Hey, so this is a bit late to be blogging, but it was practically a "Challenge accepted" moment since just talking with AZ now he said he was going to sleep and that he was "[12:41:55 AM] AZ: too lazy to post this late at night. I still dunno how you manage to do it. lol." Bwaha.
But ya. this is an update on my post about Saturday night. I was feeling really bad about disobeying my dad and my Father by driving all the way out to Carp on the highway, so I felt I should confess not only disobeying my dad, and hurting the car, but also all the ways I had been abusing the blessing the car was by doing certain (practically harmless) illegal things. And finally giving it back for a little while to be repaired and also because I have been abusing this privilege.
I'm not all that close with my dad and I thought it would end badly, so Sunday I started getting cold feet. Luckily I have brothers to keep me accountable.
I ended up telling him it all.
He dealt with it pretty well. He even asked "why are you telling me all these things?" I didn't go into the whole Spirit convicting me of sin, but just said I was feeling bad. But still, it was good confessing that and getting it over with.
And ya, today I got to keep helping to install the new storm door (because Sandy is coming? maybe. Because the old one was practically falling off? Largely.). It's been fun working on that together with my dad. Nothing changed between Saturday and Monday working on it. The only difference is I don't have a car key right now. But between me and my dad nothing has changed. I am still his son.
This is one of the first things I told my friend in East Asia when he accepted Christ. When you accept Christ as your saviour, you become a child of God, and that will never change. The distance between you and your dad may change, but that relationship will always be the same. God will never leave you or abandon you. You are His child now and He loved you all along.
Pretty sweet.
=D.Fa
PS. Guyana
28.10.12
Why Do I..?
Why does it seem that I tend to confess everything to you?
I mean a couple hours ago was, like, the scariest thing that has ever happened and I'm only half way done.
You see, I am in Carp right now at a Stag and Doe. The problem there is how I got here.
My friend is a DJ. She has a gig (the Stag and Doe) and needed a drive.
I agreed to help her (she said she would pay me, I really need the money...) and then found out where it was.
Carp is like 30 minutes away, if you take the highway.
My dad told me not to take the highway until I got lessons. I haven't been driving onne, but thought I'd be fine. I've seen people drive on them a million times, I've driven that fast, I looked online and it said I was legally allowed to, my friend needed me (she said I was her last chance (taxis won't take her equipment)).
Additionally, after the Stafield concert I kinda bumped the muffler on my car and it has been making noises. I haven't told my dad about it to get it fixed because then I'd be unable to drive my friend.
Another thing: tomorrow I am leading both grade 7/8 sunday school and worship. This is problematic because her gig ends at 1. I won't be home until around 2am.
So with all this conflict, basically, lying to my dad, going against his clearly set out and for my own good rule, putting money before God, driving a car that could fall apart any second, driving on a highway for the first time and late at night, all this to me boiled down into: there's a chance I could die AND I'm clearly willingly sinning right now.
Where does that leave me? [Update: Read this. haha]
The Bible says God forgives all sin, but there is a difference. He doesn't just forgive everything for no reason. It is through turning from our sin that we can live the new life again. It isn't "Jesus forgives me, so I can do ____".
I couldn't tell her no. So, I was really freaking scared. I mean, if I didn't make it back, I would have died walking in sin. So I'm praying really hard right now. I made it here safely, but there's still the drive back at 1:30...
Nearly nothing good would have come from the Stag and Doe not having a DJ...
I'm still not happy about my decision.
Tomorrow I am returning the car for at least a week and confessing everything to my dad.
I also think I won't be taking any of the money for myself. I haven't decided what it would go to, but it won't be me. My dad is giving me a bit extra in my food allowance this week for helping assemble and install the new front door, so really, I'm okay.
I don't want to disobey my dad or my heavenly Father. Seriously, this feeling is tearing me apart. I hate it.
D.Fa
[written yesterday around 8pm]
I mean a couple hours ago was, like, the scariest thing that has ever happened and I'm only half way done.
You see, I am in Carp right now at a Stag and Doe. The problem there is how I got here.
My friend is a DJ. She has a gig (the Stag and Doe) and needed a drive.
I agreed to help her (she said she would pay me, I really need the money...) and then found out where it was.
Carp is like 30 minutes away, if you take the highway.
My dad told me not to take the highway until I got lessons. I haven't been driving onne, but thought I'd be fine. I've seen people drive on them a million times, I've driven that fast, I looked online and it said I was legally allowed to, my friend needed me (she said I was her last chance (taxis won't take her equipment)).
Additionally, after the Stafield concert I kinda bumped the muffler on my car and it has been making noises. I haven't told my dad about it to get it fixed because then I'd be unable to drive my friend.
Another thing: tomorrow I am leading both grade 7/8 sunday school and worship. This is problematic because her gig ends at 1. I won't be home until around 2am.
So with all this conflict, basically, lying to my dad, going against his clearly set out and for my own good rule, putting money before God, driving a car that could fall apart any second, driving on a highway for the first time and late at night, all this to me boiled down into: there's a chance I could die AND I'm clearly willingly sinning right now.
Where does that leave me? [Update: Read this. haha]
The Bible says God forgives all sin, but there is a difference. He doesn't just forgive everything for no reason. It is through turning from our sin that we can live the new life again. It isn't "Jesus forgives me, so I can do ____".
I couldn't tell her no. So, I was really freaking scared. I mean, if I didn't make it back, I would have died walking in sin. So I'm praying really hard right now. I made it here safely, but there's still the drive back at 1:30...
Nearly nothing good would have come from the Stag and Doe not having a DJ...
I'm still not happy about my decision.
Tomorrow I am returning the car for at least a week and confessing everything to my dad.
I also think I won't be taking any of the money for myself. I haven't decided what it would go to, but it won't be me. My dad is giving me a bit extra in my food allowance this week for helping assemble and install the new front door, so really, I'm okay.
I don't want to disobey my dad or my heavenly Father. Seriously, this feeling is tearing me apart. I hate it.
D.Fa
[written yesterday around 8pm]
26.10.12
Mon Coeur Veut Chanter
Hey guys.
This week has been pretty tough. Taking it one thing at a time again. Kinda missing classes to do lab reports. >.< I really bad at catching up when I get behind... But ya, I really had not planned when I would do my lab report, so it was good when my friend had not started and was desperate for me to help.
We both got full marks on it for this week. Gonna work on it more tomorrow.
Anyways, one thing I am excited for is tomorrow night. GH is coming from Montreal to talk to us and so the direction I took for advertising Connect Meeting this week is "Connectez: L'Experience Québec". Haha. I was going to MC and was really excited about introducing that we'd have some bilingual worship! xP (One of the best parts of Winter Conference for sure.) I had also been practicing an introduction: "Bonjour et bienvenue a le réunion Connectez de cette semaine. Je m'appele Dylan et je suis votre emcee pour la soir, mais je parlerais en l'Anglais. Merci." And then I'd go in English. lol. Oh well, EE will do well too. haha
So I was just in the process of finding the youtube worship for Connect meeting. Which does sound a bit lame, but it's fine for our current situation. There is far to much demand to not have worship, so I guess this is unavoidable. lol
Why do youtubers need to make lyric videos with lyrics that change colour or background pictures taken from google that represent each line? Just a plain background with a large font, contrasting colour, lyrics would be fine. haha. Oh well.
Worship can be done by anyone anywhere in any language. Can't wait for Heaven. Haha.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
PS. Iraq!
This week has been pretty tough. Taking it one thing at a time again. Kinda missing classes to do lab reports. >.< I really bad at catching up when I get behind... But ya, I really had not planned when I would do my lab report, so it was good when my friend had not started and was desperate for me to help.
We both got full marks on it for this week. Gonna work on it more tomorrow.
Anyways, one thing I am excited for is tomorrow night. GH is coming from Montreal to talk to us and so the direction I took for advertising Connect Meeting this week is "Connectez: L'Experience Québec". Haha. I was going to MC and was really excited about introducing that we'd have some bilingual worship! xP (One of the best parts of Winter Conference for sure.) I had also been practicing an introduction: "Bonjour et bienvenue a le réunion Connectez de cette semaine. Je m'appele Dylan et je suis votre emcee pour la soir, mais je parlerais en l'Anglais. Merci." And then I'd go in English. lol. Oh well, EE will do well too. haha
So I was just in the process of finding the youtube worship for Connect meeting. Which does sound a bit lame, but it's fine for our current situation. There is far to much demand to not have worship, so I guess this is unavoidable. lol
Why do youtubers need to make lyric videos with lyrics that change colour or background pictures taken from google that represent each line? Just a plain background with a large font, contrasting colour, lyrics would be fine. haha. Oh well.
Worship can be done by anyone anywhere in any language. Can't wait for Heaven. Haha.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
PS. Iraq!
22.10.12
Important Things in Triplicate
Yo. So today was cool.
In genetics I barely paid attention, I got to talk to one of my friends who lives far away right now and get an update / ask how I can be praying for them. Basically nothing happened at school. lol.
I had work from 2-10.
Today's Bible break I got to read John 18-19 and the thing that stuck out to me was that Pilate not once, but three times said "I find no basis for a charge against him" about Jesus. Truly there was no reason based on the law that Jesus should have died, but as even Caiaphas the high priest said "it would be good if one man died for the people". Jesus died not because of His own errors, for He had none, but instead died for us, died for the things we have done wrong and could not fix by our own means. In the face of injustice and suffering Jesus went forward as a sheep to the slaughter so that we might live in Him and be one with Him after His resurrection.
Let us abide in Him and keep in step with His Spirit.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
In genetics I barely paid attention, I got to talk to one of my friends who lives far away right now and get an update / ask how I can be praying for them. Basically nothing happened at school. lol.
I had work from 2-10.
Today's Bible break I got to read John 18-19 and the thing that stuck out to me was that Pilate not once, but three times said "I find no basis for a charge against him" about Jesus. Truly there was no reason based on the law that Jesus should have died, but as even Caiaphas the high priest said "it would be good if one man died for the people". Jesus died not because of His own errors, for He had none, but instead died for us, died for the things we have done wrong and could not fix by our own means. In the face of injustice and suffering Jesus went forward as a sheep to the slaughter so that we might live in Him and be one with Him after His resurrection.
Let us abide in Him and keep in step with His Spirit.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
21.10.12
Reign In Us
I think that may already be a blog post title of mine. Haha
Anyways, I'm really pumped up right now. lol. Today was amazing.
From Sunday School with D(?) knowing the gospel and asking about treasures in heaven, and the fact that I somehow had already interacted with each of the passages and concepts presented int he lesson earlier in the week; to an awesome worship service about being World Christians that participate int he mission of the church no matter where they are; to McDonalds... >.>; to this evening where I got to drive a few of my brothers out to the middle of nowhere for a worship concert.
I forgot my phone in the car, but this is what I wrote down on my hand:
"I just wanna be what you want me to be. A heart like you.
Rediscover You
Bring back hockey
I have decided to follow Jesus
Reign in Us
I'll burn, I'll burn for you
Light of the world will shine through us"
But this wasn't just a concert, this was a group of God's children coming together to praise Him for all He is and just sing with all our hearts.
So good. I got to see JJ, AZ, SM, FL, DP, and a bunch of other people. haha.
So. Good.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
Anyways, I'm really pumped up right now. lol. Today was amazing.
From Sunday School with D(?) knowing the gospel and asking about treasures in heaven, and the fact that I somehow had already interacted with each of the passages and concepts presented int he lesson earlier in the week; to an awesome worship service about being World Christians that participate int he mission of the church no matter where they are; to McDonalds... >.>; to this evening where I got to drive a few of my brothers out to the middle of nowhere for a worship concert.
I forgot my phone in the car, but this is what I wrote down on my hand:
"I just wanna be what you want me to be. A heart like you.
Rediscover You
Bring back hockey
I have decided to follow Jesus
Reign in Us
I'll burn, I'll burn for you
Light of the world will shine through us"
But this wasn't just a concert, this was a group of God's children coming together to praise Him for all He is and just sing with all our hearts.
So good. I got to see JJ, AZ, SM, FL, DP, and a bunch of other people. haha.
So. Good.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
20.10.12
Saturdays can be busy too.
Yo. Saturdays are pretty awesome. lol
Worship practice was great. Be Unto Your Name is a great song. lol.
We had an international lunch at church and a whole bunch of new people came. There was a diverse selection of foods to eat, a variety of people to meet, a couple games and then J+HL shared about Stress, how it affects us and how JL has seen God work in his life and help him to overcome stress. I got to make one friend and exchange numbers. I know the gospel was proclaimed during JL's Mandarin testimony. I heard it. lol. Although I didn't understand much of it. It was very very fast and not in English. lol. So, I look forward to talking with my new friend DL about what he heard, also help him with English maybe and be a good friend to him.
Then I had to go upstairs and discuss the book we are reading with the worship leaders. This week we started a section of the book about healthy tensions in worship since it is not really prescribed in the Bible how we are to worship God. The first tension we looked at was God's transcendence, but also His immanence. Although fully set apart from us He would come down to us and take on flesh and more than that allow His Spirit to live in those whom have been made new in Him.
I had to go early to pickup the car from the mechanic's though... lol.
Dinner at my parents.
Bus home and do some work.
Then I got to play minecraft with RP and SC. I like minecraft way too much. lol. I had a pet wolf and was starting to build my mountaintop home when I fell off and died and couldn't figure out how to get back, so I stayed in the pre-made village they were living in to hide from spiders and zombies and stuff. lol. Once I got myself back together I went exploring to try and refind my house. SC ended up setting my house in the village on fire with a bucket of lava... >.<
Anyways, it's late. Gotta sleep so I can properly praise God tomorrow. Haha.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
Worship practice was great. Be Unto Your Name is a great song. lol.
We had an international lunch at church and a whole bunch of new people came. There was a diverse selection of foods to eat, a variety of people to meet, a couple games and then J+HL shared about Stress, how it affects us and how JL has seen God work in his life and help him to overcome stress. I got to make one friend and exchange numbers. I know the gospel was proclaimed during JL's Mandarin testimony. I heard it. lol. Although I didn't understand much of it. It was very very fast and not in English. lol. So, I look forward to talking with my new friend DL about what he heard, also help him with English maybe and be a good friend to him.
Then I had to go upstairs and discuss the book we are reading with the worship leaders. This week we started a section of the book about healthy tensions in worship since it is not really prescribed in the Bible how we are to worship God. The first tension we looked at was God's transcendence, but also His immanence. Although fully set apart from us He would come down to us and take on flesh and more than that allow His Spirit to live in those whom have been made new in Him.
I had to go early to pickup the car from the mechanic's though... lol.
Dinner at my parents.
Bus home and do some work.
Then I got to play minecraft with RP and SC. I like minecraft way too much. lol. I had a pet wolf and was starting to build my mountaintop home when I fell off and died and couldn't figure out how to get back, so I stayed in the pre-made village they were living in to hide from spiders and zombies and stuff. lol. Once I got myself back together I went exploring to try and refind my house. SC ended up setting my house in the village on fire with a bucket of lava... >.<
Anyways, it's late. Gotta sleep so I can properly praise God tomorrow. Haha.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
18.10.12
Small Groups Rock
Hey, so, ya,
YA is really great. Haha. I'm glad that our YA group is so small this year (7-9 people a week). I mean it would be awesome if we were still a giant 20-30 people, but really I didn't get to know anyone all that well. But now I actually get to talk with people and hang out before YA (before meaning the first 15-30 minutes "on time"). We should definitely have more food at YA since every week there are a minimum of two people who have not had dinner yet while the girls who live there are just miking or finishing their own dinner. >.>
but ya, there's only 5 guys so far, which is much easier to manage than in other years. Haha.
It's really cool how things turned out yesterday though. lol. No one was on worship, so I signed up like an hour before. haha. Then we broke off into two groups to discuss the chapter of "Crazy Love" that we had read and I ended up leading the discussion. It actually tied into our Sunday School discussion the week before and it's crazy how many things the discussion mentioned that I had just seen.
Anyways, I'm really really excited for the Starfield concert on Sunday night! CX and AW are gonna go with me. I was really hoping I would get to go with my DG, but it seems that they are not all too interested. haha. Oh well.
So far we have talked about Assurance in our relationship with God, and forgiveness of our sins through Jesus' death on the cross. I'm excited to get to the Spirit-filled life this next weeks and hopefully very soon get to the KGP booklet so we can get going. xP
I'm excited for my DG. Haha.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
PS. Moldova
PPS. I am in class right now, but it is a guest lecturer who is just reading from my analytical chem lecture slides from last year. >.> Haha.
PPPS. The guy and girl sitting in front of me were comparing Lady Gaga to one of the professors at Carleton and making a slide show presentation. Haha
YA is really great. Haha. I'm glad that our YA group is so small this year (7-9 people a week). I mean it would be awesome if we were still a giant 20-30 people, but really I didn't get to know anyone all that well. But now I actually get to talk with people and hang out before YA (before meaning the first 15-30 minutes "on time"). We should definitely have more food at YA since every week there are a minimum of two people who have not had dinner yet while the girls who live there are just miking or finishing their own dinner. >.>
but ya, there's only 5 guys so far, which is much easier to manage than in other years. Haha.
It's really cool how things turned out yesterday though. lol. No one was on worship, so I signed up like an hour before. haha. Then we broke off into two groups to discuss the chapter of "Crazy Love" that we had read and I ended up leading the discussion. It actually tied into our Sunday School discussion the week before and it's crazy how many things the discussion mentioned that I had just seen.
Anyways, I'm really really excited for the Starfield concert on Sunday night! CX and AW are gonna go with me. I was really hoping I would get to go with my DG, but it seems that they are not all too interested. haha. Oh well.
So far we have talked about Assurance in our relationship with God, and forgiveness of our sins through Jesus' death on the cross. I'm excited to get to the Spirit-filled life this next weeks and hopefully very soon get to the KGP booklet so we can get going. xP
I'm excited for my DG. Haha.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
PS. Moldova
PPS. I am in class right now, but it is a guest lecturer who is just reading from my analytical chem lecture slides from last year. >.> Haha.
PPPS. The guy and girl sitting in front of me were comparing Lady Gaga to one of the professors at Carleton and making a slide show presentation. Haha
16.10.12
Je suis un Homme Artificiel
So, another long day.
Woke up way too early so I could cram for a midterm.
Yesterday whilst cramming I discovered that there was an assignment due tomorrow on lecture material I had not yet watched. Oh well, it wasn't a hard assignment.
I had work 2-10. >.<
Thought: If God is greater than time, doesn't that mean we can pray for things that have already happened? This is an idea one of my friends introduced to me probably a year or so ago. I think it's valid. Like praying for something that you don't know has happened yet, but was / is supposed to. Not like praying that the first world war would end, kinda past that. More like "I'm meeting up with my friend to talk about Jesus at 9am, could you pray for me?" and you read that at 10.
Oh, and apparently McDonalds always wins. We were out walking towards the mystery light in the sky for an hour before we decided it was probably too far, so we jogged back and drove towards it assuming it was the movie theatre. Guess again. lol...
Ttyl.
D.Fa
PS. In the car on the way there we were rocking it French gangster style. (I don't mean to offend anyone, I'm making a joke)
Woke up way too early so I could cram for a midterm.
Yesterday whilst cramming I discovered that there was an assignment due tomorrow on lecture material I had not yet watched. Oh well, it wasn't a hard assignment.
I had work 2-10. >.<
Thought: If God is greater than time, doesn't that mean we can pray for things that have already happened? This is an idea one of my friends introduced to me probably a year or so ago. I think it's valid. Like praying for something that you don't know has happened yet, but was / is supposed to. Not like praying that the first world war would end, kinda past that. More like "I'm meeting up with my friend to talk about Jesus at 9am, could you pray for me?" and you read that at 10.
Oh, and apparently McDonalds always wins. We were out walking towards the mystery light in the sky for an hour before we decided it was probably too far, so we jogged back and drove towards it assuming it was the movie theatre. Guess again. lol...
Ttyl.
D.Fa
PS. In the car on the way there we were rocking it French gangster style. (I don't mean to offend anyone, I'm making a joke)
13.10.12
Continually
Yo. Psalm 105 is pretty sweet. Like all of it is awesome, but the first part really spoke to me today.
I was reading part of "Pursuit of God" yesterday. We do not accept Christ and then that's it, it is a life of following after Him and getting to know Him more each day and constantly seeking him and being transformed into His image, etc.
Ya, gotta pursue Him more, I mean I'm usually just going through life on my own with 'no time to read my Bible or pray', but really, all the time I have been given is from God, each new day is a gift. Can I not spend 10 minutes with Him?
So, the last week I have been encouraged by my brother to have solid quiet times with Him. Driving to work I would get there a little early, so I spent 10-15 minutes in my car reading. It was good.
Yesterday I felt pretty bad and didn't really spend time with God. This morning I woke up late and had to go to work immediately. At lunch though I needed to just stop. I went outside and sat down and opened my pocket Bible. It was on Psalm 119. lol. too long. lol. Next. 105.
"Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name;
I was reading part of "Pursuit of God" yesterday. We do not accept Christ and then that's it, it is a life of following after Him and getting to know Him more each day and constantly seeking him and being transformed into His image, etc.
Ya, gotta pursue Him more, I mean I'm usually just going through life on my own with 'no time to read my Bible or pray', but really, all the time I have been given is from God, each new day is a gift. Can I not spend 10 minutes with Him?
So, the last week I have been encouraged by my brother to have solid quiet times with Him. Driving to work I would get there a little early, so I spent 10-15 minutes in my car reading. It was good.
Yesterday I felt pretty bad and didn't really spend time with God. This morning I woke up late and had to go to work immediately. At lunch though I needed to just stop. I went outside and sat down and opened my pocket Bible. It was on Psalm 119. lol. too long. lol. Next. 105.
"Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name;
make known his deeds among the peoples!
Sing to him, sing praises to him;
tell of all his wondrous works!
Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
Seek the Lord and his strength;
seek his presence continually!
Remember the wondrous works that he has done,
his miracles, and the judgments he uttered"
Think about it, all the great things that God has done for us. He sent His only Son to die for our sins so that we could experience Him fully and know Him personally.
I don't usually take breaks at work, but I should have two 15 minute breaks as well as lunch break, so why not take that break and spend it with God?
Ttyl.
D.Fa
PS. Brunei
Think about it, all the great things that God has done for us. He sent His only Son to die for our sins so that we could experience Him fully and know Him personally.
I don't usually take breaks at work, but I should have two 15 minute breaks as well as lunch break, so why not take that break and spend it with God?
Ttyl.
D.Fa
PS. Brunei
11.10.12
Plugged In?
Yo.
I am way too attached to technology.
Yesterday my laptop's keyboard stopped working. I knew it would just be breif, but my backup plan was "Oh, I have my cell phone".
I ended up forgetting my phone at YA yesterday. I had to plug in my alarm clock. My whole day was about me trying to get my phone. I was going to get it this morning, but was a bit late. My friend had class, so I stayed there, outside her class, for three hours working on a prelab, overhearing her watch old spice commercials, waiting for her class to end. Then when her class ended she disappeared... I tried to track her down at lunch, but was not successful. I assumed she was had lunch with SM and NP as usual on Tues/Thurs. But they weren't in the normal place. I assumed she gave it to SM, so after my classes ended at 8, I went to find him. He wasn't in studio and I was about to give up when I saw some people in a classroom. He wasn't in there, but there are two classrooms. ! I found him! I waited til 9, but he didn't have lunch with them apparently...
It's so stupid. I have no way of contacting my friends without it...
I can't take great pictures without it...
I can't remember all of my commitments without it...
But even without it I wasn't spending more time with God.
I'm greatly annoyed.
Going to sleep now. Ttyl.
D.Fa
I am way too attached to technology.
Yesterday my laptop's keyboard stopped working. I knew it would just be breif, but my backup plan was "Oh, I have my cell phone".
I ended up forgetting my phone at YA yesterday. I had to plug in my alarm clock. My whole day was about me trying to get my phone. I was going to get it this morning, but was a bit late. My friend had class, so I stayed there, outside her class, for three hours working on a prelab, overhearing her watch old spice commercials, waiting for her class to end. Then when her class ended she disappeared... I tried to track her down at lunch, but was not successful. I assumed she was had lunch with SM and NP as usual on Tues/Thurs. But they weren't in the normal place. I assumed she gave it to SM, so after my classes ended at 8, I went to find him. He wasn't in studio and I was about to give up when I saw some people in a classroom. He wasn't in there, but there are two classrooms. ! I found him! I waited til 9, but he didn't have lunch with them apparently...
It's so stupid. I have no way of contacting my friends without it...
I can't take great pictures without it...
I can't remember all of my commitments without it...
But even without it I wasn't spending more time with God.
I'm greatly annoyed.
Going to sleep now. Ttyl.
D.Fa
8.10.12
Give Thanks
Yo,
so even though my friend wasn't able to come to church again this week (which on one had is good because it would be illegal to drive him and his friend at the same time) it has been way too long. Haha. Next week for sure.
Anyways, where I was going with that was that even though he couldn't go, a lot of good things still happened. Haha.
First was a joint service at church, so a long bilingual message. A few things happened, HW got baptised!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations! So excited for my new brother! Ummm, KP accepted Christ this week!!!! Happy Birthday bro!!! xD Ummm, I got to sit with A(?) during the sermon. He's like 8 years old I think. He has a habit of hitting himself or ripping his clothes... But ya, he was hitting his cheeks during the sermon. And what can I do? Forcing him to stop is not loving. First idea, explain I don't want you to hurt yourself, so please stop? Nope. He was also hitting himself with a plastic rock and his watch. I asked him to put it in his pocket. He did, briefly. (I ended up putting the rock in my pocket when he wasn't looking, but he kept hitting himself.) Hands on your lap? Nope. "You're my little brother, I don't want you to get hurt. I love you"? Nope.
.> How bout ignoring him? (in three minutes he hit himself 25 times. >.<) I prayed for him so much in that hour(?)... I got to talk to TJ a bit after service. He's a cool kid.
Umm. OH YEAH! Today I had a couple firsts,
The first one is so bad! I nearly died! So, I have this habit of not turning my key all the way and so end up not turning the engine fully on. So, when I was going to reverse out of the parking lot and go, the wheel wasn't turning..? Crud! EMERGENCY BRAKE! *thud* *heart racing* at least the car is stopped... So, ya, first actual use of emergency brake. >.< Thankful for it though. I've had a few nightmares about me driving our old minivan down Charkay while I was in Middle school with no brakes. Scary stuff... lol.
Second first is way better. lol. So, like, I'm trying to show love to my family and not forcing anything on them. Praying for them and looking for opportunities to share ad everything, but not forcing anything. It's thanksgiving, that's like one of like three family meals a year. Perhaps it was somewhat jokingly said, but my dad asked if I wanted to say grace and my mom enthusiastically said yes; so I prayed in front of my family for the first time? KFA laughed after. >.> But ya. I guess I can pray in front of my family now. Thanking God for working in their hearts.
Yep. Haha. Way more to be thankful than just that. So thankful that God has called us to Himself and is still calling for you guys to come to know Him. He would leave the 99 to save you, whether you were lost nearby or far away He'd give it all to have you come back.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks to the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son
And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"
so even though my friend wasn't able to come to church again this week (which on one had is good because it would be illegal to drive him and his friend at the same time) it has been way too long. Haha. Next week for sure.
Anyways, where I was going with that was that even though he couldn't go, a lot of good things still happened. Haha.
First was a joint service at church, so a long bilingual message. A few things happened, HW got baptised!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations! So excited for my new brother! Ummm, KP accepted Christ this week!!!! Happy Birthday bro!!! xD Ummm, I got to sit with A(?) during the sermon. He's like 8 years old I think. He has a habit of hitting himself or ripping his clothes... But ya, he was hitting his cheeks during the sermon. And what can I do? Forcing him to stop is not loving. First idea, explain I don't want you to hurt yourself, so please stop? Nope. He was also hitting himself with a plastic rock and his watch. I asked him to put it in his pocket. He did, briefly. (I ended up putting the rock in my pocket when he wasn't looking, but he kept hitting himself.) Hands on your lap? Nope. "You're my little brother, I don't want you to get hurt. I love you"? Nope.
.> How bout ignoring him? (in three minutes he hit himself 25 times. >.<) I prayed for him so much in that hour(?)... I got to talk to TJ a bit after service. He's a cool kid.
Umm. OH YEAH! Today I had a couple firsts,
The first one is so bad! I nearly died! So, I have this habit of not turning my key all the way and so end up not turning the engine fully on. So, when I was going to reverse out of the parking lot and go, the wheel wasn't turning..? Crud! EMERGENCY BRAKE! *thud* *heart racing* at least the car is stopped... So, ya, first actual use of emergency brake. >.< Thankful for it though. I've had a few nightmares about me driving our old minivan down Charkay while I was in Middle school with no brakes. Scary stuff... lol.
Second first is way better. lol. So, like, I'm trying to show love to my family and not forcing anything on them. Praying for them and looking for opportunities to share ad everything, but not forcing anything. It's thanksgiving, that's like one of like three family meals a year. Perhaps it was somewhat jokingly said, but my dad asked if I wanted to say grace and my mom enthusiastically said yes; so I prayed in front of my family for the first time? KFA laughed after. >.> But ya. I guess I can pray in front of my family now. Thanking God for working in their hearts.
Yep. Haha. Way more to be thankful than just that. So thankful that God has called us to Himself and is still calling for you guys to come to know Him. He would leave the 99 to save you, whether you were lost nearby or far away He'd give it all to have you come back.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks to the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son
And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"
6.10.12
Are We Friends in RL? I'd like to think so.
Hey guys!
Well, it's day 2 of my 5 day weekend (not actually 5 days, I have stuff on Tuesday. xP) but ya, I actually got down to doing some work today. I put a good number of hours into CHEM lectures... They are really slow, but oh well.
I ended up walking to the park and just reading my Bible there. The sun had just come out past the clouds and the leaves were all colourful. I got to read John 5 and 6. I underlined like half of it. haha. It was a good time. I should do that more often.
I actually went for that walk on the advice of two of my brothers. I'm alone in my house right now and that is when I do stupid things and that is when I get tempted a lot. So after texting them they both on their own suggested I go for a walk.
I just discovered my sweatpants a couple days ago and today was lazy, so sweatpants, a long sleeve shirt and what could be considered slippers with hols in them was what I was wearing (plus boxers obviously). Haha.
Even for worship team practice I didn't change. lol. I had to take one shoe off though because it was really loose and I couldn't really drive with it on.
I ended up talking to this guy in front of church about beards. Haha. The environment is kinda like a beard, if you mistreat it it may never be the same. He talked about forests and mountains. lol. But ya, he was with The Nature Conservancy of Canada. He went through the whole explanation and everything. I was very interested. I have taken biology and heard about conservational biology. I have taken chemistry and heard about the tar sands and diamond mining in the North. So, I was very interested in what he was talking about. Turns out he goes to Carleton too. Now, I ended up donating on a monthly basis. Which on one hand is great! They do seem to be a very well run not-for-profit organization. They seem legit. Also I do want to talk more with him if I ever run into him. On the other hand, I have a few people I haven't been able to support their ministry because my budget is so tight... I ended up being late for practice even though I got there early. lol. When BI asked about the guy outside his final thought was something along the lines of "did you tell him the Earth is going to be destroyed?" But in an attempt to justify my actions, my final verdict is that this was a good thing. We shouldn't just stop caring about God's creation. We were originally put here to take care of it. He was pretty funny too. lol
Ya, so other than that there was just one other thing that happened today. lol
So, my brother AZ started watching Sword Art Online yesterday. It's a currently airing anime I watch. He watched 13 episodes and today was the release of the 14th, so we were going to watch it together. lol. At 3:45(ish) I checked and the subtitled version was uploaded! Time to go! And so with skype ready and our streams loaded we watched it. It was so crazy! What even happened?! I'm not going to spoil anything, but it was crazy. Haha. Love always pulls through it seems. (check out AZ's post)
Oh, final thought: Just a few minutes ago I clicked on a link on my other brother's tumblr and ended up here. It's an article about taking God at His word and really trusting in what the Bible says. I have a cork board and a lot of ideas of what I should do with it, but Bible verses are definitely involved and maybe I should put every promise I read in the Bible on it? Maybe? Maybe. I'll let you know. Haha.
That's a lot. haha.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
Well, it's day 2 of my 5 day weekend (not actually 5 days, I have stuff on Tuesday. xP) but ya, I actually got down to doing some work today. I put a good number of hours into CHEM lectures... They are really slow, but oh well.
I ended up walking to the park and just reading my Bible there. The sun had just come out past the clouds and the leaves were all colourful. I got to read John 5 and 6. I underlined like half of it. haha. It was a good time. I should do that more often.
I actually went for that walk on the advice of two of my brothers. I'm alone in my house right now and that is when I do stupid things and that is when I get tempted a lot. So after texting them they both on their own suggested I go for a walk.
I just discovered my sweatpants a couple days ago and today was lazy, so sweatpants, a long sleeve shirt and what could be considered slippers with hols in them was what I was wearing (plus boxers obviously). Haha.
Even for worship team practice I didn't change. lol. I had to take one shoe off though because it was really loose and I couldn't really drive with it on.
I ended up talking to this guy in front of church about beards. Haha. The environment is kinda like a beard, if you mistreat it it may never be the same. He talked about forests and mountains. lol. But ya, he was with The Nature Conservancy of Canada. He went through the whole explanation and everything. I was very interested. I have taken biology and heard about conservational biology. I have taken chemistry and heard about the tar sands and diamond mining in the North. So, I was very interested in what he was talking about. Turns out he goes to Carleton too. Now, I ended up donating on a monthly basis. Which on one hand is great! They do seem to be a very well run not-for-profit organization. They seem legit. Also I do want to talk more with him if I ever run into him. On the other hand, I have a few people I haven't been able to support their ministry because my budget is so tight... I ended up being late for practice even though I got there early. lol. When BI asked about the guy outside his final thought was something along the lines of "did you tell him the Earth is going to be destroyed?" But in an attempt to justify my actions, my final verdict is that this was a good thing. We shouldn't just stop caring about God's creation. We were originally put here to take care of it. He was pretty funny too. lol
Ya, so other than that there was just one other thing that happened today. lol
So, my brother AZ started watching Sword Art Online yesterday. It's a currently airing anime I watch. He watched 13 episodes and today was the release of the 14th, so we were going to watch it together. lol. At 3:45(ish) I checked and the subtitled version was uploaded! Time to go! And so with skype ready and our streams loaded we watched it. It was so crazy! What even happened?! I'm not going to spoil anything, but it was crazy. Haha. Love always pulls through it seems. (check out AZ's post)
Oh, final thought: Just a few minutes ago I clicked on a link on my other brother's tumblr and ended up here. It's an article about taking God at His word and really trusting in what the Bible says. I have a cork board and a lot of ideas of what I should do with it, but Bible verses are definitely involved and maybe I should put every promise I read in the Bible on it? Maybe? Maybe. I'll let you know. Haha.
That's a lot. haha.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
5.10.12
And So Two Became Four
Hey guys!
So this week, most weeks now, I have stuff at night each day. Haha
This week was my first DG! I got to meet a couple guys as well as getting to know all four of them way better. I can't wait for next week! RY is joining my DG and we're gonna actually start DG stuff. Haha. Building them up and getting them excited for what God is doing on campus.
It was MK's birthday on Wednesday! So I got a cake and we sang happy birthday at the end of our YA time. We looked at a Francis Chan video "Stop and Think" and AL said something I thought was really interesting. The first thing we do when we wake up is check our phone. Is that really the most important thing? So, I've been trying to spend a few minutes at the start of my day with God and nothing else. I hope to implement this more thoroughly than I have been so far. Haha
I had two midterms this week. haha. So that was ok. lol.
It's Thanksgiving long weekend though, so I have time to catch up on school work and clean my house and organize my room finally. Haha. That is unless I procrastinate way too much...
Both my roommates are gone this weekend. Empty house...
I just opened another box of clothes this week because I hadn't done laundry. haha. I have so much clothes..... Good thing I stopped my dad from buying me more.
Anyways,
Ttyl. I should do some work. lol
D.Fa
So this week, most weeks now, I have stuff at night each day. Haha
This week was my first DG! I got to meet a couple guys as well as getting to know all four of them way better. I can't wait for next week! RY is joining my DG and we're gonna actually start DG stuff. Haha. Building them up and getting them excited for what God is doing on campus.
It was MK's birthday on Wednesday! So I got a cake and we sang happy birthday at the end of our YA time. We looked at a Francis Chan video "Stop and Think" and AL said something I thought was really interesting. The first thing we do when we wake up is check our phone. Is that really the most important thing? So, I've been trying to spend a few minutes at the start of my day with God and nothing else. I hope to implement this more thoroughly than I have been so far. Haha
I had two midterms this week. haha. So that was ok. lol.
It's Thanksgiving long weekend though, so I have time to catch up on school work and clean my house and organize my room finally. Haha. That is unless I procrastinate way too much...
Both my roommates are gone this weekend. Empty house...
I just opened another box of clothes this week because I hadn't done laundry. haha. I have so much clothes..... Good thing I stopped my dad from buying me more.
Anyways,
Ttyl. I should do some work. lol
D.Fa
1.10.12
Anticipants!
Yo. October, start!
Worst start to a month yet. Haha.
Woke up at 6:47 because my alarm wasn't set properly. This left me 73 minutes to finish an assignment due at 8:30. I meant to wake up at 5...
But ya. I actually can't wait for tomorrow. lol. My first time leading a DG!
So, why am I still awake at 11:30? >.<
Goodnight. lol.
D.Fa
PS. If you don't understand the post title, neither do I. Haha
Worst start to a month yet. Haha.
Woke up at 6:47 because my alarm wasn't set properly. This left me 73 minutes to finish an assignment due at 8:30. I meant to wake up at 5...
But ya. I actually can't wait for tomorrow. lol. My first time leading a DG!
So, why am I still awake at 11:30? >.<
Goodnight. lol.
D.Fa
PS. If you don't understand the post title, neither do I. Haha
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