Thursday, October 30, 2003
just got back from navs...had a blast. everyone was in a super hyper mood today for some reason, so we were rowdier than usual. it's pretty amazing...this morning i was mailing my mom about how i didn't do as well in my psych midterm as i thought i would, i was telling her how maybe God was trying to humble me. i meant it when i said it, but inside...i guess maybe i still half-scoffed at the idea. well, tonight at navs we had a guest speaker and he was talking about how to develop a deep, mature spirituality we have to learn how to trust God totally and rely on him, and sometimes the only way we learn how to do that is to go through testing and humbling. and he gave the example about getting good grades...why do we want good grades? sometimes we start to lean on our grades as a crutch, at berkeley that's not too uncommon...and i can speak for myself at least and say, yeah...sometimes i want good grades for selfish reason, so maybe God is trying to humble me in a way. when the same idea strikes you twice it's not by accident...and the passage was even the same one that i was reading during QT today...in john, about Jesus being the vine and us the branches. so you see, God is never boring...when he drums in the same lesson twice he does it in a variety of ways...we've just got to open our ears and listen!
tomorrow's halloween so everyone's dressing up and going for parties and stuff. there was a program in my hall where some elementary school kids came trick or treating on our floor, we gave out candy (it was quite meagre, there were 15 pieces of candy for 10 kids per room), or rather my roommate did coz i was away at navs. but yeah, my hallmates decorated the hall with streamers, balloons, cobwebs...oh, and they put up a poster that had everyone on the floor as a "ghost" and each ghost had a speech bubble...guess what mine said, "i hate yellow!", ha...no surprise. but yeah, can't believe halloween is such a big thing here, in my way of thinking it's just another ploy to get consumers to spend money.
ok, getting late, i'm going to study for a bit (typed for a bed at first, ha, that's where my heart is) and then turn in. praying that my computer will be working perfectly by this time tomorrow!
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tomorrow's halloween so everyone's dressing up and going for parties and stuff. there was a program in my hall where some elementary school kids came trick or treating on our floor, we gave out candy (it was quite meagre, there were 15 pieces of candy for 10 kids per room), or rather my roommate did coz i was away at navs. but yeah, my hallmates decorated the hall with streamers, balloons, cobwebs...oh, and they put up a poster that had everyone on the floor as a "ghost" and each ghost had a speech bubble...guess what mine said, "i hate yellow!", ha...no surprise. but yeah, can't believe halloween is such a big thing here, in my way of thinking it's just another ploy to get consumers to spend money.
ok, getting late, i'm going to study for a bit (typed for a bed at first, ha, that's where my heart is) and then turn in. praying that my computer will be working perfectly by this time tomorrow!
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