Friday, November 21, 2003
i watched the sun come up today. it wasn't a brilliant sunrise, more one of those gentle, quiet ones that was still breathtaking in how it subtly washed the sky with an array of color. blue fading into purple into pink into orange, was absolutely beautiful, and it just made me feel so...awake. even though last night i went to bed past my bedtime (ha) coz i was playing frisbee with the guys at underhill parking lot. we hit quite a lot of cars, and they were swell looking cars too...i left earlier than the rest of them to go to bed, but i heard that the frisbee split into two later on...are we good players or what?
that was after large group meeting, during which danny talked about fellowship...which is basically spurring each other on towards love and good deeds, and encouraging each other. i think what struck me most was when he talked about how to let people into our lives, we need transparency and vulnerability. transparency is like a window, where people can look inside, but vulnerability is like a sliding glass door...where people can not only look into, but enter. thought that was a wonderful illustration, and that's definitely an area of my life i need to work on. i think i'm more like a window with the shades drawn most of the time.
before large group i met with jenny for discipling, in the bear's lair...believe it or not, that's the first time i've been into that cafe-like place, it's pretty nice looking inside, and we stayed there till they closed, surprised they didn't come kick us out. discipling was good, but hard...like i said, it's hard for me to be open about the "deeper" stuff that's going on in my life. and jenny said she was praying that my life would be "ruffled" a little, which is a way dangerous prayer to make, coz when God stirs things up, he can stir them up in mighty unpleasant ways. sure, there'll be wonderful lessons to learn from them, but the process is far from enjoyable.
before discipling i went for this celebrating diversity night event at the transfer student center, was there for a really short while coz i had to leave to meet jenny. there was supposed to be a variety of ethnic foods, but really...there was only pizza and salad, much diversity indeed!
on my way to class in the afternoon i saw a guy on a skateboard being pulled by this huge dog, the dog was running pretty fast and the guy was just gliding along, looked really fun, and i thought, hey...i want to do that too. then i realized:
1) i'd need to get a dog
2) i'd need to get a skateboard
3) i'd need to learn how to ride the skateboard
so i decided i'd just stick with my legs.
hey, today's blog is kinda memento-ish...in reverse chronological order. now, back to the present.
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that was after large group meeting, during which danny talked about fellowship...which is basically spurring each other on towards love and good deeds, and encouraging each other. i think what struck me most was when he talked about how to let people into our lives, we need transparency and vulnerability. transparency is like a window, where people can look inside, but vulnerability is like a sliding glass door...where people can not only look into, but enter. thought that was a wonderful illustration, and that's definitely an area of my life i need to work on. i think i'm more like a window with the shades drawn most of the time.
before large group i met with jenny for discipling, in the bear's lair...believe it or not, that's the first time i've been into that cafe-like place, it's pretty nice looking inside, and we stayed there till they closed, surprised they didn't come kick us out. discipling was good, but hard...like i said, it's hard for me to be open about the "deeper" stuff that's going on in my life. and jenny said she was praying that my life would be "ruffled" a little, which is a way dangerous prayer to make, coz when God stirs things up, he can stir them up in mighty unpleasant ways. sure, there'll be wonderful lessons to learn from them, but the process is far from enjoyable.
before discipling i went for this celebrating diversity night event at the transfer student center, was there for a really short while coz i had to leave to meet jenny. there was supposed to be a variety of ethnic foods, but really...there was only pizza and salad, much diversity indeed!
on my way to class in the afternoon i saw a guy on a skateboard being pulled by this huge dog, the dog was running pretty fast and the guy was just gliding along, looked really fun, and i thought, hey...i want to do that too. then i realized:
1) i'd need to get a dog
2) i'd need to get a skateboard
3) i'd need to learn how to ride the skateboard
so i decided i'd just stick with my legs.
hey, today's blog is kinda memento-ish...in reverse chronological order. now, back to the present.
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