Here's the schedule I kept for two weeks for D.T. homework. Why I am posting it? I'm not sure. I don't really want to think right now.
Saturday Afternoon: 11/14
1:30 p.m.: D.T. finally ends. I go to praise practice.
5:00 p.m.: Praise practice ends. We started at around 2:30 p.m. and prayed until 3:30 p.m.
6:00 p.m.: Finished cleaning up. Joseph, Will, and I go out for some chicken wings. Yum.
8:00 p.m.: Got home pretty early. Rented "Taken" with my youngest brother and headed home to watch it. Was going to play tennis with my younger brother but my mom got mad at him.
10:00 p.m.: Noodling on the computer
1:00 a.m.: Read a book and slept at around 1:30 a.m.
Sunday: 11/15
7:00 a.m.: Wake up, wash up, head to church
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: EED
10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.: E-College
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Grocery shopping
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Drive up to school with Emily
6:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.: Some football, some Hulu
2:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.: Fell asleep reading a book
Monday: 11/16
1:50 p.m.: Wake up, head to tennis class
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Tennis
3:10 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.: Work
5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.: Eat dinner
6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.: Filming in my film class
10:50 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.: Watched a movie
2:00 a.m. - 5:00 a.m.: Finished my homework
Tuesday: 11/17
3:00 p.m.: Wake up, eat
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Drum class
6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Worked on my midterm, did some D.T. stuff for EED, read some Scripture, ate dinner, played some video games with roommates, some Hulu.
11:00 - 1:00 a.m.: Practiced for midterm on Wednesday with partner.
1:00 a.m. - 5:00 a.m.: Played some computer games. Finished homework - finding book sources, finished presentation.
Wednesday: 11/18
1:50 p.m.: Wake up, Go to class
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Tennis class
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Eat, Shower
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Finished midterm
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Finished researching for paper, met with group for presentation
7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Recomm
11:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Some Hulu. Ate a snack.
12:00 p.m. - 8:00 a.m.: Chatting, some games, listening to music, and worked on my 8 page research paper. Finished at 8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.: D.T. Homework (This schedule), printed my essay, packed up to go home. Sleep.
Thursday: 11/19
12:45 p.m.: Wake up. Go to class.
1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Class.
6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Dinner with Pastor Jonas and Billy
11:00 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.: Hulu.
1:30 a.m. - 4:30 a.m.: Read a book.
Friday: 11/20
2:30 p.m.: Wake up.
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Made a card, clipped my nails, ate food.
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Watched little brother play Bioshock.
6:30 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.: Leaders' meeting.
12:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.: Fantasy football, Hulu, Wikipedia
Saturday: 11/21
8:00 a.m.: Wake up. Head to D.T.
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: D.T.
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.: BBQ
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: EED Praise Practice
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.: Hanging out with E-College Praise team
7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.: Watched a movie with my little brothers
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.: Video games with my little brothers
12:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.: Hulu. Stuff.
Sunday: 11/22
7:00 a.m.: Wake up. Eat breakfast. Head to EED.
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: EED.
10:50 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Holy Wave Service.
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Lunch
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.: Dessert
2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Chilling at home. Ate at home. Some T.V.
4:50 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Tennis with my little brothers.
6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.: Dinner with my family.
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Dinner with Kita Krew.
10:00 p.m. - 3:00 a.m.: Hulu. Wrote a song with two other friends. Chatting.
Monday: 11/23
3:00 p.m.: Wake up. Call in sick for work.
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Brush my teeth. Video games with my roommates. Some chatting.
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Read the Bible. Eat dinner. Head to class.
7:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.: Video games, Hulu, Fantasy Football, T.V., Practice Guitar, Work on my Song-writing final.
12:00 a.m.: Surprised a friend for her birthday.
12:30 a.m. - 3:30 a.m.: Video games, EED praise practice q.t., Read the Bible, Hulu.
Tuesday: 11/24
12:00 p.m.: Wake up.
12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Lunch with my summer retreat family group.
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.: Drive home.
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Tennis with the little brothers.
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Took my brother and cousin to church, then rented a video for the youngest brother.
6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.: Dinner with my mom and my youngest brother.
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.: Watched Race to Witch Mountain with Joshua. Picked up Chris. EED Praise Practice Homework.
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Played SSBB with Chris.
11:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.: Met up with Joseph to eat and chill.
Wednesday: 11/25
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Wake up. Eat. EED Praise Practice Homework.
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Ran some errands for my mom.
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.: Random internet stuff (Amazon, Elfster, fantasy football).
2:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Q.T. and practice for Recomm praise.
7:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.: Recomm and Casa Garcia.
2:00 a.m. - 3:30 a.m.: Read a book.
Thursday: 11/26
11:00 a.m.: Wake up.
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Eat
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Read a book in the car on the way to my relatives place in Palm Desert.
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Waited for food to finish cooking.
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Ate. Talked with family. Headed to Cabazon Outlet Mall.
9:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.: Some Black Friday shopping. Bought some shoes and a jacket.
12:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.: Drive home.
1:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.: Practiced bass for praise team. Hulu.
Friday: 11/27
11:00 a.m.: Wake up.
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: SSBB with my youngest brother.
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Practiced bass for praise team.
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: EED Praise practice HW. Read Joshua. Did Q.T.
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Get ready to go out.
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Eat late lunch with family.
4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.: NRB with friends.
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Ate dinner with friends.
9:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.: Hung out at a cafe.
12:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.: Finished up last bit of D.T. homework and practiced bass for praise team.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
11/13/09 - 11/14/09
11/13/09: Servant Team Team Team Team
Leaders' meeting today. It was also the 21st anniversary of my grandfather's death. Hm... What to say? I took my little brothers and my cousin to the mall today and bought them lunch. I also bought my little brother a jacket for his birthday present. He loves it. Or so he says haha. Servant team was super productive today so I'm happy with everything that we got done. I am still a bit sad that it's going to be on my birthday... Dang. I'm not sure why. I guess I just don't want a day I consider to be "my day" to be overshadowed by something else. But then that's just my selfishness haha. I've decided that I'm going to take individual instruction for Bass Guitar next semester. I'm looking forward to it very very much! :) D.T. tomorrow!
Things I need to work on: Living for God's glory rather than my own.
11/14/09: Second to last post!
Goodness gracious. Wow. It's been three weeks, and a very short three weeks I feel. I don't know what to say... It's been an intense fast, one that has really blessed me beyond what I expected, but then we all know that God works above and beyond all human expectations haha. I don't know what else to say. Whoa.
11/15/09: Done? Not quite.
My, my. What an exciting and reflective three weeks it's been. I've learned much about myself and have been blessed immensely. The entire period of time was purely beneficial. Media is not a necessity to living life in a Godly manner. Therefore, even though the fast itself is over, I've decided to drastically reduce the amount of time I spend on media. I'm keeping my facebook deactivated until December 1st and I'm going to limit the amount of time spent on hulu and aim. Goodness. I tried to type up a comprehensive list of all the things I learned but I realized that I put most of that stuff on my previous posts. Interestingly enough, I think that I'm going to try harder to blog daily. I've begun to see the positive effects of living a reflective lifestyle. Do I have any more to say? I have a lot of stuff to do this week so please pray for me! Thanks. The End. And thanks to everyone that followed me up until now. :)
Leaders' meeting today. It was also the 21st anniversary of my grandfather's death. Hm... What to say? I took my little brothers and my cousin to the mall today and bought them lunch. I also bought my little brother a jacket for his birthday present. He loves it. Or so he says haha. Servant team was super productive today so I'm happy with everything that we got done. I am still a bit sad that it's going to be on my birthday... Dang. I'm not sure why. I guess I just don't want a day I consider to be "my day" to be overshadowed by something else. But then that's just my selfishness haha. I've decided that I'm going to take individual instruction for Bass Guitar next semester. I'm looking forward to it very very much! :) D.T. tomorrow!
Things I need to work on: Living for God's glory rather than my own.
11/14/09: Second to last post!
Goodness gracious. Wow. It's been three weeks, and a very short three weeks I feel. I don't know what to say... It's been an intense fast, one that has really blessed me beyond what I expected, but then we all know that God works above and beyond all human expectations haha. I don't know what else to say. Whoa.
11/15/09: Done? Not quite.
My, my. What an exciting and reflective three weeks it's been. I've learned much about myself and have been blessed immensely. The entire period of time was purely beneficial. Media is not a necessity to living life in a Godly manner. Therefore, even though the fast itself is over, I've decided to drastically reduce the amount of time I spend on media. I'm keeping my facebook deactivated until December 1st and I'm going to limit the amount of time spent on hulu and aim. Goodness. I tried to type up a comprehensive list of all the things I learned but I realized that I put most of that stuff on my previous posts. Interestingly enough, I think that I'm going to try harder to blog daily. I've begun to see the positive effects of living a reflective lifestyle. Do I have any more to say? I have a lot of stuff to do this week so please pray for me! Thanks. The End. And thanks to everyone that followed me up until now. :)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
11/11/09 - 11/12/09
11/11/09: Peppero day! (Also known as Veterans Day)
I'm totally kidding haha. I think it's a great idea to have a day to honor those that fell in war, defending it to the death. Death seems to bring everyone together somehow. It's the one thing everyone agrees to hate. Wow. I woke up at 11 a.m. feeling so so refreshed after my 17 hour sleep. Oh my goodness. Knocking out after studying all night feels GREAT. The rest of the day was quite uneventful. Songwriting class was fun again. It's going to be one of the classes I'm going to miss the most next semester. After class was over and stuff, I went to Recomm, which is always great. :) I love my Recomm family. :) Then we got some coffee and yogurt for dessert. Yums. I got back and I ended up sitting down with one of my roommates to talk to him about theology and share about our spiritual walks. It was really blessing and we agreed that we should try to do it with the rest of our roommates as well. One of my other roommates walked in on us talking and he talked with us for a bit too. It was really good to get some spiritual accountability with my roommates. I mean, we freaking live together. This is something we can work on and build. I want to end the year with more than just roommates. I want to end the year with brothers. :) In other news, I enjoy talking about theology. It interests me.
Things I need to work on: Building biblical brotherhood and, in the process, build biblical manhood.
11/12/09: My little brother's birthday
Hm. My little brother's birthday... I decided to text him happy birthday and ask him what he wanted. He replied, "Take me shopping. :)" -_- Wow. Why can't he ask for something? In that sense, why can't everyone just tell me something specific? I mean. For myself, when I ask someone what they want and they answer honestly, I will try that much harder to get that person what they want, even spending more money and effort (as long as it's within reasonable bounds of course) just so I can please them. So when I ask you what you would like for your birthday, tell me. You'll get a better present. I promise. Giving gifts is definitely not one of my love languages... I visited UCLA with Patrick tonight and it was fun. I met up with peoples and we shared some laughs. I'm going to take an individual instruction course for guitar next semester but I don't know if I should take instruction for bass or for guitar... Hm... I'm going to ask praise team. Speaking of praise team, I'm super excited for praise practice this week. I look forward to them eagerly. :) I HAVE SO MUCH STUFF TO DO!!
Things to work on: GET STUFF DONE.
I'm totally kidding haha. I think it's a great idea to have a day to honor those that fell in war, defending it to the death. Death seems to bring everyone together somehow. It's the one thing everyone agrees to hate. Wow. I woke up at 11 a.m. feeling so so refreshed after my 17 hour sleep. Oh my goodness. Knocking out after studying all night feels GREAT. The rest of the day was quite uneventful. Songwriting class was fun again. It's going to be one of the classes I'm going to miss the most next semester. After class was over and stuff, I went to Recomm, which is always great. :) I love my Recomm family. :) Then we got some coffee and yogurt for dessert. Yums. I got back and I ended up sitting down with one of my roommates to talk to him about theology and share about our spiritual walks. It was really blessing and we agreed that we should try to do it with the rest of our roommates as well. One of my other roommates walked in on us talking and he talked with us for a bit too. It was really good to get some spiritual accountability with my roommates. I mean, we freaking live together. This is something we can work on and build. I want to end the year with more than just roommates. I want to end the year with brothers. :) In other news, I enjoy talking about theology. It interests me.
Things I need to work on: Building biblical brotherhood and, in the process, build biblical manhood.
11/12/09: My little brother's birthday
Hm. My little brother's birthday... I decided to text him happy birthday and ask him what he wanted. He replied, "Take me shopping. :)" -_- Wow. Why can't he ask for something? In that sense, why can't everyone just tell me something specific? I mean. For myself, when I ask someone what they want and they answer honestly, I will try that much harder to get that person what they want, even spending more money and effort (as long as it's within reasonable bounds of course) just so I can please them. So when I ask you what you would like for your birthday, tell me. You'll get a better present. I promise. Giving gifts is definitely not one of my love languages... I visited UCLA with Patrick tonight and it was fun. I met up with peoples and we shared some laughs. I'm going to take an individual instruction course for guitar next semester but I don't know if I should take instruction for bass or for guitar... Hm... I'm going to ask praise team. Speaking of praise team, I'm super excited for praise practice this week. I look forward to them eagerly. :) I HAVE SO MUCH STUFF TO DO!!
Things to work on: GET STUFF DONE.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
11/09/09 - 11/10/09
11/09/09: MIDTERM. ZOMG.
I had to study for my stupid Bio midterm today. It is now 5:13 a.m. on 11/10/09 and I have officially given up. Not having gone to class since the last midterm is beginning to show. I frequently do stupid things. This is one of them. In other news, I finally finished the book of Numbers and have moved on to Deuteronomy. I pray that God will bless me through it as much as He has graciously blessed me through Numbers.
Things I need to work on: Stop being stupid.
11/10/09: K.O. Time
I don't really remember what I did today... I walked through all my classes in a daze, finished my midterm, then ended up knocking out at 5:30 p.m. hehe. I feel so refreshed as I write this (I woke up at 11 a.m. the next day) and I'm looking forward to a new day. Yaaaaay~
Things I need to work on: Make these posts more interesting.
I had to study for my stupid Bio midterm today. It is now 5:13 a.m. on 11/10/09 and I have officially given up. Not having gone to class since the last midterm is beginning to show. I frequently do stupid things. This is one of them. In other news, I finally finished the book of Numbers and have moved on to Deuteronomy. I pray that God will bless me through it as much as He has graciously blessed me through Numbers.
Things I need to work on: Stop being stupid.
11/10/09: K.O. Time
I don't really remember what I did today... I walked through all my classes in a daze, finished my midterm, then ended up knocking out at 5:30 p.m. hehe. I feel so refreshed as I write this (I woke up at 11 a.m. the next day) and I'm looking forward to a new day. Yaaaaay~
Things I need to work on: Make these posts more interesting.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
11/07/09 - 11/08/09
Too tired... Shall update later.
Edit:
No update. I don't remember what I did those days...
Edit:
No update. I don't remember what I did those days...
Thursday, November 5, 2009
11/05/09 - 11/06/09
11/05/09: Weird dream!
I had such a weird dream last night. Like always, it was like a movie. There were two scientists, one Asian and one white, who were working together on a project. They happened to accidentally discover a parallel "mirror-verse" in which everything is a mirror of our current universe. After testing it out for themselves, they decide that it's a wonderful place and to bring their family over to visit during a vacation. The night they were all planning to leave, the white scientist receives an ominous message in the form of a vision and a materializing letter that claims that they must only stay in the parallel universe for a maximum of one week, otherwise their existence in our universe will disappear and cause a huge hole that could potentially swallow our universe into nothing-ness. The white scientist is obviously shaken up but the Asian scientist, having not been the recipient of the vision is understandably skeptical about his friend's premonition but promises to keep it in his head. The white scientist decides to have the wormhole open up again at exactly six days so as not to risk anything. Did I mention I'm the eldest son of the Asian scientist's family? I don't know why but I guess my mind wanted to put me in it in some way. So we suit up for mirror-verse travel which equals heavy winter clothes coupled with a weird looking aluminum foil helmet. The winter clothes were because mirror-verse travel induced near-freezing temperatures. We were also using metal tongs, like the ones for grilling meat, to hold a large sheet of aluminum foil between the tongs. Apparently the aluminum foil protected our bodies from being torn apart by the power of the portal. Holding the aluminum foil in front of us with the tongs created a small gap within the portal that we could jump through. So we all travel to the mirror-verse and meet our mirror-selves in our mirror-homes and have a lot of fun but when the wormhole reappears on the sixth day, it is discovered by a lot of other people in the mirror-verse town because, for some reason, the portal reopens in a museum. And when the two families get there to go through the portal again, the Asian scientist declares that his family is going to stay because he loves the life there and feels like he's found a best friend in his mirror-self (I don't want to go into detail of the middle portion of this story because that would take forever). The eldest son declares that he's going back with the white guy's family because he believes the white scientist, earning him more brownie points with the white guy's hot daughter (they've been slowly cultivating a relationship since the beginning, the details of which would take too long to write down). The white guy has four kids, by the way: eldest daughter with one younger brother, and youngest twin sisters. So now the two guys start arguing with each other and everyone is just waiting. People in the museum are staring at the weird people in winter clothes standing together. So this whole time I'm waiting for this dream to come to a conclusion but all of a sudden my stupid alarm goes off and I wake up and now I have no idea how all this ends. Lame.
I totally failed in my media fast today. I really need to watch myself and make sure I don't get complacent. I'm considering extending the time I'm doing this because I've seen an overall positive change taking place in my life through it. God is using it to mature me even more. Keep praying for me few people who still read my blog!
Things I need to work on: Conclusions.
11/06/09: Leaders' meeting and a movie
Alrighty. So today was leaders' meeing. I thought I had plans to hang out with Rachel before the meeting but she ditched me so I went to meeting alone. I got to read some more of Numbers though so that was nice. I'm currently very worried about Joseph, Ann, and Jennifer. I heard Joseph got into a car accident and didn't come to leaders' meeting. Ann and Jennifer came but I saw them later and they looked like they were crying... I'm really worried about them. I tried calling some of them but no one picked up their phone. Gah. Hopefully Joseph comes to D.T. tomorrow morning so I can talk to him. The committee leaders got a lot done in Christmas Banquet planning so that was good. I'm excited. Christmas Banquet was pretty darn fun last year and I hope it'll be good this year too. Plus it's an excuse to dress up haha. I went to watch Disney's A Christmas Carol in 3D with Ashley Lee and Eunice Lee SC after the meeting. Wow. NOT what we were expecting at ALL. It was freaking scary. And on top of everything it was PG. Holy cow, it's scary what is considered suitable for kids nowadays. Other than that it was a fun experience. I'm garnering more interest in Richard Dawkins. What can make a man reject God so vehemently? I'm going to look into his books: The God Delusion and The Greatest Show on Earth. People have been expressing some fear at the fact that I'm reading these books but I'll try to read them prayerfully.
Thing I need to work on: I'm still quite sad at my lack of a consistent prayer life. Prayer definitely has power and I want God's wonderful gift for mankind that is prayer. Please pray that I can pray! (lol)
I had such a weird dream last night. Like always, it was like a movie. There were two scientists, one Asian and one white, who were working together on a project. They happened to accidentally discover a parallel "mirror-verse" in which everything is a mirror of our current universe. After testing it out for themselves, they decide that it's a wonderful place and to bring their family over to visit during a vacation. The night they were all planning to leave, the white scientist receives an ominous message in the form of a vision and a materializing letter that claims that they must only stay in the parallel universe for a maximum of one week, otherwise their existence in our universe will disappear and cause a huge hole that could potentially swallow our universe into nothing-ness. The white scientist is obviously shaken up but the Asian scientist, having not been the recipient of the vision is understandably skeptical about his friend's premonition but promises to keep it in his head. The white scientist decides to have the wormhole open up again at exactly six days so as not to risk anything. Did I mention I'm the eldest son of the Asian scientist's family? I don't know why but I guess my mind wanted to put me in it in some way. So we suit up for mirror-verse travel which equals heavy winter clothes coupled with a weird looking aluminum foil helmet. The winter clothes were because mirror-verse travel induced near-freezing temperatures. We were also using metal tongs, like the ones for grilling meat, to hold a large sheet of aluminum foil between the tongs. Apparently the aluminum foil protected our bodies from being torn apart by the power of the portal. Holding the aluminum foil in front of us with the tongs created a small gap within the portal that we could jump through. So we all travel to the mirror-verse and meet our mirror-selves in our mirror-homes and have a lot of fun but when the wormhole reappears on the sixth day, it is discovered by a lot of other people in the mirror-verse town because, for some reason, the portal reopens in a museum. And when the two families get there to go through the portal again, the Asian scientist declares that his family is going to stay because he loves the life there and feels like he's found a best friend in his mirror-self (I don't want to go into detail of the middle portion of this story because that would take forever). The eldest son declares that he's going back with the white guy's family because he believes the white scientist, earning him more brownie points with the white guy's hot daughter (they've been slowly cultivating a relationship since the beginning, the details of which would take too long to write down). The white guy has four kids, by the way: eldest daughter with one younger brother, and youngest twin sisters. So now the two guys start arguing with each other and everyone is just waiting. People in the museum are staring at the weird people in winter clothes standing together. So this whole time I'm waiting for this dream to come to a conclusion but all of a sudden my stupid alarm goes off and I wake up and now I have no idea how all this ends. Lame.
I totally failed in my media fast today. I really need to watch myself and make sure I don't get complacent. I'm considering extending the time I'm doing this because I've seen an overall positive change taking place in my life through it. God is using it to mature me even more. Keep praying for me few people who still read my blog!
Things I need to work on: Conclusions.
11/06/09: Leaders' meeting and a movie
Alrighty. So today was leaders' meeing. I thought I had plans to hang out with Rachel before the meeting but she ditched me so I went to meeting alone. I got to read some more of Numbers though so that was nice. I'm currently very worried about Joseph, Ann, and Jennifer. I heard Joseph got into a car accident and didn't come to leaders' meeting. Ann and Jennifer came but I saw them later and they looked like they were crying... I'm really worried about them. I tried calling some of them but no one picked up their phone. Gah. Hopefully Joseph comes to D.T. tomorrow morning so I can talk to him. The committee leaders got a lot done in Christmas Banquet planning so that was good. I'm excited. Christmas Banquet was pretty darn fun last year and I hope it'll be good this year too. Plus it's an excuse to dress up haha. I went to watch Disney's A Christmas Carol in 3D with Ashley Lee and Eunice Lee SC after the meeting. Wow. NOT what we were expecting at ALL. It was freaking scary. And on top of everything it was PG. Holy cow, it's scary what is considered suitable for kids nowadays. Other than that it was a fun experience. I'm garnering more interest in Richard Dawkins. What can make a man reject God so vehemently? I'm going to look into his books: The God Delusion and The Greatest Show on Earth. People have been expressing some fear at the fact that I'm reading these books but I'll try to read them prayerfully.
Thing I need to work on: I'm still quite sad at my lack of a consistent prayer life. Prayer definitely has power and I want God's wonderful gift for mankind that is prayer. Please pray that I can pray! (lol)
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
11/03/09 - 11/04/09
11/03/09: New thoughts
What a long day... I woke up at 6:30 a.m. for prayer meeting and decided to actually go to all my classes today, for the first time since the first week! Praise God for discipline to do so. Hopefully, I will be able to continue the trend this week. I read a few more chapters of Numbers and was humbled: "The Lord answered Moses, "Is the Lord's arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for you." Numbers 11:23. Our God is so incredible. Who are we to limit Him with our finite human minds? Nothing is impossible and impossible is nothing to Him. Crazy. SO. God gave me two inspirations today.
1) I'm a highly negative person. When something bad happens, I'm so quick to think, "What is God punishing me for?" rather than, "What is God trying to teach me through this struggle?" I understand God's justice very well but I still find trouble reminding myself of His impossible love. Being able to remember God's love constantly at work in my life is something I need to continue praying for.
2) I was reading a blog by Pastor John Piper about his day off at Barnes and Noble (You can find it here). He talks about two different books (Letter to a Christian Nation and The Thirteenth Tale) and their postmodern ways of thinking. I've also been researching Richard Dawkins lately and have been following Ray Comforts' blog, which receives many negative comments from atheists and evolutionists all over the world. All these things reminded me of a verse:
Matthew 13:13-15
"This is why I speak to them in parables:
"Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
" 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
For this people's heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.'"
Then I started thinking. I've struggled with science and its big claims against Christianity. I was, and still am, a logical person. I like to think things through and I like to have a straight and precise answer to give when I'm asked questions about the things I believe in. For a long time, I avoided admitting this debate that was raging within myself. I thought it was a battle that couldn't be won, something that seemed to clearly trump Christianity. But, only by the supreme grace of God, I was lifted out of my sin and was able to see that it was complete and utter foolishness.
Romans 1:18-21 says, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened." God is "plain to them." "His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived." How has He revealed himself to us? "In the things that have been made." The earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, the oceans, the mountains... all things have been created by God and He has shown us that He exists through these things. EVERYONE is without excuse.
When I had this realization today, I couldn't suppress my gratitude toward my Savior. If Jesus hadn't reached out to me and pulled me toward him, I would never have reached a conclusion like this. Our limited human minds, with our infinitely finite (haha oxymoron) science, believe we understand so much when, in reality, we know so little. Pastor Jonas gave me a little analogy to help explain how we can never fully comprehend God's vast wisdom. When you see a pair of skew (see here if you don't know what skew lines are) lines from a two dimensional plane, they look like they intersect. However, from the three dimensional plane, they obviously do not intersect and never will. If I, from the three dimensional plane, try to tell you that the lines do not intersect, you're never going to believe me! In the same way, how can we even hope to understand a God that exists outside of time, history, space, and the material world?
Lord, please forgive this insignificant mind for even daring to think that I know better than you. I pray that you help me to continue to accept your loving mercy and grace as the greatest gifts any human being could receive and live in constant awe of your incomparable providence for choosing to save a sinful soul such as mine. Amen.
Things I need to work on: Too many to list.
11/04/09: Recomm leaders meeting?
I was the only one who came out to Recomm today...
Nevertheless, it was a fun day to just chill with the other leaders. We ate at Curry House then headed to Yogurtland for dessert. They are cool peoples. We prayed for our Recomm back at Emily's place and went home afterward. Emily has a cute, stuffed bunny rabbit from build-a-bear. Yaaay. She told me that her parents like to follow Eric's blog and one day that asked her, "Hey who's 'Eem-ah-bom'?" Hahahahahaha they noticed I (with my screen name Immabum) commented a lot on his posts and wanted to know. I thought that was hilarious haha. I ended up chatting with my roommate for a long time last night about stupid stuff and I missed all my classes today except the one that mattered hehe. Got to keep working on the "going to class" thing. I pray that our Recomm will NOT die and that God would give me the boldness to reach out to people I wouldn't expect would want to come to Recomm. No one's heart is capable of resisting God's purpose. Amen.
Things I need to work on: Get up early and GET YOUR BUTT TO CLASS.
What a long day... I woke up at 6:30 a.m. for prayer meeting and decided to actually go to all my classes today, for the first time since the first week! Praise God for discipline to do so. Hopefully, I will be able to continue the trend this week. I read a few more chapters of Numbers and was humbled: "The Lord answered Moses, "Is the Lord's arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for you." Numbers 11:23. Our God is so incredible. Who are we to limit Him with our finite human minds? Nothing is impossible and impossible is nothing to Him. Crazy. SO. God gave me two inspirations today.
1) I'm a highly negative person. When something bad happens, I'm so quick to think, "What is God punishing me for?" rather than, "What is God trying to teach me through this struggle?" I understand God's justice very well but I still find trouble reminding myself of His impossible love. Being able to remember God's love constantly at work in my life is something I need to continue praying for.
2) I was reading a blog by Pastor John Piper about his day off at Barnes and Noble (You can find it here). He talks about two different books (Letter to a Christian Nation and The Thirteenth Tale) and their postmodern ways of thinking. I've also been researching Richard Dawkins lately and have been following Ray Comforts' blog, which receives many negative comments from atheists and evolutionists all over the world. All these things reminded me of a verse:
Matthew 13:13-15
"This is why I speak to them in parables:
"Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
" 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
For this people's heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.'"
Then I started thinking. I've struggled with science and its big claims against Christianity. I was, and still am, a logical person. I like to think things through and I like to have a straight and precise answer to give when I'm asked questions about the things I believe in. For a long time, I avoided admitting this debate that was raging within myself. I thought it was a battle that couldn't be won, something that seemed to clearly trump Christianity. But, only by the supreme grace of God, I was lifted out of my sin and was able to see that it was complete and utter foolishness.
Romans 1:18-21 says, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened." God is "plain to them." "His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived." How has He revealed himself to us? "In the things that have been made." The earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, the oceans, the mountains... all things have been created by God and He has shown us that He exists through these things. EVERYONE is without excuse.
When I had this realization today, I couldn't suppress my gratitude toward my Savior. If Jesus hadn't reached out to me and pulled me toward him, I would never have reached a conclusion like this. Our limited human minds, with our infinitely finite (haha oxymoron) science, believe we understand so much when, in reality, we know so little. Pastor Jonas gave me a little analogy to help explain how we can never fully comprehend God's vast wisdom. When you see a pair of skew (see here if you don't know what skew lines are) lines from a two dimensional plane, they look like they intersect. However, from the three dimensional plane, they obviously do not intersect and never will. If I, from the three dimensional plane, try to tell you that the lines do not intersect, you're never going to believe me! In the same way, how can we even hope to understand a God that exists outside of time, history, space, and the material world?
Lord, please forgive this insignificant mind for even daring to think that I know better than you. I pray that you help me to continue to accept your loving mercy and grace as the greatest gifts any human being could receive and live in constant awe of your incomparable providence for choosing to save a sinful soul such as mine. Amen.
Things I need to work on: Too many to list.
11/04/09: Recomm leaders meeting?
I was the only one who came out to Recomm today...
Nevertheless, it was a fun day to just chill with the other leaders. We ate at Curry House then headed to Yogurtland for dessert. They are cool peoples. We prayed for our Recomm back at Emily's place and went home afterward. Emily has a cute, stuffed bunny rabbit from build-a-bear. Yaaay. She told me that her parents like to follow Eric's blog and one day that asked her, "Hey who's 'Eem-ah-bom'?" Hahahahahaha they noticed I (with my screen name Immabum) commented a lot on his posts and wanted to know. I thought that was hilarious haha. I ended up chatting with my roommate for a long time last night about stupid stuff and I missed all my classes today except the one that mattered hehe. Got to keep working on the "going to class" thing. I pray that our Recomm will NOT die and that God would give me the boldness to reach out to people I wouldn't expect would want to come to Recomm. No one's heart is capable of resisting God's purpose. Amen.
Things I need to work on: Get up early and GET YOUR BUTT TO CLASS.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
11/01/09 - 11/02/09
11/01/09: November already!
Holy moly. I realized today that it's November now, I only have about month of classes left, and my advisement appointment for my spring semester film classes is THIS WEDNESDAY. AH! SO EXCITING! I played football again today and I think my messed up ankle and my sprained thumb both got worse. This week, I've decided that I'm going to try to make it to as many classes as I can. I really haven't been going and Pastor Jonas convinced me that going to class and doing my responsibility as a student wasn't something I could put off doing. The media fast is really hitting me these days. I have SO MUCH FREE TIME. Goodness gracious. How much time do I waste sitting in front of a screen when I could be dedicating it to God?
Things I need to work on: Going to class.
11/02/09: What a dull day
Nothing much happened. I completely failed at waking up early. That's just sad. On the flip side, I succeeded in going to all my classes today (even though I left early for my second one). I'm somewhat sore from football but I really like to play sports I realized. I wish I had someone to play with... Dang. Tennis. Football. Basketball. Racquetball. Rugby. Kendo... All the sports I want to play NEED at least two people. Dang it. Since I have so much free time I want to run around and stuff but there's no one to do it with me... T_T Man, I am a lonely person. I am a very lonely person. God, I pray that I will learn to find as much fulfillment, enjoyment, and satisfaction in you that I get from playing sports with my friends. I'm willing to give up my time to go outside and run with other people and I pray that I will be that much more willing to spend time with you because you are so so SO much more worthy of my time and energy. Thank you for giving me a dull day like this one so that I could pray this to you. Amen.
Things I need to work on: Time management. WAKING UP EARLY DANG IT.
Holy moly. I realized today that it's November now, I only have about month of classes left, and my advisement appointment for my spring semester film classes is THIS WEDNESDAY. AH! SO EXCITING! I played football again today and I think my messed up ankle and my sprained thumb both got worse. This week, I've decided that I'm going to try to make it to as many classes as I can. I really haven't been going and Pastor Jonas convinced me that going to class and doing my responsibility as a student wasn't something I could put off doing. The media fast is really hitting me these days. I have SO MUCH FREE TIME. Goodness gracious. How much time do I waste sitting in front of a screen when I could be dedicating it to God?
Things I need to work on: Going to class.
11/02/09: What a dull day
Nothing much happened. I completely failed at waking up early. That's just sad. On the flip side, I succeeded in going to all my classes today (even though I left early for my second one). I'm somewhat sore from football but I really like to play sports I realized. I wish I had someone to play with... Dang. Tennis. Football. Basketball. Racquetball. Rugby. Kendo... All the sports I want to play NEED at least two people. Dang it. Since I have so much free time I want to run around and stuff but there's no one to do it with me... T_T Man, I am a lonely person. I am a very lonely person. God, I pray that I will learn to find as much fulfillment, enjoyment, and satisfaction in you that I get from playing sports with my friends. I'm willing to give up my time to go outside and run with other people and I pray that I will be that much more willing to spend time with you because you are so so SO much more worthy of my time and energy. Thank you for giving me a dull day like this one so that I could pray this to you. Amen.
Things I need to work on: Time management. WAKING UP EARLY DANG IT.
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