Baptisms!

Hey!

So, this morning I slept in.... Not on purpose... I was supposed to only sleep 7 hours. >.> Anyways... It was rainy... ruin my plans to bike. Anyways... lol. I wasn't going to go to OCBC today. Instead I went to 'myCHURCH'. myCHURCH does not mean the same thing as 'my church'. it is instead the name of a church, or group of people (which is what a church is, a group of believers). They usually have service in a theatre downtown I think, but ya, this morning they were in my Biochem classroom... >.<

Why did I go?

Because DS was getting baptized! !!! =D! So exciting! And her mom got to stay in Canada for it! Ya. This morning 8 individuals proclaimed their faith in Jesus as their savior. Their stories were varying, but they all found life in the death of Jesus and the love poured out for them.

DS said it wasn't a normal service. There wasn't a sermon really, just baptisms. xP. Well, there was what could be called a worship concert and offering before the baptisms. myCHURCH really loves smoke machines and audio-visual stuff apparently. There were 9 people on worship team. The pastor was really 'hip' with his "Tom's" and his plaid shirt and everything. lol...

It was different, but I was told it wasn't a normal service, so I'll let it slide. I hope there is more Bible in it usually then there was this time.

Overall, it was great seeing DS and the others being 'dunked' and like 10 people raised their hand saying that they wanted to accept Jesus into their lives today, so I guess that was good. They proclaimed the gospel throughout the time there.

I guess that was my fourth church that I've been to. Apparently I know a few people that go to it, including IP, a grade 11 student. This blew away my stigma towards myCHURCH as being the church with only university students (there were a number of adults too, just ya, I guess I thought everyone would be older rather than younger..?).

I'm also really excited for MC's baptism next week! (I can't go to it though.... =< )

Ya.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. Belarus!

Time Management.

So, yesterday.

As usual I had a ton of things scheduled. I actually finished my organic chemistry prelab the night before, so I didn't have any really urgent school work to do. xP

I bussed to school. That was awkward. It was (at least according to a group on facebook) 'sing on the bus day'. I was so excited to get on the bus and just have everyone singing. Did not happen... and I didn't want to be the only person singing... and I hadn't really prepared anything... So I was like singing really quietly............... awkward.

Physical chemistry lecture. boring.

Then I was supposed to meet up with LT for our one on one discipling time. Class had ended a bit early and LT is often a bit late, so I figured that I had time to go heat up my leftovers for lunch. It was like stir-fried vegetables and clam chowder on rice. Mmm. Ya. He arrived and we continued to try and set goals for the year. I am bad at sitting down and setting goals. Like, I see the purpose of goals, but I am terrible at setting them non-spontaneously. I say non-spontaneously because I do set goals based off of experiences and what is happening and what I want to happen.

Like, ya, so, this week was supposed to be 'the swan dive' and so I made myself available to the best of my ability for the other first year guys and stuff. I offered multiple time slots everyday of the week and told them to message me if they were able to / wanted to go with me. I did not hear back from anyone. The only time I went sharing was when me and LT ran into DP and so we went. So, I set a goal. Instead of them coming to me, which they still can, I will actively pursue them and (here's the goal) go sharing with each of the other guys in C4C by the end of the year. If that means 20 or so guys, let's go. We've got like 13 weeks next semester and a week left or so. That's plenty of time. xP (especially with only 3 labs next semester. yuss.)

Ya. So, I guess (if you can't tell) I have a lot of issues with time management, but I guess I don't really associate them with so called 'spiritual growth' goals. I guess I have in my mind divided how I live and treat myself from my relationship with God..? That, that's not really good. He is Lord of all. My life should reflect that and ya, every aspect should be worship to him. So, I guess LT challenged me to do something about my time management.

The challenge: Write down what I spend my time on for a week (or two..?) while also getting 7 hours of sleep each day (or trying to).

So, you know. I really want to do this, I suppose. I mean, it's something I really need to work on and so I want to be committed to it. So, to make sure I am committed to it I bought a notebook, a pocket-sized notebook. But not even one of those dollar store ones that I can just throw away or whatever. I bought a set of two mini Moleskine notebooks. Now I am committed. I didn't buy them just because of all the hype behind moleskines, but also because they were the smallest notebooks I could find in the bookstore and that they were expensive... T.T I am not one to buy unnessecary things, especially expensive ones. It was 8$. I am committed. lol.

So, ya. Let's see how that goes. I'm trying, like, down to the minute, but not quite that intense. Just like whenever the focus switches. I'll do a bunch of analysis later. (I like data analysis =D)

Yup. Then I got to meet up with KC again. I'm really glad I get to spend time with him and that we get to spend time reading the Bible and ya, to spend time thinking about these things. We read John 2 and did a lesson on growth and the essentialness of prayer and reading the Bible and obedience in growth. So, this week we are going to read the Bible daily before bed and hold each other accountable. He had to go to work, but it was another great meeting. I can't wait until our lesson on prayer. xP. I really want to see him praying passionately.

Umm. Organic chem lab. We watched clear liquid go from one point to another really slowly by evaporating and condensing like a million times. >.> Kinda boring, but we know what our liquids were! =D (which is the point of the experiment. Separating two liquids and determining which they were by testing them.)

Then me and NF went to Story of the Soul (after a brief chat with MC who played on worship team with NF at Getaway two years ago!). SotS was good. We watched a couple movie clips, looked at a painting and heard CW's testimony of hope in a difficult time. and JXW came! =D (even though the O-train broke down... >.>) Ya. There were a bunch of people there (I haven't heard an official count yet though. I counted 45 at the end, but people may have already left at that point).

Ya. Then 11 of us went to bubbletea in China town and played Apples to Apples in My Sweet Tea. lol. So fun. AG is hilarious and I think a lot of us hadn't actually had dinner, just sugary baked goods at SotS and bubbletea. lol.

Ya. I need to change. I don't want to be the one that makes you cry, but rather the one you can cry on.

I talked with CW for like half an hour before going to sleep. xP. I really wanted to do that like everyday the way me and DP did in EA. It's one thing I think good roommates should do. xP

Ya.

Ttyl. I've got to do my Phys chem lab now since I have work at 2... >.>

=D.Fa

PS. DS's baptism tomorrow!!!!!!! So exciting!

Things Change.

Well, I guess things change.

Yesterday was cool. XP (My memory sucks, yo. I needed to really think about that.) Yesterday was really cool because I got to talk about stuff like the Bible and prayer meetings and more stuff about C4C and the iCrave Freedom campaign with a bunch of my friends. I got to see PK who I haven't seen in a long while. We got to talk about music and food and stuff. He was working on this assignment for food studies I think. He was supposed to write out his diet for three days. He decided his own diet wasn't good for the assignment so he was basically making it up. lol. He asked if I wanted to start a band with him. >.> Interesting idea, not enough time.

Ya. xP. Today was also good. I slept in way too long, but I got to school on time after printing my lab report at home and stuff. Ummmm. I had a meeting with AG my language exchange partner. Today's story was about a girl from China who came to Canada to study and the differences between the two.

Then me and LT had a meeting with MZ and her friend about the iCF campaign and how M22 could get involved and it sounds legit. They came up with this idea about doing bus shelter informational installations or something like that. You see M22 wanted to do a bus shelter installation already to beautify the bus shelters and stuff. When we were talking today the idea that a lot of women get caught up in human trafficking when they are in transit really caught her eyes I guess and so that idea was formed. I think it will be cool though because everyone needs to use the buses at some point and ya it could be really strong.

I got to go sharing with DP after handing in my lab report. We talked to a first year computer science student with a mixed background. He was a really quiet person, but the conversation was good.

Later I got to catch up with JW for the first time in a while. Always good. xP

I managed to get a bunch of work done on my prelab for tomorrow's orgo lab (which I realized like only a couple days ago that I had to do it. xP)

Prayer meetings on Thursday are always huge. xP

Right after I went to MHS instead of Stats (this is because I am unable to go either tomorrow or Saturday and I really wanted to go) to see their fall production 'The Wave'. It has been adapted from a novel into a play and it was really well done. The casting was excellent and staging was really well done. The only minor fault was a couple little A/V things, but apparently it's because their main A/V guy has fallen ill and so they have had someone else step up and there haven't been enough practices for them, but by Saturday it'll be awesome. xP

Umm.

Ya...

I just heard some news. I'm not allowed to share it though. xP

Just watch this instead. xP



xP

Ttyl.

=D.Fa

PS. I forgot to say, I think my connections to MHS are dying and that soon I will stop attending things, but for this year at least I will continue supporting them. Perhaps I will go to all of their Musicals, but I may not... >.> It's not the way it used to be. I'm not in high school anymore.

Watch this:



"That's upsetting"

Ya. It is.

Slavery exists today. People all over the world are forced into it and even when freed sometimes they go back because they don't have anywhere to go, or anything to do. They need a real change in their lives.

It's about more than just physical slavery, but even emotional and spiritual slavery.

But definitely even just helping them escape their physical slavery is a start, but by eternal perspectives, if you didn't just change their lives permanently, was there much of a point..? Not to be a cynic, but if you could share the good news and have their lives completely changed, coming into the knowledge that God loves them no matter what has happened to them, that He died for them and still is calling them back to himself.

I got to talk to a guy today about this event and about how him and his club can get involved. LT was also there. lol. LT is really good at telling stories. >.> In any case it seemed like God was really there and that T(?) really was thinking about what we were saying. He's going to Turkey next semester though. lol... Whatever, it was really awesome talking with him. He said that he had been to church a couple times, his parents are Buddhist and that he couldn't believe everything we told him right then, but ya, we can still pray for him. xP I still have a possible three more meetings this week with leaders to talk about the event. Exciting. xP

This event is gonna be great. Raising awareness for human trafficking and the freedom God has offered us.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

I'm weak.

Yo, it's something that has really been on my mind for a while now. I am fed up with my pride and how I portray myself to others.

I put on this image of strength and confidence sometimes. I don't ask for help from others, I will struggle through it to the end, except sometimes I do ask for help from others, except it will often only be people that I think should know less than me, someone to just jump off of with my own thinking.

I don't like to admit it when I don't know something.

I don't like to be the one in the position of weakness.

I don't like to accept food when it is offered to me.

I don't like asking for things from others when I think that I can get it myself.

I wish that I were stronger, that everything that I do would be enough, that I was perfect, that I was great.

But the truth is I am weak. I am very weak.

Yesterday I was so tired that I fell asleep accidentally. I didn't time manage properly and didn't study enough on the weekend for my midterm yesterday morning, so instead of breakfast I crammed and biked to school. Instead of lunch, I crammed for my other midterm. I tried working hard on my biochem lab, but really I didn't want to and didn't end up doing much both because I was tired and hungry. I reluctantly accepted the meal that JXW's mother had made that she didn't want. Mmmmm goat/lamb. I didn't even thank her... I was thinking about how I could for so long that I guess I thought I did... Then I was at school just dead tired until like 8pm. I went home by bus since it was raining. Then I cooked dinner.

Before starting to work on my biochem lab I went downstairs to close my eyes for a minute. I woke up at 1:30... I went to the bathroom and I'm not entirely sure what happened, but the next minute I opened my eyes and I was in the bathtub... Assumably I fell over. I just don't remember anything between standing and the bathtub. My head didn't hit anything and my back doesn't really hurt and nothing moved that was in the bathtub or on the sides, so I don't know what happened... >.<

I went back to sleep and slept in...

So, today I ate breakfast and packed the leftovers from last night. I walked to school because I was late for something, but the other guy forgot too, so no problem...

I felt really bad about how I've been mistreating my body. Not eating, not sleeping, not even doing work efficiently... I can't keep this pace up on my own. Only three weeks left. I need to do my best and at the same time find a balance in life. Not just doing school work. Not just doing C4C things. Not just wasting time. I need to rely and trust in His plans and live up to them.

Gah. His love for us is so amazing and his strength is so great. I don't want to pretend to be someone else, but live in the reality of the matter. In my weakness God's greatness is made complete. He is the one who gives us strength and power to do more than we can imagine or comprehend. Living in this present-tense perspective is also not a good idea. He gives us the eternal life and ability to know him.

I want to be strong, but I don't want to pretend any longer that I'm not weak.

Ya.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

僕の家族

So, today I had driving lessons, started writing some blog posts, went to worship leader study and went to my parents' for my Dad's birthday dinner.

Cool day. I got to drive way more and on a bunch of different roads and with traffic too! I nearly ran a red light and a couple stop signs because I was too busy thinking how far above the speed limit was acceptable. lol...

I had a bagel and a carrot then bussed to church.

There may be an awesome Christmas concert at OCBC this December, which sounds sweet.

Ya, I really like being able to spend some time with my parents. I'm actually feeling a bit homesick this year. I can't wait until the Christmas break. I keep wanting to go back to that atmosphere of Christmas at my house. Like, my house during the year is one thing, but like, during Christmas it's cleaner and has this warm atmosphere all the time. I don't know. It's different and I miss it. xP......

I never really care about the presents I mean, my parents ask me to make a Christmas list and everything and submit it to them. In previous years it was like, last second go online and look at a list of video games that I'd never play because I just don't have time. This year I did something different. I kept a list on my phone the entire year and whenever I thought I wanted something or would really like something I wrote it down and it's a very untypical list compared to the other years.

There's actually two books on it. Legit yo.

So, ya. As much as I want the things on this list, I don't need them. I don't want them as much as I want to spend time with my family over the Christmas break. Seriously. There's nothing I want more than to see my family in eternity with us.

Ya. So I keep on praying and trusting in God for his timing and plans to come to fulfillment.

Ya. Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. Philippines!

Psalm 130

A song of ascents.

1 Out of the depths I cry to you, LORD;
2 Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.

3 If you, LORD, kept a record of sins,
Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
so that we can, with reverence, serve you.

5 I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
6 I wait for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.

7 Israel, put your hope in the LORD,
for with the LORD is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.
8 He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins.

Reflections on Job

Earlier in the morning I had read Job 7-9 and I thought there were some interesting things, but I had no time to think about it, so I read it over again as well as 10-14... lol.

I guess I always thought Job reacted differently. From what I've read so far he's in this huge debate with his friends about God and who he is. You see, satan kinda challenged God saying that Job only worships God because of all the blessings he has, so God tells satan that he's wrong and so God let's him take some stuff away from Job. His family, his house, his stuff, his health, etc. but not his life. I thought Job would always be like 'well, I have God, so I'm good', but I see him being human. He's having trouble dealing with it. He's thinking he would rather have never been born. He's pretty annoyed and he's being pretty dramatic too like 'If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery placed on the scales! It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas!' But he also knows how great God is and how based on ourselves we can't approach him.

Job says all of the following in the book of Job in the Bible:

9:4-10 "His wisdom is profound, his power is vast... He moves mountains ... and over turns them ... He shakes the Earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble. He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars. He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted."

12:13,16 "To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his... To him belong strength and victory"

9:19 "If it is a matter of strength, he is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who will summon him?"

12:10 "In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind."

10:8-12 "Your hands shaped me and made me... you molded me like clay... Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit."

7:17-20 "What is man that you make so much of him, that you give him so much attention, that you examine him every morning and test him every moment? Will you never look away from me, or let me alone for even an instant? If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of men?"

10:14-15 "If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished. If I am guilty -- woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and aware of my affliction."

9:2 "can a man be righteous before God?"

9:32-35 "He is not a man like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court. If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, someone to remove God's rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more. Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

14:15-17 "You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made. Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin. My offense will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin."

I know I can relate to what he is saying. I struggled for a long time thinking that I needed to become more righteous before I could come before God and ask for forgiveness. I knew, to a degree, that the sin in my life was extensive. I knew that and thought that I needed to fight it. Fight it myself until the battle was nearly won then let Him destroy all that was left.

That was a losing battle with no chance of winning. I'd last a couple days longer and fail again. I'd last a week longer and fail again. I wasn't making any progress and instead it was just getting to me. I was feeling frustrated. I couldn't do it and it was so hard. I read once that 'you don't know how hard it is to be good until you really try' and it's true.

The thing is that we, in 2011, live in a different time than Job and his words say more than he thinks. I mean, what he has said has actually come to pass. He longs for an arbitrator that can help him approach God. Someone that can help him stand even in the knowledge of his past sins. Someone who can bridge the gap between sinful man and the perfect, holy, creator of the Universe, God.

And the difference is that we have that arbitrator. God's wrath has been diverted. Indeed, God does not let sin go unpunished, but instead had someone else pay for us. God sent his only begotten Son to us. God came and took on flesh. He came down to Earth and became fully man while remaining fully God. He had "days like those of a mortal [and] years like those of a man" (Job 10:5). He can fully relate with us and is God. And through his death on the cross the rod of God's wrath that was on us has been redirected. We can stand firm before God because of the hope we have in this life He has given us and the love He has shown for us. Through Jesus' resurrection we see God's victory over sin and death. God is calling out to us and giving us the choice to answer or turn away.

We still go through these struggles, battling intellectually the same way Job was, but we also have the next part of the story that hadn't been written at the time when Job was alive.

As Job's friend put it "if you devote your heart to him, and stretch out your hands to him, if you put away the sin in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent, then you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm without fear. You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by. Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. You will be secure, because there is hope" (Job 11:13-18)

Jesus has taken my sin and covered me in his righteousness. By Him and Him alone can I stand firm before God knowing I have been forgiven. This hope, this undeserved grace, this love poured out upon us, it's all right there, the gift of God is being offered to each of us.

A late lunch

Hey guys!

Yesterday was pretty jam-packed with stuff. Phys Chem lecture, Discipleship meeting with LT, Discipleing with KC, organic chem lab, weekly meeting, and 'You had me at Bacon 2'. That is what was planned for yesterday and it mostly played out as expected, well I don't know. I didn't really expect some things either. lol

Phys chem. whatever. (lol... it's almost done. =P)

Now for Discipleship with LT I was supposed to have arranged something, sharing with a club leader or one of my friends or something. I was also supposed to have finished thinking about my goals for growing spiritually this year and starting to plan for how that can be done. I kinda lost the sheets and I didn't have time to work on it... So instead we just had a time of quiet reflection on a passage in the Bible. I read some of what I was reading earlier and it was so cool. I will post it in a separate post because it's pretty long. lol. [Click here! lol.] After that we talked about how we can reach out to clubs on campus and meet them where they are at. LT had talked to a leader of a humans rights club and he was really interested. Anyways, I sent facebook messages to the 'leaders' of M22 to see if we could meet up next week and discuss a collaborative event in January (the one about human trafficking) and they are all interested in meeting up, they are even going to talk to others and see if they want to meet up too. So, ya. I need to pray for those meetings and God working in their lives and me and LT sharing the gospel with four groups of possible like 1-6 people.

Next was a meeting with KC. I was a bit late, but it was a great meeting. KC seems really happy every time we meet. We read John 1 first (I had intended that we read 1 John 1, but this is cool too. We ended up reading 1 John later anyways. lol.) Then we went through the old-school version of the Spirit-filled life booklet. There is a lot of reading in that booklet, which is awesome. We read like a part of like half the books in the new testament. Our meeting was really great, but also a bit long. lol I had to run off to my orgo lab. I really want to see God strongly change KC and see him praying aloud with a passion.

The lab was really boring. lol. we dissolved cholesterone in ethanol then cooled it and filtered it.... lol.

I finally had my lunch at like 4:30 and watched Naruto and Shakugan no Shana 3 (which I am not telling NC about. lol.)

Then it was weekly meeting and we went through how to share again, but with more depth. Like, the Knowing God Personally booklets are cool, but they also leave a lot of room for elaboration and interactivity, so that was cool.

Then we went to RM's house for the C4C guys' night 'You had me at Bacon 2'. There was a lot of meat. lol. The chilli was awesome and the nachos were the best. lol. LT shared with us about what it means to be a man and how Jesus was not a feminine man. Authenticity, Servanthood and Initiative.

Then I got a drive home to go to sleep for 6 hours. xP

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Starting Somewhere

Yo. So. Did I tell you about yesterday..? I don't remember. It is doubtful... Actually I think I did..? Or maybe that was just a text message. >.>

Ya. It was a text. lol...

Wednesday wasn't the best.

I guess I realized again how prideful I am. I ended up selfishly trusting in my knowledge of phys chem and on the equation sheet I hadn't even really spent time on... I feel confident in my not so great mark on that midterm. ya. I was feeling really crummy the rest of the day I think, except that I got to play badminton with SC and JJ eventually/breifly. xP Ya. SC says I'm way better in front when I'm mad at phys chem. >.> My whole body is sore from yesterday. xP

Umm. I didn't do much. I think I met JXW's Malaysian biochem lab partner. I couldn't quite guess which ethnicity he was... I had narrowed it down to Hong Kong or Korean, but I wasn't really confident in that guess. It was mainly his accent and face that pointed me to Hong Kong. I realized afterwards that basically every Malaysian I know has been in Canada for a very long time and goes to my church.

I ended up leading a prayer meeting. RM kinda trained me..? I have some papers to read over, but ya, we prayed for Cambodia. MM and his family are over there right now working with Mercy Medical Center and New Life Fellowship and they are seeing God do great things.

Ya. So yesterday night I did some work on my biochem lab, well actually I stayed up until 3am doing it. This was after going to my parent's and buying groceries and talking to JH. I'm praying for him. My housemates enjoy talking a lot. Often about things I don't talk about. Seriously DK..? >.<

Ya. I figured it was a way better idea to work on my lab before today rather than not. At the same time, I know that I cannot wake up early, so I decided that since CW wakes up at 8:15 I would stay awake working on it until 3 and a bit so that I get 5 hours, not more, and then get back to it before class at 10. The plan worked pretty well.

Ethers are fun to learn about. xP. Then I finished up my lab with JXW. AG wasn't feeling well today so our language exchange meeting was postponed. Today was our last biochem lab, which is sad because I haven't had much time to speak with TZ and that's like the only place I see him. The prayer meeting was awesome. So many people praying to see God work on campus and for the students to realize that God loves them and is calling them back to him. Stats was ok. I met this one guy and we talked on the bus ride home, which was cool.

JS convinced me to go to YA and I got to see RL! Yay! I miss him... text conversations leave something to be desired when you haven't seen someone for a long time.

Ummm. So ya. This morning I stumbled briefly on a bit of sin, but I was so set on sharing the gospel with JXW today that I was like 'screw you sin. you can't hold me down.' and I just asked God to forgive me and that was that. Through Jesus we have been freed from our slavery to sin. In him we have victory over sin and death. If that is what Spiritual breathing is, then I want to keep feeling this victory over sin.

Umm. Ya. Two events in the near future. The first being Story of the Soul: Hope, which I am super excited for. During the prayer meeting we decided that we want to see at least 60 people at the event and 5 people come to Christ through the event and follow-up. This isn't something we can decide, bad phrasing, but we are placing our trust in God to do great things. I also had this vision that I'd be like, inviting a lot of people. Between classes just talking up some people and inviting them, webCT messages, texts, in person, a lot of invites.

Secondly, the date has finally been decided on the sushi event that has been brewing for a week and a bit. Nov 26th we will be having sushi. I don't know how many people will be coming though, but you have to start somewhere.

Anyways, Ttyl!

D.Fa

Organic, Physical and Bio-

So, it's nearly Wednesday... I guess the week disappeared. lol

Monday was all about my Phys chem lab. All morning working so hard to finish that on time. Then I had a lab, prayer meeting, a break and then we got ready to go to Dundas for a pizza outreach.

There were six of us going, so we met in Oasis and prayed. You see, as part of my DG we take turns organizing and implementing an outreach. This week MW planned to go onto DB's floor in res and have pizza, have open conversation, a game or two and build friendships from there. I personally had thought that MW is kinda, like, focusing only on DB as our main first year guy. Whenever he does this I think that he's like ignoring the other guys, SM, JS, MC, etc. I think I'm not fully loving of MW. It's really cool that he's taking the initiative and building into DB so much though.

Anyways, there were a lot of people. We knocked (politely) on people's doors and when told there was free pizza they positively and in an interested tone asked 'seriously?' There were a lot of girls. We only realized that we hadn't asked any C4C girls to come with us as of, like, 30 minutes before the outreach. xP...

It was cool. We had 5 pizzas. We played mafia and some people told some stories. LT basically told the prodigal son story, but it was actually the true story of this girl he knew, what was her name again..? Burnadette? Nope. Anne. Sure, that's easier to say! lol (He didn't know. Those were the names suggested). Yup.

I'm looking forward to 'Story of the Soul: Hope' next Friday night.

Anyways, I got home from the party and had to study for my midterm in organic chemistry this morning. TJN and I studied late into the night. It was actually the first time I had seen some of the material... I missed one lecture and it was a pretty important one. >.>

This morning CW's alarm went off at 7:16. It's just the radio, but he listens to the radio really loudly, so either I wake up or lie in bed with my hands full pressure over my ears to block the noise, which is no way to sleep.

Oh! I had a dream. NM was in my dream. I was at some Banjo and Kazooie convention of some sort (mainly playing levels that don't actually exist, but that I've played in dreams before) and NM and his girlfriend show up and of course we have a giant hug and he's smiling that ridiculous smile as always. That's as much as I remember, well there was also this part about a music note I couldn't find in one level, but that's unimportant. I miss NM... He was like the first guy I met in Vancouver before going to East Asia. He has this crazy haircut that's like really long on one side of his head and short on the other. He also has rainbow shorts that are shorter than his boxers. lol..... We ran together once during Orientation.

Anyways, ya. I went to school early. TJN had invited me to audit his stats class and study for orgo. Yep. I learned a lot in that hour and a half. I'm pretty sure I aced the test.

Then I managed to get a good deal of my Biochem lab done. Then I had a bio lab and got a plant! lol. We were cutting them up last week, but now we aren't so our lab coordinator was giving them away. I have this deep set idea that my lab coordinator was the teacher for my plant bio mini program in grade 8... I don't know. maybe. I really like plants. xP.

Then I got some work done on my discussion for the Biochem lab, prayer meeting, stats class, train and bus home, massive amount of rice and one piece, Fun with Dick and Jane (which brought back good memories with my brother), and now I continue to procrastinate instead of studying for my physical chemistry midterm tomorrow. >.<

Ttyl.

D.Fa

October in a post. Also this evening.

I'm really really really really really really (add a few more 'really's) excited right now. lol

So, ya. This month hasn't been the best. I mean, with all the wasted time from procrastinating on top of the massive amounts of schoolwork I have had recently I haven't been able to go sharing on campus and talk with students about God or the gospel. I was getting really really frustrated at that. Ya. I mean with all the time God is giving me and all the opportunities just sitting there.

Ya. So, I've been really excited for my friend this week. She got accepted to go on STINT! I'm praying for her and praying for myself too. I really want to go on project again this year (as I'm sure you know by now... lol).

This month I've been able to meet up with KC a few times and do a couple short Bible lessons. Being able to spend time with him in God's word and even just having time to talk with him has been good. I think I value times spent with friends doing nothing in particular so much more now than I used to.

My one on one discipleship with LT has started too. I've really wanted discipleship for a while. We are going through a personal develop plan planning thing. I haven't had time to sit down and just ask God to help me with it though, so I'm not going anywhere with it right now...

Ya, this week has been pretty bad maybe..? I'm not too sure. lol (I feel like I just blogged this stuff earlier..?) Ya, but ya.... lol. Today was good. Have I ever mentioned that I sometimes serve as worship leader at my church (Ottawa Chinese Bible Church)? Well, I do sometimes and it's always pretty rough until the day of. Like, I'm not a very good leader in the sense that I don't authoritatively take lead unless there's no one else in the group that I feel is more suitable as leader. I also don't get around to finalizing the setlist until the night before practice and ya... But the day of everything seems to just click into place. xP

In Ottawa (Carleton and uOttawa) each year we have an event called 'The Epic Project Party' which is like an event to tell people in Campus for Christ about the available projects and opportunities to go to the world and go on a 1 or 6 week missions trip during reading week or the summer. Last year's was amazing (it sounded like) and again I had a midterm that prevented me from going. Apparently LT shared a really good metaphor. There's an orchard of apple trees, like 10000 acres. There is one owner of the orchard and the land. He hires 100 apple pickers and goes away because he's busy or something and asks them to pick the apples while he is gone. So there is the main building on the land and 94 of the workers stay within the 800 acres directly around the orchard and 6 workers went a bit further. All the trees were in season and producing good fruit, but the 94 workers worked and picked so many of the apples that they decided to start making better equipment and crates and ladders and procedures for picking the apples. They picked the trees clean. However, the other 6 workers had 9200 acres to work on. They worked non-stop and saw apples dropping all around them. They came back and saw all the new equipment and stuff, but the trees had been fully picked and the 94 weren't picking any more apples while there were thousands rotting just a bit further away. What would the owner say when he gets back? Did they do the job he left them?

In the same way, the harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few in the missions field. Matthew 9:37-38

There are statistics thrown around about how much of our resources are sent to the unreached population of the world that I can't remember at this exact moment, but it's really high, like only 3% of missionaries go to unreached areas..? (Don't quote me on that.)

In any case, this evening I got to go see a Japanese movie called 'Always: Sunset on Third Street 2' a film from 2007. It was really good. In the end love was stronger than money. It was a tear-jerker. lol I didn't go alone to the movie. No. I went with six other people. The International Student Services Office organized us going to see it. The volunteer in charge was from China, there were two girls from Japan, a guy from Greece, a guy from Poland, a guy from Nigeria and me. It was really good. I got to meet them and talk to them and build friendships. I ended up talking a lot with one girl K(?) a bit about East Asia and a bunch about random stuff like Saturday morning anime when we were kids. xP I also got to talk a lot with the guy from Poland, M(?). He's taking Law so we were talking about cases and stuff. About justice and so I brought up the case from the Un.Cover magazine and about the injustices done to Jesus, so basically I shared the gospel. xP We then talked on the bus too about East Asia. So, I was really excited about how God brought me out this evening and used me and will continue using me if I offer myself to be used.

I really see how the nations are brought to us on campus. How there are so many international students from all over the world and even Carleton campus is a missions field in itself. My friend JXW. Her mom is from the commonwealth of Dominica. I've really felt like I should talk to her about God. I mean, we're good friends now and that shouldn't stop me either. Gah.

Ya. Monday we are having an outreach on campus in one of the dorms. A pizza party thing in the lounge on one of the floors.

So, ya. Pray for me and Carleton and International students and projects (East Asia and Desert Rain projects are a go!) and STINT and for my connection with God (I'm still not having good quiet times) and stuff in general. Let's see where God leads me and let's see how many oportunites God gives me to rely on His Spirit and just proclaim the good news to those who are desperately in need of a Saviour.

D.Fa

Since last time

I have had a pretty awesome time since I last told you guys anything. xP.

So, last night was the STAT Midterm. It went really well. I went in and had this peace. Like I helped a few other people with their questions and was talking to this random guy about minecraft instead of cramming. lol. Cramming sucks. But really, I was not prepared. Luckily we had an extensive formula sheet and the prof had gone over the sample midterm the day before. If it wasn't for that I may have done really really really badly. I don't know. xP.

Anyways, before that was my Organic Chemistry lab which was good. The experiment is basically non-stop for three hours, so much to do and you just have to do it. It took my mind off everything that was happening around me and ya. I really like chem labs. xP We finished at 5:45, 20 minutes late, but we weren't last. xP The smell of ether and acetic acid. xP

Also, this morning I had a real driving experience, no longer confined to parking lots or centerpointe. Not much faster though, but whatever, change of scenery, which was all very colourful. hehe. Umm, ya. !My highschool fantasy has been fulfilled! I got to drive my dad home from MHS! =D I got some food from my parent's after cleaning out their fridge and organizing it a bit. Then I got a drive home then a drive to church. At church I built a Christmas tree out of shoe boxes which required a few Jengas to make it look better.

Then we had a great worship practice (me, AL, SM and NC) and ya, we bussed home.

Now I'm heating up leftovers from my parents. I'm gonna watch some anime, do some phys chem work then go to school where I will meet some Japanese students or students interested in learning Japanese or any language exchange program students interested in watching a Japanese movie then we will bus to the NAC(..? or somewhere anyways) and watch the film 'It's Always Sunny on Third Street 2'..? I think that's what it's called. xP

Looks good.

Ttyl.

=D.Fa

PS. On a scale of one to ten, I'm somewhere between one and ten. =P

Grrrrrrr.

I'm honestly in a really terrible mood right now.

It's really lame.

I want to destroy something, punch something, explode something...

Why am I feeling this way?

>.< Grrrrrrrrr.

Blessed

Today was long. I'm not going to lie.

I go to bed in the dark and wake up in the dark because my roommate sleeps longer than me every single day.

I don't think I've had lunch since Sunday.

I'm probably doing satisfactorily in BIOC2200.

I'm tired pretty much all the time.

I'm taking an extra 20 minutes to bus to/from school.

My computer has been bombarded by trojans since I've switched to Firefox.

We were literally playing with poison in the lab today.

But beyond that I'm so blessed. I'm blessed in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ who died so I might live. But not just be alive, but to live life abundantly, to the full, with thanksgiving in every circumstance.

God, help me to remember how good you are and help me to prioritize and be efficient.

Profile 2: Awkward First Year

And so again I am behind in updating my profile on my blogger account. So, here is the version that says I'm in first year and very awkward:

I am Me. I often have awkward relationships with people and am bad with words; phrasing sentences, explaining things, getting my point across, etc. I am Christian. I go to church, I go to YA, I am involved in C4C at Carleton University, I pray and read the Bible daily. I am in my first year at Carleton in Biochem and am now living away from my parents off campus. I currently have a part time job in produce at Independent, but would like to expand my work experiences to other fields/areas/stores. I enjoy travelling and getting away from the weekly schedule (which is always full), but I work better when things are scheduled back to back so that I can't procrastinate without consequences. I am musical. When I set a goal I try diligently (I hate that word) to accomplish it. When I have no plan I end up wasting time doing nothing. I often use the phrase "Deal with it" and often try to deal with things on my own, which doesn't always work. I am independent, in general, but prefer being with friends. I am more asian than some asians, but am not visibly asian. I have a blog. I have a brother. I have 4 housemates. I don't have something interesting to end this "About Me" section with.

And so I begin to write the new one.

Halloween and today

So, Monday was Halloween. Whatever. I'm too old to trick-or-treat, I'm too poor to buy and give out candy, I don't care for drinking, so wild parties are out, I didn't have time to create a humorous costume like RM did, so, normal day I guess. It's not even a good holiday. I mean, what is the moral behind it? Gluttony, partying, we could add demon worshipping to the list..? I don't mean to say it's all bad. But it can be very bad.

Point: Monday was Halloween. I had a lot of school on Monday I think. We finally got to do something in our phys chem lab. My other lab partners (because there's so much to do that the task is divided among three groups) wanted to just gossip during the time, like usual. >.>

Oh, in Biology we learned about dermal tissue. Whatever. It was just me and JXW that day because KL and KC weren't there. I hadn't really realized that we were such good friends. I really want to share the gospel with her. I asked God 'how?' last week and the answer was 'I haven't asked you yet, have I? What do you believe?' Point blank unless some build-up occurs naturally, but basically the JW approach. What can happen if I ask? I find out where she stands and can pray for her more specifically, we get into a spiritual conversation and God really speaks to her, or she can hear the gospel and receive the gift of eternal life. No down side.

DG was good. I was kinda on the hot seat and was asked what was the most amazing thing that happened on EAP. When I was falling behind, I took the day of rest reluctantly praying that God would be working even though I wouldn't be. And while we were playing with a frisbee, He connected me with Moped, who's English wasn't the best, so we didn't meet with him immediately, but when we did we shared the gospel and saw him come to accept Christ as his personal saviour. It wasn't me, God was working that day.

KD for dinner. xP

Today. So long ago. Umm. I slept in by accident. I also shaved last night. xP Movember has begun. EE was telling me about how much she loves Movember because she likes facial hair. But she urged me to grow out my beard too because she dislikes 'just moustaches'. It is not 'no shave November' it is 'moustache Movember'! I am contemplating dying it a really weird colour.

BIOL lab was good. We finished really early because we started the questions before we got there apparently. So I went to do my Stats assignment. Also really short.

I have to get a lunch together with some first year guys soon though. Partially because NC's mom asked me to go out for lunch with him and maybe bring a friend or two, and also because it is a good idea. I'm getting into a weird train of thought though. Like, I have to organize an event later on, an outreach event. So, I'm kinda in the mindset that everything we do should fit into the category of outreach events where there is someone inspiring others, some people experiencing the Spirit and doing outreach to help others discover Jesus. But then I'm also mainly thinking of inviting first year asian guys... so i don't even know what to do because ya... and to make it outreach you need to invite more people, so limiting the criteria (which God never does) isn't the best plan. Also, sushi doesn't really work too well with giant crowds which is what I'm picturing in my head.

Anyways, I'm super excited for JL who is applying for Short Term INTernational (STINT) missions trip with Power to Change (P2C)!

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. Why does the devil always strike when you are feeling the best..? He's lame.

The weekend.

So, I guess I didn't really say, but ya. I got my lab report done on time and I was pretty happy with it.

Anyways, after staying up so late on Friday I slept in until 10, which was still only, like 6 hours, but I guess if you include 'The Shining' you get closer to 7 hours? lol.

I had to start working on my physical chemistry lab. I think I started on Friday during a break, so I had already done a bit, but I really wasn't making much progress. I think that I am the type that has a hard time starting something, but once the ball is rolling I'm gonna make it go as fast as possible. I was not going very fast. I got caught up on a couple little things. Luckily I have three lab partners to ask about these things. They aren't usually too much help, I usually end up solving my own problems, but only when I'm asking them for help. I think LF is really smart. He looks much like BD, but even sharper. The thing is, he tends to make significant mistakes and overlook them. I've helped him a few times in that type of situation.

Anyways, I had work 2-10. It's really cool now that I have a few friends at work that when I come back after not working for a couple weeks I can say hello to them and have a smile on my face. =D Umm. Ya... the bosses' praise is kinda embarassing though... >.< I don't deserve that praise. I'm just trying to be helpful. >.>

I had dinner at my parents'. I guess my mom got a bit upset when I suddenly told her I couldn't have my wisdom teeth taken out because I'll be at Winter Conference after Christmas again. >.< I guess she was just concerned that if I don't get them out, my teeth will all get messed up, I'll miss class when it becomes urgent, etc... I'll just do it over reading week. ok..?

By the way, my mom is doing pretty well, so thank you for praying.

Umm. Ya.

Sunday was really great. Worship was really great. I was really not in the mood. I really dislike it when I'm in that mood of apathy and thinking about what I am doing if my heart isn't there. But God really met me there and got me going again. I really need more quality time with Him. The worship, the sermon, God, were all there and it was good. I don't really like 'Better is One Day', especially the chorus, but it was good.

We went home after church (the couples went to Pastor DB's house..?) and I continued to work on my lab. ... bussing to church is pretty boring. But once I got there it was really good. We were reading a lot of Acts. It is definitely more than what I had originally thought of it. I mean. I thought it was a pile of names and places, but (especially after reading the Old Testament more) the speeches and amazing things happening in the book of Acts are so cool. I repent of my old thoughts of Acts.

I think I got home and finished my lab. sleeping time.

(more to come)

大大前天 和 大前天

Ok, I've been pretty buried in light work recently. I've also been not at home during the time I normally blog, so ya. This will be a summary..?

Thursday:
I honestly don't remember much about Thursday. >.> I'm pretty sure it was a jam packed day of classes and labs. I think I wasted a lot of time again on facebook and youtube and was really feeling guilty and upset with myself for all of the time I have wasted this week. I still had a lab report due on Friday and I really hadn't done very much of it. By this point I was hoping to have been done and able to start the next lab report which was due monday. I don't think I stayed up too late..?

Friday:
I walked to school because I had planned on not biking home. My first discipling with LT. He had bought a new camera app for his new phone. Well, he also had this really cool smart alarm clock app that measures how much you roll around while sleeping and from that tells when you are in REM, light or deep sleep and wakes you up when you are almost awake up to half an hour before your actual alarm time. It seems really cool. We started going over my personal development plan. As JW knows, I'm not always the most responsive or thoughtful person, and when it got to the question about which verse or promise you'd like to claim for the year, or which command or exhortation to keep in mind, I had nothing. I prayed about it. I had two phrases come to mind: 'feed my sheep' and 'keep in step with the Spirit'. >.< Hmmm... LT thought that the first one might have something to do about loving God more, which is definitely something I need to grow in. I really don't know why these came to mind. I hadn't read those verses in a while. I intend to reread them soon.

I then left to go to my meeting with KC. Today's lesson was about our relationship and fellowship with God. Our relationship as children of God, offered to all who believe, is not broken ever. However, unconfessed sin can break our fellowship with God. When it came to 'repentance' and the definition given being 'a change in attitude which will result in a change of action', I asked if he could give an example. He, ya, didn't think the same way I was asking the question, I meant, like based on this definition is there a 'real-life' (meaning not sin-related) example that fits it? So, I gave this example about how I use microwavable plastic containers. My housemates keep telling me how it's not healthy. My change in attitude towards the plastic containers would lead to me not using them anymore. (Fyi, my attitude to microwaveable plastic containers has not changed, so kinda a bad example, but anyways...) I'm excited to continue meeting with him and I really hope God changes him and does great things through him.

Chem lab- shorter than usual.

Then I got to help LT carry pumpkins into the C4C weekly meeting room. Then I was official greeter. !!! Two of the guys I followed up with back in the beginning of September finally came to Weekly Meeting!!! Not that this is the only way to get involved, but it's the fastest way of integrating, making new friends, seeing what C4C is about and feeling the full experience. BS and MdS! Anyways, during Weekly meeting JB gave her first talk. Later we carved pumpkins! They were really cool and it was a lot of fun. Then we smashed two of the four pumpkins because no one wanted them. We went to Loeb and stood on the roof and dropped them like two floors. XP (We cleaned it up.)

Then me and AL bussed to EE's house. She was having a movie marathon. One reason we went was actually just so that we had somewhere we could be during another video chat with our EA family. This was done mainly for MC who wasn't able to join us last time, however, she couldn't join us again. lol. I got to see PW finally!!!!!!!!!!!!! T.T Typing this right now is making me tear too... I swear, that was like the saddest moment ever (recently), leaving her alone at the hotel and bussing to the airport without really having a good goodbye... and she was crying... T.T But she was her happy, crazy, super asian self again. T.T (tears of joy) We'll need to do it again for MC and because not everyone was on at once. xP

So, in the end, at EE's I ate a pile of candy (my main meal of the day), watched part of 'Psycho' and the start of 'the Shining', video chatted in EE's room, and slept through the rest of 'The Shining'... lol... We got a drive home from AL's nocturnal (I'm exagerating) dad at like 4am.

(more summary to come later)

Vulnerable

Exploitation of Vulnerability. That is the simple definition of Human Trafficking. Whether it applies to Eastern European women being abducted and sold into the sex trade, or children sold by their parents in Cambodia, or women who earn more by being in the sex trade so they can provide for their families, it's all exploitation of their vulnerability.

Yesterday I went to a Young Adults group out in Glocester because of a facebook invite to it. They were showing a movie about human trafficking and the sex trade. It was a documentary called 'Nefarious: Merchant of Souls'. It was a very powerful movie. They interviewed many experts in the feild, they visited different countries, they interviewed victims of abduction, prostitution, they interviewed johns and traffickers, they got a very unbiased view from every perspective and it really shows how wrong it really is. Some of the statements in the movie were pretty strong. Like prostitution of women is as simple as men masturbating into a woman and nothing more. The imagery and reality of what is happening worldwide is shocking when we live in a country so separated from most of the obvious symptoms, but it's very real in North America too.

The movie kind of kept going in a negative spiral and it kept going until it got to this one point near the end and hope entered into the movie. A real life transforming hope and new life for the victims (not only the women and children, but even the men trapped in this system). God loves each and every one of us. He values us as His precious children. No matter what we have done or how far from him we have strayed, through all that He has done, He offers freedom and abundant life to all that believe in His name.

Ya, it was a really good movie and I recommend it. It also is getting me really excited for our January campaign 'iCrave Freedom' to raise awareness about human trafficking and modern day slavery.

Ya.

Today I went to the end of the month prayer meeting for the first time since June. It was good. We were mainly focused on our building search because by March we will have to find somewhere else to worship and gather, so we've been praying for God to show us where to go. This week a building on Richmond has come into our sights and so tonight we went there and prayed. It's a very warm and cozy building. It's very well kept too. The only thing is that it might be a little bit small. We can probably fit for joint services and stuff, but big meals where we invite other people too may get a bit crowded. Its definitely an interesting short-term option.

Ya.

Ttyl.

D.Fa



PS. France and Croatia!

No Time to Waste

And so once again I have wasted countless hours on youtube, blogs, facebook and etc.

It's really frustrating.

I know I could have done so much more work during those hours.

Every second we have is a gift from God. This week of lowered assignment density is definitely very much appreciated, but I'd like to do something to lower the amount of work I have to do in the near future so that I can do other things like hang out with my friends, go to sleep by 1am, or even just spend an extra couple minutes doing a Bible study or reading a book.

This evening was a bit more productive though.

Anyways, this afternoon was the first DG (Discipleship group) of the year and it was cool. I'm in a more intense DG, so it seems like there will be a bit more work than last year, but it will be good. We will be reading through Ephesians on our own and writing reflections (punishment for not doing it is buying everyone dinner). We will be reading a book about fuel and fire, meaning building our relationship with God and then doing outreach. We will discuss it briefly every other week. We will be doing testimony and hot seat at the beginning of meetings to get to know each other. We will be doing outreach planning. Every other week someone will be planning an outreach and we will do it. It's pretty cool because the three of us will all be in school at least another two years. A lot can happen in that time if we really rely on the Holy Spirit and ask faithfully to see God work on this campus. It's gonna be a real growing process.

Anyways, one thing I've been thinking about is how there are certain parts of the Bible I am really looking forward to. Since this year began I've been waiting to read Daniel. I started a couple weeks ago. It's really interesting seeing how God used dreams and Daniel and everything for His glory in Babylon. The other book I can't wait to read is Hebrews, which will be sooooooo awesome after having read the Old Testament fully. Every single time anyone quotes Hebrews it is awesome and I cannot wait to read it.

I was actually looking at the Bible reading plan I'm on right now and December looks like a lot of fun. xP. After Dec 7 I am scheduled to read minor prophets until new years. xP

Yup.

My life is a crazy ride. xP... I'm thinking of starting my project application. The only thing is what if I suddenly can't go because of Co-op or something..? What if I'm in the middle of support raising and I switch plans? There are non-refundable airplane tickets. Maybe I just pay those myself and anything I'd raised go to supporting East Asian students going on missions projects..? I don't know. >.< I wanna go on project.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. God is Love.

Sometimes I'm Bipolar..?

Yo! This morning was really awesome. So, I was worship leader this weekend because the YApro went away on a retreat thingee and so I took over as leader. I was choosing songs at midnight Friday and I wasn't satisfied with my song selection. I had a lot of really awesome gospel centered songs, but I thought they were all too slow and that the congregation might not know them too well... I wanted to find an awesome fast paced song that is well known for the set, but I couldn't find one because I'm kinda bored with the standards that fit that description and didn't think they really fit... So, 1am came and I gave up and finalized my selection even though I wasn't 100% behind the choices made.

Practice yesterday was great. It's weird being in charge. SM, NC and JC were on team (only JC was actually scheduled. The other two were replacements like I was). It was SM's first time on team at OCBC! He's really good at playing piano. He didn't know a couple of the songs, but he figured them out within the practice time. God got me to choose the call to worship really quickly and I was well satisfied with it. Psalm 66.

Anyways, this morning went really well. People kept telling me that the song choice was good. I really like Christ is Risen. Especially the bridge. Heehee. I think I am setting a precedent as to the type of set that I choose when leading. The sermon was about Jesus and sacrificial substitution present throughout scripture. There were a couple things I hadn't thought of before. Like, the very first death was done by God on some animals to make clothes for Adam and Eve and by it's death the whole sacrificial atonement system started. Also, Barabbas. His crimes and notoriety led him to a death sentence, but by Jesus' death, he was freed.

Ya. Me, JS and CW went to Farmer's Pick after we got home from church.

Then I got to work on a Phys chem assignment that made me really really really furious at thermochem. >.< I was sooooo mad. I felt like I should destroy something. I feel really bad when I get in those moods. How did it go from awesome worship in the morning to being so filled with anger and rage (at simple algebra no less) that I want to destroy everything around me. >.>

Acts class was good. JS might be going to seminary! She graduates this year and it's an option. We read Acts 3-8 and discussed it. Stephen's trial was cool. He talked all about how God is always moving with His believers.

Ya.

Oh! I had a really cool video chat with my EA family (well most of it. TT.TT)! We'll be doing it again soon since PW, MC and the staff families weren't involved. It might get super laggy though... xP

Ya. I was kinda almost crying when I was walking to AL's for the video chat. They are all leading DGs. >.> God will use them all in amazing ways.

Yup.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

The Warmth of Love

Okay, so I have just had two meetings and they were awesome. lol

First was a meeting with LT and B(?) concerning discipleship groups and one-on-one discipling, which is awesome. xP I really wanted to have a discipler, and LT is really cool (and a ninja, just saying) so that will be great. Part of discipling apparently is helping the disciple accomplish goals and help them fuel their personal passion and vision. So, LT will be helping me with what I see God calling me to, how I think God can use me to reach this campus and the world. Of course, this is all by God's grace and Holy Spirit in our lives empowering us. It's not me learning to be LT, it's both of us working together to take God at His word and encourage each other, etc. So that was cool. I also got to share about East Asia and how the students we met when they received Christ were so excited and found a hope and strength.

Anyways, next I had a meeting with KC. As I have said before, I haven't been able to really talk with him about God or spiritual stuff in a while and how he has developed a social anxiety. We got to meet up in a quieter location and have a good conversation. From this meeting I have seen how we are in fact friends (which is something I've been having trouble with), the fact that God never leaves us, and I got to hear what he thinks is the major difference in his life. So, we talked a bit about school and this week and stuff, then pretty bluntly "I wanted to ask you, since praying to receive Jesus last year, how has your life changed?" lol. (JW. lol.) He answered about how his life feels 'warmer' now and how he has been brought from isolation into community. That's awesome. We were not meant to live in isolation, but live in community. We were made for relationship. I also found out about how he has been talking with his aunt whenever he has problems and how she helps him by giving Biblical advice and praying for him. Also, very awesome.

We also did the first lesson of follow-up material that we used in EA. It was about how God never leaves us, how we are His children, how nothing can separate us from Him and how we have been given eternal life. These lessons are highly packed with Scripture, which is great because it's God's word and God speaks to us through it. KC read all of the verses (and there were a lot. lol) There will be a lesson later on the Bible, but I told him about how it is God's word and true, which is why we can look to it and find truths. The lesson is pretty straight forward, only really two or three open ended questions and the rest can be answered verbatim from the verses.

It was good. Excellent. I'm so glad that we finally got to do this and that he wants to continue doing so.

Also, he prays for his friends. So good.

Anyways, God is awesome. Even when I thought KC might have drifted a bit from God and lost the peace that God gives us, the hope He gives us, the love we experience; He hasn't. God is always with us even to the very end.

PTL

=D.Fa

Childhood's 'Future Career Choice'

God is a way better artist than I could ever hope to be.

The following took me over half an hour with countless 'undo'ing which is not shown. It is also very surface level and a large portion of it is based on semi-random splatters. There is no life in the picture. There is no depth. There isn't a lot of things.

God only took 6 days and he created absolutely everything in the universe down to the atom. So much more creative, intricate, meaningful and amazing. He didn't leave out a single brush stroke from every sunset. Nothing was random. He created life.

Anyways, here is the link to my painting. lol.

My Painting!

I encourage you to pay attention in your statistics class, but if you really really want to, please give artpad a try.

=D.Fa

Fasting and Prayer..?

Ok, so I honestly don't have a full or clear picture of fasting why or how, but I have read a couple verses on it and it still confuses me, but anyways...

Ezra 8:21-23
"There, by the Ahava canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possesions. I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we told the king, "the gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him." So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer."

In Nehemiah, he fasts and prays day and night and God answers his pray.

Also this week I heard 2 Chronicles 7:14 again:
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."

Another thing is that a lot of the time in Scripture it may describe things that they did, but not fully. Like it said they fasted. Sometimes it says for various lengths of time, sometimes it's food and water, sometimes it doesn't describe it at all.

At the same time Jesus says that we will fast. Matthew 9:14-15 "Then John's disciples came and asked him, "how is it that we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" Jesu answered, "How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.""

The other thing is that God hears all of our prayers anyways, right?

"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have what we asked of him" 1 John 5:14-15

In either case, fasting strengthens prayer or something. I think. Whenever they fasted and prayed, they were heard and answered. >.<

So many things to pray for, not enough time...

[I like how my friend put it. "Whether or not one chooses to engage in a fast is optional, and whether or not one benefits from a fast is conditional -- it is all about the heart. It may not be imposed as a divine duty upon others, nor should it be used as a public display of one's piety. Jesus says to do it in secret ... after all, the only response to your act that matters is God's, and He is looking at the heart." It really depends on how you see it. I have definitely seen it put to use in good ways and I have also seen it upheld legalistically to no avail. I have also seen fasting where you don't really care and nothing happens and I've also seen it strengthen your own prayer.

So, ya, it's up to you. Some people can't fast, physically, so it can't be required. Also, ya. You don't need to do anything to be loved by God. No acts can save you. Only God's acts and gift of life through Jesus' death and ressurection.]

Function and Form

So, whenever I don't blog regularly either I'm pretty busy or I'm turtling and hiding from sin issues in my life. This time it was business. Or rather, just not being at home this weekend and then being busy.

Friday. lol. Umm. Ya. Then I got to school and had things booked until Saturday at 3pm. What? Ya, Raven's Log meeting, A scheduled discipleship meeting with KC (he had errands), a lab with associated report I had to hand in and wasn't done because I slept in, Campus for Christ Weekly Meeting and then off to church. The RL meeting was short so me and TJN went to SC/RP's dorm and worked on our labs. lol. Good times. I managed to get the lab report done and get to it on time. The lab was pretty interesting. Liquid-Liquid extraction. =P Ended early, a bit. C4C Weekly Meeting was awesome. DP[not the same DP. a similar DP. lol we both went to EA, but this DP was on a different team] was there! and S(?)!?! He was in my Japanese class back in grade 12. I never really knew him very well though, so, I guess I don't actually know him. xP It's still cool.

Then we hung out in Oasis and when they were all going to McD's to get McFlurrys I was going the opposite way off to church. You see, we are still in a temporary location. Actually this March we will most likely be the very latest we can stay here. Although it's huge and has been a real blessing to have, it really is falling apart, so buying it was probably a bad idea anyways, so thanks God for not having that happen. Ya, there are a number of short term possibilities in schools or universities. There are also the two main long term possibilities now on the radar. 1. Buying a piece of land in Centrepoint and building a new church there. (The government is very very slow) 2. Buying a church building from another church who aren't able to stay in their own building at the moment. We want to ask God for his guidance, opening and closing doors and really getting us where he wants us to be, so all month we are having '30 days of prayer' for this and this weekend we were having a '24 hour prayer chain' meaning 24 hours where someone was always in the church praying for the building search. For the middle of the night shifts we just had a youth and young adult sleepover party at the church.

We played games and worshiped and skyped and watched a movie and prayed and worshiped some more and slept a little and ate muffins for breakfast. The movie was 'highschool musical China'. It was really funny. xP I had the 3:30-4am prayer shift, so when the movie finished I just did more 'late night' worship with FL and R(?). The way worship worked was that someone calls out a song and we use Ultimate Guitar to get the chords / lyrics and project it onto a large screen so that everyone could see including whoever was playing. xP So good. I got to sleep a bit. I wasn't really planning on it, but everyone else (except Z(?)) was asleep, and I was pretty tired after only getting 5 hours the night before. I got two hours from 5:15-7:15 on a cold carpeted floor. Z(?) is really nice. He gave me his hoodie and then his sleeping bag when I was super cold in the morning. >.< He's pretty mature too. and responsible.

Worship practice started at 10. I wasn't on team, lol. At 1 our worship leader study continued from where we left off in April (or maybe March..?), except that we will be going at a faster pace since reading one chapter a month would take us nearly three years... >.> Ya, it was good.

Then I bussed to school for a really bad audition. She seemed enthusiastic that I could sing though. >.>

Then I bussed home (so much harder this year and especially on the weekends), had a rather large meal and watched too much anime then apparently I passed out on my bed at 8 instead of doing my Phys Chem prelab and playing guitar as I had planned to do... I awoke at 3am to find that I had done as such. I continued to sleep until 6.

Worked a bit on my prelab then bussed to church. You have to leave an hour before church to get there with the current bus system, which is kinda annoying. But, ya, not that bad. Sunday school was good. Service was good. AL invited JC and she enjoyed it. Although it was a bit awkward sharing my Bible with her... >.<

I got a drive to work since JS and I neeeeeeeeeeeeded rice and DZ lives near there. I checked my schedule (no work this week! w00t!) and my coworker tried to pursuade me to work more since my 'replacement' isn't the best at working hard and getting things done. I did a bit of grocery shopping and in the end bought the last remaining Rooster brand bag of rice (40lbs) and bussed home with it.

I can't wait to stirfry. Hehe =P

Umm. Lunch. Prelab. One Piece. Bus to church again. Leader Study on the book of Acts. Pretty interesting. When I finally got home we had a house meeting. Very funny. lol.

I have a BIOL assignmnet due tomorrow, so Ttyl!

D.Fa

PS. Portugal!!!

Struggling

Yo. So today and yesterday were pretty hard. I mean, I had three midterms today and without going into too much detail they were hard, easy and weird, respectively. I did however survive them.

I stayed up really late reading my Biochem textbook. I woke up early to continue and finish my phys chem equation sheet. Off to school for those two. Then I decided studying for plants was boring so I spoke only in Japanese for about 30 minutes with JXW who knows [very little] Russian and is learning Korean, but not Japanese yet. She wants to take intensive next year. Why are leaves and cancer similar? They are often terminal. Serious face. That was an answer I selected... The choices were like "green" "photo synthetic" and a couple other random ones...

Anyways, I thought my Biochem lab was due tomorrow, so I worked on that lab quite a bit.

Makeshift 22's first bi-weekly social was tonight. It was pretty interesting and a lot of fun. We got busted by the campus cops though... Not because we were doing anything illegal, but because they were worried for our safety. It was just becoming awesome.

Ya, so. Sin sucks. If I can't even carry the weight of my own sins for a couple hours, imagine how Jesus felt on that cross bearing all our sins. I'm so glad I have a Saviour who has paid for my sins and the sins of the world because there's no way I can ever pay back on my own for the sins I commit.

Whenever I fall down, I fall far and it's bad. I give the devil a foothold and he goes miles with it. For two days it's just been pounding on me in my thoughts. I've felt really bad, but I know not to rely on my feelings, but with faith on the things God has written in the Bible.

Anyways, I'm gonna go sleep for more than 5 hours!

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Testimony Time!

So, today was church. Bussing takes forever. I left around 8:35, shortly after meeting MM's family. (so funny) I got to church at 9:24. CW, my roommate had left half an hour after me and got there before me. I'll bike next week. I had bussed for a reason. I had work immediately after church, like ASAP, so I needed a drive from someone the second it finished. If I had biked I'd have to leave my bike there...

Anyways, I was in a really really bad mood this morning.

Sunday school was cancelled because KK forgot the cheese, T(?) was playing piano and JS was in Hongcouver with his girlfriend, so we hung out for a bit and then went to Starbucks. Talking with JW, I got a free Caramel Macchiato cause they made it wrong for a woman who ordered it.

We got back, set up some chairs, then service started. Guest speaker. Prodigal son. Worship. Still in a bad mood.

I knew I needed to just give it up and ask God to give me a better attitude, but I wasn't...

I was kinda forced to humble myself though, I mean I had to give a testimony. I had written a page, but that was two days ago and it was 11pm when I wrote it, and I'm not good at presenting things, especially testimonies, so I needed the Spirit to help me.

I think it went pretty well. It helped having a translator interrupt me and give me time to think. xP

So, I was thinking, 'dang, I want to share this testimony... I'll have to type it up... >.> Oh! I typed it to begin with! (out of D.Fa character.)'.

Herewith:

"Hey everyone! My name is Dylan and I’m in second year biochemistry at Carleton now and I was blessed to be a part of this year’s VBS to Charis EFree in Scarborough this August. I had just returned to Ottawa for the second time this summer and just a week later I was gone again. I was definitely planning that week as a break, as a relaxing time to refresh and refocus again. I wanted to spend time with my family and friends and I wasn’t preparing nearly as much as I could have. You see, since we were doing the same VBS material as last year when OCBC went to Brooklyn, I had assumed it would be easy, but I was given the role of telling the Bible Stories. I do not normally consider myself someone who can tell good stories, teach people things, clearly explain things and it was a lot to memorize too, so I really did need work. The entire week I spent hours each day working on how to tell gospel centered Bible stories. I still did not feel prepared.

Aside from the preparation before VBS, we also sat down and talked about what our goals in this week were. Our main mission was broken down into a three-letter acronym, UPI. Understand, Provide, and Inspire. Help the children come to an understanding of the gospel, of God’s love and the gift of eternal life through Jesus death and resurrection. Provide each child with their own copy of the Bible. And inspire each child to share what they’ve learned with others. We prayed that God would really use us to accomplish this and to be an encouragement to the church.

Throughout the preparation and the week we saw God answer prayer. I saw God answer prayer in placing me outside my comfort zone and growing me in an area of weakness. I saw God bring the 10 children we were praying for to the VBS this year whether they were church going children, or not, or even if it was their first time in the church, God gathered His children and answered our prayers on Sunday. We saw Him delay the storms Wednesday so we could go to the park and be a light in the community. We saw the children and youth come to a greater understanding of the gospel. We saw every child receive a New Testament. And I only found this out this week, but one of the mothers of a child at the VBS was exposed to the gospel for the first time through conversations she had with him. Also, the youth grew so much that the church even got a new youth worker for them.

Even though we weren’t fully prepared, even though we aren’t there to do follow-up or see what is happening right now, even though we aren’t perfect, God chose to use us, God uses his Spirit in our lives to speak his truths to others, God did so much more than we could have asked or imagined and He is still doing so much.

So, ya, I have been really encouraged by what I have seen happen in the lives of the children, in my life and just everything He is doing through the steps we take in faith. I’m really glad I got to experience this this year and if the opportunity comes up again, I would be really excited to go again.

Thank you for supporting us in prayer and sending us out!

D.Fa
"

And that's a rough copy of it, but ya. God is awesome. He really helped shift my attitude and when I went to work I was ready to glorify God. I worked super hard until 6:30 then I went home for supper, went back to work, came home for pie and now I'm at my house with a large pile of leftovers. lol.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Surprise!

Yesterday's plans were pretty relaxed.

Driving. Homework. Dinner at my parent's. Praise team practice. Textbook reading.

I got to ride my bike a lot. The weather was so nice. It was basically a dream come true. Well, I was watching some butterflies when I got the call. My day was completely changed. I had work from 2-10, except it was 3 when I got this call. I had to switch worship practice, I had to miss my family dinner, I had to go to work.

This was largely my fault for assuming things and not checking my schedule until 10am on Saturday, but there was no problem. My boss doesn't really care if I'm late as long as everything gets done. I'm gonna be late today too actually because of thanksgiving lunch.

Anyways, I'll talk to you later.

D.Fa

Wow.

Hey,

I was just looking through some of my EA papers and I found like 4 more instant messaging addresses I thought I didn't have, which is awesome!!!!!

Also, I just found a paper of 're-entry questions to ask yourself'. I was reading a couple thinking I should answer these sometime. #3 said 'What changes, real or imagined, will people close to me observe or sense? How can I get them to accept me as I am now?' I was thinking, what would I have written. I hope I didn't write that I am more asian or 'FOBy'... It looked like I hadn't answered the questions. Then I checked the back. On the back there were some answers.

Answer to number 3: I hope that God has really stirred me up for his Great Commission and just to be a life long labourer, that people would see this, be encouraged and excited.

And I realized that's what happened when I went to Quebec, I had been stirred up, I was there with this desire to share the gospel and change lives there. I was not content to sit back and watch things happen.

Ya. I think that God has changed me. It's all through his Holy Spirit.

D.Fa

Can you be sure?

You know, it has been proven that you learn things better when you teach and I'm pretty sold on this idea. Last year I heard many many times 'you remember 95% of what you teach someone else'.

In either case, whether it is true or not, there is one thing that has been coming up over and over yesterday and today. Aside from all the semi-stressful school work I have been able to go out on campus and talk to some students about spiritual topics. Yesterday me and MW went out and talked to two guys, C(?) and B(?). Both of them were from Christian backgrounds and would say they are Christians, yet there was one thing, one question which they both answered the same way. "If you were to die tonight, how sure (on a scale of 1-10, 1 being not at all and 10 being 100% sure) are you that you would be going to heaven?" or something. And they both answered between 1 and 6. Neither was sure.

Today too, me and AL got to meet this Muslim girl, L(?). We had a very long conversation about Islam and what she believes. We asked questions about the nature of God, if we can have a relationship with God, if people are perfect, about Islamic belief concerning sins, punishment, judgement day, and what she prays about among other things. Although in some places we disagreed, I think we mainly agreed.

We agreed:
God is perfect (Matt 5:48).
God is loving (1 John 4:19).
God is just (Deut 32:4).
People all have sin (Rom 3:23).
There is no one who doesn't do some sort of sin (Ecc 7:20).
You can't 'out weigh' your bad deeds with good deeds and earn your way to heaven(Eph 2:8-9).
People who 'do what is right' their entire lives won't necessarily go to heaven and people who didn't know of God or lived a terrible life of sin can still be saved before the end (Eze 33:12).
God forgives. Amen. However, how can God forgive people in Islam?

This was a question that I don't think she fully understood what I meant. I mean, if God is perfect, he can't be around us, who have sin. On top of this, we can't even deal with our sin ourselves, once we have it, we can't just erase it, we can't over power it with good deeds, we can't. We can however ask God for forgiveness and through Jesus' death and resurrection we can have faith and trust that God forgives us and that there is hope that we can live again (1 John 1:9). Our sins have been paid for and dealt with. Our sin's punishment has been placed on Christ and we have been given the gift of eternal life (Rom 6:23).

We don't need to guess at whether we have salvation. We don't need to wonder.

John 3:16 "for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life."

If we place our trust in Jesus, we

shall not perish.

This is a promise from God.

I really pray for L(?). I could have sworn that I saw her eyes watering. I really wanted to see God break down the lies that cover the gospel in Islamic belief. She kept saying adamantly 'Oh, there is hope. There is always a chance that after a life of doing good things and truly repenting of your sins to God that you may go to heaven, but you never know. Only God knows.' or something. Basically, there is no way to know, but you should live a good life anyways. I wanted to see her break down in unending tears of joy at knowing that God's love is stronger than sin, that God's justice is not fickle, but He still has authority to forgive us through Jesus' death on the cross and that by His resurrection we can have hope.

Psalm 62:5 Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.

Splash!

That's the sound of jumping into something such as a large body of polar molecules in a fluid state. In other words, not dipping your toes in and testing the waters, but taking a risk and just going for it, not knowing if the water is cold, warm, water at all, or if you can swim in it.

But, you know, God never fails us. He is always there to pick up the pieces and put us back together again. He supports us and loves us and when we rely on Him he always provides.

This morning me and MK went sharing on campus. Actually at the same time there were three groups going. It's awesome seeing God work on campus. We all prayed for our time and that God would lead us to the right people. I haven't talked to the other two groups yet, but our meetings went well.

First we met T(?). He comes from a strong Christian background and has seen what could be called miracles in his life and his father. He was run over by a truck and there was a problem with fluid drainage in his brain or something as well as his father had a baseball-sized tumor in his head. Despite the odds they are both fully functional. He said he was back to normal three weeks after being run over by a huge trailer truck at the age of three. What the?!?! And yet, he seems to have something prevent him from being in a close relationship with God. It's good to know that his parents are close with him and that they know God. We invited him to the discussion groups. Pray that he'd be rethinking how God does love him and all he has done for him including Jesus dying on the cross for his sins.

Next we met M(?) who strangely enough is in my Organic chem class. It was cool. She also comes from a Christian background, but it's a bit weaker. Only her mom still goes to church. She seemed more open to the idea of having God in her life. She said it did matter to her.

So, that was that. God helped us meet two of his children who have drifted away. Both of them said they were interested, but not now, maybe later. Lord, I pray that you'd open their eyes and show them how now is the best time to be in a relationship with you. How now is when they need you. We always need you and you always help us.

So, while at Summit I took note of three songs we sang and I decided to play them tonight. Praising God with guitar and singing is just the best. 10000 Reasons (Bless the Lord), Glory to God Forever, and God is Able. All great songs.

Ya. I've really got to get this assignment done. lol...

Ttyl

D.Fa

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

'Be Faithful, Yo!'

Pray for Faith.
Pray faithfully knowing God can and will do more than we ask.
Never hold back.
Don't just win, but build and encourage others.
Let the Light shine through your life.
Be faithful wherever you go!
EA, DR, work, school.
Everywhere.



(from the cover of my Bible that I wrote after writing out my faith barriers.)

My Friends' 'Poetry'

So, my friends/brothers DP and TL enjoy sending me long texts one word at a time.

This messes with my phone (and I will not tell you this again because I feel I have already told you and it is not a fun explaination). It usually does not recieve the messages in the correct order if sent rapidly. Also, duplicates (if I don't read the text before the same text is sent again) end up stacking into one text. TL and DP who were at the UoT Summit (more on summit in a different post) wherever that was decided to text me one text message one word at a time, but alternating who was sending it, so it got really messy and abstract.

Here is the first 'poem':
Hi This T(his name) Sunshine And D(his name)? How is? Awesome Your Toilletries :) Summit We Hung Are An At Time Our W/ Did You Shave Today? Transformers Shirts :) :) Long? :-) I Wish That Had Some Keep Warm Me :) How Is Your Chest Fur I Some to Its Here Freezing :) Is How And A(AL's name) R(RW's name) Shi Ni Ba Ba R(RW) De :) (and then they laughed quite a bit such as Ha Hahaha Ahahaha Tewehee Hehe Ha etc.)

'Poem Two':
I Tried To Shave Fur But I Have No Down South Are How Those Those Pasty Yeow!

I have no idea what they meant by that second one... There's no noun for pasty to describe... >.>

Anyways. I love TL and DP. I miss them, but we'll see each other soon enough and for eternity. They are my awesome (however sometimes ridiculously crazy) older brothers in Christ and they have impacted my life.

D.Fa