Elephant Knees =)

Hey!

Wow I haven't blogged for 4 days. It feels different since I tried to blog almost everyday during VBC. It's been different for sure though. These past few days. A lot of time it seems. Also a lot of tooth pain =P My back teeth's coming out. Hopefully when it's done coming out, it'll mean I am closer to taking off my braces. Yippee yay =)

But anyways, these past days...they've been majorly full of time and full of just..well time to think. But at the same time I feel like the time I've been blessed with isn't really being put to good use. By that I mean like...I guess I feel like mostly I'm not spending a lot of my time doing devos. And just praying. And I'm also playing flash games. That's some bad news. Because i haven't really played flash games for a while since...well maybe even a year and a bit ago.

Also I guess the feeling of summer coming to an end is... kind of sad. I feel like I had so much planned for this summer. I was going to go on the roof of my house and watch the stars, I was going to finish a story, I was going to...just do a lot of things. Bike more maybe. Or just do stuff. And it seems like I've used up my whole summer doing random things. Well not random things. I should probably be really thankful for the opportunities God has given me this summer. I have grown. I did some reading. I got some thinking done. Crazy Love was really amazing. It...well it convicted me of how I live and how I'm going to live out my life this year for school and for fellowship. It's going to be awesome. And VBC was awesome. And I guess when I look at it, my summer was awesome. Maybe I didn't get to do the things I wanted. But you know, that's not how it always is. I got to do some stuff that I didn't think I'd be doing and so that's something to be thankful for =) And we started our redecoration efforts! yay =)

Today I saw my school friends again. Man it's been so long. They all look so beautiful =) And marco got taller. SOOOOO much taller. And he's got some really fobby clothing. And it's kind of intimidating being around him because well...he's pretty tall/buff/hot/intense and well he's just kind of intensely awesome =P and also I guess being around my school friends was a lot different than my church friends. I've spent my ENTIRE summer around my church friends. And they're awesome. And they're different because they're motivated by different things, their perspective's different and I guess I'm just a little afraid that I won't be able to hold my ground aganist all these....worldy things when I'm around them. Like they're great people and they have awesome hearts but I guess it's just different. Like my friend asked me today how my love interests/relationships went this summer because apparently some of them had like....summer flings. But this is the battlefield. Where God has asked me to be. And that's where I'm going to be. Because this year...well I feel like I have a lot of support this year and I can always look to my fellowship as something to ground me. And I made a pact with black gospel Sam that if any one of us becomes different during the school year, in any way that strays away from God's calling we'll be sure to tell one another. And that's I guess...keeping ourselves accountable =P

Oh so I haven't really gotten to the name of the post yet. Nobody would really get it. Cept Nat tay =P and Freddy. Supposedly during the K-cab Cellgroup, Freddy and Nat looked at my knees and said they looked like elephants. Interesting =P I don't know what that means for me and ben's leadership =P but it's a funny thing that they said that. Yesterday me and ben had to plan the program for the cell group and it was interesting. Well actually I'd planned a program before with Ben because last year they decided the GM's should plan a night. And we picked Repentance night. And we did some crazy stuff with the AV system. And it was a really big experience with lifting things up to God because it was a night with a lot of loopholes and things that could go wrong but after figuring out that I couldn't control everything and after praying about it with some other people, it went awesome. Amazing things happened that night. And not because of me. Because trust me, I didn't control the sharing or a lot of other things or the weather. But yea, it was different and interesting. And yesterday didn't have as much preparation but still it was interesting just having the experience of leading a cell group.

I'm really excited for this year. I've probably said it a lot. But still. I'm excited =) Being in a cell group with these people, spending most of my summer with these...awesome friends =) makes me really excited and pumped up for next year. And there are going to be glitches. There always are. But we're just going to have to work around them =)
I should be packing right now.
I actually don't know what to expect for this cruise. I've never been on one. It's gonna be intense. Like crazy intense because it's like buffet 24/7 and it's just going to be fun. Don't know what we're doing at each place though =P should probably look that up. But anyways, I'm also hoping to spend some more time with my sister because i'm living in a room with her and well i haven't been able to I guess talk to her about stuff for a while just because she's usually out and we don't have time for i guess just sitting down and talking. And I guess I've been meaning to talk to her about the whole girl situation. She'd probably have some good insight on that.

I guess with that whole thing...I thought I'd tell her before I went on the cruise. But I guess there's only a slim margin for that now. Maybe like 8 hours but...I don't really know. I....don't know. And so I guess I'm hoping to get some time on the cruise to think about it. and write. And I guess I'm looking forward to a break. Despite the fact that i'm missing a bunch of stuff. It'll be alright. They'll do fine without me =P I'm not that important. I love you all. Whoever's reading this.

Well this'll probably be my last blog post before I leave for the boat.
Farewell my friends.
If i perish, Sam gets my Lego collection for his future children who we were supposed to have play dates with. Sorry mate =P
-Chris