trying to bring you down. As someone stubborn and perfectionist, I don’t want to fail. The more challenges ahead of me, the more changes I bring to myself in order to make them successful. It felt as if my characters are built to be even better. FYI, I am not very patient. My patience is being stretched through these challenges.
At the moment, it’s still not easy, but one thing I know for sure, the end road for me is very bright. Thus, I never look back, only forward.
” Brethren I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14
When I was 10 years old, I played chase and run with my sister. Accidentally, I hit my chin on my dad’s metal plate when I knelt down as an attempt to avoid being caught. It was not painful at all. In fact I was still laughing when I stood up. My sister saw the blood coming down from my mouth.
To cut the story short, that incident caused me to lose one of my front teeth. I went through one year treatment to put the dead teeth back to its place. The dentist told me to seek an implant in the future if I could. This technology was not available in my place at that time.
When I got my first job, I immediately consulted an oral surgeon to proceed with the treatment. Since the incident happened a long time ago, I have lost a lot of bones in my gum. The surgeon asked me to have an orthodontic treatment to get all the tooth in proper position prior to doing the implant. At the same time, I had to do a bone grafting procedure to add bones to my gum.
This first surgery was an easy one for me. I was put to sleep so I won’t feel any pain. In just a week or two, I was back to normal. I was happy but the surgery was not successful at all. The new bones wouldn’t stay and grow 
This brought me to my second surgery with a new oral surgeon. Let me be clear here. I didn’t ditch my first surgeon because of this. I had to move out of state for some personal reason.
The second surgery was not a good experience for me. I had local anesthesia. For the whole one hour surgery, my body was tense. After the surgery, I vomited all day long. I was hungry and tired, but I couldn’t get anything into my body. The good news is the bones stay this time 
This brought me to the real deal. The implant is scheduled this coming Friday. According to my oral surgeon, it should be easy and painless. I want to go with the general anesthesia but my insurance’s coverage is not good. So here I am again, waiting for the day to come. I am scared but I know I have to do it.
Hopefully things go well with me. If the surgery is successful, I don’t have to go through another surgery.
Yay!! Finally my first post in this site
Welcome all to my blog!
I have been longing to have a blogging site that I can host and maintain personally. Finally this site is up and running! Thanks to my husband who has helped me to make this happen.
Some of you might be puzzled as to why I pick “choonny” as my domain and site name. Indeed, this name is weird and has no meaning at all. My full name is Juniana. My friends call me Juni. If you are thinking, yup, you guessed it right. Choonny came from Juni
I got this name out of inspiration from my best friend Sisca. She always use cheesca as her nickname. I figured I would also need a nice nickname where there won’t be any competition in the internet. So far it proves to be correct. I haven’t gotten any duplicate nickname in any site that I visited
Just a disclaimer: Anything posted here are solely my opinions, and not the opinions of my employer.
