Frank Yan of Sacramento on Who, What, When, Where and Why

Who I loved was a girl from college. I wasn’t exactly that close with her. But with some superficial facts and a few interactions over a semester, (you know like most guys fantasizing over a girl that they barley know); I filled in the blanks like a fairytale author. And who she became in my head was probably more than the reality. She was the third year sorority girl. And yes, I was the infatuated freshman. Sure but, the several times we got to spend together outside of class, it really allowed me to see she also had a good heart and a bright spirit. The only problem was so just did every other guy. And while she turned me down nicely. I swear there were times when it seemed like the clique sorority girl may have felt something for the typically awkward freshman.

What I loved was an old friend. But she was much more than just a friend.We met early in college and kept in touch within the years after. We watched each other grow and change. And through multiple relationships. I saw her different boyfriends come and go. She also was there for every girlfriend and every break up of mine. Personality, humor, taste, it was all there. Her and I were almost perfect. The only thing that wasn’t perfect was her timing. We were never ever single at the same time. What we loved about each other was never enough to leave who we were with. This was something we eventually had to face and accept. And we had to leave behind… What we had.

When I loved was my first girlfriend in high school. It is a bit unfair because, she embodies the combination of both “Love and Youth”. The feeling of young love is unique and impossible to replace or replicate. Because we can only be at that age once. High school was a time of innocence, discovery, and adventure. We shared these 3 elements together in things like, our first kiss, late nights sneaking out, and matinee movies in all of which now become a nostalgic love preserved in a time where neither of us can touch, but knows its there. Even though we were just kids, there’s not a doubt in my mind when we were there, we were in love.

Where I loved was the girl I met in Sacramento. I never intended to stay here that long. It was just a 6 month internship after graduating, but it all changed when I met her. Soon a year had past then somehow another year after that, I couldn’t leave the city. I just couldn’t leave her. Maybe it was my desire to be on my own or prove something to everyone back at home. But she helped me accomplish it over here with a relationship so reflective of the city we were in. A new energy, new experience that really pushed me more mature, more than anyone, or anywhere else. When people ask, what city I love the most, I say Sacramento. The city where I loved the most.

Why I loved was a close friend who past away. She told me after she was diagnosed that death was not what saddened her the most but the fact that she never really felt like she fallen in love. She wouldn’t get to have those emotions. Good and bad of being hurt and of being held. After she past those words stuck with me the most. Teaching me to see that one of the greatest gifts we have of being alive is the ability to give, receive, and even lose love. There’s so many like her that who’s lives end before having any of those experiences. What a waste if we don’t strive to love in our lives. She made me understand why. Why waste this life not loving.

You were the 6th. Your none of them because you are all of them. You are Who I loved. The girl on the pedestal, the fantasy, the make belief things that are actually true. Your what I loved. The depth, the inside jokes, the best friend. You are when I love. A new history has been started with you. We are the young lovers our older selves will some day reminisce about. You are where I love, because I would go anywhere just to be with you. You are why I love because before you I truly didn’t understand what I was looking for. And now that we have found each other, you’ve given my past the future of meaning. You are the 6th. And you are the last.

Frank Yan of Sacramento on Loveing the Effort

On a Sat morning while Frank Yan was preparing breakfast at his Sacramento residence, his mind went into tangent and had a thought. Frank’s thoughts were, to do our best at any efforts, we must love the effort. Instead of delaying, avoiding, and even cursing what we must have to do is dive into it with gratitude and enthusiasm.

If it absolutely has to be done, we have do it in our most creative and effective state. Rather of assuming that any particular task is undesirable, we should approach it as the very best thing we could be doing at that exact moment.

For those whom assume that the effort is a curse are continuously beaten down by the efforts they make. Those who see the efforts, or the effort, as a blessing end up being truly blessed by those efforts.

Sacramento man, Frank Yan says, it’s our choice, so we need to make the smart empowering one. We need to decide and, enjoy, and love the effort, and we’ll reap the fantastic benefits from it.

The ability to making the difference is by taking action. This is an essential element of life, so we should choose to rejoice it at every opportunity to do so.

Another one that Frank Yan mentions, lose the complaints, the feelings of frustration, the self pity, and always love the effort. Love the effort that we give to life, and we should discover how much the whole of life loves us back whether if we are in or out of Sacramento.

Frank Yan of Sacramento - His Prayer for Everyone

Frank Yan of Sacramento had it on my heart today to pray for blessings and abundance for everyone in Sacramento and it’s surrounding area. The power of prayer is so amazing and Frank knows that through prayer we can get closer to our God and really receive His blessings.

“Dear Heavenly Father, I want to thank you for all that you are doing in my life and all the opportunities that you have created for me and eveyone in this world. Again, you continue to show us your love, compassion and blessings and for this I am so thankful. I also thank you for the all the trials and the hardship that we have experienced. For I know without this, we would not be able to appreciate your blessings you provide us. I pray for abundance, wisdom, guidance, and your continued blessings over all of our brothers and sisters and their families. I also pray abundance and blessing over this avenue and may it reach many people and create another means to give thanks and prayer. This is all for you God. Please be with all of us as we go through our days, let us know that you are there and that you are the rock that all ways will be there. Bless us, God, with health and healing. Thank you for your grace and your mercy.

In Jesus name we pray.

Amen.”

-Frank Yan also has been an active member and student at the following: Brent Cross in Neasden, London, and Calvary Christian Church in Oroville, Ca, Oroville Christian School, Oroville, Ca, Gateway Fellowship, Sacramento, Ca, and Capital Christian Church, Sacramento, Ca.

Frank Yan of Sacramento on John 3:16

“Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life.John 3:16

This brief passage has become one of the most recognized biblical references in the culture. It seems such a simple statement, but it reveals nothing less than the full, complete meaning of the Incarnation. It tells us everything we need to know about the Nature of God. These few, uncomplicated words, describe, perfectly, the mystery of God’s love for us with a simple and confident clarity. These few words reveal the central insight of Christianity: that though we had turned away from God, his love for us was not diminished, rather it was increased by and through his compassion for us. The very next verse tells us that the Son, Jesus, did not come to condemn the world, but that through him it might be saved.

The meaning of this passage comes profoundly alive for us in the light of faith. All of Jesusmiracles, all of his wise words, his parables, his confrontations with the authorities, indeed, his arrest, his suffering, his death and resurrection find their ultimate meaning in this single passage. The Incarnation is the greatest act of love the world has ever known. It is the revelation of an unconquerable love, a love that gives reason and meaning to all of creation and to each and every single human being. It is the ultimate love note to creation. In the Incarnation, God sends his love to all of us, not just in the fragility of human words, but in the flesh. Do you remember how you felt the first time someone told you that they loved you? Well, this passage, and the reality it speaks about, is God telling us of his profound, unconditional love for each and every one of us. How does that make you feel? Remember when that loved other told you that he or she loved you, how you knew at that moment that you would do anything, suffer anything for them? Well, a Christian who understands the full meaning of the love that God has expressed for us in this passage, is so filled with gratitude that he or she wills to do nothing less than that for God in return. Amen!

Frank Yan also has been an active member and student at the following: Brent Cross in Neasden, London, and Calvary Christian Church in Oroville, Ca, Oroville Christian School, Oroville, Ca, Gateway Fellowship, Sacramento, Ca, and Capital Christian Church, Sacramento, Ca

Frank Yan of Sacramento on Loving Your Efforts

On a Sat morning while Frank Yan was preparing breakfast at his Sacramento residence, his mind went into tangent and had a thought. Frank’s thoughts were, to do our best at any efforts, we must love the effort. Instead of delaying, avoiding, and even cursing what we must have to do is dive into it with gratitude and enthusiasm.

If it absolutely has to be done, we have do it in our most creative and effective state. Rather of assuming that any particular task is undesirable, we should approach it as the very best thing we could be doing at that exact moment.

For those whom assume that the effort is a curse are continuously beaten down by the efforts they make. Those who see the efforts, or the effort, as a blessing end up being truly blessed by those efforts.

Sacramento man, Frank Yan says, it’s our choice, so we need to make the smart empowering one. We need to decide and, enjoy, and love the effort, and we’ll reap the fantastic benefits from it.

The ability to making the difference is by taking action. This is an essential element of life, so we should choose to rejoice it at every opportunity to do so.

Another one that Frank Yan mentions, lose the complaints, the feelings of frustration, the self pity, and always love the effort. Love the effort that we give to life, and we should discover how much the whole of life loves us back whether if we are in or out of Sacramento.

Frank Yan of Sacramento posts an article on John 3:16

Frank Yan of Sacramento posts an article from: jesus-loves-you.org

“Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life.John 3:16

This brief passage has become one of the most recognized biblical references in the culture. It seems such a simple statement, but it reveals nothing less than the full, complete meaning of the Incarnation. It tells us everything we need to know about the Nature of God. These few, uncomplicated words, describe, perfectly, the mystery of God’s love for us with a simple and confident clarity. These few words reveal the central insight of Christianity: that though we had turned away from God, his love for us was not diminished, rather it was increased by and through his compassion for us. The very next verse tells us that the Son, Jesus, did not come to condemn the world, but that through him it might be saved.

The meaning of this passage comes profoundly alive for us in the light of faith. All of Jesusmiracles, all of his wise words, his parables, his confrontations with the authorities, indeed, his arrest, his suffering, his death and resurrection find their ultimate meaning in this single passage. The Incarnation is the greatest act of love the world has ever known. It is the revelation of an unconquerable love, a love that gives reason and meaning to all of creation and to each and every single human being. It is the ultimate love note to creation. In the Incarnation, God sends his love to all of us, not just in the fragility of human words, but in the flesh. Do you remember how you felt the first time someone told you that they loved you? Well, this passage, and the reality it speaks about, is God telling us of his profound, unconditional love for each and every one of us. How does that make you feel? Remember when that loved other told you that he or she loved you, how you knew at that moment that you would do anything, suffer anything for them? Well, a Christian who understands the full meaning of the love that God has expressed for us in this passage, is so filled with gratitude that he or she wills to do nothing less than that for God in return. Amen!

Frank Yan also has been an active member and student at the following: Brent Cross in Neasden, London, and Calvary Christian Church in Oroville, Ca, Oroville Christian School, Oroville, Ca, Gateway Fellowship, Sacramento, Ca, and Capital Christian Church, Sacramento, Ca