John Gunter

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Life lessons from my night in JAIL

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This article is the second part of “My night in JAIL”.  If you have not read it, please CLICK HERE to first read it. This article picks up where “My night in JAIL” leaves off.

Red and Andy from "Shawshank Redemption" , one of my favorite movies from around this time.
Red and Andy from “Shawshank Redemption” , one of my favorite movies from around this time.

“The Shawshank Redemption” was one of my favorite movies from around the same period as this story of me going to jail.  I am not alone, as the movie often is ranked as one of the best of all time.

One of the many elements of “The Shawshank Redemption” which makes it a classic is the wisdom passed down as the characters of Andy and Red interpret their situations and meaning in life.  One of my favorite quotes is the following. . .

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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My night in JAIL

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This is the prison I spent Halloween Night in of my senior year in high school
This is the prison I spent Halloween Night in of my senior year in high school.

As I sat in the back of the police car with Kevin, my head was swimming.  My friends Ashton and Peter were seated in the back of another squad car directly in front of us.  Peter’s car was directly behind the one in which Kevin and I were currently “detained”, as the flashing blue lights were bouncing off his windshield.

It was surreal, almost like an out of body experience which I can still recall with crystal clear clarity even to this day.

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On the road again. . . my posts on travel

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(left to right) John Gunter, Patrick Ku, Eugene Kim, and Eric Tai in Las Vegas three nights ago.
(left to right) John Gunter, Patrick Ku, Eugene Kim, and Eric Tai in Las Vegas three nights ago.

On the road again. . .

This week finds me, once again, on the road.  I’ll be covering over 20,000 miles in less than two weeks.  The trip has already taken me through Las Vegas and Atlanta.  As I type this, I am sitting next to my Father digesting a wonderful breakfast which Mom just cooked, feeling a million miles away from Asia.

Las Vegas was a one night stop over joining in the celebration of long-time friend Patrick Ku’s 40th birthday.  A group of around 20 rendezvoused in Vegas for three days of golf, food, and whatever else they can find out there.  Vegas is a weird place, of which could be a few blog posts in and of itself, but I will refrain. [Read more…]

An open letter to the World…thoughts on finding contentment

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Josh Irby is a tremendous writer, musician, basketball player, and basic all around renaissance man.  He has also been a good friend of mine for more than 15 years.  Josh is hosting an Open Letter Challenge  contest on his excellent website.  He asked me to participate, so here is my attempt.  The following letter is my response to An Open Letter to You from the Rest of the World.”  Would love your thoughts at the end!Open letter to the rest of the world

Dear World,

Let’s learn to be content in all things!  The older I get, the more I see quality of life wrapped up in this little concept of contentment.  Allow me to explain.

As I have shared several times in my blog, contentment is somewhat of a theme in my life.  Rather, I should I say a pursuit of contentment.

I currently live in an Asian culture where the dominant world-view is atheism.  It is taught from birth with religious zealousness.  At its ideological core, this philosophical system teaches that this life is it.  You live and then nothing. [Read more…]

An awkward conversation about singleness (and 2 thoughts)

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I didn't have a cool pic to put here, so just did a selfie from my computer while writing this. . .
I didn’t have a cool pic to put here, so just did a selfie from my computer while writing this. . .

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

I honestly thought I was done with my thoughts on singleness. However, I had an experience recently which has changed a bit of my thinking. I set out a few months ago to get ALL of my thoughts on singleness on paper. I unimaginatively called the series “My thoughts on singleness (a series. . .)” Very creative, I know.

Recently, I was sitting with a pastor friend of mine. He is a wonderful man, very smart, and has a great heart for the Lord and the work of the Kingdom of God. He has sacrificed for the advance of the Gospel in ways I can’t imagine. We are good friends and meet whenever possible.

As we often do, we met for coffee. We talked of life, our personal issues, and even touched on some theology. He has enjoyed reading the works of John Stott, as I have as well.

Then the conversation took a familiar, yet uncomfortable turn.

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