Sunday, October 19, 2003
had a long 40 minute nap (typed 40 hour at first!) today...woke up feeling really guilty, that's a long nap for me. usually don't do things like that, but i was super drowsy at church today, and when i came back my roommate wasn't in, so there was no one to keep me awake, i fell asleep and the next thing i knew so much time had passed.
church was good today (despite my sleepiness), had an extended time of worship and waiting on God, everytime I spend time in God's presence it strikes me how i really don't do it often enough, and how much i miss doing it, which makes me wonder why i don't do it more often...life is cruel in a sense, sucks such beautiful moments away from us with a whirlwind of less important things, of course it's a choice we can consciously make not to get sucked up in that vortex, so guess i shall just have to try harder.
we started a new series on the book of james, which is one of my favorite books in the new testament. the entire servant was on the first verse of the book, about how james described himself as a servant of God. the pastor talked about what it means to be a servant...3 things basically, absolute obedience, absolute humility and absolute loyalty. easy to say, but hard to achieve...and that's where prayer comes in, to help us do the impossible, and james was surely a man of prayer. oh, coincidentally...my pastor's name is james as well.
back to studying now, got to make up for the long nap...but with the computer on there's always plenty of distractions (kev: friendster! ha) but i'll try hard to stay focused!
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church was good today (despite my sleepiness), had an extended time of worship and waiting on God, everytime I spend time in God's presence it strikes me how i really don't do it often enough, and how much i miss doing it, which makes me wonder why i don't do it more often...life is cruel in a sense, sucks such beautiful moments away from us with a whirlwind of less important things, of course it's a choice we can consciously make not to get sucked up in that vortex, so guess i shall just have to try harder.
we started a new series on the book of james, which is one of my favorite books in the new testament. the entire servant was on the first verse of the book, about how james described himself as a servant of God. the pastor talked about what it means to be a servant...3 things basically, absolute obedience, absolute humility and absolute loyalty. easy to say, but hard to achieve...and that's where prayer comes in, to help us do the impossible, and james was surely a man of prayer. oh, coincidentally...my pastor's name is james as well.
back to studying now, got to make up for the long nap...but with the computer on there's always plenty of distractions (kev: friendster! ha) but i'll try hard to stay focused!
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