The Things I Would Do

Yo,

so, these days seem to go as follows:

||-wake up to alarm
-get out of bed
-go over to alarm
-turn off alarm and set for 5 minutes from now :| 10-20 times

Once that section is done:

-morning routine, shower, breakfast, pack bag, brush teeth, etc.
-go to school
-classes
-meetings
-studys
-lab reports
(optional 5 hours of work)
-go home
-eat / watch anime
-go to sleep.

And so it repeats.

Tonight I had my BIOC3006 lab exam. It wasn't so bad. I probably should have studied 3 times as much, but somehow God got me through it. Lab report was supposed to be due Friday and so I would be typing furiously right now, but she said she'd push it to Sunday night? So, temporary freedom, but I'm actually way too busy for that to change anything, so tomorrow I'm back at it.

But there are things I would like to do, but don't have time for:

-wash the dishes
-sleep and get better (a little sick now)
-update my budget
-learn to draw better
-learn to play guitar better
-have time to be a keener and do prelabs for next semester
-figure out which praise team songs actually are "JK songs" by scientifically calculating the frequency they are sung as well as by which praise team leader

I feel like there was more, but I am at a loss right now. haha

[Definitely is. Haha. I also want to:
-figure out how I met all my facebook friends and do statistical analysis on that
-type out my blog posts from August VBS in Brooklyn and Frosh Week in September]

Anyways,

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Zombies and Produce

Yo. I should have done more work today. lol...

Anyways, I want to tell you a small story.

I work in produce at a grocery store and I have been through many many annoying situations when it comes to scheduling my shifts due to the amount of work I usually have, or other extracurricular things, but ya, this has always been easily fixed.

This year has been a bit more difficult. With having so many less people working full time and all the part-times busy with school or other jobs we've been really tight to get a full schedule for the week.

Another point to mention is that the schedule is only visible in person, not online. This is partially what has caused the problems, me not seeing it in time, or assuming my shifts were the same as they usually were. So recently I had been texting a friend to check for me on Sunday what my shifts were for the week ahead. Specifically Monday, 2-10 or 5-10?

This week she text me on Friday that I was working 9-2 on Sunday.

...

I'm leading worship this week.

My new brother in Christ DL is coming with me again.

I'm supposed to be in the gr7/8 Sunday school.

I'm meeting SC's friend at the train.

...

No. I cannot. Can anyone else? She kinda said it didn't look like it.

I was freaking out. My boss said he'd ask me in advance if he wanted me outside the 5-10 M/T shifts..........

So I was thining worst case scenario I ask SM or KK to lead for me and NE to do Sunday School and I don't know. It would have sucked...

Thank God the JH still kinda works with me! I text him (I probably haven't talked to him in a while....... and even then mainly only when I need a replacement at work... lol) and he said he could do it! =D

So, I'm pretty happy about that. lol

Anyways, Minecraft is too addicting and zombies keep killing me, but I found a spawn point!!!! =D

D.Fa

Roller Coaster

Hey!

So yesterday was ok. I have a long list of things I need to do, so it's a bit tough getting things done.

I was nearly late for DG. I didn't prep enough. Haha. But it was good. Just having that extra 15 minutes and not getting so derailed by a launcher question really helped. Lol. We were looking at 'My Story' since the guys had been asking about testimonies. MT suggested I intro it now as what my DG will do nect semester. Definitely a good idea. I showed YI's story and my story. I tried showing MM's but it stopped loading... Haha.

Anyways, point is that they are already thinking about how to write it, where to shoot the video, editing and all that stuff. Haha. Apparently both CX and RY have video editing experience and CX has made some videos for church before. They all agreed though that making it alone would be tough and that we should all work on it together. =D

My DGers are awesome. Lol.

Then I was going to go to my parents' house before work, but ended up chilling in the Architecture studio for a bit with AY. I got to see H(?) again and see the 2D laser cutter!!!!! Crazy! Lol. Smelled so good. Lol.

I got really annoyed at work though. It seems like during the day hardly anything happens with regard to the part I usually do. I kinda can't wait to stop working there. Lol. 5 years will be more than long enough. I did take a 40 minute break and just read Isaiah and that was pretty sweet though, but I don't get paid when I do that and I could do that at home instead of a 20 min bus ride away... Whatever. It's good that I can take breaks and read.

After I drove home mad I got to see my mark for the Organic midterm. I was pretty happy. Instead of studying I got tto see a new brother come to know Christ, but then I thought I was gonna fail the midterm. I apparently did pretty well. Thank God.

My mood definitely depends way too much on my marks though.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Aujourd'hui n'était pas Samedi.

Well, I have no time to blog right now, so this is kinda a copy-paste from something I typed earlier. xP. But it's so exciting I don't care if someone reads it twice. xP

Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet up with a new International friend of mine whom I had met a couple weeks ago at church during our missions conference weekend. We had a luncheon and invited International students, then H+JL shared about stress and JL gave his testimony in Mandarin. I only knew enough to pick up that he had talked about God and sin and love, so I just prayed during that time.

I had got my friend's contact info and was trying to keep in touch, but he was a bit bad at replying to texts.

The other day I was at work and he text me asking if there was anything happening at church this weekend. I told him about Sunday School and Service, which he didn't know much about and said he would come with me this weekend. But I wanted to meet up and talk more before going; ask about what JL had said and explain why people go to church.

I set up for us to meet yesterday at 2:45 and a guy in my DG was coming with me. I thought my friend was pretty open considering I knew he had heard the gospel from JL and that he was curious about church, so we prayed and as we were still praying he showed up.

We talked a bit about the weather and school and stuff. I asked about JL's testimony and he had shared about the 'benefits of knowing God and that we should all give it a try'. I asked what he knew about church, what he knew about Jesus. He did not know much, so I asked if he would like to know some more. He did, so I took out the bilingual 4 Spiritual Laws booklet and we started to go through it.
He was pretty concerned when we told him sin prevented us from connecting with God, but then Jesus was the bridge, the only way for us to have that connection. When we got to point 4, receiving Christ he was jumping ahead asking how he could. When we said it was by praying he asked how he could pray. Then we got to the page with the two circles. He wanted Jesus in his life.

We got to the prayer and I asked if he understood what everything meant in it and he said yes. I still went through sentence by sentence anyways to make sure and asked if he really wanted to pray this. I asked if he knew what the meaning of praying it was and said he didn't have to if he didn't want to. It doesn't matter what words you say, but what you really mean in your heart, my DGer had said. He still wanted Christ.

And so we prayed together for Jesus to come into his life! =D

And right after he asked about feelings. XP

He said he didn't know how to describe what he was feeling, but "I know something amazing has just happened. Wow."

I told him about our relationship as children of God and that we were brothers now.

He had class, but he was really excited. XP. My DGer had a pocket-sized gospel of John, so we gave him both that and the 4 Laws booklet. He was really excited about having both of them.

On Sunday we will be going to OCBC together and going to the Sunday school class that is bilingual. This week the topic is about father/child relationships in the Bible. Pray for DL to continue to grow as God establishes his faith.

Praise the Lord! =D

God did all of this not me. I actually didn't even plan on going to the international luncheon. I met DL through a friend of a friend. My texts had gone without timely reply, but then he text me. God had been working in Him the whole time between that weekend and now.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

À Côté de

I don't want to study anymore...

You know what I mean?

It's been a long semester and yet it is so close to being done.

Yet there's still so much to do.

Ah. Gotta keep going.

I figured out how to use most of the French keyboard now. lol. I guess when you have to use it, you will figre it out, eh?

OH! My buddy DL who I met at the OCBC International luncheon the other week is gonna come to church on Sunday! I wanted to meet up with him beforehand and share like why people go to church, i.e. I plan to share the gospel with him, so I need to pray. haha.

This`ll also be the first day I go sharing with my DGers, so pray for that. I'm bringing AO with me to meet with DL, but I don't have anything set up for when me and CX are gonna go, so I think we'll just go with the Cravings magazine or Soularium? I'll ask him. lol.

Yep. Exciting!

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. How do you spell my name in French..?

Glorious Christ

Yo.

Another busy day... haha. Had an assignment due at 12, but with DG I needed to finish by 11:15. That was difficult considering I hadn't started... >.<

All's good. I think I understand COSY and HETCOR now..? In any case I got to DG on time. People need to RSVP before DG. Waiting for someone who wasn't coming today we wasted quite a bit of time and didn't end up talking about too much. I wanted to really share about Projects and how great they are. I'm really really really excited right now. I mean, I'm so excited about going that I've started relearning French with a website called memrise that works to engage your long term memory by masquerading as Farmville, ie, you plant words and have to harvest and water them after a certain amount of time otherwise they wilt (you forget them). Apparently some guy learned a whole language in 22 hours (spaced out over 2.5 months). I've got 3 months. =D

Anyways, I also had work and not much else, but ya. haha.

On Sunday BI was praise team leader again. It's always an interesting experience. He kinda changes the normal procedure, but it's still good, just a bit different. He also introduced a really great song, that I got to sing. lol

"Glorious Christ"



Ttyl

D.Fa

Bonsoir

Well, I just managed to finish a paper and gave it a pun-ny name, so that's good, but I have an assignment due in 12 hours...

And yet, yesterday night I decided I had time to take apart a pumpkin? Questionable priorities? Likely.

Anyways, my brain is shutting off.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. Started relearning French? Yes.

PPS. Sweden!

Where do I..?

Yo guys,

I got to talk with my brother MT the other day. It has been great being able to spend time together and just talk about whatever. The other day I was feeling really uncertain about what would happen if I didn't make it back from Carp. (Link here). Well, that night I had asked him to pray for me. He asked 'why?' when we met up this week, and I explained.

Basically, as MT put it, I had been confusing my condition with my position.

You see, when we accept Christ's forgiveness for our sins, not only are we forgiven we are also made righteous. Jesus took our sin and traded it for His righteousness. He seated us in the Heavenly realms with Him. (Eph 2:6)

News Flash: People are sinful.

We don't change overnight. God changes us to reflect His image more and more each day as we follow Him, but sometimes we will fall a little bit. Sanctification, being made holy, is a lifelong process. But it doesn't change our position before God as being righteous and blameless in Christ.

So, ya, this comes back to the question of Christ dying for our sins. Did He die for just the ones I have already done? Already gone through? Already confessed about? or did He die for all of them?

"For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God." (1Pet3:18)
"so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him." (Heb9:28)

But the most interesting one of all is the following:

"For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy." (Heb10:14)

He had made perfect forever those who are being made holy. Even though we are still in that sanctification process, we have been made perfect forever. In Christ, no matter where we are along our walk and our process, having accepted Him as Lord, having accepted His forgiveness, we are made perfect.

So, ya, MT really encouraged me that my position before Christ does not change even though what I am experiencing sometimes may change.

Ya.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

At the Start

Well, Here I am.

I've got a midterm tomorrow morning and I have so much studying to do. haha.

I'm pretty excited about my DG though. haha. Today we looked at how and to who we should share our faith. Faith being the key word. How, by faith and to whom, by faith. haha. God has placed people around us who He wants us to share the truth with and to share His love. The exact method will vary, but we gotta trust God with the timing and that no matter what we say, it all comes down to what God is doing in their hearts, not our ability to convince people of anything.

But ya. haha. My guys are awesome. Hard to keep up with them sometimes. lol. But I guess that means that we can move forward. This Friday I'm gonna try to go sharing on campus with a couple of them. Looking forward to it.

Today was great. lol. I got to study with my classmates after DG until I had to go to work and then I got to bus to work with TJN and shop with him. haha.

I got to work, then I go to thinking about how I had come to this point.

There are three classmates I spend most of my time with. They are good friends now, but how did I get here?

Last year was completely different. At the start of last year I had met one of them once, had seen the name of the other and watched videos he was in, and the third I had never even seen. All three were my classmates.

I ended up spending time with the one. She was lab partners with the one I hadn't met. Through a mutual friend I officially met the second one on facebook. Near the end of the first semester I met the third while the first and him were working on a lab report.

At this point I don't think we were really friends all that much?

Second semester I ended up being lab partners with the third friend. I was talking more with the second. And the first needed no additional intentionality to become better friends, she kinda has been pulling the friendship along. haha. Anyways, at this point we all knew each other and had the same classes and therefore worked on labs together and went to classes together. We also all went to sushi together. =D And probably Pho a couple times?

I definitely started praying for them last year. In the second semester I invited the first friend to a coffeehouse type event where the gospel was shared at the end. The third friend I invited to church and he came. The second I haven't talked to too much about Jesus.

This year we have been pretty inseparable, except for the first and second kinda having an awkward relationship now. haha. But ya, we hangout a lot. I have been very open about being Christian and they are now all asking questions.I asked the first to Rock the River and she came. That week she asked about the different denominations. The second has said a few times that he doesn't know anything about religions. This week he asked about baptism and it's meaning. The third is really funny and went to a Christian boarding school for highschool. He is doing a project on this cross-shaped molecule that apparently holds you together or something? The two guys have become way more open to talking with me (they were both pretty shy) and the first is still as outgoing as before. lol.

Anyways, I'm pumped about where these relationships are going, but realized I have one semester left before I have co-op and won't be in their classes anymore. >.<

Praying real hard right now.

D.Fa

I'm Kinda Stressed

Hey,

so, I've been reading Isaiah quite a bit lately. I'm at that stage in my Bible reading plan where I have procrastinated reading the prohets and now that's all I have left. >.< They are so good, but I'm supposed to have read like 4 chapters a day, which is quite daunting.

Anyways, Isaiah is pretty sweet.

33:13-16
"You who are far away, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my power! The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?" He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hands from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil--this is the man who will dwell on the heights, who refuge will be the mountain fortress. His bread will be supplied, and water will not fail him."

I can only imagine that the bread and water are those of life. The bread of life and the living water. When we satisfy ourselves in Christ, we are truly satisfied and have no need to resort to plots of murder, contemplating evil, and all gains from bad sources.

33:2
"O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress."

Amen.

D.Fa