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11.6.21

Emotions

I literally don't understand them.

Like, actually. Through the course of today I went from feeling tired, to feeling grief and sadness, to feeling guilty, to feeling suuuuuper mad, to feeling super fearful, judgmental, lonely, it goes on. So many feelings. So little time. And so little understanding of why they were there and what they meant and how I can deal with them.

I think I need some sleep.

So, I moved. Past tense. Completed. Today my last roommate helped move my box spring and that was the last thing. And y'know, it's honestly pretty annoying. The last week he's been like the best roommate. I don't know what the difference is. Why this week? What did I do? What is prompting him to act like a human being? The first day I had moved most things I eventually laid down and went to sleep. The next day was great. I felt so free and at peace. I'd removed myself from this situation that constantly made me angry and mad. But then I started thinking more about what it meant to him. In the course of like 4 weeks I went from "I'm looking at places" one day. To "I'm moving to that place" the next. To "I'm moving sometime next month". To "oh actually I think I'm moving this week". To "Oh, I'm moving today." And too bad for him. I'm out. What does it matter to him? Did I improve his life in any way? I hated so many little things and was pretty passive aggressive about them. I don't think I did anything of value for him. So much of the time I tried to avoid him. I answered almost every single question he asked with sarcasm or non-answers. 

But this week he's great.

Could I have avoided all of this if I had just been a bit mature and owned up to my actions and communicated honestly with him?

Maybe. Maybe not. I literally don't want to see him for like a few months if possible. I want to remove him from my facebook friends. I want to remove any indicator that we could have been good roommates. I'm past it. I'm moving on.

And I think that's part of what's making me so guilty about it, mad at myself. I literally spent like 2 hours just talking to my one roommate T (the one who lives in the basement with me). He was just reading a book outside, so I went and asked him questions. We talked about so many random things (he did a 45-day trip to Japan in 2015. yo. sign me up.) I legit don't think I've talked to my last roommate more than like 2 minutes at a time over the entire like 9 months. We went to dinner once at a mutual friend couple's house. My mindset was "I need to pretend to tolerate this guy for the next 3 hours". Like what the heck is that? I barely know roommate T and like I want to know more. I want to be reliable for him. I want to be able to talk openly with him. I also want to just hang with roommate J. I'm like trying to brainstorm things we could do together. 

The comparison of mental attitudes is just so stark. Why?

But I'm here now. and I'm rolling with the punches. I'm trying to get my old roommate a new roommate. And he's just as complaining about the whole process as he was about everything. "This is going so fast." Ya man. There's only like 78 days until either you are evicted or someone moves in. 2 months is the legal notice I need to give, so basically everyone looking for a house should ideally have their plans made 2 months in advance. This is the window. This is when everyone is looking and everyone is posting options.

I kinda wish it was normal for me to be physically violent when I'm mad. Then it would get across.

Instead I'm stuck in this weird zone of never really revealing how mad I am and just pretending I'm not and no one gets it. 

I mean, I don't get it. Most anger seems petty to me. When is it not? I don't know where the line is drawn. Maybe I'm sheltered. Maybe I've spent too much of my life trying to please everyone around me and fit in and not stir the pot. I don't fight for me. Maybe that's why I'm here. Maybe that's why this tornado of emotions leaks out sometimes. Maybe that's why I have no idea what I feel, or how I should feel, or what I should do if I feel that way.

Whatever.

D.Fa

23.1.17

1 John 1:9 - Guilt and Shame

Yo,

something that I've been thinking a bunch about lately, as mentioned previously, is the concept of shame and it's really shedding a lot of light on things that I had just not even noticed before. One of the places that I think this has made a huge difference is in regards to the Bible where the concept of guilt and shame are often mentioned.

Previously I hadn't really understood them and thought they were essentially the same thing. They are definitely similar, but shame is so much deeper. Guilt is a feeling that you did something wrong and leads to reconciliation, trying harder to not do it again, and similar positive results. Shame is a feeling that you are bad and leads to isolation, despair, hopelessness, apathy, and the like. Shame makes you see yourself as less and not being worth trying.

And so, as I learned about shame, whether consciously or not, I couldn't really get a hold of it because it didn't seem Biblical. Where did the Bible ever talk about shame or overcoming shame?

And I think this really stemmed from an ignorance. I wasn't seeing it because I didn't know it was there. And now, I see it in places I'd never even imagined it being. Places so simple and yet so profound.

A verse that I'd heard over and over again and told others over and over again has now become so much more. 1 John 1:9 says "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." And I had always read that as simply forgiveness and grace for the things we had done, God's justice, His mercy, His grace and love; the legal requirement paid on the cross as Jesus died on our behalf. Us clothed in His perfection, covering our sin, covering our badness. The cleansing just being of the sin, that it was behind us. The idea that we may struggle with feeling as though, as a result of our sin or not, that we were bad, that we were unrighteous, that there was nothing that could cure that; that idea hadn't crossed my mind. But God is greater than our guilt and the requirement of death for sinners (paid through the cross to bring us life), and He is greater than our shame and feelings of worthlessness (as we trsut in Him He makes us new, He cleanses us from alllllllllllllllllll unrighteousness!)!

He is faithful and just. We are forgiven and made new in Him. Amen.

I am forgiven. I am made new.

D.Fa

3.10.11

Sum it up!

So, guys, Summit was this weekend.

I guess I kinda kept comparing it to last year's Summit. In comparison, well it can't even be compared. I have changed so much through God's work in my life. I mean last year at Summit I was so focused on worship and couldn't even sing (which was actually humbling). I didn't really meet anyone other than the guys. I slept through a couple sessions. It was cold and there was a large competition between campuses leading to isolation rather than unity in many cases. Even through all that God really enforced that I should share the gospel with my friend KC and to just take a step in faith and share my faith for the first time with someone. So, I went for it and just asked him one day when we were walking in the halls. He accepted Christ into his life and he began an exciting new life.

He started going to church and Young Adults fellowship. He went to a discipleship group a couple times.

He began growing more distant from these things for reasons such as work or other things.

I wasn't in his classes anymore in second semester and I didn't end up seeing him very much at all the rest of the year...

We texted each other here and there, but I wasn't in Ottawa during the summer and ya... When I got the follow-up material in East Asia, I thought about going through it with him. God placed it on my heart. I know he hasn't really read very much of the Bible and has drifted from fellowship. God kept telling me to disciple him one on one.

When I got back this year I found out we had a class together! Yay! We have been talking a bit after every class. He has developed a social anxiety and has trouble with people now. This put a halt on my plans to reintegrate him into C4C or church, but reemphasized the one-on-one discipling... I was kinda scared of the idea and didn't know how to bring it up. I prayed for it semi-reluctantly, but kept pushing it off.

I was doing follow-up of people who said they'd like to meet up with someone from C4C and I was going all out and burning out. No time for KC.

Then it was Summit time again. I'm so glad I got to go and fellowship with everyone. Although I didn't know anyone from the other four campuses, everyone was warm and welcoming (there was no stupid balloon competition and the rival schools were in the same cabins as each other so there were no pranks) and it was a great weekend. The new national director spoke about Thessolonica as a world-changing community and God was there that weekend.

At the end as usual were the faith barriers and asking God to help us break them down. There were a bunch of smaller things, but I didn't know what to do. I ended up writing a huge paragraph of ways I could be more faithful than I am now and then writing a similar, but different version on the front of my Bible (I will post it seaprately). Oh, also I got to see GS grow in his walk with God and JH too. They both didn't know where they stood or what they believed, but they came to summit and I'm sure they were changed.

Anyways, one of the things I wrote down was to disciple KC. I need God's help on this. I am not a natural teacher. However, there is hope and God has given us his Spirit as helper. At summit there was this girl from Carleton who gave her testimony. Last year she wouldn't have been able to come to Summit, let alone speak in front of 100 people. She had social anxiety, but she prayed that God would heal her. She couldn't keep living the way she was. God can heal KC.

Yesterday I had class with KC. I accidentally forgot I had it and was half an hour late. >.> Way to start. After class we were talking. I had (short notice) invited him to Summit. He ended up playing video games and doing readings and staying home the whole weekend. But we ended up on the topic of the discovery groups were were having or something and he said 'I don't really know very much about the Bible, so I wouldn't have very much to say' or something and so I asked 'Well, I actually have some lessons I was thinking of going through with you, if you'd like. Do you want to?' or something and he enthusiastically said yes with a smile on his face!

Awesome!!!!! Day 1 back from summit and even though I was late to class, dying tired and pretty hungry the only conversation I had with him ended up with the discipling lessons even though I was not the one to ask him directly out of context, what he said led to it.

My God is awesome, yo.

=D.Fa

24.8.10

Compilation and Chronologicized VBS Blog Posts

“The border crossing was kinda odd. Pastor DB's car got threw easily then the other two cars, following directly behind, had to get out and everything. Mostly because the guy switched, even after Pastor DB said there were two other cars...

Anyways, we stopped and had lunch at McDonalds. Apparently the church is paying for our food and we all got like 5$ allowance for lunch.

Ttyl.

D.Fa “

“It's 7:39. We are nearly there. We are about to get onto Staten Island and then Brooklyn. Yay! ... >.>”

"I didn't kill my children. I could be a father."

“Driving around in circles just to find a parking space is not really very fun... It is 9:01. We finished supper at Nathan's Famous Hotdogs and have just located the Dorcas Center in China Town. There is a CVS like across the street from DM. Which will make getting Advil PM easy this time. I wonder if we have to go in groups to go anywhere, even nearby places..?

Whatever.

D.Fa “

“First night is done. It is midnight. We just finished two games of monopoly deal. The twins each won a game. I'm tired, yo.

I hope the rest of the week goes well and that all the kids are amazing.

Night.

D.Fa “

“Hey. It's like 7:30 and I am now kinda looking over my lines again. I think I have like 2.5 days kinda memorized.

Anyways, guess what..?

There's cold water in the shower! Yay! So, I had a moderately heated shower for once.
Church is at 10:45. We woke up a bit early, but whatever. =D

D.Fa”

“Night 2. 11:04. I have just 'finished' turning my belt into a toolbelt. XP... I found some plastic tools so it's not as heavy as it was orignally.

Anyways, today was pretty hard work. Church was really cool though. It was so similar to our church. Like the speakers gave feedback, the songs were familiar, it started at 10:45 and they released the children. Oh. There was even like the same thing Auntie S taught the kids at our church. XP.

CW is now snoring. XP

Oyasumi.

D.Fa”

“Hey. It's like 10:06 or something, but like this is the first time I've used my phone all day. Like at the start of the day I was pretty freaked out and everything, but as the day went by things smoothed over. I got to meet at least like 20 of the 33 kids that I am dealing with this week. Our group has like 11 grade 2 kids and 20 or so grade 1 kids. I have deffinately acted like a teacher today. Like it was great having one on one time with all these cool 6-8 year olds.

... “

“...

Like today I 'played' pokemon and yugioh/zatchbell with this grade 1 kid. We were definatley playing by his rules, both because he was 6 years old and because he had chinese cards, so I couldn't complain even if I wanted to. I lost both times, needless to say.

So, I'm in charge of the devo tommorow morning, so I need (underlined and italicized) to wake up (wake. Up.) at 6, not lie around for an hour... XP

So, ya... Today was Unexpected, but so amazing and cool. A very new experience.
Ttyl.

D.Fa”

“Hello. Everything is cool here. My matress is the most inflated and it's the only one that is completely manually filled. I'm one of 7 people from our church that are at the grade 1-2 vacation bible school. They are really cute and only like 5 of the 33 are kinda annoying. The grade 1s are ridiculous, but the grade 2s are pretty cool. Me and 3 others are in charge of the grade 2s. There are 11. The thing is that 2 of them don't speak english very well and there's one crazy kid. We've been having mostly asian food with rice. Its all been tasty. We just got back from the Brooklyn Tabernacle Prayer meeting. It was very intense. Everyone keeps telling me things like "roaming charges are 2$ per minute that your phone is on" and stuff, so my phone has been off most of the time. I'll talk to you later.

D.Fa”

“So, today was the third day of vbs here and, ya, it's been a long one... I guess.
All my clothes and even my sheets are getting smeely, so I washed some of my clothes. They are in the dryer right now.

We went into town and walked over the Brooklyn Bridge and walked around and stuff.
I have my hair in a gel-less fauxhawk too by the way.

We don't get to watch the "Who Wants To Be A Superhero" videos anymore because they are a bit too much for 6 year olds... >.>

I'll ttyl.

D.Fa”

“"Now you're just 'dum'!"

Okay. Hey.

So, there's just one day left.

RL is depressing me and tommorow is gonna be really sad because all these kids are really cool. I love these kids yo.

I suppose, well, I definately believe that this is a different situation then normal. I mean, normally I'm shy and stuff, but I've actually talked to and bonded with so many of them. T.T I'm pretty sure that I might cry tommorow...

I really want to like hug all of them tommorow. >.>

...

D.Fa”

“"because he was in CW's car."

So, ya. Today was the last day of the vbs. It was sad seeing all the kids leave and the skit was kinda messy, but today was good overall. I made a cape and mask! "Dynamite Dylan". Basically, Gambit's powers of exploding things, but more flashy. XP... I made it up only for the alliteration... >.>

We also went shopping today. I have no US money left now. Poor CC...

So, ya... We are now wasting time staying up playing board / card games while listening to worship songs. We will likely stay up all night.

It is now 1:45.

D.Fa”

3.6.10

There's Only One Act

"AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG! Why did I want to yell so badly..? It's not like I normally yell much / ever... AL, I don't have a girlfriend. I was thinking about it though."

So, ya.

Today I found a math error in my physics project and reduced the percent error from an average of 300% to about 40%, I was quite happy when I saw I was so close. SZ had a percent error "too big to fit on the screen" during his presentation, lol, and AP had like 240% error. Now I just have to figure out how I'm presenting it. The percent error isnt even important as long as you did things properly and explain why there was such a large error.

In bio we had a period in the lab to work on our essays. I was listening to Big Bang on aimini.net and AP saw. She then plugged her earbuds in and did the same, but mostly 2pm. She made me listen to like three songs. 2pm isn't bad, but I realized I'm listening to nothing but Korean and Japanese, and only watching anime. lol.

Mr. Cheeseman was our sub for calc again. Apparently he actually is Dr. Cheeseman and discovered the shape of a protein. He's a poker player, but doesn't gamble. Poker isn't gambling, it's math. Anyways. Dr. Cheeseman is the coolest name ever.

One Acts went well. There were a couple differences in our performance from the script, but it worked out. I didn't get to yell like I normally do because someone said a line far too early and I had to improvise back to the real lines.

EG has the freakiest role in this whole festival. He is the Wicked Witch from "The Lizard of Oz" and his costume is ridiculous, his voice for the character and body movements, his death, his "flying monkeys", everything is soooooo awesome.

So, ya, tommorow is closing night.

D.Fa