One Last Day

Hey

So I just finished biking and taking that time just one more time around the neighborhood on a bike and the fresh air and everything before the autumn season ended. It was rather quick really. It's already been around 3 months since school started. Or maybe 2. But still, it's been 2 months. 60 days. 1440 hours. 86400 minutes. That's a lot of minutes. A really big amount. And yet it seems to have flown by so fast.
I guess maybe this is a reminiscing post =) I'm reading a long post from my friend as well. Which reminds me that I need to reply the email to another friend which is long overdue. =)

I feel like these past 2 months have passed by really fast. But along with new lessons. There's always new lessons =) Growth. Growth in God i think primarily. Because it's the moments that I spend with God and looking for God and seeing Him that really....make my day.
Because school seems to have passed by really fast, as if i'm just drifting through it and the only thing that makes me feel remotely helpful or that i'm doing something that's eternally based is peer helping. And for that course i'm actually so truly thankful. Because as much as my friends think it's a burden and that's it's super boring and not going to help me with all my university applications, it builds me up. It's humbling because I'm grade 11 and they're grade 9 and I can't think i'm superior because 1. i'm not 2. just not how it works son. And i love walking in there everyday and just having something that's not purely academic and if a student needs help I'll just...go over there =) It's so...easy =) But not in like a "oh i'll pass this course with flying colors" kind of easy but more like it's a lot more natural than learning calculus =P
And they teach me things too. Well not really =P They tried teaching me how to do a rap move. I totally can't do it. And proud that I can't =) I also don't know who Drake is. I'm old school for that. And maybe I am =) But I think God's been building up my patience as well because sometimes it can be difficult teaching them and when they don't put in the effort but you know they can TOTALLY do it and you want to see them pass and do well soooo darn badly. It's good though =) Made some nice cool grade 9 friends. Doesn't make me age ignorant =) And i'm excited for the lesson i'm going to teach =) So that's school. Oh and bringing my friends to fellowship was a really big thing but i really hope i can keep that up. Not just bringing them to big events. But also to just...anything =) with some prayer.

Next would probably be my cell group. It seems like it hasn't been very long since we all met each other. But if you think about it, it's already been 1/6 of the KNA year. And i'm glad that i have the amazing co cell group leaders that i have =) And my cell group's really amazing. Quiet at times and most of the girls are more reserved but I can see them growing and I know i have to trust in God that they'll grow and that He'll use me, nat, brian and calvin to lead in whatever way He has called us to lead.

And i've grown in God. I think i've been doing devotions for....a while =) And i'm glad i'm taking it from the Bible because it's so much more real and it kind of amazes me how it was written so long ago and it's still relevant today. Like i'm listening to a sermon right now and the preacher is talking about how in the Bible is the best economic advice in the WORLD ever and it was written 2000 years ago. Said by Jesus. And it's crazy because economy back then was probably different. There wasn't a stock market, there wasn't a lot of variables and yet the advice can be carried on through the 2000 years and will carry on 3000 years from now if the Earth is still here and it's just awesome =) and it helps with my discipline. Because doing devos at 11:30 is doing devos and i'll be pushing myself to sleep earlier because i have to do devos and it's....great =)

And so today I went on a little biking adventure and it was amazing. The weather was gorgeous and just travelling around my neighborhood with my camera for the first time in a while was great. I went to a park just past Major Mac to visit Ryan and try and find out where he lived but I ended up at his park and it was like one of the coolest parks ever =) like it's made so cooly. It's like the park close to BA. And I just sat there. And the sun was setting at like 5 but it didn't matter because it was still a little warm and there were just 2 families in the area =) It was a pair of grandparents and this little child no more than 4 years old. and it was just so amazing. The kid was beautiful =) And they were playing with him and carrying him and his grandpa was just like SOOO energetic. And when people ask me about what i want to be when i grow up, i don't really know. I just know that God's put this giant passion for being a father =) And that's what I say. I'm not really worried about university. Because to be honest, it's not that big of a deal. I'm going to have God. That's about all i need right? =)

Another thing. After Crazy Love, which i ended up lending to Taylor, I'm really trying to live it out. And it's been getting better. Today in baptismal class we talked about tithing. And I have a "job" now. Apparently =P I didn't think i'd get paid for tutoring my little cousin. But I'm glad i do. I guess i'm trying to put off shopping until at least the new year. And it's hard in some senses. I have this giant puffy Gap coat that's white, orange and grey and it's warm and it fits but i can feel myself making up excuses to buy a new coat. But i'm not going to. Because a $200 coat i don't need can ship $12000 worth of clothes to children who don't have warm clothes. The World Vision Catalogue seems to have found it's way into my spending habits =P It's good. And I hope I can keep this up. Because i really don't feel a need to buy things. And there's just....something about it eh? =) Praying that it'll continue and it's some good character discipline building. =)

So that's the end of that. Pretty long one. Haven't done one so long in a while =) took me a while to write too =P but it's good.

p. requests:
- discipline to not play games and actually legitly do work
- trust in God
- family time (spent some time in the kitchen today. it was good =)

-Chris