reminders in the 5th

Hey 

So i haven't  blogged in a while =P Technically it's only been 3 days. But you know, I guess that's just might "been a while" =) I like blogging. it's some good stuff.

So i guess is customary...we should start with Sunday. Because it was actually a day of some pretty intense lessons. Somehow, everything just seemed to fit in with each other. Sermon, luncheon, bible study, wtf. All had the kind of theme of love. Love being...well God's sacrificial love and how it's going to apply to our own lives as we are to follow out the example of Christ because we are Christians =) Woot! =) Woke up and I think i was a little later. But it was alright. My dad ended up waking up which i guess was different from last week when I left the house and he wasn't awake =P he needs more sleep anyway. AV went kind of like normal. Val had some deep talking with a somebody in the booth. Hope he's alright. He's goin through a bunch but...i guess i a lot of us feel like he's using the wrong release. But who are we to judge? only to pray and to console. 

Haha i should get onto the sermon. Or else i'll never finish this post =P The sermon was about hospitality. About offering our time, our homes, our items. And you know, it's strongly linked with love because in order to be hospitable, we have to love. I believe the verse was from 1 Peter that he used as the theme verse. I'll have to look it up again. I was reading through those small books at the end of the NT and it's...interesting because all of them are short but they're pretty packed with some intense stuff. At the luncheon, I got to know somebody in the church and I"m glad I didn't contain myself to my little AV booth and I found a fellow veteran AV person =P It was pretty cool and it was just nice to talk to him a little and being in the same space as the MC's it's just cool =) Because they're some pretty cool MC's. Also the food was like...beautiful =P Like to think that so many aunties and uncles woke up and made so much food. it was SOO MUCH. like they were thinking we'd have too little food. We didn't =P mmmm for chicken and cucumber sandwiches. and banana bread =P PTL for all the good bonding that happened. I can see what PY means when she says adult are a lot more fun and cool than you would think =P 

Afterward, it was pre study and then WTF planning. It was actually a pretty intense day. Went till like 4:30 at church. That's like....8.5 hours at church. Oh snap. That's a lot =P So onto pre study. It was on love. And Eskimos always comes up with some innovative programs =P So we got a race + discussion + skits. Which is pretty jam packed =P But it'll be good. If we get the material down. It was about love. The true meaning of love. And i guess the biggest challenge for myself was the last part of the verse. It was from 1 John. I think 1 John 4. But the last verse was something like " if a man says that he loves God but does not love his brother, he is a liar." And then another part. But this part kind of stuck out to me. Because...it's something i've been told a lot. But i was recently reminded of it. I feel like i'm getting some reminders lately. A bunch really. About cell group leading, family, blessings, love, for God to break my heart for those who don't know Him. And it just happened that the love was the theme for WTF as well so it was like...a Sunday about love =P And it was good hearing people share like E. I feel like a lot of us all have the same stories and if we all took some time to share just about how we were all doing, we'd find some amazing similarities. And so after all this, oh and by the way, i'm EXCITED for WTF. =) Even if it does get postponed. I'm just super excited. Because it's a night where we're all uniting under one God. Not that we don't do that usually =P but it all turns out so amazing. But we just have to make sure we keep on it. Like we do follow up. 

And so my challenge this week is to re-remind myself about loving. And a part of the bible study verse was also that love replaces fear. In perfect love, there is no fear. And i think when i pray at lunch now, it's like i don't even care who sees me and what people are thinking. Because i get to talk to the God who made me. Isn't that just sick? =P So far, i'm finding myself becoming more consciously patient which i'm really happy about and I just want to keep it up. Especially in peer helping when they can sometimes be difficult and sometimes when they don't try. Also means i need more sleep =P I think i'm getting the second bag layer. Which is the one everyone's getting. Meaning i need at least like..1 hour more of sleep. I can feel myself slowly changing habits. In my attempt to become more disciplined. Deleted game apps, blocked the game sites i go on, i did treadmill today =) I was sweating pretty hard after 25 minutes and it was good. Doing some good jogging. And i walked home today from like another stop because it was decent weather and it only took me like 12 minutes =) And so i'll end off here. because there's math to be done and maybe those who are reading this are getting a tad tired eh? =) thanks 

p. requests:
- to have every action stem from Christ (love is patient) 
- to keep up with praying 

thanks friends =)
-Chris